[Flashcoders] [ AS2 ] - masking performance in Firefox

2008-03-28 Thread Alex Burke
Hi All... I'm using masks to reveal content on a site, and doing so by tweening the mask's _x value to move it over the masked content. I'm publishing to Flash 8, at 30fps, and using Tweener. The mask is separated from the content on its own layer in each movieClip. (not created with

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR write to PowerPoint

2008-03-28 Thread Ian Thomas
The PPT file format is now available from Microsoft for free: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx However, if it's anything like other MS binary formats, it's likely to be a bit of a minefield. I don't envy your task; but at least export is easier than import. :-)

Re: [Flashcoders] [ AS2 ] - masking performance in Firefox

2008-03-28 Thread Ian Thomas
Have you got the wmode in your embed tags set to anything? More specifically, wmode=transparent in Firefox is notoriously broken. HTH, Ian On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Alex Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All... I'm using masks to reveal content on a site, and doing so by tweening

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusingiteratorvariables

2008-03-28 Thread Ian Thomas
Oh. Oh dear. *sigh* Well, I do confess that there's nostalgic joy at the prospect of being able to type: let x=7 (which I don't think I've done since I last used BASIC back in I don't know when. Around the 1800s, wasn't it?) But I'm not sure I'd introduce a whole new keyword for it. I'd

Re: [Flashcoders] query string

2008-03-28 Thread Stuart (FunkDaWeb)
In as2... on( Release ){ getURL(home.php?location=boston, _blank) } in as3... locationLink.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, location_CLICK); function location_CLICK(ev:MouseEvent):void { var url:String = home.php?location=boston; var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);

Re: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
thanks jason a On 27 Mar 2008, at 21:30, Merrill, Jason wrote: Yeah, I mean that's basically how I described it and would do it - there might be a better way, but that way should work fine for you. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO and Risk LLD Solutions Design Development eTools

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Programmer is needed in Paris

2008-03-28 Thread laurent
No AS3 programmer on Paris on this list ??? L I mean Paris in France not USA :] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] multiple skins for V2 scrollbar

2008-03-28 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... Can anyone recommend an easy way to apply varying skins to varying instances of the V2 ScrollBar component, that's a subcomponent of either the ScrollPane or TextField? Thanks, - Michael M. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
I'm assisting with an Actionscript outsourcing project right now with some Flash game coders in Mumbai, so far so good, though they are a little behind in skills - but would be interested to learn any cultural things people have experienced with Flash developers in India. Jason Merrill Bank of

[Flashcoders] Root casting as Main big problem

2008-03-28 Thread laurent
Hi, It's very urgent, try to make it clear: I have one MovieClip index.swf, with a Main.as class attch to it. In this class I define properties and method, of course :) And I load external movieclip, one name content.swf in this content swf I need to talk with rootand I cast it with

Re: [Flashcoders] Root casting as Main big problem

2008-03-28 Thread jonathan howe
I think you might be able to get around this by using a swc, which can be checked for classes by the complier without actually including it in the swf. Do you have Moock's Essential Actionscript 3.0? Chapter 31 details the various ways you can do it, all based on which authoring tool you're using.

[Flashcoders] Krugle?

2008-03-28 Thread eric e. dolecki
Anyone ever use Krugle.org to search for AS source code? I just ran into the site, and I am not sure what to think yet. For other languages it might be better, but I'm currently unsure without spending time in the system. The search results and tabbed interface, etc. is pretty sweet though. - eric

Re: [Flashcoders] Root casting as Main big problem

2008-03-28 Thread Piers Cowburn
Have you tried MovieClip(root) ? On 28 Mar 2008, at 15:10, laurent wrote: Hi, It's very urgent, try to make it clear: I have one MovieClip index.swf, with a Main.as class attch to it. In this class I define properties and method, of course :) And I load external movieclip, one name

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-28 Thread Cory Petosky
It's valid both in a frame script in an IDE and in an AS3 class compiled via mxmlc. I suspect it's also valid in an mx:script block, but I didn't bother testing. Actually give it a try before telling me it doesn't work. :) On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] multiple skins for V2 scrollbar

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
grab this pdf http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/flash_as2_components_help.pdf and go to the section called Creating new component skins QUOTE If you want to use a particular skin for one instance of a component, but another skin for another instance of the component, you must open a

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i worked at The Online Studio where a lot of their actionscript gets outsourced to india and like you said, it's a little bit behind but overall very good AS2 code On 28 Mar 2008, at 15:03, Merrill, Jason wrote: I'm assisting with an Actionscript outsourcing project right now with some

RE: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-28 Thread Kerry Thompson
Jason Merrill wrote: I'm assisting with an Actionscript outsourcing project right now with some Flash game coders in Mumbai, so far so good, though they are a little behind in skills - but would be interested to learn any cultural things people have experienced with Flash developers in India.

