Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list.
Thanks guys Will look into this and get back. I'm using as2 where I think asfunction does the job now performed by TextEvent.LINK, but I need to check this out. Paul On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Merrill, Jasonjason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: FYI - that's only good if you want the link to go to a URL - if you want it to trigger some actionscript to do something else (like the OP mentioned to go to a point in the video), you have to use TextEvent.LINK AFAIK. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:06 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list. texthtml = 'a href=www.yourlink.comli'+string+'/li/a'; Or texthtml = 'a href='+urlstring+'li'+string+'/li/a'; Have not tested, but I think these should work. Hth Karl Sent from losPhone On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Paul Jinks p...@pauljinks.co.uk wrote: Hi I have a video player which takes event cue points in the flv and outputs them as a rolling list of bullet points (kind of a summary of what's being said). I do this by listening for the cue point name and putting it within html list tags which are then displayed in a text field. texthtml = (li)+string+(/li); I've been asked to make the list items clickable so that they take the viewer to their cue point. Is this possible, and if so how? Many thanks in advance Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] removeMovieClip, Flashlite3, AS2
Assuming you have no listeners attached to it or other external references to the object, try this: mc.removeMovieClip(); mc = null; delete mc; Yes, it's a pain in the ass, but you need it to keep footprint low on mobile devices. HTH, Juan On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Jim Lafserjimlaf...@yahoo.com wrote: Tried that. Have also verified that the depth is in valid range. --- On Tue, 8/4/09, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] removeMovieClip, Flashlite3, AS2 To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 4:32 PM Hi, I have a suggestion, but someone may have a more in-depth answer. Have you tried just using: removeMovieClip(my_mc); ? Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm k...@designdrumm.com http://designdrumm.com On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Jim Lafser wrote: I'm having some trouble with removeMovieClip - it doesn't appear to be working I have code that does an attachMovie that looks like: var my_mt_mc:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip( ... ); var my_mc:MovieClip = attachMovie(linkageId, aMovie+depth, depth, init); and later I do my_mc.removeMovieClip(); If I list the properties of this using for(var i in this) I can see that aMovieX still exists. I've tried doing a removeMovie on aMovieX, but that doesn't work either. The movie clip has an onUnload method and I can see that it gets called. Any suggestions? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://blog.zarate.tv ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list.
Thanks for the help so far. The asfunction code does indeed enable the
video player to go to a cue point. Thus
function clickMe(){
caption_flvp.seekToNavCuePoint(navpoint);
}
and
mainText.htmlText += a href=\asfunction:clickMe, navpoint\navpoint/a;
produces linktext navpoint which when clicked takes the video player
back to cuepoint navpoint. Hurrah! So, I guess the tricky bit is done,
but
I need to be able to pass variables through this code and that's where
I hit a problem. The way I have the player rigged up is that as cue
points come along they're added to an array, the last which is output
to the list provided it's not already present (this so that re-viewing
the video doesn't produce a whole lot of duplicate list items).
So, in the original code I have:
mainText.htmlText = ;
for (var i = 0; ilen2; i++) {
mainText.htmlText += cueArray[i];}
My problem is that when I put cueArray[i] into the asfunction code:
mainText.htmlText += a href=\asfunction:clickMe,
cueArray[i]\cueArray[i]/a;
It outputs cueArray[i] as string since it falls between the double
quote marks, any attempt to change the quote marks throws an error and
breaks the player. I'm hoping this is only a problem because my
knowledge of coding is pretty basic; any suggestions on fixing this?
Many thanks in advance
Paul
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Paul Jinksp...@pauljinks.co.uk wrote:
Thanks guys
Will look into this and get back. I'm using as2 where I think
asfunction does the job now performed by TextEvent.LINK, but I need to
check this out.
Paul
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Merrill,
Jasonjason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote:
FYI - that's only good if you want the link to go to a URL - if you want
it to trigger some actionscript to do something else (like the OP
mentioned to go to a point in the video), you have to use TextEvent.LINK
AFAIK.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Shared Services Solutions Development
Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences
- join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community
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From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl
DeSaulniers
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:06 PM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list.
texthtml = 'a href=www.yourlink.comli'+string+'/li/a';
Or
texthtml = 'a href='+urlstring+'li'+string+'/li/a';
Have not tested, but I think these should work.
