[Flashcoders] Flash 9 Player Issues
I have an app that was created using Flash 8 consisting of a main swf that loads in number of subordinate swfs, all published for version 7 compatability using AS 2. The subordinate swfs contain a collection of 8 frame movie clips, each a stop frame - no other code. The main swf changes the colour and visibility of the clips inside the subordinates according to user input and advances each clip in turn by one frame when the user clicks another button. All pretty standard stuff. Everything worked fine with version 7 and 8 players but now we have version 9 and and now some of the subordinate swfs fail to load (no onLoadError fired, just hanging) and some of the others freeze the whole app when accessed. I can't immediately spot any similarities between the offending swfs or differences (other than graphical) from other swfs that are working fine. The freezing can (in some cases) be narrowed down to particular clips inside the subordinates, remove them and the swfs work fine, but there does not seem to be any common element among them they are all quite basic graphics - single colour, no outline. Has anyone found anything in particular which upsets the version 9 player that I can look out for (and remove) or is there any way that I can re-publish the swfs in a way that will not offend the version 9 player or am i going to have to painstakingly go through all the swfs and re draw the graphics, hoping that whatever is throwing the spanner into the works gets omitted this time. Thanks Kev ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 Player Issues
Hi, i can imagine at least two issues (had to deal with them myself after some conversions), one is for/while loops that have become endless loops due to a default initialisation or datatype that has changed from 8 to 9. 2, the handling of paths, which seems to have changed only a little bit, eg ._url returns forwards instead of backslashes (only local though). This isnt probably it, but you could try to inspect one of the clips for lusses etc. hth JC On 10/24/06, Kevin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an app that was created using Flash 8 consisting of a main swf that loads in number of subordinate swfs, all published for version 7 compatability using AS 2. The subordinate swfs contain a collection of 8 frame movie clips, each a stop frame - no other code. The main swf changes the colour and visibility of the clips inside the subordinates according to user input and advances each clip in turn by one frame when the user clicks another button. All pretty standard stuff. Everything worked fine with version 7 and 8 players but now we have version 9 and and now some of the subordinate swfs fail to load (no onLoadError fired, just hanging) and some of the others freeze the whole app when accessed. I can't immediately spot any similarities between the offending swfs or differences (other than graphical) from other swfs that are working fine. The freezing can (in some cases) be narrowed down to particular clips inside the subordinates, remove them and the swfs work fine, but there does not seem to be any common element among them they are all quite basic graphics - single colour, no outline. Has anyone found anything in particular which upsets the version 9 player that I can look out for (and remove) or is there any way that I can re-publish the swfs in a way that will not offend the version 9 player or am i going to have to painstakingly go through all the swfs and re draw the graphics, hoping that whatever is throwing the spanner into the works gets omitted this time. Thanks Kev ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Zinc issues
Zinc fixed this issue a few releases back, sounds like you're using an old build - ours works fine with SVN now... M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stan Vassilev Sent: 23 October 2006 20:42 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Zinc issues We just purchased a license for Zinc since we had to quickly pick a 3rd party projector with file load/save for a project. I'm using it with flex 2 framework / flash 9. It's kinda a letdown, first thing, it has a bad conflict with TortoiseSVN which caused it to crash right on startup. After researching a bit, Zinc installs old DLL-s which TSVN coughs up with. SWFStudio had the same kind of issue but they fixed it in recent builds. If I knew, I'd buy it instead of Zinc. The control over dialogs and features is terrible. They do support AS3, which we need since it's Flex 2 project. But it's spotty at best. To save binary files we had to take a ByteArray and convert it to a huge HEX string for Zinc to understand. This is of course slow, even in AS3. The Open dialog works, but amusingly the Save dialog doesn't! No matter what we tried, it just won't open or do anything at all. And since the open dialog doesn't check for file existence or anything, now we save files with the open dialog, as weird as it sounds. I'm writing here to ask if someone of you have dealt with those issues in Zinc and have workarounds, fixes, tricks/hacks etc. I'm contacting Zinc support too, but from what I see on their forums, they don't seem willing to answer to other people asking about the same issues. Regards, Stan Vassilev ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
Hi Dimitrios, i was reading your article and the referenced article in which it says: Once the inner function is removed from memory (for instance if the object to which the inner function was attached is removed), then the unique reference to the activation object also gets deleted and the garbage collector will (should) delete both the inner function and the activation object of the outer function at the same time. Now the inner function is what is returned when you use Delegate.create. It seems to me mostly when using a Delegate, you want it to have those references until you dont need the delegate itself anymore. So setting the reference to the inner function to null, should take care of the rest? I'm probably missing something here. greetz JC On 10/16/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I had a really big issue recently, when I realized that the performance of a large-scale game I built in Flash dropping substantially after 1/2 hour of gameplay, to the point where the game became wy too slow to play. After exhausting tests I found out that this was caused by the extended use of Delegates with parameters (I always make sure I don't leave garbage sitting around when I destroy objects of all of my classes, so that was not the issue). Spending one week on this, I managed to spot the problem and find a solution, writing a new Delegate class that was taking care of cleaning up function objects. I thought this would interest quite a few people, so I wrote an article on this. You can read at www.zefxis.gr/article-delegates. You can also download the Delegate class I wrote and use it for you projects. I would appreciate any comments on this! Thanks, Dimtirios ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
There's nothing wrong with using the IDE if it suits you better. MTASC is cool, but you should use the right tool for the job. If that's the IDE, then that's what you should use. Alias On 22/10/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I know that Steven. Unofrtunately I'm still using the IDE for some complex sprite animations, eventhough I know I shouldn't. The IDE compile time really sucks. I hope I'll start using MTASC soon. Thanks, Dimitrios - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 9:11 PM Subject: RE: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance You should look into using MTASC via FLASC to compile your games. Since games are mostly code, you'll save yourself a ton of time by using MTASC. The difference in compile time is astounding. MTASC compiles in about one second when the IDE can take much longer. ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
HI, well especially for game programming where you'd do a lot in the IDE and in code, FLASC or FlashDevelop would be great. Its not a question then of whether you should use one OR the other, its more a question of WHEN. I ussually use both the IDE and FlashDevelop or a batch at the same time. Like Steven said, if you change your library or timeline, export in the IDE, if you change the code, rebuilt in mtasc. Once you get used 1 second compile times, you never want to go back... greetz JC On 10/24/06, Alias™ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's nothing wrong with using the IDE if it suits you better. MTASC is cool, but you should use the right tool for the job. If that's the IDE, then that's what you should use. Alias On 22/10/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I know that Steven. Unofrtunately I'm still using the IDE for some complex sprite animations, eventhough I know I shouldn't. The IDE compile time really sucks. I hope I'll start using MTASC soon. Thanks, Dimitrios - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 9:11 PM Subject: RE: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance You should look into using MTASC via FLASC to compile your games. Since games are mostly code, you'll save yourself a ton of time by using MTASC. The difference in compile time is astounding. MTASC compiles in about one second when the IDE can take much longer. ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
The garbage collector will not remove references to delegates that are still being used - only ones that are no longer being referenced by anything else. It uses reference counting, so this will not cause any wierd That's a great article - although I now have to go through all my code and figure out where I need to call Delegate.destroy()... I have a VJing app which gets more and more unreliable the longer it runs and I bet this is why. HTH, Alias On 24/10/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dimitrios, i was reading your article and the referenced article in which it says: Once the inner function is removed from memory (for instance if the object to which the inner function was attached is removed), then the unique reference to the activation object also gets deleted and the garbage collector will (should) delete both the inner function and the activation object of the outer function at the same time. Now the inner function is what is returned when you use Delegate.create. It seems to me mostly when using a Delegate, you want it to have those references until you dont need the delegate itself anymore. So setting the reference to the inner function to null, should take care of the rest? I'm probably missing something here. greetz JC On 10/16/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I had a really big issue recently, when I realized that the performance of a large-scale game I built in Flash dropping substantially after 1/2 hour of gameplay, to the point where the game became wy too slow to play. After exhausting tests I found out that this was caused by the extended use of Delegates with parameters (I always make sure I don't leave garbage sitting around when I destroy objects of all of my classes, so that was not the issue). Spending one week on this, I managed to spot the problem and find a solution, writing a new Delegate class that was taking care of cleaning up function objects. I thought this would interest quite a few people, so I wrote an article on this. You can read at www.zefxis.gr/article-delegates. You can also download the Delegate class I wrote and use it for you projects. I would appreciate any comments on this! Thanks, Dimtirios ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
Hi,
exactly The garbage collector will not remove references to delegates that
are still being used.
