RE: [Flashcoders] Is it possible?

2007-03-02 Thread Kalani Bright
It's possible and common. My opinion is use xml/. Why mess with all that other junk (I've never liked AMF)? Database Web Service XML Flash or in reverse for whatever purpose. You can create a node like class that extends movieclip with xml functionality which knows about it's children and

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Kalani Bright
Uhhh. Never pirate books. Software, movies, cd's okay, but never books. And never give candy to strangers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rost, Andrew Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:03 PM To: 'flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com'

Re: [Flashcoders] Set Interval Question

2007-03-02 Thread zehfernando
10 seconds. In that 10 second interval, I load, fade in, pause on, and fade out, that image. That is working mostly fine. Accept I have a seperate setInterval starting for the images fade in and fade out functions (1.25 sec * 2). And have it pausing for the remainder which should be 7.5

[Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
good people, how do i move a moviClip to center itself at (_xmouse, _ymouse)...i have the onPress part down...i just need to center it on those coordinates thanks ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Omar Fouad said: this is not called piracy my little brave boy...know your right and respect your older bro. Give us a break, Omar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_piracy QUOTE The copyright infringement of software refers to several practices when done without the permission of the

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax highlighter

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Stuhr
Iv schrieb: Hello, http://www.bezier.ru/marker/ - you can use it offline: swf only needed. sweet :-) luviv micha ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Jordan L. Chilcott - Interactivity Unlimited
Sorry... couldn't resist: On 3/1/07, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is not called piracy my little brave boy... as in i am not selling it. I was just considering you my lil brother, and than i decided to give you this book as any one gives something to his girlfriend.. IOW, your

Re: [Flashcoders] Incorporating Flash Module into HTML site

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Stuhr
Phil Dupré schrieb: Greetings, I have a mini flash web site that I would like to import into a dedicated area within an HTML site as a SWF file. This SWF file will essentially work like a general web site. It has a navigation menu with buttons and sub-buttons. The sub-buttons load swf files

RE: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Flash

2007-03-02 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Posting the same question under three different subjects won't get your question answered any quicker. Flash is perfectly capable of CRUD communication with a database and displaying it however you like. You're asking for advice on how to set up a relational database and how to write inner join

RE: [Flashcoders] shape tweens at 60fps

2007-03-02 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Any browser except IE on Windows will have reduced performance. Only IE gives Flash as much RAM and CPU as it wants. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] Right Click disabling

2007-03-02 Thread Cortlandt Winters
Blast. Sorry for the false hopes. I'll let you know if I get tempted by the dark side and get lucky? On 3/1/07, Andy Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cort, Sadly your method doesn't seem to work. I think I'm going to have to come back to the light and emerge from the dark world of

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Are you so retarded that you would repost the same ignorant denial to the list? Omar, you broke the law and that's that. You're only making yourself look dumber by denying it. Drop it move on before you make yourself look any worse. ___

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Media Server: Shared Remote Object, and then endless loop to clients...

2007-03-02 Thread Norman Cousineau
Please provide some code, or we can't help. -Original Message- From: grimmwerks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:11 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash Media Server: Shared Remote Object,and then endless loop to clients... I'm unsure

Re: [Flashcoders] TEST

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Stuhr
Glen Pike schrieb: Now who wants to discuss which editor is the best? :) no, let's talk about OS's *gg micha ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Omar Fouad
Ok Ok... Fine! I've sent a copy of the book. So ppl please look into your computer... see how many pdf books, Mp3's, movies you have got on your hard disk... isn't this called pirating ??? And please don't try to tell me u got no mp3's, you don't use any p2p program, you don't download movies

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Iv
Hello Andrew, RA Piracy: The unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted RA book, [...] - hmmm... I understand reproduction rule, but use I don't understand. Is libraries closed in your country? Or you need special license to give your book to girlfriend? Mistake of Omar is reproduction

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread JOR
Try: // movie_mc is the instance name of the movieClip // you want to center on the mouse coords. movie_mc._x = _xmouse - (movie_mc._width/2); movie_mc._y = _ymouse - (movie_mc._height/2); If the movieClip size doesn't change you can optimize this by precalculating the (movie_mc._width/2) and