Hth
Karl
Sent from losPhone
On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Paul Jinks p...@pauljinks.co.uk wrote:
Hi
I have a video player which takes event cue points in the flv and
outputs them as a rolling list of bullet points (kind of a summary of
what's being said). I do this by listening for the cue point name and
putting it within html list tags which are then displayed in a text
field.
texthtml = (li)+string+(/li);
I've been asked to make the list items clickable so that they take the
viewer to their cue point.
Is this possible, and if so how?
Many thanks in advance
Paul
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Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list.
You could try..
mainText.htmlText += 'a href=asfunction:clickMe,'+
cueArray[i]+''+cueArray[i]+'/a';
Haven't tested.
Or assign cueArray[i] to a var and insert that.
var newCuePoint = cueArray[i];
replace in above code, but call this line before it executes.
Lmk,
Karl
Sent from losPhone
On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Paul Jinks p...@pauljinks.co.uk wrote:
Thanks for the help so far. The asfunction code does indeed enable the
video player to go to a cue point. Thus
function clickMe(){
caption_flvp.seekToNavCuePoint(navpoint);
}
and
mainText.htmlText += a href=\asfunction:clickMe, navpoint
\navpoint/a;
produces linktext navpoint which when clicked takes the video player
back to cuepoint navpoint. Hurrah! So, I guess the tricky bit is done,
but
I need to be able to pass variables through this code and that's where
I hit a problem. The way I have the player rigged up is that as cue
points come along they're added to an array, the last which is output
to the list provided it's not already present (this so that re-viewing
the video doesn't produce a whole lot of duplicate list items).
So, in the original code I have:
mainText.htmlText = ;
for (var i = 0; ilen2; i++) {
mainText.htmlText += cueArray[i];}
My problem is that when I put cueArray[i] into the asfunction code:
mainText.htmlText += a href=\asfunction:clickMe,
cueArray[i]\cueArray[i]/a;
It outputs cueArray[i] as string since it falls between the double
quote marks, any attempt to change the quote marks throws an error and
breaks the player. I'm hoping this is only a problem because my
knowledge of coding is pretty basic; any suggestions on fixing this?
Many thanks in advance
Paul
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Paul Jinksp...@pauljinks.co.uk
wrote:
Thanks guys
Will look into this and get back. I'm using as2 where I think
asfunction does the job now performed by TextEvent.LINK, but I need
to
check this out.
Paul
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Merrill,
Jasonjason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote:
FYI - that's only good if you want the link to go to a URL - if
you want
it to trigger some actionscript to do something else (like the OP
mentioned to go to a point in the video), you have to use
TextEvent.LINK
AFAIK.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Shared Services Solutions Development
Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media
experiences
- join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community
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From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl
DeSaulniers
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:06 PM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list.
texthtml = 'a href=www.yourlink.comli'+string+'/li/a';
Or
texthtml = 'a href='+urlstring+'li'+string+'/li/a';
Have not tested, but I think these should work.
Hth
Karl
Sent from losPhone
On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Paul Jinks p...@pauljinks.co.uk
wrote:
Hi
I have a video player which takes event cue points in the flv and
outputs them as a rolling list of bullet points (kind of a
summary of
what's being said). I do this by listening for the cue point name
and
putting it within html list tags which are then displayed in a text
field.
texthtml = (li)+string+(/li);
I've been asked to make the list items clickable so that they
take the
viewer to their cue point.
Is this possible, and if so how?
Many thanks in advance
Paul
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Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list.
Karl
Thanks for your suggestions, they make good sense and don't throw any
syntax errors.
However they both cause nothing to appear in mainText. If I trace
newCuePoint (in your example) or cueArray[i] I get the full array of
cuepoints, so the value is being passed along but isn't making it to
mainText.htmlText
Looking at the relevant livedocs page I see that asfunction requires
string parameters. Could this be the problem?
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=1719.html
Any other suggestions?
Paul
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Karl DeSaulniersk...@designdrumm.com wrote:
You could try..
mainText.htmlText += 'a href=asfunction:clickMe,'+
cueArray[i]+''+cueArray[i]+'/a';
Haven't tested.
