[Flashcoders] jpeg 2000 compression

[Marc furman]

Hi
can anyone tell me if there is a way to use jpeg 2000 compression in
flash mx 2004 or flash 8  also if it is used in a movie can jpeg
2000 compression be viewed in flash player 7
Thank you
marc
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RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[David Ngo]

Are you sure you're implementing it correctly? You have to assign the class
to your library item and it should work. If you're just arbitrarily
attaching a MovieClip from the library without assigning that symbol the
class, it will give you that error.


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Matte | BLITZ
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var myClass:MyClass = myClip.attachMovie(linkage, name,
depth).init(args);

That code will fire an error like this :

Type mismatch in assignment statement: found MovieClip where MyClass is
required.

If you want to typecast your movieclip, I think you need to do :
var mc:MovieClip = myClip.attachMovie(linkage, name, depth).init(args);
var myClass:MyClass = MyClass(mc);
myClass.init(args);


BLITZ | Patrick Matte - 310-551-0200 x214
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Ngo
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 6:17 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

Another way to do this is to have an init() method that you call in-line
to
your attachMovie().

class MyClass extends MovieClip
{
public function MyClass() {}

public function init(args):MyClass
{
// do your constructor type stuff here
return this
}
}


And this is how you use it:

var myClass:MyClass = myClip.attachMovie(linkage, name,
depth).init(args);


This way, you can also type-cast your instance to your Class without
having
to re-cast. I forgot who came up with this or where I saw it, but it's
been
pretty useful for me when extending MovieClip.



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Rousseau
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:08 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

Hi Sebastian,


When extending the MovieClip Class in AS2, there is no way to access the

constructor. All initializations should be done, like Matthias Dittgen 
mentionned with the optional initObject argument of 
attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth, initObject)
That way you set all the properties that you need before the onLoad() of

your Class. Don't forget that it's a MovieClip and in AS2 it's instances

are not handled the same way as other Classes  and has it's own rules :)

You should read on the MovieClip Class, it's all there

HTH

Alain

sebastian chedal wrote:
>> If it is a movie clip you want to instantiate then you have to use:
>> _root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth);
>
>> The class associated with it will construct and the onLoad event will
>> trigger if it is being listened to.
>
> this indeed works, but then i can't pass any values to the
constructor.
> Is there any way to attachMovie and at the same time pass values to
it?
>
> I supose I can always refer to it afterwards on the time line and call
a
> custom function... but it would be nice to use the constructor's
> functionality.
>
> I had hoped I could generate new instances just by calling a
constructor
> instead of attaching it to something; but i guess logically i it needs

> to be
> attached to be "on the timeline". Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Seb.
>
> On 5/1/07, O. Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> are u executing the class post view?
>>
>> On 5/1/07, Andy Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Or have the function return it, which is what it seems like would
be
>> > the right thing for that method.
>> >
>> >   -Andy
>> >
>> > On 5/1/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > I am not sure if you are showing all the code but in your code
>> fragment,
>> > > newPost is a local variable that will be destroyed as soon as
>> createPost
>> > > ends. A short and brutal life.
>> > >
>> > > It needs to be a class property and you will want to have a 
>> getter to
>> > > access it.
>> > >
>> > > Ron
>> > >
>> > > sebastian chedal wrote:
>> > > > Hello Flashcoders,
>> > > >
>> > > > Sorry to bother you with another simple AS2 questions, I'm
making
>> good
>> > > > progress but I am stumped with one simple thing.
>> > > >
>> > > > I have one class/object that I want to use to generate copies
>> > > > [instances] of
>> > > > another class.
>> > > >
>> > > > The second class is an object in the library with an ID and an
>> > assosiated
>> > > > *.as file [in the linkage panel].
>> > > >
>> > > > The code is:
>> > > > =
>> > > >
>> > > > //PostModel.as
>> > > >
>> > > > import com.blabla.PostView;
>> > > >
>> > > > class com.blabla.PostModel {
>> > > >
>> > > >   public function createPost (__id) {
>> > > >var newPost = new PostView (__id);
>> > > >   }
>> > > > }
>> > > >
>> > > > =
>> > > >
>> > > > When I run this code, the class d

RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[Patrick Matte | BLITZ]

var myClass:MyClass = myClip.attachMovie(linkage, name,
depth).init(args);

That code will fire an error like this :

Type mismatch in assignment statement: found MovieClip where MyClass is
required.

If you want to typecast your movieclip, I think you need to do :
var mc:MovieClip = myClip.attachMovie(linkage, name, depth).init(args);
var myClass:MyClass = MyClass(mc);
myClass.init(args);


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Ngo
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 6:17 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

Another way to do this is to have an init() method that you call in-line
to
your attachMovie().

class MyClass extends MovieClip
{
public function MyClass() {}

public function init(args):MyClass
{
// do your constructor type stuff here
return this
}
}


And this is how you use it:

var myClass:MyClass = myClip.attachMovie(linkage, name,
depth).init(args);


This way, you can also type-cast your instance to your Class without
having
to re-cast. I forgot who came up with this or where I saw it, but it's
been
pretty useful for me when extending MovieClip.



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain
Rousseau
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:08 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

Hi Sebastian,


When extending the MovieClip Class in AS2, there is no way to access the

constructor. All initializations should be done, like Matthias Dittgen 
mentionned with the optional initObject argument of 
attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth, initObject)
That way you set all the properties that you need before the onLoad() of

your Class. Don't forget that it's a MovieClip and in AS2 it's instances

are not handled the same way as other Classes  and has it's own rules :)

You should read on the MovieClip Class, it's all there

HTH

Alain

sebastian chedal wrote:
>> If it is a movie clip you want to instantiate then you have to use:
>> _root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth);
>
>> The class associated with it will construct and the onLoad event will
>> trigger if it is being listened to.
>
> this indeed works, but then i can't pass any values to the
constructor.
> Is there any way to attachMovie and at the same time pass values to
it?
>
> I supose I can always refer to it afterwards on the time line and call
a
> custom function... but it would be nice to use the constructor's
> functionality.
>
> I had hoped I could generate new instances just by calling a
constructor
> instead of attaching it to something; but i guess logically i it needs

> to be
> attached to be "on the timeline". Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Seb.
>
> On 5/1/07, O. Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> are u executing the class post view?
>>
>> On 5/1/07, Andy Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Or have the function return it, which is what it seems like would
be
>> > the right thing for that method.
>> >
>> >   -Andy
>> >
>> > On 5/1/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > I am not sure if you are showing all the code but in your code
>> fragment,
>> > > newPost is a local variable that will be destroyed as soon as
>> createPost
>> > > ends. A short and brutal life.
>> > >
>> > > It needs to be a class property and you will want to have a 
>> getter to
>> > > access it.
>> > >
>> > > Ron
>> > >
>> > > sebastian chedal wrote:
>> > > > Hello Flashcoders,
>> > > >
>> > > > Sorry to bother you with another simple AS2 questions, I'm
making
>> good
>> > > > progress but I am stumped with one simple thing.
>> > > >
>> > > > I have one class/object that I want to use to generate copies
>> > > > [instances] of
>> > > > another class.
>> > > >
>> > > > The second class is an object in the library with an ID and an
>> > assosiated
>> > > > *.as file [in the linkage panel].
>> > > >
>> > > > The code is:
>> > > > =
>> > > >
>> > > > //PostModel.as
>> > > >
>> > > > import com.blabla.PostView;
>> > > >
>> > > > class com.blabla.PostModel {
>> > > >
>> > > >   public function createPost (__id) {
>> > > >var newPost = new PostView (__id);
>> > > >   }
>> > > > }
>> > > >
>> > > > =
>> > > >
>> > > > When I run this code, the class doesn't construct an
instance...
>> > > >
>> > > > What am I missing? If I need to call the Library Identifyer 
>> instead,
>> > how
>> > > > would I do that?
>> > > >
>> > > > I don't want to attach the PostView to the PostModel class, I
just
>> > > > want to
>> > > > create instances of them and attach them to _root [or some 
>> other MC
>> in
>> > > > the
>> > > > timeline].
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks!!
>> > > >
>> > > > Seb.
>> > > > ___
>> > > > Flashcoders@chattyf

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[Steven Sacks]

You might want to consider using composition.

class Sample
{
private var self:MovieClip;

function Sample(clip:MovieClip)
{
self = clip;
}
}

Usage:
mySample = new Sample(this.attachMovie(id, instance, depth));


Composition has many advantages over extending MovieClip.  I'm not 
saying you should always use it over linked classes, but it definitely 
comes in handy for stuff like this.

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RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[David Ngo]

Another way to do this is to have an init() method that you call in-line to
your attachMovie().

class MyClass extends MovieClip
{
public function MyClass() {}

public function init(args):MyClass
{
// do your constructor type stuff here
return this
}
}


And this is how you use it:

var myClass:MyClass = myClip.attachMovie(linkage, name, depth).init(args);


This way, you can also type-cast your instance to your Class without having
to re-cast. I forgot who came up with this or where I saw it, but it's been
pretty useful for me when extending MovieClip.