[Flashcoders] Crossdomain for president

2007-03-02 Thread John Crosby
Howdy all, Wouldn't it be nice if Yahoo starts adding crossdomain.xml files to their public services such as weather and del.icio.us so that we RIA developers could easily and natively write apps against them? If you feel the same as me, put in your vote:

RE: [Flashcoders] ADMIN: DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE LIST

2007-03-02 Thread Dave Watts
Whoraw! Spite and Revenge, best served cold! I was kidding. But, I am serious about people contacting me directly, instead of sending unsubscribe requests to the list where I may well miss them. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
So ppl please look into your computer... see how many pdf books, Mp3's, movies you have got on your hard disk... isn't this called pirating ??? all the list, but please before you criticise ppl, criticise yourself, as we are not angels... I'm no angel, but I also I don't have any priated MP3s,

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread Yehia Shouman
1) either double click your clip and group everthing and center it manually OR 2) make sure your graphics inside that clip is at 0,0 and then inside your MouseMove handler or onEnterFrame handler; toCenterClip._x = _xmouse - (toCenterClip._width/2); toCenterClip._y = _ymouse -

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread Yehia Shouman
dont forget updateAfterEvent(); with the MouseMove use. it tells the player to refresh visuals after the calculated mouse move event you catched even if it wasn't time to render that frame. On 3/2/07, Yehia Shouman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) either double click your clip and group everthing

RE: [Flashcoders] ADMIN: DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE LIST

2007-03-02 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
You should just post their emails on spam forums where they are sure to be culled by bots and then they'll start getting so much spam it'll force them to get a brand new email. Maybe then they'll see that a few unwanted emails are really not that bad compared to how bad it will be if they don't

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MovieClip._width / 2 = its _x center MovieClip._height / 2 = its _y center hope it helps [p e r c e p t i c o n] wrote: good people, how do i move a moviClip to center itself at (_xmouse, _ymouse)...i have the onPress part down...i just need to center it on those coordinates thanks

[Flashcoders] ADMIN (was OT: Pirated Books)

2007-03-02 Thread Dave Watts
It's hard for me to believe that I have to do this. Please don't post links that violate other people's intellectual property. That is all. Please end this thread. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized

RE: RE: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-03-02 Thread Ung, Seng
Me too: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mark Gearhart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:30 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: RE: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems ... and please unsubscribe me as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Ian Thomas
At the same time, I don't agree with Ian the tattle-tale posting about it on Flashcoders. He would have done quite well in the McCarthy era. You're quite correct, Steven - I would have been in a completely different country, and so done _extremely_ well. An email to Omar on his own would

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Gustavo Duenas
Hey jord, would you recommend me a good book for AS3? Regards Gustavo Duenas On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Jordan L. Chilcott - Interactivity Unlimited wrote: Sorry... couldn't resist: On 3/1/07, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is not called piracy my little brave boy... as in i

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books -finishing this thread

2007-03-02 Thread Ricardo M. Portilho
Hey folks let´s move on... finishing this thread and caring about the FLASHCODERS MAIN FOCUS ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] ADMIN: DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE LIST

2007-03-02 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
I know the whining has been excessive, but there are real people behind those e-mails. Your bleeding heart is making a mess of the sarcasm on this thread. I know you work in an extremely corporate environment, but try and find a sense of humor and lighten up, Jason. ;)

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Saila
This is ridiculous. Please stop this foolishness on the list. If you ask me, this Ian guy is as stupid as the Omar guy, because this list is something of a different nature, if someone sent u an email of something you dont like, delete it. Stop your whining, and stop making a big deal about small

[Flashcoders] Importing SWF file into HTML web page

2007-03-02 Thread Phil Dupré
Hi, I have a flash web site that I would like to import into a dedicated area within an HTML site as a SWF file. This SWF file will essentially work like a general web site. It has a navigation menu with buttons and sub-buttons. The sub-buttons load swf files and or movie clips within the main

[Flashcoders] more _lockroot woes

2007-03-02 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, I asked a question a few weeks ago about a strange phenoma with _lockroot, losing the reference to the _root I really needed. I seemed to have narrowed it down a little further. Flash seems to lose the way when you reference _root from an instance of a class that is not a movieclip.