Or assign cueArray[i] to a var and insert that.
var newCuePoint = cueArray[i];
replace in above code, but call this line before it executes.
Lmk,
Karl
Sent from losPhone
On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Paul Jinks p...@pauljinks.co.uk wrote:
Thanks for the help so far. The asfunction code does indeed enable the
video player to go to a cue point. Thus
function clickMe(){
caption_flvp.seekToNavCuePoint(navpoint);
}
and
mainText.htmlText += a href=\asfunction:clickMe,
navpoint\navpoint/a;
produces linktext navpoint which when clicked takes the video player
back to cuepoint navpoint. Hurrah! So, I guess the tricky bit is done,
but
I need to be able to pass variables through this code and that's where
I hit a problem. The way I have the player rigged up is that as cue
points come along they're added to an array, the last which is output
to the list provided it's not already present (this so that re-viewing
the video doesn't produce a whole lot of duplicate list items).
So, in the original code I have:
mainText.htmlText = ;
for (var i = 0; ilen2; i++) {
mainText.htmlText += cueArray[i];}
My problem is that when I put cueArray[i] into the asfunction code:
mainText.htmlText += a href=\asfunction:clickMe,
cueArray[i]\cueArray[i]/a;
It outputs cueArray[i] as string since it falls between the double
quote marks, any attempt to change the quote marks throws an error and
breaks the player. I'm hoping this is only a problem because my
knowledge of coding is pretty basic; any suggestions on fixing this?
Many thanks in advance
Paul
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Paul Jinksp...@pauljinks.co.uk wrote:
Thanks guys
Will look into this and get back. I'm using as2 where I think
asfunction does the job now performed by TextEvent.LINK, but I need to
check this out.
Paul
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Merrill,
Jasonjason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote:
FYI - that's only good if you want the link to go to a URL - if you want
it to trigger some actionscript to do something else (like the OP
mentioned to go to a point in the video), you have to use TextEvent.LINK
AFAIK.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Shared Services Solutions Development
Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences
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From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl
DeSaulniers
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:06 PM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Seek cue points from texthtml list.
texthtml = 'a href=www.yourlink.comli'+string+'/li/a';
Or
texthtml = 'a href='+urlstring+'li'+string+'/li/a';
Have not tested, but I think these should work.
Hth
Karl
Sent from losPhone
On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Paul Jinks p...@pauljinks.co.uk wrote:
Hi
I have a video player which takes event cue points in the flv and
outputs them as a rolling list of bullet points (kind of a summary of
what's being said). I do this by listening for the cue point name and
putting it within html list tags which are then displayed in a text
field.
texthtml = (li)+string+(/li);
I've been asked to make the list items clickable so that they take the
viewer to their cue point.
Is this possible, and if so how?
Many thanks in advance
Paul
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[Flashcoders] Custom Dialog Accessibility Implementation
(Flash CS3 using ActionScript 3) Not sure if anyone's done something similar, but am hitting a serious frustration point. If I'm overly wordy, I apologize. I'm working on a project where I need to create a modal menu dialog that must be accessible, preferably telling MSAA that is is an actual dialog, has a title bar, close button and exposes it's child controls (text and buttons). The window is an external swf (typically created by an artist, wired by me at runtime), loaded in via a loader, and the loader.content pulled out and added as a child of the main view class. I've been working for a day or so at creating my own MenuDialogAccImpl class, based off the Flex TitleWindowAccImpl. The problem is this: If I use a customized version of this implementation, ACCExplorer ignores the contents of the swf, only reports the existance of the title bar and a Dialog -- names/roles/states specified by childIDs 1 2. Event worse, these are ghost entries in MSAA that don't actually reflect the actual controls in the swf. Without an Accessibility Implementation, the items appear to MSAA with no parent-child relationship, and the MenuDialog is a simple graphic. I've looked at all of the classes in the Flex mx.accessibilty package, and the Flash flash.accessibility and mx.accessibility package (which are incidentally for AS2) and the vast majority of these are built for simple, non-container components. TitleWindowAccImpl and PanelAccImpl are both overly simple and nearly identical, and neither has any obvious code for dealing with the actual children of the window itself. I feel like I'm missing something basic here. How would a container expose it's children to MSAA? Flex obviously does this, but I can't find the code that would have this effect -- the children are wrapped in the Dialog object and that doesn't map to an implementation. Is there some code in flash.accessibility.AccessibilityImplementation that handles containers and exposes the children to MSAA. Unfortunately, nothing I've tried has worked. The only solution I can think of so far is not a workable one: To manually iterate each visible child of the MenuDialog from within the MenuDialogAccImpl and manually hand that item over to MSAA. Thing is, those children have their own AccImpl (SimpleButton, text, etc) and doing things this way breaks the connection to that object in MSAA. On top of that is the fact that the menus are fairly graphical ordeals, and I cannot predict the contents -- the app is used to deliver thousands of courses. Seriously frustrated and begging for help. Thanks folks. Jer ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Disable focus change on arrow keys down