Doesnt that mean that if you already nicely set your delegates to null, you
are done?
Example:
obj.ref = Delegate.create (otherObj, otherFunc);
As long as obj.ref is in memory, otherObj and otherFunc will be too.
Now if I do obj.ref = null, the delegate can be removed, as will the
otherObj and otherFunc.
Since obj.ref pointed to the inner function, which held a reference to the
activation object containing otherObj and otherFunc, they couldnt be removed
before, but after nulling the ref, they can?
I did some other tests, to check if eg
function init() {
var myVar = 10;
obj.ref = Delegate.create ()...
}
would cause myVar to be kept as well (as it would have been when you'd done
obj.ref = function() {...}), but that was not the case.
It seems to me the biggest pitfall would be code in which you'd go:
function init(clip:MovieClip) {
//1:setup handlers here
//2:declare some variables here
//etc etc
clip.onEnterFrame = function () {
//code goes here
}
}
without relealizing, that becoz of the function assignment to clip,
everything you have done under //1 and //2 is still in memory, and that you
should be aware of this. I don't see how lots and lots of delegates, whose
references are *appropriately released *will cause the problems described?
greetz
JC
On 10/24/06, Alias™ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The garbage collector will not remove references to delegates that are
still
being used - only ones that are no longer being referenced by anything
else.
It uses reference counting, so this will not cause any wierd
That's a great article - although I now have to go through all my code and
figure out where I need to call Delegate.destroy()... I have a VJing app
which gets more and more unreliable the longer it runs and I bet this is
why.
HTH,
Alias
On 24/10/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dimitrios,
i was reading your article and the referenced article in which it says:
Once the inner function is removed from memory (for instance if the
object
to which the inner function was attached is removed), then the unique
reference to the activation object also gets deleted and the garbage
collector will (should) delete both the inner function and the
activation
object of the outer function at the same time.
Now the inner function is what is returned when you use Delegate.create.
It
seems to me mostly when using a Delegate, you want it to have those
references until you dont need the delegate itself anymore. So setting
the
reference to the inner function to null, should take care of the rest?
I'm
probably missing something here.
greetz
JC
On 10/16/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I had a really big issue recently, when I realized that the
performance
of
a large-scale game
I built in Flash dropping substantially after 1/2 hour of gameplay, to
the
point where
the game became wy too slow to play.
After exhausting tests I found out that this was caused by the
extended
use of Delegates
with parameters (I always make sure I don't leave garbage sitting
around
when I destroy
objects of all of my classes, so that was not the issue).
Spending one week on this, I managed to spot the problem and find a
solution,
writing a new Delegate class that was taking care of cleaning up
function
objects.
I thought this would interest quite a few people, so I wrote an
article
on
this. You can
read at www.zefxis.gr/article-delegates. You can also download the
Delegate class
I wrote and use it for you projects.
I would appreciate any comments on this!
Thanks,
Dimtirios
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Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
I think the issue is that due to the use of inner functions, the parameters
stay in memory, including the execution scope object.
The scope object as well as the extra parameters might have been deleted
from the Delegate function object, but they still remain inside the inline
function.
Excuse me?
Yes, this is true. Every single inline function created inside the
Delegate.create() method stays on memory.
HTH,
Alias
On 24/10/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
exactly The garbage collector will not remove references to delegates
that
are still being used.
Doesnt that mean that if you already nicely set your delegates to null,
you
are done?
Example:
obj.ref = Delegate.create (otherObj, otherFunc);
As long as obj.ref is in memory, otherObj and otherFunc will be too.
Now if I do obj.ref = null, the delegate can be removed, as will the
otherObj and otherFunc.
Since obj.ref pointed to the inner function, which held a reference to the
activation object containing otherObj and otherFunc, they couldnt be
removed
before, but after nulling the ref, they can?
I did some other tests, to check if eg
function init() {
var myVar = 10;
obj.ref = Delegate.create ()...
}
would cause myVar to be kept as well (as it would have been when you'd
done
obj.ref = function() {...}), but that was not the case.
It seems to me the biggest pitfall would be code in which you'd go:
function init(clip:MovieClip) {
//1:setup handlers here
//2:declare some variables here
//etc etc
clip.onEnterFrame = function () {
//code goes here
}
}
without relealizing, that becoz of the function assignment to clip,
everything you have done under //1 and //2 is still in memory, and that
you
should be aware of this. I don't see how lots and lots of delegates, whose
references are *appropriately released *will cause the problems described?
greetz
JC
On 10/24/06, Alias™ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The garbage collector will not remove references to delegates that are
still
being used - only ones that are no longer being referenced by anything
else.
It uses reference counting, so this will not cause any wierd
That's a great article - although I now have to go through all my code
and
figure out where I need to call Delegate.destroy()... I have a VJing app
which gets more and more unreliable the longer it runs and I bet this is
why.
HTH,
Alias
On 24/10/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dimitrios,
i was reading your article and the referenced article in which it
says:
Once the inner function is removed from memory (for instance if the
object
to which the inner function was attached is removed), then the unique
reference to the activation object also gets deleted and the garbage
collector will (should) delete both the inner function and the
activation
object of the outer function at the same time.
Now the inner function is what is returned when you use
Delegate.create.
It
seems to me mostly when using a Delegate, you want it to have those
references until you dont need the delegate itself anymore. So setting
the
reference to the inner function to null, should take care of the rest?
I'm
probably missing something here.
greetz
JC
On 10/16/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I had a really big issue recently, when I realized that the
performance
of
a large-scale game
I built in Flash dropping substantially after 1/2 hour of gameplay,
to
the
point where
the game became wy too slow to play.
After exhausting tests I found out that this was caused by the
extended
use of Delegates
with parameters (I always make sure I don't leave garbage sitting
around
when I destroy
objects of all of my classes, so that was not the issue).
Spending one week on this, I managed to spot the problem and find a
solution,
writing a new Delegate class that was taking care of cleaning up
function
objects.
I thought this would interest quite a few people, so I wrote an
article
on
this. You can
read at www.zefxis.gr/article-delegates. You can also download the
Delegate class
I wrote and use it for you projects.
I would appreciate any comments on this!
Thanks,
Dimtirios
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Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
Hi,
i agree, but it is only true, as long as there is a reference to the inline
function.
The text seems to suggest that although the reference to the inline function
is gone, it still stays on memory.
greetz
JC
On 10/24/06, Alias™ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the issue is that due to the use of inner functions, the
parameters
stay in memory, including the execution scope object.
The scope object as well as the extra parameters might have been deleted
from the Delegate function object, but they still remain inside the inline
function.
Excuse me?
Yes, this is true. Every single inline function created inside the
Delegate.create() method stays on memory.