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Jacek Artymiak
On 3/2/07, Weyert de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's even scary how fast they pirated ebooks are available after publication. :/ Maybe its because the whole ebook as a product idea is flawed? In 2003 I published a (printed) book on security. It was quite popular and people kept asking me to

Re: [Flashcoders] Crossdomain for president

2007-03-02 Thread Jah
that would require them to know the domains that they are allowing, which is somewhat impossible... no? On 3/2/07, John Crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy all, Wouldn't it be nice if Yahoo starts adding crossdomain.xml files to their public services such as weather and del.icio.us so that

Re: [Flashcoders] Crossdomain for president

2007-03-02 Thread Mick G
Have you thought about using the server-side proxy method? I've used this to load Yahoo XML into flash modules. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16520 On 3/2/07, John Crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy all, Wouldn't it be nice if Yahoo starts adding

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books Ok Ok... Fine! I've sent a copy of the book. So ppl please look into your computer... see how many pdf

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread T. Michael Keesey
On 3/2/07, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your mc's reg point is top left: mc._x = _root.xmouse - mc._width/2 mc._y = _root.ymouse - mc._height/2 Incidentally, there's a neat trick you can do to speed up the calculation AND ensure that the result is an integer (so that the

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread T. Michael Keesey
On 3/2/07, T. Michael Keesey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a test where I ran a calculation a million times, shift right was about 200ms faster than division. Sorry, that's not a helpful metric. I should have said shift right took ~90% as much time. -- Mike Keesey

Re: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Omar Fouad
well ok... i am sorry folks it wont happen again i promise actually someone asked me to gibi him the book yesterday but i said no sorry ppl, sorry ivan. I hope no one is upset anymore... regards... On 3/2/07, Iv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Andrew, RA Piracy: The

RE: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread Joshua Sera
For an arbitrary registration point, use var b:Object = mc.getBounds(mc._parent); var offset:Object = {x:(mc._x - b.xMin, y:instance._y - b.yMin)}; then mc._x = (_root.xmouse - mc._width/2) - offset.x; mc._y = (_root.ymouse - mc._height/2) - offset.y; --- Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flashcoders] testing it

2007-03-02 Thread Gustavo Duenas
Hi, my emails to the list were bounced back and I don't know why...I hope this not. Regards Gustavo Duenas ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] ADMIN: DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE LIST

2007-03-02 Thread John McCormack
Sometimes things go wrong, but I am sure most of us are really grateful to Dave Watts, figleaf, and all the contributers for the way they enrich our lives. John - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March

RE: [Flashcoders] standalone player for os 9.x

2007-03-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Publish as Macintosh Projector won't do it? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations, Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spiceee Sent: Thursday, March

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread Ian Thomas
It depends where the registration point of your clip is. If it's at top-left or centre, then the calculation is simple - see all the other posts in the thread. If it's unpredictable, use getBounds() - do something like this: var bounds:Object=myClipToCentre.getBounds(this);

RE: [Flashcoders] Set Interval Question

2007-03-02 Thread Jesse Graupmann
setTimeout works just like setInterval except it only runs once. Unfortunately it's not in the intrinsic classes, so either set it up locally in your intrinsic class definitions (never a good idea), or call it using array notation; _global [setTimeout]. More info here:

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Stuhr
Chris Saila schrieb: This is ridiculous. you could at least have shortend the quote. and writing tofu is bad too. sincerely, your mail police officer micha (and writing.toLowercase() is bad too, but isn't it the little failing that makes us all human ?)

Re: [Flashcoders] Importing SWF file into HTML web page

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Stuhr
Phil Dupré schrieb: Hi, Boy, stop this shit. This List is about coding actionscript. What you need is some serious help in Web-Development. but for the sake: it's friday, i have my 1st beer intus: here's how the gods say you should do: http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/ And just for the

Re: [Flashcoders] Crossdomain for president

2007-03-02 Thread Mick G
All you need is any server-side language (There are links on that page for PHP, CFM, ASP and JSP) All you do is create a file eg. yahooxml.php In this PHP file you put: ?php $dataURL = http://www.yahoo.com/xmlfeed.xml;; //note that this will not follow redirects readfile($dataURL); ? From