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain
Rousseau
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:08 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

Hi Sebastian,


When extending the MovieClip Class in AS2, there is no way to access the 
constructor. All initializations should be done, like Matthias Dittgen 
mentionned with the optional initObject argument of 
attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth, initObject)
That way you set all the properties that you need before the onLoad() of 
your Class. Don't forget that it's a MovieClip and in AS2 it's instances 
are not handled the same way as other Classes  and has it's own rules :)

You should read on the MovieClip Class, it's all there

HTH

Alain

sebastian chedal wrote:
>> If it is a movie clip you want to instantiate then you have to use:
>> _root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth);
>
>> The class associated with it will construct and the onLoad event will
>> trigger if it is being listened to.
>
> this indeed works, but then i can't pass any values to the constructor.
> Is there any way to attachMovie and at the same time pass values to it?
>
> I supose I can always refer to it afterwards on the time line and call a
> custom function... but it would be nice to use the constructor's
> functionality.
>
> I had hoped I could generate new instances just by calling a constructor
> instead of attaching it to something; but i guess logically i it needs 
> to be
> attached to be "on the timeline". Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Seb.
>
> On 5/1/07, O. Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> are u executing the class post view?
>>
>> On 5/1/07, Andy Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Or have the function return it, which is what it seems like would be
>> > the right thing for that method.
>> >
>> >   -Andy
>> >
>> > On 5/1/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > I am not sure if you are showing all the code but in your code
>> fragment,
>> > > newPost is a local variable that will be destroyed as soon as
>> createPost
>> > > ends. A short and brutal life.
>> > >
>> > > It needs to be a class property and you will want to have a 
>> getter to
>> > > access it.
>> > >
>> > > Ron
>> > >
>> > > sebastian chedal wrote:
>> > > > Hello Flashcoders,
>> > > >
>> > > > Sorry to bother you with another simple AS2 questions, I'm making
>> good
>> > > > progress but I am stumped with one simple thing.
>> > > >
>> > > > I have one class/object that I want to use to generate copies
>> > > > [instances] of
>> > > > another class.
>> > > >
>> > > > The second class is an object in the library with an ID and an
>> > assosiated
>> > > > *.as file [in the linkage panel].
>> > > >
>> > > > The code is:
>> > > > =
>> > > >
>> > > > //PostModel.as
>> > > >
>> > > > import com.blabla.PostView;
>> > > >
>> > > > class com.blabla.PostModel {
>> > > >
>> > > >   public function createPost (__id) {
>> > > >var newPost = new PostView (__id);
>> > > >   }
>> > > > }
>> > > >
>> > > > =
>> > > >
>> > > > When I run this code, the class doesn't construct an instance...
>> > > >
>> > > > What am I missing? If I need to call the Library Identifyer 
>> instead,
>> > how
>> > > > would I do that?
>> > > >
>> > > > I don't want to attach the PostView to the PostModel class, I just
>> > > > want to
>> > > > create instances of them and attach them to _root [or some 
>> other MC
>> in
>> > > > the
>> > > > timeline].
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks!!
>> > > >
>> > > > Seb.
>> > > > ___
>> > > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
>> > > > To change your subscription options or search the archive:
>> > > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
>> > > >
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Sebastian,


When extending the MovieClip Class in AS2, there is no way to access the 
constructor. All initializations should be done, like Matthias Dittgen 
mentionned with the optional initObject argument of 
attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth, initObject)
That way you set all the properties that you need before the onLoad() of 
your Class. Don't forget that it's a MovieClip and in AS2 it's instances 
are not handled the same way as other Classes  and has it's own rules :)


You should read on the MovieClip Class, it's all there

HTH

Alain

sebastian chedal wrote:

If it is a movie clip you want to instantiate then you have to use:
_root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth);



The class associated with it will construct and the onLoad event will
trigger if it is being listened to.


this indeed works, but then i can't pass any values to the constructor.
Is there any way to attachMovie and at the same time pass values to it?

I supose I can always refer to it afterwards on the time line and call a
custom function... but it would be nice to use the constructor's
functionality.

I had hoped I could generate new instances just by calling a constructor
instead of attaching it to something; but i guess logically i it needs 
to be

attached to be "on the timeline". Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks!

Seb.

On 5/1/07, O. Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


are u executing the class post view?

On 5/1/07, Andy Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Or have the function return it, which is what it seems like would be
> the right thing for that method.
>
>   -Andy
>
> On 5/1/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am not sure if you are showing all the code but in your code
fragment,
> > newPost is a local variable that will be destroyed as soon as
createPost
> > ends. A short and brutal life.
> >
> > It needs to be a class property and you will want to have a 
getter to

> > access it.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > sebastian chedal wrote:
> > > Hello Flashcoders,
> > >
> > > Sorry to bother you with another simple AS2 questions, I'm making
good
> > > progress but I am stumped with one simple thing.
> > >
> > > I have one class/object that I want to use to generate copies
> > > [instances] of
> > > another class.
> > >
> > > The second class is an object in the library with an ID and an
> assosiated
> > > *.as file [in the linkage panel].
> > >
> > > The code is:
> > > =
> > >
> > > //PostModel.as
> > >
> > > import com.blabla.PostView;
> > >
> > > class com.blabla.PostModel {
> > >
> > >   public function createPost (__id) {
> > >var newPost = new PostView (__id);
> > >   }
> > > }
> > >
> > > =
> > >
> > > When I run this code, the class doesn't construct an instance...
> > >
> > > What am I missing? If I need to call the Library Identifyer 
instead,

> how
> > > would I do that?
> > >
> > > I don't want to attach the PostView to the PostModel class, I just
> > > want to
> > > create instances of them and attach them to _root [or some 
other MC

in
> > > the
> > > timeline].
> > >
> > > Thanks!!
> > >
> > > Seb.
> > > ___
> > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
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Re: [Flashcoders] Forms between JSP and Flash

[David Holroyd]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:48:38PM -0500, Helmut Granda wrote:
> Im using to reading variables from PHP like this
>  echo "form=success";
> ?>
> but I'm having some issues trying to read the same variables from JSP. If I
> access the file from within the browser I can see the variables but in flash
> with loadVars it shows as Undefined.

Try checking for newline chars before/after the data line sent to Flash.


ta,
dave

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Re: [Flashcoders] Forms between JSP and Flash

[Robert Brisita]

If memory serves me right try this:



$xml is a variable that holds the data and xml will be the member of the 
LoadVars instance in flash when

the onLoad event is triggered.

Quick Example:
class Test
{
   var lv:LoadVars = new 
  
   some method

   {
  ...
 lv.onLoad = Delegate.create(this, response);
  lv.load(a_php_url, lv, method);
   ...
   }
  
   response(success:Boolean)

   {
  trace(lv.xml);
   }
}

That should work.

Regards,
Rob.

Helmut Granda wrote:

Hello all,

Im using to reading variables from PHP like this



but I'm having some issues trying to read the same variables from JSP. 
If I
access the file from within the browser I can see the variables but in 
flash

with loadVars it shows as Undefined.

Anyone knows if the information has to be treated different?

TIA.
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Metadata references

[Matt Muller]

Thanks dude!

On 5/2/07, Muzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Try the Flex docs
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/metadata_141_04.html

[SWF] and [Frame] are not in the docs though, but there's some info in the
comments here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/docs/1651.html

Some stuff here on [Frame]
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=946
http://blogs.adobe.com/rgonzalez/2006/06/modular_applications_part_2.html

So right now I guess you're best bet is to just google, which is how I
found all of the above.

regards,
Muzak

- Original Message -
From: "Matt Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:24 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] AS3 Metadata references


> Hi
>
> Does anyone know a resource which lists and explains the AS3 metadata
api?
>
> ie
>
> [SWF(width="800" height="600", backgroundColor="#FF")]
> [Frame(Class="com.package.ClassName")]
>
> Thanks,
>
> MaTT


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[Flashcoders] Forms between JSP and Flash

[Helmut Granda]

Hello all,

Im using to reading variables from PHP like this



but I'm having some issues trying to read the same variables from JSP. If I
access the file from within the browser I can see the variables but in flash
with loadVars it shows as Undefined.

Anyone knows if the information has to be treated different?

TIA.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Robert Brisita]

Cool.

"his position is that he doesn't want to place any restrictions on the 
way people use his work, short of passing it

off as their own"
Yeah, understand that.  A BSD license would have been better or one of 
the newer CC licenses.


"Permission from the author rules all though, right?"
From my interpretation you are correct.

"I'm trying to do everything by the book."
As we should all do when handling commercial products.

R.

Henry Cooke wrote:

Thanks guys. I emailed the author earlier today and got a nice, positive
response - you were right, Mark, his position is that he doesn't want to
place any restrictions on the way people use his work, short of 
passing it

off as their own ;)

I'm just trying to be super-careful here, because there's some IP issues,
and the client are a fairly large, public organisation, so I'm trying 
to do
everything by the book. Permission from the author rules all though, 
right?

Obviously, I'm going to make sure he gets credit and there's a clear line
between our work and his etc etc...

Thanks again,
h.

On 02/05/07, Mark Winterhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On 5/2/07, Robert Brisita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have to go the GPL route,  you can tell your employers that all
> the code is in the SWF anyway, making it
> available just takes away an extra step from the process of acquiring
> the code.

Uhm... I really don't think that "can be decompiled" qualifies as
"making code publicly available". Local vars and comments aside, the
same would be true for Java and lots of other languages.

Frankly, I think there is a good possibility the author intended the
lib to be used the way you want to, and just chose the GPL as a
generic open source license without giving the implications any
thought. A short mail should clear things up, and a positive reply
could be taken as permission (the author can license his code to
anybody any way s/he pleases). So just mail the author, describe what
you want to do, and ask nicely if it's OK.

Generally, I would like some more clarity on the LGPL in regards to
SWFs. The way I interpret it, libraries would have to be loaded as an
extra SWF to be on the safe side, but I can't imagine this is the
intention of most of the authors.

Mark
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Re: [Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Robert Brisita]

Does it say anywhere in the GPL that requested code has to be commented 
and readable? :-)


Anyway the link I posted earlier should apply to all languages similar 
to JAVA considering LGPL:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html

"The way I interpret it, libraries would have to be loaded as an extra 
SWF to be on the safe side"

I see it the same way.

R.

Mark Winterhalder wrote:

On 5/2/07, Robert Brisita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If you have to go the GPL route,  you can tell your employers that all
the code is in the SWF anyway, making it
available just takes away an extra step from the process of acquiring
the code.


Uhm... I really don't think that "can be decompiled" qualifies as
"making code publicly available". Local vars and comments aside, the
same would be true for Java and lots of other languages.

Frankly, I think there is a good possibility the author intended the
lib to be used the way you want to, and just chose the GPL as a
generic open source license without giving the implications any
thought. A short mail should clear things up, and a positive reply
could be taken as permission (the author can license his code to
anybody any way s/he pleases). So just mail the author, describe what
you want to do, and ask nicely if it's OK.

Generally, I would like some more clarity on the LGPL in regards to
SWFs. The way I interpret it, libraries would have to be loaded as an
extra SWF to be on the safe side, but I can't imagine this is the
intention of most of the authors.

Mark
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Re: [Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Henry Cooke]

Thanks guys. I emailed the author earlier today and got a nice, positive
response - you were right, Mark, his position is that he doesn't want to
place any restrictions on the way people use his work, short of passing it
off as their own ;)

I'm just trying to be super-careful here, because there's some IP issues,
and the client are a fairly large, public organisation, so I'm trying to do
everything by the book. Permission from the author rules all though, right?
Obviously, I'm going to make sure he gets credit and there's a clear line
between our work and his etc etc...