HTH,
Alias
On 24/10/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
exactly The garbage collector will not remove references to delegates
that
are still being used.
Doesnt that mean that if you already nicely set your delegates to null,
you
are done?
Example:
obj.ref = Delegate.create (otherObj, otherFunc);
As long as obj.ref is in memory, otherObj and otherFunc will be too.
Now if I do obj.ref = null, the delegate can be removed, as will the
otherObj and otherFunc.
Since obj.ref pointed to the inner function, which held a reference to
the
activation object containing otherObj and otherFunc, they couldnt be
removed
before, but after nulling the ref, they can?
I did some other tests, to check if eg
function init() {
var myVar = 10;
obj.ref = Delegate.create ()...
}
would cause myVar to be kept as well (as it would have been when you'd
done
obj.ref = function() {...}), but that was not the case.
It seems to me the biggest pitfall would be code in which you'd go:
function init(clip:MovieClip) {
//1:setup handlers here
//2:declare some variables here
//etc etc
clip.onEnterFrame = function () {
//code goes here
}
}
without relealizing, that becoz of the function assignment to clip,
everything you have done under //1 and //2 is still in memory, and that
you
should be aware of this. I don't see how lots and lots of delegates,
whose
references are *appropriately released *will cause the problems
described?
greetz
JC
On 10/24/06, Alias™ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The garbage collector will not remove references to delegates that are
still
being used - only ones that are no longer being referenced by anything
else.
It uses reference counting, so this will not cause any wierd
That's a great article - although I now have to go through all my code
and
figure out where I need to call Delegate.destroy()... I have a VJing
app
which gets more and more unreliable the longer it runs and I bet this
is
why.
HTH,
Alias
On 24/10/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dimitrios,
i was reading your article and the referenced article in which it
says:
Once the inner function is removed from memory (for instance if the
object
to which the inner function was attached is removed), then the
unique
reference to the activation object also gets deleted and the garbage
collector will (should) delete both the inner function and the
activation
object of the outer function at the same time.
Now the inner function is what is returned when you use
Delegate.create.
It
seems to me mostly when using a Delegate, you want it to have those
references until you dont need the delegate itself anymore. So
setting
the
reference to the inner function to null, should take care of the
rest?
I'm
probably missing something here.
greetz
JC
On 10/16/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I had a really big issue recently, when I realized that the
performance
of
a large-scale game
I built in Flash dropping substantially after 1/2 hour of
gameplay,
to
the
point where
the game became wy too slow to play.
After exhausting tests I found out that this was caused by the
extended
use of Delegates
with parameters (I always make sure I don't leave garbage sitting
around
when I destroy
objects of all of my classes, so that was not the issue).
Spending one week on this, I managed to spot the problem and find
a
solution,
writing a new Delegate class that was taking care of cleaning up
function
objects.
I thought this would interest quite a few people, so I wrote an
article
on
this. You can
read at www.zefxis.gr/article-delegates. You can also download the
Delegate class
I wrote and use it for you projects.
I would appreciate any comments on this!
Thanks,
Dimtirios
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[Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player
Hello, Is there anyone who's got this, using Flash to Control Windows Media Player, working. I'm trying to control the audio of a wmv movie in flash. I've searched in the archives and found someone who had it working but the URL is dead. Original message from archive there are definate issues with browsers - eg: it doesn't work outside of IE/PC, but it is cool when it does. :-) some examples for you: www.artificialcolors.com/page_experiments_1.html (lipsynching technique = Flash calls WMP to playback MP3s with SMIL files to trigger actions back inside Flash) www.cutratebox.com/f5/page_video.html (control WMP playing a movie overtop flash, with the appearence the video is in the flash movie) hth g. Regards, Sander ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
As I mentioned earlier, this is a really old discussion: http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/?archive=2004_08_01_archive.xml http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-June/140994.html http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=delegate http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=remove%20delegate etc.. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance Hi, i agree, but it is only true, as long as there is a reference to the inline function. The text seems to suggest that although the reference to the inline function is gone, it still stays on memory. greetz JC ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player
Ah yes - the power of old links... :-\ Here are current locations of those links, and hopefully will stay for some time (the old ones were on a local server that died and these are now on a hosting company server that hopefully won't die) controlling a video: http://artificialcolors.com/experiments/page_video1.html note that this is a really old example. These days, with there being a WMP implimentation that works in Firefox, as well as the ExternalInterface API, you might be able to get this running in other browsers. second, here's the OLD experiments page: http://artificialcolors.com/experiments/page_experiments_1.html the SMIL file lip-syncing experiment is in there. It worked fine but is, again, really old. You can probably come up with some better solutions these days. hth g. On 10/24/06, Sander van Surksum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there anyone who's got this, using Flash to Control Windows Media Player, working. I'm trying to control the audio of a wmv movie in flash. I've searched in the archives and found someone who had it working but the URL is dead. Original message from archive there are definate issues with browsers - eg: it doesn't work outside of IE/PC, but it is cool when it does. :-) some examples for you: www.artificialcolors.com/page_experiments_1.html (lipsynching technique = Flash calls WMP to playback MP3s with SMIL files to trigger actions back inside Flash) www.cutratebox.com/f5/page_video.html (control WMP playing a movie overtop flash, with the appearence the video is in the flash movie) hth g. Regards, Sander ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- weblog: broadcast.artificialcolors.com blazePDF: www.blazepdf.com band: www.cutratebox.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] FlashPaper
I've managed to remove the logo of the flashpaper and change certain colors... but not the theme colors (halo green)... Here's the link : http://www.lastashero.com/blog/2006/05/ If someone has any luck... A+ Éric Thibault a écrit : Hello all! Is there a way to change the styles of a flashPaper instance on stage, like setStyle(themeColor,0xff)? I would like to remove the halo green effects! Thanks a million Éric Thibault ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player
Thanks, The second link isn't working yet. What I'm trying to do is to mute the volume of the wmv on a button event in flash. Hope someone has already done this before. Regards, Sander -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of g.wygonik Sent: dinsdag 24 oktober 2006 16:33 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player Ah yes - the power of old links... :-\ Here are current locations of those links, and hopefully will stay for some time (the old ones were on a local server that died and these are now on a hosting company server that hopefully won't die) controlling a video: http://artificialcolors.com/experiments/page_video1.html note that this is a really old example. These days, with there being a WMP implimentation that works in Firefox, as well as the ExternalInterface API, you might be able to get this running in other browsers. second, here's the OLD experiments page: http://artificialcolors.com/experiments/page_experiments_1.html the SMIL file lip-syncing experiment is in there. It worked fine but is, again, really old. You can probably come up with some better solutions these days. hth g. On 10/24/06, Sander van Surksum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there anyone who's got this, using Flash to Control Windows Media Player, working. I'm trying to control the audio of a wmv movie in flash. I've searched in the archives and found someone who had it working but the URL is dead. Original message from archive there are definate issues with browsers - eg: it doesn't work outside of IE/PC, but it is cool when it does. :-) some examples for you: www.artificialcolors.com/page_experiments_1.html (lipsynching technique = Flash calls WMP to playback MP3s with SMIL files to trigger actions back inside Flash) www.cutratebox.com/f5/page_video.html (control WMP playing a movie overtop flash, with the appearence the video is in the flash movie) hth g. Regards, Sander ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- weblog: broadcast.artificialcolors.com blazePDF: www.blazepdf.com band: www.cutratebox.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] apologies for any bounced emails
Hi list I would like to apologise for any mails that have bounced from this address. ISP troubles, now all sorted. Sorry. Joe ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?
