[Flashcoders] We're looking for a Sr. Flash AS3 Developer/Engineer

2008-03-17 Thread Michelle Soleau
We're looking for a Sr. Flash AS3 Developer We're a pre-venture startup in the media/music space. We launched the first version of our product in December 2007 to great reaction and strong and growing user growth. We're about to complete a major upgrade that we think will take the company o

[Flashcoders] Color to black and white

2008-03-17 Thread laurent
ok, got it in filters :) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Color to black & white

2008-03-17 Thread laurent
Hi, What would you suggest to make an image go from color to black and white ? thanks. Laurent ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread Muzak
Read the docs. that's what I did :-) If you already know Flex2, Flex 3 isn't that different. Just some added IDE functionality/wizards/skinning stuff. - Original Message - From: "artur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "flashcoders" Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:48 PM Subject: [Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Writing Custom MovieClip Classes

2008-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
You wouldn't have the class close itself, it doesn't know where it lives, it could live anywhere. Instead, you would have the class (i.e, your timeline I'm guessing) that creates an instance of the class listen for a close event and then remove the child. The DataCard class could broadcast when t

Re: [Flashcoders] frameworks and classes for flash cs3

2008-03-17 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
it also depends if you want a structural framework (which would be cairngorn) or an application framework(this of would be something like papervision) the difference beeing that structural frameworks help you structurise and patternize your own code, whereas application frameworks actually do stuff

Re: [Flashcoders] Writing Custom MovieClip Classes

2008-03-17 Thread Omar Fouad
ok this worked But the DataCard Clip has a CloseButton so In the DataCard Class: this.CloseButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, close); public function close(e:MouseEvent) { removeChild(this); } but it is throwing an error message. I know this could be a silly question, I have not b

RE: [Flashcoders] Writing Custom MovieClip Classes

2008-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>Brilliant minds think alike, Jason. validation is a pretty sweet fruit. Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O and Risk L&LD Solutions Design & Development eTools & Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative lea

Re: [Flashcoders] Writing Custom MovieClip Classes

2008-03-17 Thread Steven Sacks
Which is exactly what I told you to do and you brushed me off. :p Brilliant minds think alike, Jason. Omar Fouad wrote: Wow.. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Merrill, Jason < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try this instead, this is how I would do it (you have a few screwy things in the code

Re: [Flashcoders] Writing Custom MovieClip Classes

2008-03-17 Thread Omar Fouad
Wow.. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Merrill, Jason < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try this instead, this is how I would do it (you have a few screwy > things in the code you posted, too many to bother commenting on :) ): > > > package > { > > import flash.display.MovieClip > import flash.te

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread artur
aha!! i knew this list was alive!! thanks..and keep em coming!! *artur :.* - *www.artur.com* - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - *ph:646.797.3320* Stuart (FunkDaWeb) wrote: I have purchased these following books... Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Bible ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Pl

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread artur
aha!! knew this list was alive!! thanks..and keep em coming!! *artur :.* - *www.artur.com* - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - *ph:646.797.3320* Stuart (FunkDaWeb) wrote: I have purchased these following books... Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Bible ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Plat

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread Stuart (FunkDaWeb)
I have purchased these following books... Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Bible ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3: The Art of Design and Animation Advanced Actionscript 3 with Design Patterns

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
Well, i've bought Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move! By Keith Peters http://books.google.com/books?id=zK7zaGGVi60C&printsec=frontcover&dq=making+things+move&ei=AL7eR-rgEKjuiQGO_LDtCg&sig=B_aMb6DhRR2DYLfrQBRiTUtCr2AI actaully haven't known a lot of as2 when i started reading it b

RE: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
http://www.actionscriptcheatsheet.com/ Invaluable! Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O and Risk L&LD Solutions Design & Development eTools & Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technolo

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread Fabio Pinatti
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM, artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2nd try.. > > can ANYONE please send me their links and book recommendations > for migrating from Flex2-->3 and AS2-->3 > > it would be greatly appreciated. > > thanks > ___ > Flashcoder

RE: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-17 Thread Kerry Thompson
> Is anyone using Vista and enjoying it? I am. Vista Home Premium. There are a few things you have to figure out to work with Vista's security, but overall it seems a fairly solid OS. I'm using the CS3 developer bundle, and FlexBuilder 3, for most of my development tools, plus an assortment of aud

Re: [Flashcoders] classpath issues

2008-03-17 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
yep that was it - thanks jason it's left in from when it was a part of the app thanks again a On 17 Mar 2008, at 17:27, Merrill, Jason wrote: Why are you using "internal" for the class definition? From the Flex help docs: "If you do not want a class to be publicly visible outside a pack