Thanks again,
h.

On 02/05/07, Mark Winterhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On 5/2/07, Robert Brisita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have to go the GPL route,  you can tell your employers that all
> the code is in the SWF anyway, making it
> available just takes away an extra step from the process of acquiring
> the code.

Uhm... I really don't think that "can be decompiled" qualifies as
"making code publicly available". Local vars and comments aside, the
same would be true for Java and lots of other languages.

Frankly, I think there is a good possibility the author intended the
lib to be used the way you want to, and just chose the GPL as a
generic open source license without giving the implications any
thought. A short mail should clear things up, and a positive reply
could be taken as permission (the author can license his code to
anybody any way s/he pleases). So just mail the author, describe what
you want to do, and ask nicely if it's OK.

Generally, I would like some more clarity on the LGPL in regards to
SWFs. The way I interpret it, libraries would have to be loaded as an
extra SWF to be on the safe side, but I can't imagine this is the
intention of most of the authors.

Mark
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Metadata references

[Muzak]

Try the Flex docs
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/metadata_141_04.html

[SWF] and [Frame] are not in the docs though, but there's some info in the 
comments here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/docs/1651.html

Some stuff here on [Frame]
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=946
http://blogs.adobe.com/rgonzalez/2006/06/modular_applications_part_2.html

So right now I guess you're best bet is to just google, which is how I found 
all of the above.

regards,
Muzak

- Original Message - 
From: "Matt Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:24 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] AS3 Metadata references


> Hi
>
> Does anyone know a resource which lists and explains the AS3 metadata api?
>
> ie
>
> [SWF(width="800" height="600", backgroundColor="#FF")]
> [Frame(Class="com.package.ClassName")]
>
> Thanks,
>
> MaTT


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Re: [Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Mark Winterhalder]

On 5/2/07, Robert Brisita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If you have to go the GPL route,  you can tell your employers that all
the code is in the SWF anyway, making it
available just takes away an extra step from the process of acquiring
the code.


Uhm... I really don't think that "can be decompiled" qualifies as
"making code publicly available". Local vars and comments aside, the
same would be true for Java and lots of other languages.

Frankly, I think there is a good possibility the author intended the
lib to be used the way you want to, and just chose the GPL as a
generic open source license without giving the implications any
thought. A short mail should clear things up, and a positive reply
could be taken as permission (the author can license his code to
anybody any way s/he pleases). So just mail the author, describe what
you want to do, and ask nicely if it's OK.

Generally, I would like some more clarity on the LGPL in regards to
SWFs. The way I interpret it, libraries would have to be loaded as an
extra SWF to be on the safe side, but I can't imagine this is the
intention of most of the authors.

Mark
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Re: [Flashcoders] dynamic image loading in mc

[Gustavo Duenas]

Hi I found this quite interesting do you mind to explain this in more  
detail. Actually I'm looking to create a pictures menu and viewer  
base on the xml file,

a loop to assign this
the xml.


 model1.jpg
 model2.jpg
 model3.jpg
 model1.jpg


and in the as2, well I'm not sure about how to do it. but I'll need a  
loop to read each child in a mc and then add to them an onRelease  
behaviour in order to have them as buttons,

would you help me Seb?




Regards


Gustavo Duenas


On May 1, 2007, at 2:43 AM, sebastian wrote:


hi Michael,

quick reply here, but you may want to consider assigning the XML  
data to an Array instead of to variables. This way, you can call  
positions in the array easily.


So instead of:

bild = mein_xml.firstChild.childNodes[paktBild].attributes.pic;

you would have:

pictureArray = new array
for i loop with max = XML.children.length
pictureArray[i] = mein_xml.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.pic;
position = 0;//position tracker

next/previous just calls 'position' of 'pictureArray[i]' array and  
loads up. also saves reloading XML EVERY time you call an image  
[less load on server/flash]


cheers,

seb.

mastro wrote:

hello,
I'm looking for a solution witch can handle the following problem:
i need a mc witch will load several images and text dynamically  
from a folder into the flash-file. (the number of images change  
sometimes)
also 2 buttons should give the possibility to go from image 1 to  
image however and back...

my xml file looks like this:


Bild>



Bild>
Bild>




in flash on my mc the AS looks like:
--snip!
mein_xml = new XML();
mein_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
mein_xml.load("test.xml");
mein_xml.onLoad = function(status) {
if (status && this.loaded) {
anzahl = mein_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length;
geladen = true;
aktbild = 0;
ladeBild(aktBild);
}
};
function ladeBild(paktBild) {
status_mc._visible = 1;
bild = mein_xml.firstChild.childNodes[paktBild].attributes.pic;
bildname = mein_xml.firstChild.childNodes[paktBild].attributes.name;
loadMovie(bild, "bild_mc");
titel_txt.text = bildname;
}
weiter_btn.onRelease = function() {
if (geladen && aktbild0) {
aktbild--;
ladeBild(aktBild);
}
};
---snip!
here is a link to a test file:
http://nano.machfeld.net/test/test.zip
someone an idea?
cheers,
michael
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Re: [Flashcoders] printJob, orientation and rotation or scaling issues

[Dave Wood]

Thanks guys

Steven, I've played around with your code and got it working on my  
setup but will need to test later in the day on the computer/printer  
combination that was causing the problems.


I needed to modify it though because your code assumes the clip is  
scaled at 100% to start with. In my case it's not.


You could make your code more generic by adding at the start...

var originalScale:Number = mc._xscale;
mc._xscale = mc._yscale = 100;

...and then after printing, instead of setting the scale back to 100...

mc._xscale = mc._yscale = originalScale;


Or there's probably a way of leaving the scale as it is and fiddling  
around with the maths in the rest of the code - but that's too hard  
for this time of day!


Cheers

David



On 2/05/2007, at 9:31 PM, Steven Sacks wrote:


I cover this topic on my blog.  :)

http://www.stevensacks.net/2007/03/16/force-landscape-printing-with- 
printjob/

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Re: [Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Robert Brisita]

Yeah for this instance (Action Script) if you extend a class in the 
licensed library then that extension must be available to all who ask 
for it.


Robert Sanders wrote:

GPL means you have to release source to your game.

LGPL - well since it was written or C type langs. there is some 
(heated) debate about how to define "linking" in the context of 
dynamic languages; I've seen recently that there seems to be a 
creative commons license that explicitly says "modification to code 
must be shared, code that just calls library functions doesn't".




Henry Cooke wrote:

Hey folks,

I'm looking at using some GPL licensed code (Flade, to be specific) in a
game I'm building for my employers. However, I can't find a clear answer
anywhere as to what that implies for our source: does anyone know if 
using
GPL licensed libraries means that we would have to release the source 
to our
game? Or just the library, if I modify it? Or not at all? I assume 
compiling

a SWF constitutes creating a binary version, but are we technically
"distributing" it if it's loaded from a web server?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Henry


Addendum for Free Software people: I'm not trying to circumvent the GPL
here, just trying to understand the implications to my employer. 
Personally,
I think open source is a fantastically good thing. I just need to 
know if

I'm going to have to convince my bosses of that ;)
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Re: [Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Robert Brisita]

"It has always been the FSF's position that dynamically linking 
applications to libraries creates a single work derived from both the 
library code and the application code. The GPL requires that all 
derivative works be licensed under the GPL, an effect which can be 
described as "hereditary." So, if an application links to a library 
licensed under the GPL, the application too must be licensed under the 
GPL. By contrast, libraries licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public 
License (LGPL) may be linked to proprietary applications."


Source:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html

FSF == Free Software Foundation

If you have to go the GPL route,  you can tell your employers that all 
the code is in the SWF anyway, making it
available just takes away an extra step from the process of acquiring 
the code.


This has some good FAQs:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Good Luck,
Rob.

Henry Cooke wrote:

Hey folks,

I'm looking at using some GPL licensed code (Flade, to be specific) in a
game I'm building for my employers. However, I can't find a clear answer
anywhere as to what that implies for our source: does anyone know if 
using
GPL licensed libraries means that we would have to release the source 
to our
game? Or just the library, if I modify it? Or not at all? I assume 
compiling

a SWF constitutes creating a binary version, but are we technically
"distributing" it if it's loaded from a web server?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Henry


Addendum for Free Software people: I'm not trying to circumvent the GPL
here, just trying to understand the implications to my employer. 
Personally,

I think open source is a fantastically good thing. I just need to know if
I'm going to have to convince my bosses of that ;)
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Re: [Flashcoders] Any experience getting print materials to SWF files?

[Larry Yudelson]

I've started playing with the trial version of print2flash, and tested it on
two files. It crashed on the large catalog, with lots of linked pictures
(including two with bad links that trigger ID warnings) and did fine with
the text only file. I printed the catalog from Acrobat, and it generated a
file, albeit one larger than the original PDF.

The trial version is sufficiently featured for you to play around and see
whether it meets your needs.

On 5/2/07, Rick Schmitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Has anyone done anything with print designs (inDesign, Quark, PDF)
being exported to SWF?



--
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Re: [Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Robert Sanders]

GPL means you have to release source to your game.

LGPL - well since it was written or C type langs. there is some (heated) 
debate about how to define "linking" in the context of dynamic 
languages; I've seen recently that there seems to be a creative commons 
license that explicitly says "modification to code must be shared, code 
that just calls library functions doesn't".




Henry Cooke wrote:

Hey folks,

I'm looking at using some GPL licensed code (Flade, to be specific) in a
game I'm building for my employers. However, I can't find a clear answer
anywhere as to what that implies for our source: does anyone know if 
using
GPL licensed libraries means that we would have to release the source 
to our
game? Or just the library, if I modify it? Or not at all? I assume 
compiling

a SWF constitutes creating a binary version, but are we technically
"distributing" it if it's loaded from a web server?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Henry


Addendum for Free Software people: I'm not trying to circumvent the GPL
here, just trying to understand the implications to my employer. 
Personally,

I think open source is a fantastically good thing. I just need to know if
I'm going to have to convince my bosses of that ;)
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RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 RegExp (bug?)