Hello Marc, This was discussed here about 2 or 3 month ago, and I've explored Nike's tool at that time. As far as I can judge, in Nike uniform builder they're NOT using scriptable arching at all. Instead, there's a set of pre-made examples with a lot of frames in each. Then just gotoAndStop is used for letter/outline/etc. This way, it can be made even flash 6 (or 5) compliant :-). -- Best regards, GregoryN http://GOusable.com Flash components development. Usability services. === Marc Hoffman wrote: I need to dynamically distort user input text to fill a limited set of shapes. For example, the user might type in WINNERS and select a shape like the Arc d' Triomphe (flat-topped arch), and the tops of all the letters would be flat but the bottoms would be curved. This is more than just putting text on a curve -- it requires actually distorting the individual letters. Nike has something similar to this (but not exactly) on their custom uniform builder. See http://www.niketeam.com/v2/new/Builders/Baseball/check_flash5.asp and move through the steps until you reach the Select Name Style, after which you'll see the effect I'm after. Somehow they are able to skew the letters, though they're not actually distorting any straight lines into a curve, and all the letters keep the same height. Anyone know of something like this? Especially Flash 7-compliant? ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site.
hey guys! I´m writing to you to expose my work. I´m a Flash developer working for Wunderman in Colombia, SouthAmerica. We have developed the first Flash Video site in our country, and probably on the region. This is our fisrt attempt, so it´s not perfect, but I think it we made a good job. The website is in spanish, so please try to guess what it says and register, because the most interactive part of the website is on the Cell phone Show Room, at the end of the registration and inmediately after you dress the model (a famous one here on our country). We were hired by NOKIA to develop this website and promote their NOKIA 6131 model here in Colombia. I hope you guys enjoy it and review it!! Regards from the land that produces the best coffee on the world. Ivan Sosa. http://www.nokia.com.co/estilo6131/hi/default.htm Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: In this particular application, the shapes are the areas between the lines created when graphing several time series on a chart (e.g., the price of several stocks, graphed over time) It sounds to me like what you need is actually some kind of line of best fit rather than a centre. The usual idea is to find a line (if you do want a point, then this works for a point too) such that the squared distance of all the points in your region from the line (or point) is minimised. You can find this by using a correlation coefficient (a quick Google turned up this page which sums up the process pretty well: http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/statistics/tress11.html). For data in more than two dimensions you'll need to use a more complicated process called principal components analysis. Best Danny ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player
Have a look at the media player sdk http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/windowsmediaplayer10sdk.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/settingsvolume.asp From Flash, use the ExternalInterface api to call a javascript function, which then sets the wmp volume. flash.external.ExternalInterface http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/2200.html regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Sander van Surksum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 4:56 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player Thanks, The second link isn't working yet. What I'm trying to do is to mute the volume of the wmv on a button event in flash. Hope someone has already done this before. Regards, Sander -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of g.wygonik Sent: dinsdag 24 oktober 2006 16:33 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player Ah yes - the power of old links... :-\ Here are current locations of those links, and hopefully will stay for some time (the old ones were on a local server that died and these are now on a hosting company server that hopefully won't die) controlling a video: http://artificialcolors.com/experiments/page_video1.html note that this is a really old example. These days, with there being a WMP implimentation that works in Firefox, as well as the ExternalInterface API, you might be able to get this running in other browsers. second, here's the OLD experiments page: http://artificialcolors.com/experiments/page_experiments_1.html the SMIL file lip-syncing experiment is in there. It worked fine but is, again, really old. You can probably come up with some better solutions these days. hth g. ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
Lol ok, checking your links, it seems Dimitrios posted his problems on his game performance back then when he had the issues, and most of whom have responded now, responded back then as well, myself included. The same conclusion though, as long as you clean up your references to delegates, which means no object.addListener (click, Delegate.create()) constructions, you'd be fine and there is no need to get all paranoid:). cheers JC On 10/24/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Muzak last time I checked your links didnt work, but forgot to report it. Ill check m now. On 10/24/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned earlier, this is a really old discussion: http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/?archive=2004_08_01_archive.xml http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-June/140994.html http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=delegate http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=remove%20delegate etc.. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance Hi, i agree, but it is only true, as long as there is a reference to the inline function. The text seems to suggest that although the reference to the inline function is gone, it still stays on memory. greetz JC ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site.
Hi Ivan, I've made it past the registration, she says something, then it appears to be loading another video without ever finishing. The other videos loaded quickly. It's a pity, because I really like the... site, and would like to see the interactive part. Uhm... out of purely professional interest, of course. :| It /might/ be a problem with the FlashPlayer 9 Linux Beta. Mark ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?
Not in (solely) flash, as far as I know or have ever seen.
We created a Java class that takes the parameters (font, text, style) and
performs the distortions on actual letter outlines, using Font objects. This
was set up as a webservice (coldfusion instantiates java object) that
returns coordinates for flash to draw out, at runtime.
Here's a section of that code, to give an idea (sorry, closed-source!):
private java.awt.Shape transform( int layout, String text, String font )
{
j_Font = new java.awt.Font(font, java.awt.Font.PLAIN, FONT_SIZE);
// FontRenderContext needed to create a GlyphVector object
FontRenderContext frc = new FontRenderContext(null,true,true);
// Create a GlyphVector object to get an outline of the text string
GlyphVector gv = j_Font.createGlyphVector(frc, text);
int length = gv.getNumGlyphs(); //Get the number of characters
for(int i = 0; i length; i++) {
java.awt.Shape glyph = gv.getGlyphOutline(i); //Transform
single glyph to Shape
double glyphWidth = glyph.getBounds().getWidth(); //Get
single glyph width prior to rotation
theta = (accGlyphWidth/gvWidth) * totalRotationDistance;
//Set rotation by points
accGlyphWidth = accGlyphWidth + glyphWidth; //Add up
distance traveled thus far
Point2D p = gv.getGlyphPosition(i);
AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
at.translate(-p.getX(), -p.getY());
.
.
.
}
.
.
.
}
As you can see, most of the transformations were accomplised using
AffineTransform to the glyphs stored in 'gv'.
Hope that gives you an idea of how this was done..!
Scott
On 10/23/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to dynamically distort user input text to fill a limited set
of shapes. For example, the user might type in WINNERS and select a
shape like the Arc d' Triomphe (flat-topped arch), and the tops of
all the letters would be flat but the bottoms would be curved. This
is more than just putting text on a curve -- it requires actually
distorting the individual letters. Nike has something similar to this
(but not exactly) on their custom uniform builder. See
http://www.niketeam.com/v2/new/Builders/Baseball/check_flash5.asp and
move through the steps until you reach the Select Name Style, after
which you'll see the effect I'm after. Somehow they are able to skew
the letters, though they're not actually distorting any straight
lines into a curve, and all the letters keep the same height.
Anyone know of something like this? Especially Flash 7-compliant?
Thanks.
Marc Hoffman
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Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?
Thanks to Scott and Gregory for the replies. It's pretty much as I
suspected -- no dynamic solution in Flash alone. -Marc
At 09:05 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
Not in (solely) flash, as far as I know or have ever seen.
We created a Java class that takes the parameters (font, text, style) and
performs the distortions on actual letter outlines, using Font objects. This
was set up as a webservice (coldfusion instantiates java object) that
returns coordinates for flash to draw out, at runtime.