RE: [Flashcoders] frameworks and classes for flash cs3

2008-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
There are some good Caringorm tutorials out there - that's one of the Adobe sanctioned ones, and it's really nice... the first one that made sense to me. Check on the Adobe Developer Network for the tutorial - or some others if you Google Cairngorm Tutorial Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O an

[Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-17 Thread artur
2nd try.. can ANYONE please send me their links and book recommendations for migrating from Flex2-->3 and AS2-->3 it would be greatly appreciated. thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailm

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Steven Sacks
It is exceedingly rare that the compiler is telling you something is wrong that isn't. If you're getting an error thrown, like it or not, you made a mistake somewhere. Flash does what you tell it to do. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to figure out where the error is coming from if you d

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
Jason IT WORKED Thanks to you and to all that took the time reply. // root folder: Main (<- class files) package: com.something.Mountain (<- class files) package: com.something.RisingCroix (<- class files) // ISOrry don't really get it. Is com actually a file? On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:18 PM, J

Re: [Flashcoders] frameworks and classes for flash cs3

2008-03-17 Thread Steven Sacks
You could also google "flash frameworks". Google is a great tool. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] classpath issues

2008-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
Why are you using "internal" for the class definition? >From the Flex help docs: "If you do not want a class to be publicly visible outside a package, place the class inside a package and mark the class with the internal attribute." Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O and Risk L&LD Solutions D

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Jason Van Cleave
some typos in there (coding in gmail) public function onStageAdded(e:Event):void { x0 =0; y0 =stage.stageHeight -150; x1=stage.stageWidth/2; y1=100; x2 =stage.stageWidth; y2 =stage.stageHeight -150; init(); } On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Jason Van Cleave <[E

[Flashcoders] classpath issues

2008-03-17 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
hi guys i hope you can help me with this: i am trying to set up a library of classes that i can re-use in my actionscript but i keep getting the following errors: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: SimpleRectangle. 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method SimpleR

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Sidney de Koning
Start tracing out the variables, because there is a variable undefined or null and you try to perform an operation on it. Since its undefined or null the operation halts. It can also be that your function init2 does not return void but returns a sprite. On Mar 17, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Pedro K

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Sidney de Koning
I think that in AS3, there is only one file that can exsist in the 'root' of the package, the only entry point you have for a application. The rest has to live in packages. Most of the time you call this class 'Main'. And use it as your document class or instanciate it on the timeline, the

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
I tried import Mountain; and import com.Mountain but it hasn't worked. Always get the same error I supose there is no path if the files are in the same folder,no? On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Sidney de Koning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just rewrite this: > > > >>> package { > >>> imp

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
Joson, i tried yours too. I had to add var x0:Number and so on... (The var was missing) But it hasn't worked neither. Well i get no more error but the sprite isn't drawn On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Jason Van Cleave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you can't reference the stage in the Mountain

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread jonathan howe
Hi, Cory, That is really interesting. I played with it a little and I got this Warning: Warning: 3553: Function value used where type void was expected. Possibly the parentheses () are missing after this function reference. and of course it threw an actual error when I set up the function with a

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Jason Van Cleave
you can't reference the stage in the Mountain class until it is added to the Display List. try this package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; public class Mountain extends Sprite { private var x0:Number; private var y0:Number;

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
I doesn't. I posted the iles on the net. Can you please throw a look at? http://www.box.net/shared/wettvhs84s Thanks On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Cory Petosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan, that's actually legal in ActionScript. Ugly and misleading, but > legal. > > Pedro, change Mo

Re: [Flashcoders] Paragraph spacing in AS2

2008-03-17 Thread Marc Hoffman
Thank you, Glen. I will try this. Marc At 08:16 AM 3/17/2008, Glen Pike wrote: In CSS it is margin and margin-top, etc. that sets your spacing between elements - don't know if this will work with AS2, e.g. p { margin-bottom:10px; } Marc Hoffman wrote: I'm using style sheets to control tex

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Sidney de Koning
Just rewrite this: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.filters.*; public class RisingCroix extends Sprite { private var croix:Croix; to this: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Even

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Cory Petosky
Jonathan, that's actually legal in ActionScript. Ugly and misleading, but legal. Pedro, change Mountain2 to this: import flash.events.Event; import flash.display.Sprite; public class Mountain extends Sprite { private var color1:uint=0x003300; private v

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
NO , ihaven't. I am only in a learning process of as3, so if you can help me importing a class On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Sidney de Koning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried importing the Mountain Class? > > Cheers, > > Sid > > > > On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Pedro Kostelec wrot

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
I added the () to it but still doesn't work: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.filters.*; public class RisingCroix extends Sprite { private var croix:Croix; private var croix2L:Croix2;