[Benny]

Thanks for confirming this. I submitted a bug report with Adobe.

I noticed that if the pattern is used with exec command the same thing
happens. Aafter the last actual match is found it will not return null for
the result so in a while loop (as demonstrated in the Adobe docs for the
exec method) you'll get trapped in an endless loop. But with the exec method
we at least can come up with a work-around by testing if the new lastindex
is > then the previous lastIndex. If not then stop the search.


-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Andrés González &
Aragón
Verzonden: woensdag 2 mei 2007 17:39
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Onderwerp: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 RegExp (bug?)

Is not a cs3 bug, is a player bug. I cut n paste your code in cs3 and it
freezes, in eclipse with flex builder plugin the same, but eclipse didn't
freeze, only the player do.

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Re: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component

[john robinson]

Thanks!
I'm looking into RectBorder now and creating my own RectBorder class.
I've got it working following the example below (though I'm using F8,  
not CS3) but now I have a new issue...


http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/ 
wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=3504.html


The width I want is actually "hairline". Easy enough using the  
RectBorder example above.


Now I need to be able to change the color of that border at runtime.  
Anyone?


Thanks again,
John



On May 2, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote:

There is no "size" or "width" property for the RectBorder, which is  
what the
TextArea component uses for the border.  You would have to do a  
custom skin

or theme. If this is only for this one project, you can copy the skin
elements into your library. Here is the info from livedocs:
http://tinyurl.com/3acnln. Of course, this is just one approach and  
it is
optimized for doing it with a single FLA file. If you are working  
across

multiple FLAs you may want to take a different approach.


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From: john robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:24 AM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component

Hello all -

I'm using the TextArea component in Flash 8. I need to give the  
component a
border that is 1 pixel wide. I've found that using setStyle 
("borderStyle",
"solid") gives me a solid border but it is wider than I need. Can  
anyone

give me a hint as to how to change the width of the border?

Thanks!
John
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RE: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component

[Hairy Dog Digital]

There is no "size" or "width" property for the RectBorder, which is what the
TextArea component uses for the border.  You would have to do a custom skin
or theme. If this is only for this one project, you can copy the skin
elements into your library. Here is the info from livedocs:
http://tinyurl.com/3acnln. Of course, this is just one approach and it is
optimized for doing it with a single FLA file. If you are working across
multiple FLAs you may want to take a different approach.
 

-Original Message-
From: john robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:24 AM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component

Hello all -

I'm using the TextArea component in Flash 8. I need to give the component a
border that is 1 pixel wide. I've found that using setStyle("borderStyle",
"solid") gives me a solid border but it is wider than I need. Can anyone
give me a hint as to how to change the width of the border?

Thanks!
John
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[Flashcoders] AS3 Metadata references

[Matt Muller]

Hi

Does anyone know a resource which lists and explains the AS3 metadata api?

ie

[SWF(width="800" height="600", backgroundColor="#FF")]
[Frame(Class="com.package.ClassName")]

Thanks,

MaTT
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Re: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component

[Nick Johnston]

Leandro Amano wrote:

Hello,
Change border width I don't know

but try this:

myTextArea.label.border = true;
myTextArea.label.borderColor = 0x99;

However label (textField object) is a private member of the TextArea
Component

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On 5/2/07, john robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hello all -

I'm using the TextArea component in Flash 8. I need to give the
component a border that is 1 pixel wide. I've found that using
setStyle("borderStyle", "solid") gives me a solid border but it is
wider than I need. Can anyone give me a hint as to how to change the
width of the border?

Thanks!
John

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To change the thickness of a border set these properties:

setStyle('borderStyle', 'solid');
setStyle('borderThickness', 1);
setStyle('borderColor', 0x99);

Cheers,
Nick J


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[Flashcoders] Any experience getting print materials to SWF files?

[Rick Schmitty]

Has anyone done anything with print designs (inDesign, Quark, PDF)
being exported to SWF?
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[Flashcoders] Implications of using GPL'ed libraries?

[Henry Cooke]

Hey folks,

I'm looking at using some GPL licensed code (Flade, to be specific) in a
game I'm building for my employers. However, I can't find a clear answer
anywhere as to what that implies for our source: does anyone know if using
GPL licensed libraries means that we would have to release the source to our
game? Or just the library, if I modify it? Or not at all? I assume compiling
a SWF constitutes creating a binary version, but are we technically
"distributing" it if it's loaded from a web server?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Henry


Addendum for Free Software people: I'm not trying to circumvent the GPL
here, just trying to understand the implications to my employer. Personally,
I think open source is a fantastically good thing. I just need to know if
I'm going to have to convince my bosses of that ;)
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[Flashcoders] building my first Flash CS3 and AS 3.0 Flash component

[flep]

Hi,
I was use to create Flash 8 components and now i'm trying to build my first CS3 
component by using AS 3.0 but i'm having a problem that is driving me nuts 
about[Inspectable] meta tags.
I'm adding the meta tags like i did with AS 2.0 :

private var _color:Color;
[Inspectable(name='Childrens color',type=Color,defaultValue='#0066FF')]
 public function set color(pcolor:Color):void
 {
  this._color=pcolor;
 }
 public function get color():Color
 {
  return(this._color);
 }
but it does not work cause the Color class has been removed.

I tried to add a Boolean Type and it works only if:
- i export the SWC 
- i create the MXP
- i install the component and i can see the Boolean parameter with in it
but i can't see it during the work so i can't try my implementations.

I thank you very much if you can give me an advice.

Best Regards
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Re: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component

[Leandro Amano]

Hello,
Change border width I don't know

but try this:

myTextArea.label.border = true;
myTextArea.label.borderColor = 0x99;

However label (textField object) is a private member of the TextArea
Component

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On 5/2/07, john robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hello all -

I'm using the TextArea component in Flash 8. I need to give the
component a border that is 1 pixel wide. I've found that using
setStyle("borderStyle", "solid") gives me a solid border but it is
wider than I need. Can anyone give me a hint as to how to change the
width of the border?

Thanks!
John

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Re: [Flashcoders] Random Error

[Leandro Amano]

In AS2 classes, it's normal... =(
Try compiler again.

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On 5/2/07, Petro Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,

Which version of Flash are you using? I tried this on Flash CS3 and it
worked out seamlessly.

package {

   import flash.display.Sprite;
   import flash.system.Capabilities;

   public class Test extends Sprite {
   public function Test() {
   }

   public static function getInfo() {
   return(Capabilities.version);
   }
   }
}

.fla
trace(Test.getInfo());

Cheers,
Petro

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mennenoh
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:13 PM
> To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
> Subject: [Flashcoders] Random Error
>
> Once in a while, when compiling, I get an error from one of my
classes. The
> error is something like: 'property System not found', and it is thrown
from
> this function:
>
> public static function getPlayerVersion()
> {
>   return(System.capabilities.version);
>  }
>
>
> I only see the error once out of 20 compiles or so... thoughts?
>
>
> Dave -
> Head Developer
> http://www.blurredistinction.com
> Adobe Community Expert
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[Leandro Amano]

Please Sebastian, show all code in the next post.

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On 5/2/07, Matthias Dittgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


You can assign values to private and/or public variables of the class
using the 4th argument of attachMovie. Just read the API
documentation:
public attachMovie(id:String, name:String, depth:Number,
[initObject:Object]) : MovieClip

initObject can be predefined or used on the fly, which looks like:
_root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth, {myString: "Hello
World", _x: 20});

This is not the same as using params in the constructor, but these
variables are set before the constructor is called, so you can use the
values within the constructor, which is nearly the same and works fine
for me.

hth,
Matthias

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Re: [Flashcoders] rotate a cube

[Leandro Amano]