Here's a section of that code, to give an idea (sorry, closed-source!):
private java.awt.Shape transform( int layout, String text, String font )
{
j_Font = new java.awt.Font(font, java.awt.Font.PLAIN, FONT_SIZE);
// FontRenderContext needed to create a GlyphVector object
FontRenderContext frc = new FontRenderContext(null,true,true);
// Create a GlyphVector object to get an outline of the text string
GlyphVector gv = j_Font.createGlyphVector(frc, text);
int length = gv.getNumGlyphs(); //Get the number of characters
for(int i = 0; i length; i++) {
java.awt.Shape glyph = gv.getGlyphOutline(i); //Transform
single glyph to Shape
double glyphWidth = glyph.getBounds().getWidth(); //Get
single glyph width prior to rotation
theta = (accGlyphWidth/gvWidth) * totalRotationDistance;
//Set rotation by points
accGlyphWidth = accGlyphWidth + glyphWidth; //Add up
distance traveled thus far
Point2D p = gv.getGlyphPosition(i);
AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
at.translate(-p.getX(), -p.getY());
.
.
.
}
.
.
.
}
As you can see, most of the transformations were accomplised using
AffineTransform to the glyphs stored in 'gv'.
Hope that gives you an idea of how this was done..!
Scott
On 10/23/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to dynamically distort user input text to fill a limited set
of shapes. For example, the user might type in WINNERS and select a
shape like the Arc d' Triomphe (flat-topped arch), and the tops of
all the letters would be flat but the bottoms would be curved. This
is more than just putting text on a curve -- it requires actually
distorting the individual letters. Nike has something similar to this
(but not exactly) on their custom uniform builder. See
http://www.niketeam.com/v2/new/Builders/Baseball/check_flash5.asp and
move through the steps until you reach the Select Name Style, after
which you'll see the effect I'm after. Somehow they are able to skew
the letters, though they're not actually distorting any straight
lines into a curve, and all the letters keep the same height.
Anyone know of something like this? Especially Flash 7-compliant?
Thanks.
Marc Hoffman
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Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?
There are ways to do it but it's tricky. Here's an example on my blog :
http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?p=18
You need to convert the text to a bitmap first, then you can do
perspective distortions using the triangles method described here :
http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?page_id=7
We wrote our own code for it but if you want to save time, you can use
Sandy's excellent DistordImage class. :-)
http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/distordimage-the-way-to-distord-bitmaps-by-code.html
hope this helps!
Seb
On 24/10/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not in (solely) flash, as far as I know or have ever seen.
We created a Java class that takes the parameters (font, text, style) and
performs the distortions on actual letter outlines, using Font objects. This
was set up as a webservice (coldfusion instantiates java object) that
returns coordinates for flash to draw out, at runtime.
Here's a section of that code, to give an idea (sorry, closed-source!):
private java.awt.Shape transform( int layout, String text, String font )
{
j_Font = new java.awt.Font(font, java.awt.Font.PLAIN, FONT_SIZE);
// FontRenderContext needed to create a GlyphVector object
FontRenderContext frc = new FontRenderContext(null,true,true);
// Create a GlyphVector object to get an outline of the text string
GlyphVector gv = j_Font.createGlyphVector(frc, text);
int length = gv.getNumGlyphs(); //Get the number of characters
for(int i = 0; i length; i++) {
java.awt.Shape glyph = gv.getGlyphOutline(i); //Transform
single glyph to Shape
double glyphWidth = glyph.getBounds().getWidth(); //Get
single glyph width prior to rotation
theta = (accGlyphWidth/gvWidth) * totalRotationDistance;
//Set rotation by points
accGlyphWidth = accGlyphWidth + glyphWidth; //Add up
distance traveled thus far
Point2D p = gv.getGlyphPosition(i);
AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
at.translate(-p.getX(), -p.getY());
.
.
.
}
.
.
.
}
As you can see, most of the transformations were accomplised using
AffineTransform to the glyphs stored in 'gv'.
Hope that gives you an idea of how this was done..!
Scott
On 10/23/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to dynamically distort user input text to fill a limited set
of shapes. For example, the user might type in WINNERS and select a
shape like the Arc d' Triomphe (flat-topped arch), and the tops of
all the letters would be flat but the bottoms would be curved. This
is more than just putting text on a curve -- it requires actually
distorting the individual letters. Nike has something similar to this
(but not exactly) on their custom uniform builder. See
http://www.niketeam.com/v2/new/Builders/Baseball/check_flash5.asp and
move through the steps until you reach the Select Name Style, after
which you'll see the effect I'm after. Somehow they are able to skew
the letters, though they're not actually distorting any straight
lines into a curve, and all the letters keep the same height.
Anyone know of something like this? Especially Flash 7-compliant?
Thanks.
Marc Hoffman
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[Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Hi
I'm having a problem using getURL to pass a variable argument to a javascript
function
this works(notice 'arg' is a string)
getURL(javascript:testfunc('arg'));
this DOESN'T work:
var arg='myvar'
getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Any suggestions???
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Re: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site.
http://osflash.org/flashcoders/etiquette quote No sitechecks FlashCoders is just plain and simply not the place for sitechecks. /quote regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Ivan Dario Sosa Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:25 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site. hey guys! Im writing to you to expose my work. Im a Flash developer working for Wunderman in Colombia, SouthAmerica. We have developed the first Flash Video site in our country, and probably on the region. This is our fisrt attempt, so its not perfect, but I think it we made a good job. The website is in spanish, so please try to guess what it says and register, because the most interactive part of the website is on the Cell phone Show Room, at the end of the registration and inmediately after you dress the model (a famous one here on our country). We were hired by NOKIA to develop this website and promote their NOKIA 6131 model here in Colombia. I hope you guys enjoy it and review it!! Regards from the land that produces the best coffee on the world. Ivan Sosa. ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] compiling mtasc on intel based mac?
Anyone have success compiling mtasc on an intel based mac? I'm following instructions from http://bomberstudios.com and when When i run ocaml install.ml I get the following error: Cannot load required shared library dllunix. Reason: dynamic loading not supported on this platform. Reference to undefined global `Unix' Any ideas? ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site.
Thanks for that, Muzak. However, if Ivan needed to figure out, for example, why the video wasn't working correctly on the FP9 linux alpha, we could keep talking about that, right? Yours etc. Alias On 24/10/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://osflash.org/flashcoders/etiquette quote No sitechecks FlashCoders is just plain and simply not the place for sitechecks. /quote regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Ivan Dario Sosa Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:25 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site. hey guys! Im writing to you to expose my work. Im a Flash developer working for Wunderman in Colombia, SouthAmerica. We have developed the first Flash Video site in our country, and probably on the region. This is our fisrt attempt, so its not perfect, but I think it we made a good job. The website is in spanish, so please try to guess what it says and register, because the most interactive part of the website is on the Cell phone Show Room, at the end of the registration and inmediately after you dress the model (a famous one here on our country). We were hired by NOKIA to develop this website and promote their NOKIA 6131 model here in Colombia. I hope you guys enjoy it and review it!! Regards from the land that produces the best coffee on the world. Ivan Sosa. ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Not sure if this will work but maybe try:
getURL(javascript:testfunc(+arg+));
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with
getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Hi
I'm having a problem using getURL to pass a variable argument to a
javascript function
this works(notice 'arg' is a string)
getURL(javascript:testfunc('arg'));
this DOESN'T work:
var arg='myvar'
getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Any suggestions???
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Re: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed
If you look in the footers for all the messages it has this link: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders You can use that to unsubscribe (it worked for me earlier when I was changing e-mail addresses). -Andy On 10/23/06, Arlo Jamrog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave- I've tried twice to get off the list, and for some reason keep getting emails. The address I'm trying to use is '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. The list is great, but it's just too much email for me to handle at this point in my life. If you can help get me off it, I'd be grateful! Thanks, Arlo Arlo C. Jamrog | Design Technical | KNI™ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.kurtnoble.com On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Dave Watts wrote: Subject: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed Hi, this is the list admin. This is the wrong list for non-Flash programming job announcements. You might want to use the WAMMO Jobs list instead: http://wammo.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Use this:
var arg:String = myvar;
getURL(javascript:testfunc(' + arg + '));
// Note: arg's value cannot have apostrophes in it.