Re: [Flashcoders] Krugle?

2008-03-28 Thread Cory Petosky
I've used Google Codesearch http://www.google.com/codesearch with some success. I'm not sure which of the two tools is better, but krugle is certainly prettier. On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:26 AM, eric e. dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone ever use Krugle.org to search for AS source code? I

RE: [Flashcoders] Krugle?

2008-03-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
No, but good link - it's nice to search for chunks of code to see examples when you forget how to do something, like add a glow filter Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO and Risk LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you

RE: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
Wow, thanks Kerry, that's great information. The part I found especially useful was, So, expect to be able to direct them on _what_ needs to be done, but don't expect to have a say in _how_ they do it. - We have encouraged them to write the project in AS3, but they are not comfortable with it

Re: [Flashcoders] Krugle?

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
looks like a good organisation tool as well as a useful search tool On 28 Mar 2008, at 15:26, eric e. dolecki wrote: Anyone ever use Krugle.org to search for AS source code? I just ran into the site, and I am not sure what to think yet. For other languages it might be better, but I'm

[Flashcoders] Re: Flash Video fullscreen problem

2008-03-28 Thread Omar Fouad
Allriht thanks for the help... I solved it anyway... I had to put the layer that contains the video on top of the other layers. And the FLVPlayback Compontent should be in the first frame of the timeline. Thanks On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: I need

[Flashcoders] Checking overlapping of 2 objects of different type. Please help

2008-03-28 Thread anuj sharma
Hi I am trying to check if objects of 2 different type overlaps or not. I have a CameraStartDrag which is activated by on press of MovieClip. I have some container of type Sprite which contains UI Loader component. All i need is if user takes CameraStartDrag on top of UILoader, the

[Flashcoders] RE: [Papervision3D][UNSOLVABLE BUG] Inconsistent rolling over for a plane

2008-03-28 Thread Dwayne Neckles
I think it might be a bug within Papervision and nothing within me.. http://dnecklesportfolio.com/pv3d/materialsDemos/materialsDemo.html and you know I also went back to the basic Materials Demo I got from the CLaSS in SAN FRAN... and simple added the rollover states and I got the

[Flashcoders] [SOLVED FINALLY!] Inconsistent rolling over for a plane

2008-03-28 Thread Dwayne Neckles
Life is good. I went through major pains to figure out the answersorry for the numerous emails but I really wanted to learn this PV thing the answer is to not have any segments.. plane = new Plane(material,navItem.width,navItem.height,0,0); set the segments to nothing other than 0...

[Flashcoders] AIR drag and resize transparent window and change mouse icon to arrows

2008-03-28 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ
You know on a PC when you mouseOver the sides of a window, the mouse changes to an arrow that means you can resize the window. Is there any to get the mouse to change like that when the AIR window in set to transparent? Or it is only a feature of the NativeWindow on PC?

[Flashcoders] Re: Checking overlapping of 2 objects of different type. Please help

2008-03-28 Thread anuj sharma
Hi Guys I fixed it I added the container as addChildAt(container,0). Thanks for ur patience. Anuj On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:17 PM, anuj sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to check if objects of 2 different type overlaps or not. I have a CameraStartDrag which is activated by on

[Flashcoders] wmode, cacheasbitmap and scrollrect issues

2008-03-28 Thread Nikolaj Selvik
Hi all, So it seemed like Adobe had solved the artifact issues when using scrollrect on a bitmap cached object, but not quite... I am in a current application using scrollrect and get artifacts when vertically scrolling large bitmapcached sprites, see example here:

Re: [Flashcoders] Root casting as Main big problem

2008-03-28 Thread laurent
Thanks for the precise answer, I got the book, will have a look tom and try the MovieClip workaround. Now I will bang my head on sweeter stuff ;) thx L jonathan howe a écrit : I think you might be able to get around this by using a swc, which can be checked for classes by the complier without

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR drag and resize transparent window and change mouse icon to arrows

2008-03-28 Thread Bob Wohl
You would need to detect the mouse position and then you would swap the mouse with a graphic (hide mouse pointer, display your arrows). The problem would be that you could only do this while inside the air app. The edges of the actual air app I believe would have to be set by the OS. B. On Fri,