The fla source (AS2):
www.leandroamano.com.br/files/3d.fla

// Perspective
ppc = perspective.value;
center = {x:0, y:0, z:0};
// Cube: Face 1
v1 = {x:-50, y:-50, z:-50};
v2 = {x:50, y:-50, z:-50};
v3 = {x:50, y:50, z:-50};
v4 = {x:-50, y:50, z:-50};
// Cube: Face 2
v5 = {x:-50, y:-50, z:50};
v6 = {x:50, y:-50, z:50};
v7 = {x:50, y:50, z:50};
v8 = {x:-50, y:50, z:50};
// plan
p1 = {x:-300, y:-225, z:-100};
p2 = {x:-275, y:-225, z:-100};
p3 = {x:-300, y:-200, z:-100};
p4 = {x:-300, y:-225, z:-125};
//---
render(p1, plan1);
pp1 = point(plan1);
var temp:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("temp__", 500)
screen.onPress = function(Void):Void {
this._parent.temp.onEnterFrame = function(Void):Void {
 alpha = -(this._parent._ymouse-Stage.height/2)/Stage.height/2;
 beta = (this._parent._xmouse-Stage.width/2)/Stage.width/2;
 //---
 v1 = rotate(v1, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 v2 = rotate(v2, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 v3 = rotate(v3, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 v4 = rotate(v4, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 //---
 v5 = rotate(v5, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 v6 = rotate(v6, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 v7 = rotate(v7, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 v8 = rotate(v8, center, 0, alpha, beta);
 //---
 p2 = rotate(p2, p1, 0, alpha, beta);
 p3 = rotate(p3, p1, 0, alpha, beta);
 p4 = rotate(p4, p1, 0, alpha, beta);
 //---
 render(v1, vert1);
 render(v2, vert2);
 render(v3, vert3);
 render(v4, vert4);
 //---
 render(v5, vert5);
 render(v6, vert6);
 render(v7, vert7);
 render(v8, vert8);
 //---
 render(p2, plan2, 300);
 render(p3, plan3, 300);
 render(p4, plan4, 300);
 //---
 v1p = point(vert1);
 v2p = point(vert2);
 v3p = point(vert3);
 v4p = point(vert4);
 //---
 v5p = point(vert5);
 v6p = point(vert6);
 v7p = point(vert7);
 v8p = point(vert8);
 //---
 pp2 = point(plan2);
 pp3 = point(plan3);
 pp4 = point(plan4);
 //---
 z_index1 = 0;
 z_index2 = 0;
 //---
 if (v1.z>v5.z) {
  z_index1 = 1;
 } else {
  z_index2 = 1;
 }
 //---
 quad1 = this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("quad1", z_index1);
 quad1.beginFill(0xff, 75);
 quad1.moveTo(v1p.x, v1p.y);
 quad1.lineTo(v2p.x, v2p.y);
 quad1.lineTo(v3p.x, v3p.y);
 quad1.lineTo(v4p.x, v4p.y);
 quad1.lineTo(v1p.x, v1p.y);
 //---
 quad2 = this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("quad2", z_index2);
 quad2.beginFill(0x00ff00, 75);
 quad2.moveTo(v5p.x, v5p.y);
 quad2.lineTo(v6p.x, v6p.y);
 quad2.lineTo(v7p.x, v7p.y);
 quad2.lineTo(v8p.x, v8p.y);
 quad2.lineTo(v5p.x, v5p.y);
 //---
 this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("line1", 100).drawLine(v1p, v5p);
 this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("line2", 101).drawLine(v2p, v6p);
 this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("line3", 102).drawLine(v3p, v7p);
 this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("line4", 103).drawLine(v4p, v8p);
 //---
 estilo1 = {thick:2, rgb:0xff, alpha:100};
 estilo2 = {thick:2, rgb:0xff, alpha:100};
 estilo3 = {thick:2, rgb:0x00cc00, alpha:100};
 this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("versor_i", 201).drawLine(pp1, pp2,
estilo1);
 this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("versor_j", 202).drawLine(pp1, pp3,
estilo2);
 this._parent.createEmptyMovieClip("versor_k", 203).drawLine(pp1, pp4,
estilo3);
};
};
screen.onRelease = function(Void):Void {
delete this._parent.temp.onEnterFrame;
};
function rotate(vert, ref, a, b, c) {
v = {x:vert.x-ref.x, y:vert.y-ref.y, z:vert.z-ref.z};
// plan XY => girar em Z
matrix1 = [];
matrix1[0] = [Math.cos(a), Math.sin(a), 0];
matrix1[1] = [-Math.sin(a), Math.cos(a), 0];
matrix1[2] = [0, 0, 1];
//plan YZ => girar em X
matrix2 = [];
matrix2[0] = [1, 0, 0];
matrix2[1] = [0, Math.cos(b), Math.sin(b)];
matrix2[2] = [0, -Math.sin(b), Math.cos(b)];
//plan ZX => girar em Y
matrix3 = [];
matrix3[0] = [Math.cos(c), 0, Math.sin(c)];
matrix3[1] = [0, 1, 0];
matrix3[2] = [-Math.sin(c), 0, Math.cos(c)];
//---
matrix = prodMatricial(matrix1, matrix2);
matrix = prodMatricial(matrix, matrix3);
//---
nx = matrix[0][0]*v.x+matrix[0][1]*v.y+matrix[0][2]*v.z+ref.x;
ny = matrix[1][0]*v.x+matrix[1][1]*v.y+matrix[1][2]*v.z+ref.y;
nz = matrix[2][0]*v.x+matrix[2][1]*v.y+matrix[2][2]*v.z+ref.z;
//---
return {x:nx, y:ny, z:nz};
}
function render(v, mc, pers) {
p = ppc;
if (pers != undefined) {
 p = pers;
}
mc._x = v.x*p/(p-v.z)+Stage.width/2;
mc._y = -v.y*p/(p-v.z)+Stage.height/2;
}
function prodMatricial(m1, m2) {
prod = [[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]];
for (i=0; i<3; i++) {
 for (j=0; j<3; j++) {
  for (k=0; k<3; k++) {
   prod[i][j] += m1[i][k]*m2[k][j];
  }
 }
}
return prod;
}
MovieClip.prototype.drawLine = function(p1, p2, props) {
if (props == undefined) {
 this.lineStyle(0);
} else {
 this.lineStyle(props.thick, props.rgb, props.alpha);
}
this.moveTo(p1.x, p1.y);
this.lineTo(p2.x, p2.y);
};
function point(mc) {
return {x:mc._x, y:mc._y};
}

regards
Leandro Amano


On 5/1/07, Tom Gooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I've seen some really good stuff done recently in Papervision3d
http://www.papervision3d.org/ , also WireEngine3D I've used before
pretty successfully http://osflash.org/we3d . As with any 3D engine,
you'll need reasonable maths to get on with either of t

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 RegExp (bug?)

[Andrés González & Aragón]

Is not a cs3 bug, is a player bug. I cut n paste your code in cs3 and it
freezes, in eclipse with flex builder plugin the same, but eclipse didn't
freeze, only the player do.




2007/5/2, Benny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


I have some troubles with RegExp in Flash CS3 (AS3). It seems whenever a
pattern ends with .* AND has the Global flag set flash freezes.

Simplified sample code:

var re:RegExp=/.*/g;
var str:String="one two three";
trace(str.match(re));

Why does Flash CS3 (AS3) freeze with this code, is it a bug or am I
missing
something obvious?

- Benny


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[Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component

[john robinson]

Hello all -

I'm using the TextArea component in Flash 8. I need to give the  
component a border that is 1 pixel wide. I've found that using  
setStyle("borderStyle", "solid") gives me a solid border but it is  
wider than I need. Can anyone give me a hint as to how to change the  
width of the border?


Thanks!
John
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RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

[Danny Kodicek]

 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> In your professional opinion is "almost the same" good enough 
> or will I need to tweak the char set? So you know I'm only 
> displaying short button labels and headings.

I don't speak Arabic or know anything about it other than what's in the
Unicode data :) I get the impression that Persian is a superset of standard
Arabic (like adding accented European characters to standard Roman), so
something that works with Persian should display standard Arabic correctly
too (I think there are some differences with ligatures, but they're minor).
I know nothing about Sorani, but I'd suggest trying it out and seeing how
things turn out.

By the way: if your text is short and doesn't need line breaks, you *may*
find that if you use non-embedded fonts your text will display correctly
with no work at all. Try that first if you're willing to sacrifice a little
quality.

> Also we're getting the copy supplied from a translation 
> house, the Project Manager said this will be coming over as 
> pdf. I've got a full copy of Acrobat so hope this shouldn't 
> be a problem. If it is would you recommend any other format 
> for them to supply in?

AFAIK, Acrobat supports RTL languages fine (although you may need to install
the language pack on your machine).
> 
> I can't seem to log into the archives, which is frustrating.

You should be able to search them with Google: try 'flashcoders kodicek
arabic' as a search string.

Best
Danny

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Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

[Jolyon Russ]

Thanks for the help!

In your professional opinion is "almost the same" good enough or will I need
to tweak the char set? So you know I'm only displaying short button labels
and headings.

The languages I'm going to be needing to display are Arabic and Sorani. I
think Sorani is as different to Arabic as Persian is to Arabic, but what do
I know?

Also we're getting the copy supplied from a translation house, the Project
Manager said this will be coming over as pdf. I've got a full copy of
Acrobat so hope this shouldn't be a problem. If it is would you recommend
any other format for them to supply in?

I can't seem to log into the archives, which is frustrating.

Cheers again.


Jolyon

On 5/2/07, Danny Kodicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Has anyone had any experience of using the Flash RTL classes
> from here:
> http://www.flashrtl.com/
>
> They seem to be good for Persian, but need porting to other
> char sets, and a general clean up/re-write.
>
> To do this I need to get a better idea of what needs to be
> converted, the order of words or the order of characters but
> not words, or both? I guess this is also dependant on the
> source, for me I'm loading in from XML.
>
> It's still early in the project and I'd like to get this
> nailed down before committing 100% to doing RTL.

If you look back over the archives you'll find a few posts from me on this
subject. For display purposes you may find these classes are enough for
you
- Persian and standard Arabic are almost the same in terms of the
character
set, and Hebrew is much simpler (just plain bidirectional).

Best
Danny

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[Flashcoders] AS3 RegExp (bug?)

[Benny]

I have some troubles with RegExp in Flash CS3 (AS3). It seems whenever a
pattern ends with .* AND has the Global flag set flash freezes.

Simplified sample code:

  var re:RegExp=/.*/g;
  var str:String="one two three";
  trace(str.match(re)); 

Why does Flash CS3 (AS3) freeze with this code, is it a bug or am I missing
something obvious?

- Benny


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Re: [Flashcoders] factory with varying numbers of params

[Ron Wheeler]

Looks like a Decorator Pattern.

Danny Kodicek wrote:
 > Thanks a lot for all the replies. Most helpful. It's a funny 
  
situation. I'm using a deserialised XML file to dictate the 
content and layout of each page. A page might contain 1. A 
heading, 2. A TextField 3. A link or it might contain 1.A 
heading 2. A thumbnailMenu or various other permutations.
I have written a class for each item that implements an IItem 
interface, and they all have certain identical methods 
(setPosition(), setScheme(), close() etc), but they also have 
unique props that need to be set (The label of the header, 
the label / path of a link etc.) Also to comlicate things, if 
the item is a menu, I need to attach an eventListener.


I like the idea of using classes to encapsulate the 
parameters, but where would these be created? I guess it 
would make sense to do it at deserialisation, but then that 
gives two places that will be subject to change and that is a 
bad thing. I could do it in a separate method in the factory 
I suppose.



This sounds like what I'm doing at the moment. What I did was instead of
using an interface, to make all my elements inherit the same base Element
class, then when running a createElement function, I simply defined it as
returning an instance of Element. It sounds to me like you're giving in to a
common problem of letting the OO cart pull the design horse - you're trying
to force a function to be strongly typed when by design it's creating
elements of different types.

Danny


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Re: [Flashcoders] drawing with mouse / pen

[Ron Wheeler]

Frustrating a user may not be new but it can be exciting if the customer 
decides its your fault.


Why not suggest something like changing the mouse into a into a hammer 
or mallet and the answers into nails or gophers. If can make the 
animation as funny as the client can stand.


Ron

Hairy Dog Digital wrote:
Just throwing my two cents worth in here... 


As others pointed out, drawing circles around selections is "doable", but
isn't user-friendly. As I read through this the thought occurred to me. What
about using a drawn oval path as a movie clip for the mouse pointer that the
user clicks on a selection? This way you get the drawing selection that the
client wants, and you can control the size, spacing, position, hit test,
etc.