Or, better yet, look into the flash.external.ExternalInterface class.
―
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getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Hi
I'm having a problem using getURL to pass a variable argument to a
javascript function
this works(notice 'arg' is a string)
getURL(javascript:testfunc('arg'));
this DOESN'T work:
var arg='myvar'
getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Any suggestions???
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Re: [Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
var arg='myvar'
getURL(javascript:testfunc(+arg+));
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with
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Hi
I'm having a problem using getURL to pass a variable argument to a javascript
function
this works(notice 'arg' is a string)
getURL(javascript:testfunc('arg'));
this DOESN'T work:
var arg='myvar'
getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
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RE: [Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
getURL(javascript:testfunc('+arg+'););
-Keith
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getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Hi
I'm having a problem using getURL to pass a variable argument to a
javascript function
this works(notice 'arg' is a string)
getURL(javascript:testfunc('arg'));
this DOESN'T work:
var arg='myvar'
getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Any suggestions???
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Re: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site.
Adobe labs Flash Player 9 forum: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72catid=616entercat=y There's a few threads regarding video + linux player regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: AliasT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site. Thanks for that, Muzak. However, if Ivan needed to figure out, for example, why the video wasn't working correctly on the FP9 linux alpha, we could keep talking about that, right? Yours etc. Alias ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q:passing a variable as argument with getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
Hi
I'm having a problem using getURL to pass a variable argument to a javascript
function
this works(notice 'arg' is a string)
getURL(javascript:testfunc('arg'));
this DOESN'T work:
var arg='myvar'
getURL(javascript:testfunc(arg));
Any suggestions???
use ExternalInterface
var arg = 'myvar';
import flash.external.*;
ExternalInterface.call(testefunc, arg);
see ya!
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Curitiba - PR - Brazil
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Re: [Flashcoders] compiling mtasc on intel based mac?
Anyone have success compiling mtasc on an intel based mac? I'm following instructions from http://bomberstudios.com and when When i run ocaml install.ml I get the following error: Cannot load required shared library dllunix. Reason: dynamic loading not supported on this platform. Reference to undefined global `Unix' Any ideas? I've never tried to build mtasc on intel for now. BTW, I think that the PPC build should work on Rosetta, aint it ? If you get good result, just tell us here. Thanks. --- Eric Priou (aka erixtekila) In progress tech blog : http://blog.v-i-a.net/ Oregano XML Socket forum : http://forum.v-i-a.net/ ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] embedFonts problem
Hello,
I am having a problem with embedded fonts and I need some help. I've looked
around on the web and saw people with similar problems, however their
problem was that they never set TextField.embedFonts = true, which I am
doing.
I have a static class that creates a TextField on stage and formats it using
a TextFormat. This is the function that takes care of that:
private static function addTextField(theWidth:Number, tipText:String):Void {
// set the text format
theFormat = new TextFormat();
theFormat.color = options.textColor;
theFormat.font = Arial;
theFormat.size = options.textSize;
theFormat.bold = options.isBold;
trace(the selected font should be +theFormat.font);
// create the text field
_root.tooltipMC.createTextField(tooltipText, 3, options.textMargin,
options.textMargin, theWidth-options.textMargin, null);
_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.selectable = false;
_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.multiline = true;
_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.wordWrap = true;
_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.autoSize = true;
_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.embedFonts = true;
_root.tooltipMC.setNewTextFormat(theFormat);
_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.text = tipText;
trace(the actual font is:
+_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.getTextFormat().font);
trace(the actual new font is:
+_root.tooltipMC.tooltipText.getNewTextFormat().font);
}
If I don't embed the fonts, the TextField uses Times New Roman. If I do,
then nothing appears in the TextField. I have tried using fonts embedded in
the library (properly linked) and standard fonts like Arial or _sans.
Nothing works. The traces always show the selected font should be Arial
(or whichever other font I choose) and the actual font is: Times New
Roman/the actual new font is: Times New Roman.
I don't understand what the problem is. I am using very similar code in
another part of the movie and the fonts get embedded without any problems.
Could it have something to do with the fact that this is a static method in
a static class?
Thanks for the help,
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Re: [Flashcoders] Using Flash to Control Windows Media Player
right - weird. sorry about that. i'll look into that link a bit later. as for the muting of audio in WMP, you should be able to call a JS function that targets the player with this command: myPlayer.settings.volume = 0; which is referenced in the SDK API Muzak linked to. pretty straightforward once you get the whole Flash-JS communication down. g. On 10/24/06, Sander van Surksum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, The second link isn't working yet. What I'm trying to do is to mute the volume of the wmv on a button event in flash. Hope someone has already done this before. Regards, Sander -- weblog: broadcast.artificialcolors.com blazePDF: www.blazepdf.com band: www.cutratebox.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site.
Ok, I don't want to get into this, so I won't post any further on this thread. I just think that Muzak could have been a litttle more polite about it. Also, when english is not someone's first language, I think it's a little rude to make fun of their grammar. No-one complains when Nicholas Canasse makes english grammatical errors, I think that everyone should be afforded the same level of coutesy. I spend a lot of time reading this list and I don't see why people shouldn't be polite to one another. Anyway, no further comment. Alias On 24/10/06, Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean I can post my sites when I finish them Alias? Because in all fairness this would be a top spot too... But I am well aware that is not what this list is for, so I look for alternate ways of gathering feedback. To be honest I think you need a forum or similar for these things. This is my very humble flash noobie opinion ofcourse. Ps: check the dudes quote; hey guys! Im writing to you to expose my work. Not really a... please help me... its more, check out what I did... Sorry to be a party pooper. T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AliasT Sent: 24 October 2006 18:25 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site. Thanks for that, Muzak. However, if Ivan needed to figure out, for example, why the video wasn't working correctly on the FP9 linux alpha, we could keep talking about that, right? Yours etc. Alias On 24/10/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://osflash.org/flashcoders/etiquette quote No sitechecks FlashCoders is just plain and simply not the place for sitechecks. /quote regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Ivan Dario Sosa Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:25 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] New Flash Video Site. hey guys! Im writing to you to expose my work. Im a Flash developer working for Wunderman in Colombia, SouthAmerica. We have developed the first Flash Video site in our country, and probably on the region. This is our fisrt attempt, so its not perfect, but I think it we made a good job. The website is in spanish, so please try to guess what it says and register, because the most interactive part of the website is on the Cell phone Show Room, at the end of the registration and inmediately after you dress the model (a famous one here on our country). We were hired by NOKIA to develop this website and promote their NOKIA 6131 model here in Colombia. I hope you guys enjoy it and review it!! Regards from the land that produces the best coffee on the world. Ivan Sosa. ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] XML.onData parse xml in chunks
I am up against the infamous xml parser freezing up flash for a couple seconds. I have searched and searched and have found plenty of posts about saying live with it or overwrite the XML.onData and split up the xml into chunks to parse. I cannot find a single example of this. :S Does anybody know how or know of a example. I know how to edit the onData to point to a custom parser, but I am lost when it comes to the parsing or splitting up of the data. thanks -Dave Geurts ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] tieing AS2 classes together, confused on approach