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Sidney de Koning
Have you tried importing the Mountain Class? Cheers, Sid On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Pedro Kostelec wrote: I added the () to it but still doesn't work: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.filters.*; public class Ris

Re: [Flashcoders] Paragraph spacing in AS2

2008-03-17 Thread Glen Pike
In CSS it is margin and margin-top, etc. that sets your spacing between elements - don't know if this will work with AS2, e.g. p { margin-bottom:10px; } Marc Hoffman wrote: I'm using style sheets to control text appearance in a Flash 8 site (AS2). I've been able to control the spacing betwe

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Coding Conventions Question

2008-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
public static const FILEUPDATED:String = "fileUpdated"; With that convention, I always thought perahaps so there were no value conflicts, if there happened to be one somehow - by naming it the same as the constant name, you pretty much ensure that, and the lower case was just to distinguish it fro

RE: [Flashcoders] Writing Custom MovieClip Classes

2008-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
Try this instead, this is how I would do it (you have a few screwy things in the code you posted, too many to bother commenting on :) ): package { import flash.display.MovieClip import flash.text.*; public class DataCard extends MovieClip { public function set name(value:String):void

[Flashcoders] Paragraph spacing in AS2

2008-03-17 Thread Marc Hoffman
I'm using style sheets to control text appearance in a Flash 8 site (AS2). I've been able to control the spacing between lines, but have not found a way to control spacing between paragraphs. Thus my paragraph spacing equals two line breaks, which is too tall. Anyone have an AS2 technique for

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread jonathan howe
Missing () after Mountain instantiation, first of all... var mountain:Mountain = new Mountain(); On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Kostelec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > (posted in flashnewbies but the list is not very active and i need to > solve this problemas soon as possible) >

[Flashcoders] Error #1009

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
Hi (posted in flashnewbies but the list is not very active and i need to solve this problemas soon as possible) i have a problem while creating a as3 short animation: When i test the movie(all done with as3) i get this: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null obj

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Coding Conventions Question

2008-03-17 Thread Muzak
Maybe it's because alot (most?) static constants refer to an event type: Event.CHANGE -> change Event.CLICK -> click REMOVED_FROM_STAGE -> removedFromStage I've noticed that in Flex, if you define Event metada, and you follow those rules, you'll get automatic codehints for that event, even thou

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Classes and FLA not working together

2008-03-17 Thread Andrei Thomaz
Kenneth, you're right, sorry. I had some strange problems after uninstalling the last AIR beta and installing the release version. One of these things was that, when I published an app without a stop(), it acted as a movieclip "flashing" on the screen. It works fine now (I cleaned and updated all A

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Classes and FLA not working together

2008-03-17 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
No, what I meant was if you're extending MovieClip and placing stop(), then you can just extent Sprite and forget about messy stop(). Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Andrei Thomaz wrote: Yes, you can put "stop()" in the first frame and still extend Sprite. I just think that thi

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Classes and FLA not working together

2008-03-17 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
Then why don't you extend Sprite??? Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Andrei Thomaz wrote: The only problem I had was that I had to make it extend MovieClip, and put a "stop()" in its first frame. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcode

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Classes and FLA not working together

2008-03-17 Thread Omar Fouad
Ok fellas... I'll try all this and I'll feedback. Thanks for the help. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Kenneth Kawamoto < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then why don't you extend Sprite??? > > Kenneth Kawamoto > http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ > > Andrei Thomaz wrote: > > The only problem I had was

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Classes and FLA not working together

2008-03-17 Thread Andrei Thomaz
Yes, you can put "stop()" in the first frame and still extend Sprite. I just think that this is a bit contradictory with the definition of Sprite class: "A Sprite object is similar to a movie clip, but does not have a timeline. " And, in the Sprite documentation, stop() doesn't exist. Although th

Re: [Flashcoders] frameworks and classes for flash cs3

2008-03-17 Thread Pedro Kostelec
OK. When i'll have some time i'll use it to read about it on osflash. Thanks anyway Pedro On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Pedro Taranto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what are the 'best' framework/classes is very subjective, there isnt an > UNIQUE framework that will solve all your problems > > y

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Coding Conventions Question

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Thomas
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:27 AM, eric e. dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, you're only going to use the FOO_BAR, so I don't think it really > matters. Instead of a string, you could use a number and just have it be 1, > etc. as well. Except having it as a meaningful string makes it much

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Coding Conventions Question

2008-03-17 Thread eric e. dolecki
Well, you're only going to use the FOO_BAR, so I don't think it really matters. Instead of a string, you could use a number and just have it be 1, etc. as well. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Jason Van Cleave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a pretty nice doc and I agree/use most of these