...Rob


-Original Message-
From: nik crosina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:51 AM

To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] drawing with mouse / pen

thx, rich,

funnily enuogh this echos many of my concerns. there is really no faster nd
more convenient way of making a choice then point the mouse (pen, etc) and
click.
stil figuring out what th emotivation for this request was from the client -
if they aer looking for 'just a exciting new way' of eliciting user
interaction they mght be barking up the worng tree with this idea 

nik c

On 5/2/07, Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
Nik, if it can save you any energy, be sure you show a proof of 
concept to your client/colleague before you get too hip-deep into 
this. We've tried to do similar things in the past with little 
success. The issue is not technical, it's more of a usability issue.


If you provide a VISIBLE area in which to draw, the end result will be 
that you're defeating the purpose of drawing freehand. You might as 
well just click on the area you've dedicated. (Remember, these are 
usability opinions, and your mileage may very. The crucial thing is 
that, in what you've described, your opinion typically doesn't matter. 
It's the collective opinion of your users and how well they 
understand, and can complete, the task that matters.)


If you want to draw anywhere, you can create an empty movie clip as a 
canvas that allows you to draw over everything and, as you said, do a 
stroke with no fill so you don't have to worry about closing the path, 
and it looks more natural like a marker on a whiteboard. You can just 
use lineTo and an interval if you want something simple, or smooth out 
the line using curveTo and an interval. You can then determine the 
geographical center of the circle and see if that coordinate matches 
up with a hitTest on the answer clip. You can't use hit test between 
circle and answer unless the answers are no where near each other. 
But, you can say: center of circle is at 100,100, and 
answerMC.hitTest(100,100,false) (No shape flag will be easier, I 
think.)


The problem will be one of user satisfaction. How hard is it to draw a 
circle with the mouse? How accurately can they get it over the answer? 
How many times do they have to do it? For example, doing this for a 
five-question quiz is great. But for a 20 question quiz it is 
unbearably tedious. You want to just click the answer and move on.


Anyway, I suggest that you spend a little time with testers to see how 
they react before committing.


Rich



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RE: [Flashcoders] drawing with mouse / pen

[Hairy Dog Digital]

Just throwing my two cents worth in here... 

As others pointed out, drawing circles around selections is "doable", but
isn't user-friendly. As I read through this the thought occurred to me. What
about using a drawn oval path as a movie clip for the mouse pointer that the
user clicks on a selection? This way you get the drawing selection that the
client wants, and you can control the size, spacing, position, hit test,
etc.

...Rob


-Original Message-
From: nik crosina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:51 AM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] drawing with mouse / pen

thx, rich,

funnily enuogh this echos many of my concerns. there is really no faster nd
more convenient way of making a choice then point the mouse (pen, etc) and
click.
stil figuring out what th emotivation for this request was from the client -
if they aer looking for 'just a exciting new way' of eliciting user
interaction they mght be barking up the worng tree with this idea 

nik c

On 5/2/07, Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nik, if it can save you any energy, be sure you show a proof of 
> concept to your client/colleague before you get too hip-deep into 
> this. We've tried to do similar things in the past with little 
> success. The issue is not technical, it's more of a usability issue.
>
> If you provide a VISIBLE area in which to draw, the end result will be 
> that you're defeating the purpose of drawing freehand. You might as 
> well just click on the area you've dedicated. (Remember, these are 
> usability opinions, and your mileage may very. The crucial thing is 
> that, in what you've described, your opinion typically doesn't matter. 
> It's the collective opinion of your users and how well they 
> understand, and can complete, the task that matters.)
>
> If you want to draw anywhere, you can create an empty movie clip as a 
> canvas that allows you to draw over everything and, as you said, do a 
> stroke with no fill so you don't have to worry about closing the path, 
> and it looks more natural like a marker on a whiteboard. You can just 
> use lineTo and an interval if you want something simple, or smooth out 
> the line using curveTo and an interval. You can then determine the 
> geographical center of the circle and see if that coordinate matches 
> up with a hitTest on the answer clip. You can't use hit test between 
> circle and answer unless the answers are no where near each other. 
> But, you can say: center of circle is at 100,100, and 
> answerMC.hitTest(100,100,false) (No shape flag will be easier, I 
> think.)
>
> The problem will be one of user satisfaction. How hard is it to draw a 
> circle with the mouse? How accurately can they get it over the answer? 
> How many times do they have to do it? For example, doing this for a 
> five-question quiz is great. But for a 20 question quiz it is 
> unbearably tedious. You want to just click the answer and move on.
>
> Anyway, I suggest that you spend a little time with testers to see how 
> they react before committing.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

[Danny Kodicek]

 > Has anyone had any experience of using the Flash RTL classes 
> from here:
> http://www.flashrtl.com/
> 
> They seem to be good for Persian, but need porting to other 
> char sets, and a general clean up/re-write.
> 
> To do this I need to get a better idea of what needs to be 
> converted, the order of words or the order of characters but 
> not words, or both? I guess this is also dependant on the 
> source, for me I'm loading in from XML.
> 
> It's still early in the project and I'd like to get this 
> nailed down before committing 100% to doing RTL.

If you look back over the archives you'll find a few posts from me on this
subject. For display purposes you may find these classes are enough for you
- Persian and standard Arabic are almost the same in terms of the character
set, and Hebrew is much simpler (just plain bidirectional). 

Best
Danny

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Re: [Flashcoders] RE: The best way to monitor load progress of multiple swfs?

[Alistair Colling]

Thanks Jack, this is exactly what i am looking for :)
Cheers!
Ali

On 2 May 2007, at 12:23, Jack Doyle wrote:


This AS2 class will handle preloading multiple SWFs and/or FLVs and/or
images and report on the total progress:
http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/PreloadAssetManager

Documentation & examples are on the site. I think you'll find it  
pretty easy

to implement.

Enjoy.

Jack Doyle

-Original Message-
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:09:43 +0100
From: Alistair Colling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Flashcoders] The best way to monitor load progress of
multipleswfs?
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

Hi there, I am trying to figure out the best way to monitor the load
progress of swfs that are loading into each other. There are 20 swfs
(of different sizes) that load into my main movie and I plan on
loading my main movie into a holder so I can monitor the progress of
it's download using movie clip loader class. I am fine using the
Movie Clip Loader class to monitor the progress of one SWF
downloading but I'm not sure how to approach checking the total
progress of multiple SWFs.
Previously I've created an object that holds all of the movies like
this:

var loadChecker:Object = new Object();
loadChecker.copyProperties = true;
loadChecker.checkServer = false;
loadChecker.howToPlay = false;
loadChecker.chat_mc = false;

each swf has this code that registers with the loadChecker object
that it has loaded:

_root["loadChecker"][this._name] = true;

and then a function that is triggered from a 3 frame looping MC
checks if the movies are loaded:

function checkLoaded():Boolean {
var tmpBoo:Boolean = true;
for (var k in _root.loadChecker) {
if (!_root.loadChecker[k]) {
tmpBoo = false;
}
}
_root.moviesLoaded = true;
return tmpBoo;
}

If someone would suggest the best way so I can monitor the progress
of the loading of all SWFs so I can make a preloader that will show
the progress of all SWFs that have to load that would be really good.
Just a point in the right direction would be great :)
Thanks,
Ali



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Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

[Jolyon Russ]

Has anyone had any experience of using the Flash RTL classes from here:
http://www.flashrtl.com/

They seem to be good for Persian, but need porting to other char sets, and a
general clean up/re-write.

To do this I need to get a better idea of what needs to be converted, the
order of words or the order of characters but not words, or both? I guess
this is also dependant on the source, for me I'm loading in from XML.

It's still early in the project and I'd like to get this nailed down before
committing 100% to doing RTL.

Help appreciated.


Jolyon

On 3/29/07, Yehia Shouman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I once emailed Kevin Lynch and the guy generously replied with this:

> Hi Yehia-
>
> Thanks for your note.
>
> Right-to-left text support in Flash Player is an important feature,
> and we know it would be a key addition to the platform. Implementing
> this feature to deliver the right quality is a fairly big undertaking
> -- and we also need to factor in cross-platform support, maintaining
> the stability of the player, and keeping the code size small.  All
> requests for new features are investigated using these same standards
> as we prioritize features for each release. Product Management is
> aware of the need for right-to-left text support. Although we cannot
> provide an exact date for when it will be supported, it is definitely
> under evaluation.
>
> thanks
>
> Kevin
>

Flash supports unicode, it just isn't RTL supportive. Furthermore to this
issue, if you try to use arabic, you won't be able to get a proper text
wrap. There will be compatibility issues on different Windows versions and
between Mac, worth saying backward compatibility with older Flash players
that knows not of unicode. I seriously hope Adobe 's involvement will be
beneficial. (Wish:Adobe Flash CS3 ME)

Regards,
Yehia Shouman
Senior AS Developer and TL
www.santeon.com


On 3/29/07, Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well the most thing i used is importing arabic written text from
freehand
> (converted to vectors) and it is just fine... Regarding writing it in
> dynamic text boxes at runtime like this:
>
> myTextField.text "ولا حاجة" it works but you still have to take care
> about text wrapping as in flash doesnt recognize the end of a word, and
> so,
> in multi line cases, sometimes a single word splits.. i used to solve
this
> problem by adding some extra spaces before the last word in a single
> line...
> and the same by parsing text from a metadata in xml...
>
> Hope this helps
>
> regards...
>
>
>
> On 3/29/07, Shaun Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I've worked with Arabic in Flash and yes those are the
> > exact problems I experienced. There is an application
> > that will allow you to cut and paste arabic to other
> > applications without destroying the format. It won't
> > work if you're looking for a dynamic solution - if
> > anyone knows of one that would be great.
> >
> > http://www.layoutltd.com/alrassam.php
> >
> > There are arabic fonts you can use in flash but that
> > still doesn't solve the problem of getting the arabic
> > into flash in the right format if you are cutting and
> > pasting.
> >
> > Hope that helps some.
> >
> > --- Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I work A lot using arabic in flash... I used to
> > > write arabic text
> > > dynamically into dynamic textfields, from xml, or
> > > action script in run
> > > time... Or by writing the arabic text in Free Hand,
> > > Than breaking it into
> > > vector and pasting it into flash as Vector...
> > >
> > > On 3/26/07, James Tu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We have an approach to deal with a list of 100
> > > phrases in Arabic.
> > > > When you copy and paste a phrase of Arabic into a
> > > Flash textbox,
> > > > Flash reverses it!  So, we first reversed the
> > > characters outside of
> > > > Flash and then copied and pasted the phrases into
> > > Flash.  Problem
> > > > solved right?
> > > >
> > > > We'll, when someone that can read Arabic read it,
> > > they told us that
> > > > the characters look funny.  In essence, the
> > > characters weren't
> > > > connecting to each other correctly!  It's as if
> > > you took a cursive
> > > > font and laid out the characters and the cursive
> > > writing was not
> > > > continuous.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on handling Flash
> > > and Arabic?  I did
> > > > some extensive searching and there aren't any
> > > definitive
> > > > solutions...Some suggested using a special Flash
> > > Arabic font, which I
> > > > couldn't find.
> > > >
> > > > Help!
> > > > -James
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[Flashcoders] RE: The best way to monitor load progress of multiple swfs?