Hi, I'm working on my first commercial AS2 project. It's pretty simple, it's an interactive map, but really only a couple of classes at the moment, but I think I could split them down a bit as in my previous AS1 projects, I would have have broken things down into smaller classes, that each listen to each other (and broadcast events etc). Which brings me to my point, I'm a little confused as to how to tie my classes together. I have one class which is my menu, this is basically an accordian style menu, which uses the FuseKit library for animation. I then have a Map class, which is the graphics of the map, which also uses the FuseKit class to control it's zooming. Both of these classes are driven by the same data set, a single XML file, which I'm parsing into an Object using Sepiroth's xml2object class. Whilst testing I've been importing my classes etc from the same location as my fla, using an .as file, but I now want to move all this logic in an AppController class, which loads handles all the imports, parses the xml, instanciates my objects etc, but I've having some trouble doing so. If I have 3 classes: App.as, Map.as, Menu.as - should I only import App.as in the first frame of my movie, and let the App class import the classes it requires, or should I import all required files manually? Whichever way I do it, how can I place my files in a sub directory in the folder I'm working in (like 'classes')? Both Map.as and Menu.as use the FuseKit classes, do I need to import them for each class, once in the App class or once in the first frame. If this is all a bit hypothetical, I'll post some code ;) Thanks in advance! Jon -- jon bennett t: +44 (0) 1225 341 039 w: http://www.jben.net/ iChat (AIM): jbendotnet Skype: jon-bennett ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed
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Re: [Flashcoders] tieing AS2 classes together, confused on approach
Hi Jon, I have a similar application that I wrote in ActionScript w/ mtasc. I have a class that corresponds to your app.as class. I do all of my imports there. The app.as class instanciates the map.as and all of the UI stuff. Since I didn't use the IDE, my app.as class has a main method. I used an event model similar to the Java swing event model to control what happens when files load or buttons are clicked. I don't know if any of that is useful. You can look at the app here: http://www.flashmaprealtor.com/ Disclaimer: I didn't design the page it is in. :( Good luck, Kjel Jon Bennett wrote: Hi, I'm working on my first commercial AS2 project. It's pretty simple, it's an interactive map, but really only a couple of classes at the moment, but I think I could split them down a bit as in my previous AS1 projects, I would have have broken things down into smaller classes, that each listen to each other (and broadcast events etc). Which brings me to my point, I'm a little confused as to how to tie my classes together. I have one class which is my menu, this is basically an accordian style menu, which uses the FuseKit library for animation. I then have a Map class, which is the graphics of the map, which also uses the FuseKit class to control it's zooming. Both of these classes are driven by the same data set, a single XML file, which I'm parsing into an Object using Sepiroth's xml2object class. Whilst testing I've been importing my classes etc from the same location as my fla, using an .as file, but I now want to move all this logic in an AppController class, which loads handles all the imports, parses the xml, instanciates my objects etc, but I've having some trouble doing so. If I have 3 classes: App.as, Map.as, Menu.as - should I only import App.as in the first frame of my movie, and let the App class import the classes it requires, or should I import all required files manually? Whichever way I do it, how can I place my files in a sub directory in the folder I'm working in (like 'classes')? Both Map.as and Menu.as use the FuseKit classes, do I need to import them for each class, once in the App class or once in the first frame. If this is all a bit hypothetical, I'll post some code ;) Thanks in advance! Jon ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
The same conclusion though, as long as you clean up your references to delegates, which means no object.addListener (click, Delegate.create()) constructions, you'd be fine and there is no need to get all paranoid:). Thats exactly what i think. In most cases, there is even no problem using addListener with Delegate because 1) the listener is never removed, because it is always needed 2) the dispatch object itself is removed cheers, Janosch Hans Wichman schrieb: Lol ok, checking your links, it seems Dimitrios posted his problems on his game performance back then when he had the issues, and most of whom have responded now, responded back then as well, myself included. The same conclusion though, as long as you clean up your references to delegates, which means no object.addListener (click, Delegate.create()) constructions, you'd be fine and there is no need to get all paranoid:). cheers JC On 10/24/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Muzak last time I checked your links didnt work, but forgot to report it. Ill check m now. On 10/24/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned earlier, this is a really old discussion: http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/?archive=2004_08_01_archive.xml http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-June/140994.html http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=delegate http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=remove%20delegate etc.. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance Hi, i agree, but it is only true, as long as there is a reference to the inline function. The text seems to suggest that although the reference to the inline function is gone, it still stays on memory. greetz JC ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] tieing AS2 classes together, confused on approach
I have a similar application that I wrote in ActionScript w/ mtasc. I
have a class that corresponds to your app.as class. I do all of my
imports there. The app.as class instanciates the map.as and all of the
UI stuff. Since I didn't use the IDE, my app.as class has a main method.
I used an event model similar to the Java swing event model to control
what happens when files load or buttons are clicked. I don't know if any
of that is useful. You can look at the app here:
http://www.flashmaprealtor.com/
so I can do:
// classes
import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*;
import Menu;
import Map;
class App {
private var objMenu:Menu;
private var objMap:Map;
function App ()
{
this.objMenu = new Menu ();
this.objMap = new Map ();
ZigoEngine.simpleSetup(Shortcuts,Fuse,PennerEasing);
}
}
Will my Map and Menu classes then have access to the Fuse Kit ?
Thanks,
Jon
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[Flashcoders] setVolume has a greater range than documented?
I am loading MP3's into a sound object, and the sounds play full volume without me touching anything. However if i then set the volume of the Sound object to 100, the sound plays at what seems to be about 50%, and following this trend passing in 200 seems to get back up to 100%. soundPlayer.loadSound(my.mp3); //plays at 100% soundPlayer.loadSound(my.mp3); soundPlayer.setVolume(100) //plays at ~ 50% soundPlayer.loadSound(my.mp3); soundPlayer.setVolume(200) //plays at 100% Has anyone run into this? -Mike ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Localconnection bug?
did you ever get an answer to this Serge? On 4/28/06, Serge Jespers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm working on this site that uses a local connection between two swf's... I named that local connection SergesHistoryKeeper... It worked just fine on Mac (both Safari and Firefox) but not on PC (neither in IE or Firefox). After going completely nuts in checking the code over and over, I thought about changing the name... So I called it SergesHistory and tried it again... And guess what... It worked on both PC and Mac... So I started Googling to see if there was a limit for the size of the connection name or something like that but apparently the only limit of a local Connection is that you can only send 40k over it... But that was certainly not the case... So I'm guessing this is probably a bug... No? Serge ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- [ JPG ] ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug
I'm seeing a weird problem with local connection on a mac. if the swf's are using the Mozilla plugin, they can communicate, but if either of them are using the debug or stand alone player then it no worky. I have Xray running in SWHX, and it's able to communicate with a website with the xray connector. However, it cannot communicate with a swf loaded in Flash IDE or in a stand alone player. Likewise, if I run the Xray.swf in a standalone player, it cannot communicate via local connection with any swf. Is this a known issue on the mac? -- [ JPG ] ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] tieing AS2 classes together, confused on approach
No, each class is in it's own little world. You need to import any class you
want to use into every class you create. What I mean is that each class that
uses Fuse Kit for example would need the import statement:
import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*;
-Scott
On 10/24/06, Jon Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a similar application that I wrote in ActionScript w/ mtasc. I
have a class that corresponds to your app.as class. I do all of my
imports there. The app.as class instanciates the map.as and all of the
UI stuff. Since I didn't use the IDE, my app.as class has a main method.
I used an event model similar to the Java swing event model to control
what happens when files load or buttons are clicked. I don't know if any
of that is useful. You can look at the app here:
http://www.flashmaprealtor.com/
so I can do:
// classes
import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*;
import Menu;
import Map;
class App {
private var objMenu:Menu;
private var objMap:Map;
function App ()
{
this.objMenu = new Menu ();
this.objMap = new Map ();
ZigoEngine.simpleSetup(Shortcuts,Fuse,PennerEasing);
}
}
Will my Map and Menu classes then have access to the Fuse Kit ?