[Flashcoders] Is anyone using Proxus FLV Component

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Walton
I am using it and when I view the file locally I see the lister component's list but when it is uploaded to server I cannot see the xml generated list? BTW It is an flv plater with an attached xml lister which generates a file list with a description as well as a picture pulled from a sub

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
thanks for the info...very helpful! cheers [p] On 3/2/07, Joshua Sera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an arbitrary registration point, use var b:Object = mc.getBounds(mc._parent); var offset:Object = {x:(mc._x - b.xMin, y:instance._y - b.yMin)}; then mc._x = (_root.xmouse - mc._width/2) -

RE: [Flashcoders] ADMIN: DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE LIST

2007-03-02 Thread Tom Haschenburger
This is a test for FlashCoders and a question is there something wrong with the newbie list? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John McCormack Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:36 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders]

Re: [Flashcoders] Set Interval Question

2007-03-02 Thread Fumio Nonaka
It is inadvertently undocumented but officially supported. See the comment by Francis Cheng of Adobe: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/1717.html _ Muzak wrote: It's an undocumented feature: http://www.flashguru.co.uk/flash-8-settimeout/ Good luck, -- Fumio Nonaka mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread JOR
sweet tip, thanks. -- JOR T. Michael Keesey wrote: On 3/2/07, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your mc's reg point is top left: mc._x = _root.xmouse - mc._width/2 mc._y = _root.ymouse - mc._height/2 Incidentally, there's a neat trick you can do to speed up the calculation

Re: [Flashcoders] simple math question...

2007-03-02 Thread T. Michael Keesey
On 3/2/07, JOR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sweet tip, thanks. -- JOR No prob. Incidentally, I'm pretty sure this is why BlurFilter, etc. are optimized for blur amounts that are powers of 2. -- Mike Keesey ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Is this done in processing?

2007-03-02 Thread Muzak
Is this what you're looking for? http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: nelson ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Is this done in processing?

[Flashcoders] Cache Killer... is it bulletproof ???

2007-03-02 Thread David Bellerive
I've read that appending a random query string ( example : new Date.getTime() ) to the URL of assets (images, sounds, XML files, etc.) loaded at runtime in the Flash Player ensures that these assets are always loaded from the server instead of being loaded from the cache. I've tested this on

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Is this done in processing?

2007-03-02 Thread Jesse Graupmann
Maybe... http://code.google.com/p/touchlib/ http://nuigroup.com/log/comments/blob_tracking_with_/ http://www.v3ga.net/processing/BlobDetection/index-page-projects.html http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?software -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Flashcoders] Cache Killer... is it bulletproof ???

2007-03-02 Thread Zeh Fernando
Is this method bulletproof (it works in all browsers on all operating systems)? Is this something that you would really rely on for big projects? Has anyone ever used this method and had big problems with it or even minor glitches? It is bulletproof. There's no reason why it shouldn't work.

Re: [Flashcoders] more _lockroot woes

2007-03-02 Thread Brian Williams
Yes, I've noticed that too. Classes are only loaded once, so if swf A uses class Foo, and then loads swf B into a lockroot, if swf B also has a class Foo, it's going to be using the class defined in swf A (with the wrong root). Note: it's not just the interpretation of _root. class Foo from

[Flashcoders] SharedObject - Urgen Help Needed Please

2007-03-02 Thread Not telling Not Telling
Hi there. Well ive got the following sharedobject setup that is shared by many swfs in the same directory but the sharing works fine the problem is the following but first heres the shared object code. Code: axsim_so = SharedObject.getLocal(axsim, /); What happens is the swf or exe

Re: [Flashcoders] Cache Killer... is it bulletproof ???

2007-03-02 Thread Mike and Stephie
Hi David ! Yes this mostly seems to work quite well. The thing is to make sure that all assets are called using this random string-- that none sneaks through unintentionally Kind regards Prema David Bellerive wrote: I've read that appending a random query string ( example : new

Re: [Flashcoders] SharedObject - Urgen Help Needed Please

2007-03-02 Thread Muzak
What you're trying to do is not possible with a local SharedObject. You'll need something like FMS or Red5 Understanding shared objects http://livedocs.adobe.com/fms/2/docs/0049.html FMS: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/ Red5 http://osflash.org/red5 If all you want to do is