[Jack Doyle]

This AS2 class will handle preloading multiple SWFs and/or FLVs and/or
images and report on the total progress:
http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/PreloadAssetManager

Documentation & examples are on the site. I think you'll find it pretty easy
to implement.

Enjoy.

Jack Doyle

-Original Message-
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:09:43 +0100
From: Alistair Colling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Flashcoders] The best way to monitor load progress of
multipleswfs?
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

Hi there, I am trying to figure out the best way to monitor the load  
progress of swfs that are loading into each other. There are 20 swfs  
(of different sizes) that load into my main movie and I plan on  
loading my main movie into a holder so I can monitor the progress of  
it's download using movie clip loader class. I am fine using the  
Movie Clip Loader class to monitor the progress of one SWF  
downloading but I'm not sure how to approach checking the total  
progress of multiple SWFs.
Previously I've created an object that holds all of the movies like  
this:

var loadChecker:Object = new Object();
loadChecker.copyProperties = true;
loadChecker.checkServer = false;
loadChecker.howToPlay = false;
loadChecker.chat_mc = false;

each swf has this code that registers with the loadChecker object  
that it has loaded:

_root["loadChecker"][this._name] = true;

and then a function that is triggered from a 3 frame looping MC  
checks if the movies are loaded:

function checkLoaded():Boolean {
var tmpBoo:Boolean = true;
for (var k in _root.loadChecker) {
if (!_root.loadChecker[k]) {
tmpBoo = false;
}
}
_root.moviesLoaded = true;
return tmpBoo;
}

If someone would suggest the best way so I can monitor the progress  
of the loading of all SWFs so I can make a preloader that will show  
the progress of all SWFs that have to load that would be really good.  
Just a point in the right direction would be great :)
Thanks,
Ali



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RE: [Flashcoders] Random Error

[Petro Bochan]

Hi,

Which version of Flash are you using? I tried this on Flash CS3 and it
worked out seamlessly.

package {

import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.system.Capabilities;

public class Test extends Sprite {
public function Test() {
}

public static function getInfo() {
return(Capabilities.version);
}
}
}

.fla
trace(Test.getInfo());

Cheers,
Petro

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mennenoh
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:13 PM
> To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
> Subject: [Flashcoders] Random Error
> 
> Once in a while, when compiling, I get an error from one of my
classes. The
> error is something like: 'property System not found', and it is thrown
from
> this function:
> 
> public static function getPlayerVersion()
> {
>   return(System.capabilities.version);
>  }
> 
> 
> I only see the error once out of 20 compiles or so... thoughts?
> 
> 
> Dave -
> Head Developer
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RE: [Flashcoders] help

[Danny Kodicek]

  
> how can we print a variable value in our execution screen..?

'execution screen'? Do you just mean displaying a variable on screen? Try

var tField:TextField = _root.createTextField("out",
_root.getNextHighestDepth(), 100, 100, 200, 20)
tField.text = String(myVariable)

Danny

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RE: [Flashcoders] factory with varying numbers of params

[Danny Kodicek]

 > Thanks a lot for all the replies. Most helpful. It's a funny 
> situation. I'm using a deserialised XML file to dictate the 
> content and layout of each page. A page might contain 1. A 
> heading, 2. A TextField 3. A link or it might contain 1.A 
> heading 2. A thumbnailMenu or various other permutations.
> I have written a class for each item that implements an IItem 
> interface, and they all have certain identical methods 
> (setPosition(), setScheme(), close() etc), but they also have 
> unique props that need to be set (The label of the header, 
> the label / path of a link etc.) Also to comlicate things, if 
> the item is a menu, I need to attach an eventListener.
> 
> I like the idea of using classes to encapsulate the 
> parameters, but where would these be created? I guess it 
> would make sense to do it at deserialisation, but then that 
> gives two places that will be subject to change and that is a 
> bad thing. I could do it in a separate method in the factory 
> I suppose.

This sounds like what I'm doing at the moment. What I did was instead of
using an interface, to make all my elements inherit the same base Element
class, then when running a createElement function, I simply defined it as
returning an instance of Element. It sounds to me like you're giving in to a
common problem of letting the OO cart pull the design horse - you're trying
to force a function to be strongly typed when by design it's creating
elements of different types.

Danny


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Re: [Flashcoders] printJob, orientation and rotation or scaling issues

[Hans Wichman]

http://objectpainters.com/blog/?p=9



On 5/2/07, Dave Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi

I'm having problems correctly rotating a movieclip to accomodate
users printing in either portrait or landscape format.

There was a thread about this maybe 4 to 6 weeks ago and I'm unable
to locate it in the archives. If anyone recalls that, would they mind
pointing me to it?

The item to print is a landscape formatted movieClip and I'm wanting
to rotate and scale it so that users with print setup to portrait
will still print it OK.

Here's my code which works OK on some machines but not others.
MovieClip to print is postcardClip and it's normal size is much
smaller than  page size...

   var myPrintJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
   var notCancelled:Boolean = myPrintJob.start();
   if (notCancelled){
   var startScaleX:Number = postcardClip._xscale;
   var startScaleY:Number = postcardClip._yscale;
   if (myPrintJob.orientation == "portrait"){ // NEED TO
ROTATE
   postcardClip._rotation = 270;
   }
   postcardClip._xscale = 180;
   postcardClip._yscale = 180;
   myPrintJob.addPage(postcardClip);
   myPrintJob.send();
   postcardClip._rotation = 0;
   postcardClip._xscale = startScaleX;
   postcardClip._yscale = startScaleY;
   }
   delete myPrintJob;

What's happening is that on some computer/printer combinations, a
triangular portion (half the image) is printing correctly with the
other triangular half printing as solid triangular block. I suspect
something wrong with the scaling part of my code.

Any help appreciated.

David
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Re: [Flashcoders] printJob, orientation and rotation or scaling issues

[Steven Sacks]

I cover this topic on my blog.  :)

http://www.stevensacks.net/2007/03/16/force-landscape-printing-with-printjob/ 


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Re: [Flashcoders] Curves question for math gurus

[Ivan Dembicki]

Hello,


Thank you, I redid my whole thing using your classes!
Really super, more flexibility + less code !
Is there any doc online ?


http://www.bezier.ru/eng/AS2/ru/bezier/geom/Bezier.html

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[Flashcoders] The best way to monitor load progress of multiple swfs?

[Alistair Colling]

Hi there, I am trying to figure out the best way to monitor the load  
progress of swfs that are loading into each other. There are 20 swfs  
(of different sizes) that load into my main movie and I plan on  
loading my main movie into a holder so I can monitor the progress of  
it's download using movie clip loader class. I am fine using the  
Movie Clip Loader class to monitor the progress of one SWF  
downloading but I'm not sure how to approach checking the total  
progress of multiple SWFs.
Previously I've created an object that holds all of the movies like  
this:


var loadChecker:Object = new Object();
loadChecker.copyProperties = true;
loadChecker.checkServer = false;
loadChecker.howToPlay = false;
loadChecker.chat_mc = false;

each swf has this code that registers with the loadChecker object  
that it has loaded:


_root["loadChecker"][this._name] = true;

and then a function that is triggered from a 3 frame looping MC  
checks if the movies are loaded:


function checkLoaded():Boolean {
var tmpBoo:Boolean = true;
for (var k in _root.loadChecker) {
if (!_root.loadChecker[k]) {
tmpBoo = false;
}
}
_root.moviesLoaded = true;
return tmpBoo;
}

If someone would suggest the best way so I can monitor the progress  
of the loading of all SWFs so I can make a preloader that will show  
the progress of all SWFs that have to load that would be really good.  
Just a point in the right direction would be great :)

Thanks,
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Re: [Flashcoders] help

[syam s]

how can we print a variable value in our execution screen..?
   
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[Matthias Dittgen]

You can assign values to private and/or public variables of the class
using the 4th argument of attachMovie. Just read the API
documentation:
public attachMovie(id:String, name:String, depth:Number,
[initObject:Object]) : MovieClip

initObject can be predefined or used on the fly, which looks like:
_root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth, {myString: "Hello
World", _x: 20});

This is not the same as using params in the constructor, but these
variables are set before the constructor is called, so you can use the
values within the constructor, which is nearly the same and works fine
for me.

hth,
Matthias

2007/5/2, sebastian chedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> If it is a movie clip you want to instantiate then you have to use:
> _root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth);

> The class associated with it will construct and the onLoad event will
> trigger if it is being listened to.

this indeed works, but then i can't pass any values to the constructor.
Is there any way to attachMovie and at the same time pass values to it?

I supose I can always refer to it afterwards on the time line and call a
custom function... but it would be nice to use the constructor's
functionality.

I had hoped I could generate new instances just by calling a constructor
instead of attaching it to something; but i guess logically i it needs to be
attached to be "on the timeline". Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks!

Seb.