Thanks,
Jon
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Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug
are any of those swf's fp9? I've created my own little Flex/Zinc debugger and found that you now *have* to specify .allowDomain() in combination with the underscore name for LocalConnection to work across domains (or one running in browser, other on desktop) // receiver in Flex this.debug_conn = new LocalConnection(); this.debug_conn.allowDomain(*); this.debug_conn.client = this; this.debug_conn.connect(__mdmDebugger); Not sure if this is what you're running into, but adding allowDomain() fixed my little [de]bugger ;-) regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Open Source Flash Mailing List osflash@osflash.org; Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:06 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug I'm seeing a weird problem with local connection on a mac. if the swf's are using the Mozilla plugin, they can communicate, but if either of them are using the debug or stand alone player then it no worky. I have Xray running in SWHX, and it's able to communicate with a website with the xray connector. However, it cannot communicate with a swf loaded in Flash IDE or in a stand alone player. Likewise, if I run the Xray.swf in a standalone player, it cannot communicate via local connection with any swf. Is this a known issue on the mac? -- [ JPG ] ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: simulating mouse clicks
So I was able to get this to work for a large majority of cases by
handling the following special cases:
1) Clicking a row in a List, code snippet:
listObj.selectedIndex = theObjToClick.__dataIdx;
listObj.dispatchEvent( {type:change, target:listObj, name:change} );
2) Clicking a Menu item, code snippet:
menuObj.onRowRelease(theObjToClick.__dataIdx);
The __dataIdx property indicates the index in the data provider
array that 'theObjToClick' corresponds to. For all other types of
objects, invoke onPress/onRelease on theObjToClick.
I got the key insights here from the source code for an open source
tool called 'AutoTestFlash' (http://tiago.webstartpoint.net/flash/).
This is working for me so far without limitations, although I would
not call it generic without further testing.
-- Vishal
On 10/20/06, Kevin Aebig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm assuming that you have something other than the pointer acting like it
has control in the same way as the cursor.
I've done this before for some specific circumstances and it required hit
collision detection and checking for every possible scenario.
- Check for onPress and onRelease and onClick (custom handler)
- Check for dispatchEvent
- Add either a listener to the mouse, or to UIEventDispatcher
It's not a complete solution, but generally it should take care of a lot of
circumstances.
!k
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vishal Kapur
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:16 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: simulating mouse clicks
I'll ask the question a different way: what are all the ways that a
mouse click event can be handled in a flash movie? (other than
defining an onPress/onRelease callback)
-- Vishal
On 10/17/06, Vishal Kapur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to solve the problem of generically simulating mouse clicks
in a running flash movie. So, I'd like to be able to write a
function that when invoked with the targetPath of the flash object to
be clicked, would be able to simulate a mouse click on that object as
if a user had actually clicked it. I should also mention that the
technique needs to work with arbitrary 3rd-party flash movies (so I
don't have control to change the code).
The simplest thing to try is just to try to invoke the
onPress/onRelease callbacks on the target object. This works
sometimes. However, in some cases it doesn't quite simulate a real
mouse click. In particular, I seem to have trouble simulating clicks
on components (in a List component, for example, the selected row will
get highlighted but the handler that does further processing and
refreshes the UI doesn't seem to get called).
Currently I am (sort of) working around this by getting the
coordinates of the center of the target object and using the Win32
api's to move the mouse pointer and simulate the windows mouse down/up
events. As you can imagine this is not truly generic (doesn't handle
scrollbars, movielclips obscured by other objects, etc).
Any thoughts on this? Anyone with previous experience with this or
ideas on a better way to generically simulate a click event in flash?
Thanks,
Vishal
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Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug
Yeah, i'm using the Flext2 version of xray and it does do the allowdomain. On pc, it works without issue, this is only on the mac ;) On 10/24/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are any of those swf's fp9? I've created my own little Flex/Zinc debugger and found that you now *have* to specify .allowDomain() in combination with the underscore name for LocalConnection to work across domains (or one running in browser, other on desktop) // receiver in Flex this.debug_conn = new LocalConnection(); this.debug_conn.allowDomain(*); this.debug_conn.client = this; this.debug_conn.connect(__mdmDebugger); Not sure if this is what you're running into, but adding allowDomain() fixed my little [de]bugger ;-) regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Open Source Flash Mailing List osflash@osflash.org; Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:06 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug I'm seeing a weird problem with local connection on a mac. if the swf's are using the Mozilla plugin, they can communicate, but if either of them are using the debug or stand alone player then it no worky. I have Xray running in SWHX, and it's able to communicate with a website with the xray connector. However, it cannot communicate with a swf loaded in Flash IDE or in a stand alone player. Likewise, if I run the Xray.swfin a standalone player, it cannot communicate via local connection with any swf. Is this a known issue on the mac? -- [ JPG ] ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- [ JPG ] ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug
Have you tried using the latest fp updates? http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp9 http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp8 regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug Yeah, i'm using the Flext2 version of xray and it does do the allowdomain. On pc, it works without issue, this is only on the mac ;) ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug
are they the local standalone players? the web players are the ones that work On 10/24/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried using the latest fp updates? http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp9 http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp8 regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug Yeah, i'm using the Flext2 version of xray and it does do the allowdomain. On pc, it works without issue, this is only on the mac ;) ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- [ JPG ] ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug
ah yes they seem to be the standalones as well. Cool, thanks muz, I'll give them a go! On 10/24/06, John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are they the local standalone players? the web players are the ones that work On 10/24/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried using the latest fp updates? http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp9 http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp8 regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] LocalCOnnection/Standalone player bug Yeah, i'm using the Flext2 version of xray and it does do the allowdomain. On pc, it works without issue, this is only on the mac ;) ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- [ JPG ] -- [ JPG ] ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] a YouTube for games?
Hi all - Wanted to let people know about a new site we've just launched for uploading and playing web games. It's called Kongregate - we're calling it that because we're really emphasizing playing with and against your friends. All games have chat, collectible items, points, etc. I've mentioned this once before on this list, but we've launched our private alpha so it's time to mention it again. http://kongregate.com - you'll need an invitation to create an account for now. You can just email me and I'll get you one, or fill out the form on the homepage and mention flashcoders. The games are all Flash games uploaded by the developers - we'll also be supporting Shockwave games soon. We give a share of the revenue we make to the game developer - up to 50% depending on whether they implement our APIs and whether the game is exclusive to us. Game developers will be able to use our 1-click payment system to charge for premium content in their games. For instance you could have a racing game where the first 3 tracks are free, and then additional tracks are $0.50 each or $5 for all of them. The price is up to the developer - here the revenue share will be much higher than 50% - it's your game after all. One cool thing we're doing that isn't implemented yet is a metagame. By playing the individual Flash games you can earn Cards - sort of like Achievements on Xbox Live. Those cards are playable in an online collectible card game, sort of like Magic the Gathering. A lot of this isn't implemented yet, but you can check out the basics now. If you're interested go to http://kongregate.com and request an invitation. If you mention this thread I'll make sure you get one! We're really trying to get feedback from developers to make sure we're implementing the right set of features and making a site that will be the best place to upload web games. We've already gotten some of my favorites: Fancy Pants Adventure, Four Second Fury, Dark Cut, Galactic Gravity Golf. Jim Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company: http://kongregate.com Blog: http://jimonwebgames.com ___ 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 Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