On 5/1/07, O. Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> are u executing the class post view?
>
> On 5/1/07, Andy Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Or have the function return it, which is what it seems like would be
> > the right thing for that method.
> >
> >   -Andy
> >
> > On 5/1/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I am not sure if you are showing all the code but in your code
> fragment,
> > > newPost is a local variable that will be destroyed as soon as
> createPost
> > > ends. A short and brutal life.
> > >
> > > It needs to be a class property and you will want to have a getter to
> > > access it.
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> > > sebastian chedal wrote:
> > > > Hello Flashcoders,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry to bother you with another simple AS2 questions, I'm making
> good
> > > > progress but I am stumped with one simple thing.
> > > >
> > > > I have one class/object that I want to use to generate copies
> > > > [instances] of
> > > > another class.
> > > >
> > > > The second class is an object in the library with an ID and an
> > assosiated
> > > > *.as file [in the linkage panel].
> > > >
> > > > The code is:
> > > > =
> > > >
> > > > //PostModel.as
> > > >
> > > > import com.blabla.PostView;
> > > >
> > > > class com.blabla.PostModel {
> > > >
> > > >   public function createPost (__id) {
> > > >var newPost = new PostView (__id);
> > > >   }
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > =
> > > >
> > > > When I run this code, the class doesn't construct an instance...
> > > >
> > > > What am I missing? If I need to call the Library Identifyer instead,
> > how
> > > > would I do that?
> > > >
> > > > I don't want to attach the PostView to the PostModel class, I just
> > > > want to
> > > > create instances of them and attach them to _root [or some other MC
> in
> > > > the
> > > > timeline].
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!!
> > > >
> > > > Seb.
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Re: [Flashcoders] printJob, orientation and rotation or scaling issues

[Gregory N]

Hi David,

I'd try to use PrintJob.pageWidth and/or PrintJob.pageHeight instead of
.orientation .
Also, why not determine needed scale at runtime:
postcardClip._xscale = 100 * myPrintJob.pageWidth/postcardClip._width;
postcardClip._yscale = postcardClip._xscale;


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Re: [Flashcoders] XMLSocket connection in flash 8 /AS2.0

[Gregory N]

Hi Tom,


From XMLSocket docs:

* Each XML message is a complete XML document, terminated by a zero (0)
byte.
...
* Each document is terminated with a zero (0) byte. When Flash Player
receives the zero byte, it parses all the XML received since the previous
zero byte or since the connection was established if this is the first
message received.

Perhaps your server doesn't set the closing zero byte for "close" messages.

I had similar issue several years ago (in 2003) - solved when they set this
zero byte for each server's message.


On 5/1/07, Tom Gooding  wrote:


Calling all AS2.0 developers who have experience working with XMLSocket
connections..
I've recently been seeing an odd behaviour in an app I've developed
which has a continual connection to a socket server.

The symptom I've been seeing is the connection becoming inactive, the
onClose event does not get fired, it just stops receiving XML. My
current workaround is to monitor idle time on this connection and
reconnect if a ceiling is reached. The current thinking is that this is
due to some network/firewall/environmental issue and investigation is
time-consuming, though a bug with flash has not been ruled out.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar and found the
root cause of it? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Tom




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[Flashcoders] factory with varying numbers of params

[pedr browne]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for all the replies. Most helpful. It's a funny situation. I'm
using a deserialised XML file to dictate the content and layout of each
page. A page might contain 1. A heading, 2. A TextField 3. A link or it
might contain 1.A heading 2. A thumbnailMenu or various other permutations.
I have written a class for each item that implements an IItem interface, and
they all have certain identical methods (setPosition(), setScheme(), close()
etc), but they also have unique props that need to be set (The label of the
header, the label / path of a link etc.) Also to comlicate things, if the
item is a menu, I need to attach an eventListener.

I like the idea of using classes to encapsulate the parameters, but where
would these be created? I guess it would make sense to do it at
deserialisation, but then that gives two places that will be subject to
change and that is a bad thing. I could do it in a separate method in the
factory I suppose.

Thanks



Message: 17
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:30:32 -0700
From: "T. Michael Keesey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] factory with varying numbers of params
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On 5/1/07, pedr browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

A have a Factory that needs to instanciate Objects with differing numbers

of

parameters (1-4). Is there any way to deal with this situation and

maintain

strong typing.

private function createItem(param_ob:Object, key:String):Void{
   switch(key){
  case "item_1":
 myItem = new Item_1(param_ob.width, param_ob.y);
 break
 case "item2":
 myItem = new Item_2(param_ob.height, param_ob.color);
 break
 etc...
   }
}


(Why is the factory method private?)

One way is to split it into two functions:
public function static createFromWidthY(width:Number, y:Number):Item {
   return new Item1(width, y);
}
public function static createFromHeightColor(height


:Number, color:Number):Item {
return new Item2(height, color);
}

(Or call them createItem1 and createItem2 or whatever.)

Another way is to use classes for parameter types:

// Make an "abstract" class for parameters:

class myPackage.ItemParams extends Object {
private function ItemParams() {
super();
}
}

// Then make "concrete" subclasses for specific types of parameters:

class myPackage.WidthYParams extends ItemParams {
public function WidthYParams(width:Number, y:Number) {
super();
this.width = width;
this.y = y;
}
public function get width():Number {
return _width;
}
public function set width(value:Number):Void {
if (isFinite(value)) {
_width = value;
}
}
public function get y():Number {
return _y;
}
public function set y(value:Number):Void {
if (isFinite(value)) {
_y = value;
}
}
private var _width:Number = 0;
private var _y:Number = 0;
}

class myPackage.HeightColorParams extends ItemParams {
public function HeightColorParams (height:Number, color:Number) {
super();
this.height= height;
this.color = color;
}
public function get color():Number {
return _color;
}
public function set color(value:Number):Void {
if (isFinite(value)) {
_color = Math.min(0xFF, Math.max(0, Math.floor(value)));
}
}
public function get height():Number {
return _height;
}
public function set height(value:Number):Void {
if (isFinite(value)) {
_height = value;
}
}
private var _color:Number = 0;
private var _height:Number = 0;
}

// Then, in your factory method:

public static function createItem(params:ItemParams):Item {
if (!(params instanceof ItemParams)) {
throw new Error("Invalid argument in call to
MyFactory.createItem: " + params);
}
if (params instanceof WidthYParams) {
return new Item1(WidthYParams(params).width,
WidthYParams(params).y);
}
if (params instanceof HeightColorParams) {
return new Item2(HeightColorParams(params).height,
 HeightColorParams(params).color);
}
throw new Error("Unrecognized item parameters: " + params);
}

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Re: [Flashcoders] drawing with mouse / pen

[nik crosina]

thx, rich,

funnily enuogh this echos many of my concerns. there is really no
faster nd more convenient way of making a choice then point the mouse
(pen, etc) and click.
stil figuring out what th emotivation for this request was from the
client - if they aer looking for 'just a exciting new way' of
eliciting user interaction they mght be barking up the worng tree with
this idea 

nik c

On 5/2/07, Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Nik, if it can save you any energy, be sure you show a proof of concept to
your client/colleague before you get too hip-deep into this. We've tried to
do similar things in the past with little success. The issue is not
technical, it's more of a usability issue.

If you provide a VISIBLE area in which to draw, the end result will be that
you're defeating the purpose of drawing freehand. You might as well just
click on the area you've dedicated. (Remember, these are usability opinions,
and your mileage may very. The crucial thing is that, in what you've
described, your opinion typically doesn't matter. It's the collective
opinion of your users and how well they understand, and can complete, the
task that matters.)

If you want to draw anywhere, you can create an empty movie clip as a canvas
that allows you to draw over everything and, as you said, do a stroke with
no fill so you don't have to worry about closing the path, and it looks more
natural like a marker on a whiteboard. You can just use lineTo and an
interval if you want something simple, or smooth out the line using curveTo
and an interval. You can then determine the geographical center of the
circle and see if that coordinate matches up with a hitTest on the answer
clip. You can't use hit test between circle and answer unless the answers
are no where near each other. But, you can say: center of circle is at
100,100, and answerMC.hitTest(100,100,false) (No shape flag will be easier,
I think.)

The problem will be one of user satisfaction. How hard is it to draw a
circle with the mouse? How accurately can they get it over the answer? How
many times do they have to do it? For example, doing this for a
five-question quiz is great. But for a 20 question quiz it is unbearably
tedious. You want to just click the answer and move on.

Anyway, I suggest that you spend a little time with testers to see how they
react before committing.

Rich



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Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: generating new instances dynamically?

[sebastian chedal]

If it is a movie clip you want to instantiate then you have to use:
_root.attachMovie(libraryID, instanceName, depth);



The class associated with it will construct and the onLoad event will
trigger if it is being listened to.


this indeed works, but then i can't pass any values to the constructor.
Is there any way to attachMovie and at the same time pass values to it?

I supose I can always refer to it afterwards on the time line and call a
custom function... but it would be nice to use the constructor's
functionality.

I had hoped I could generate new instances just by calling a constructor
instead of attaching it to something; but i guess logically i it needs to be
attached to be "on the timeline". Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks!

Seb.

On 5/1/07, O. Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


are u executing the class post view?

On 5/1/07, Andy Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Or have the function return it, which is what it seems like would be
> the right thing for that method.
>
>   -Andy
>
> On 5/1/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am not sure if you are showing all the code but in your code
fragment,
> > newPost is a local variable that will be destroyed as soon as
createPost
> > ends. A short and brutal life.
> >
> > It needs to be a class property and you will want to have a getter to
> > access it.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > sebastian chedal wrote:
> > > Hello Flashcoders,
> > >
> > > Sorry to bother you with another simple AS2 questions, I'm making
good
> > > progress but I am stumped with one simple thing.
> > >
> > > I have one class/object that I want to use to generate copies
> > > [instances] of
> > > another class.
> > >
> > > The second class is an object in the library with an ID and an
> assosiated
> > > *.as file [in the linkage panel].
> > >
> > > The code is:
> > > =
> > >
> > > //PostModel.as
> > >
> > > import com.blabla.PostView;
> > >
> > > class com.blabla.PostModel {
> > >
> > >   public function createPost (__id) {
> > >var newPost = new PostView (__id);
> > >   }
> > > }
> > >
> > > =
> > >
> > > When I run this code, the class doesn't construct an instance...
> > >
> > > What am I missing? If I need to call the Library Identifyer instead,
> how
> > > would I do that?
> > >
> > > I don't want to attach the PostView to the PostModel class, I just
> > > want to
> > > create instances of them and attach them to _root [or some other MC
in
> > > the
> > > timeline].
> > >
> > > Thanks!!
> > >
> > > Seb.
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