Complete shot in the dark, but have you tried upping the priority of the event listener and continuing to use stopImmediatePropagation()? My thought is that perhaps the focus change listener is occurring before your listener. So, if it's possible to up the priority of your listener above that of the focus change listener, you might be able to prevent the behavior. Another idea: set the focusRect property to false, and Create a custom focusRect for a focused state that appears to be the yellow rectangle and activate that state when the scrollpane has focus? Jer On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Patrick Matte patrick.ma...@tbwachiat.comwrote: I forgot to mention, it works if I set the scrollpane focusRect property to false. But I want to use the default yellow focusrect. From: Patrick Matte patrick.ma...@tbwachiat.com Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:35:43 -0700 To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Conversation: Disable focus change on arrow keys down Subject: Disable focus change on arrow keys down When the focus is set to this scrollpane I made, I want to use the arrow keys to scroll the scrollpane content left, up, down, and right. But flash automatically changes focus to the next object in the tab order as soon as I press an arrow key. Is there any way to prevent that? I've tried calling preventDefault, stopImmediatePropagation and stopPropagation on the keydown handler but it doesn't change anything. This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and contains valuable business information that is proprietary, privileged, confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you received this e-mail in error, any review, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Please notify us immediately of the error via e-mail to disclai...@tbwachiat.com and please delete the e-mail from your system, retaining no copies in any media. We appreciate your cooperation. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] MVC and Event Architecture
I would really suggest looking into it as it has streamlined a bunch of my previous workflow. I use PureMVC ( with the fabrication utility ) a lot at work and really enjoy it. As with any framework that you use, it might not fit every specific project need, but generally it's been great. As far as the conversation about commands, my experience ( in relation to PureMVC ) is that a command should send out a notification to the mediator ( the view ) to respond to. Then the mediator , which listens to this notification, acts upon it. This decouples your commands from your view and multiple views can respond to the same notification. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Merrill, Jasonjason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Thanks all - great discussion! Someday I'll have some time to tackle Pure MVC. Cairngorm is cool, but gave me headaches and seemed way too complicated and bloated to use. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Matt Gitchell Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:08 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] MVC and Event Architecture This is about how I'm doing things at present. If something only affects one 'branch' of the MVC model (mostly View), then I handle it with events, for the most part. If it engages two, then I move to a Command (Controller).I've been working a lot in PureMVC lately, and while it seems like a pain when you're first getting into it (event handlers dispatch notifications which then are dealt with by notificationhandlers, which then hit your public methods in view components), I've found that the amount of enforcement it provides as far as loose coupling etc. is well worth it. It certainly makes changing things later less of a big deal, and it's not all that heavy. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Piers Cowburn m...@pierscowburn.com wrote: I'll sometimes use callbacks in small, enclosed parts of a system, which are coupled by their nature and are never going to have their component classes used individually in other systems. As a general rule though, this is the only time that I use them. WRT the event / notification question, I usually find a place for both. I tend to use events if the information is going 'up' the heirachy, and notifications if it's going 'across'. To put it more clearly, I use events for smaller 'happenings', and notifications for larger, system wide 'happenings'. Hope that makes sense! Piers On 4 Aug 2009, at 16:27, Merrill, Jason wrote: Ok thanks Paul, yeah, I know about the concept of loose coupling, I was just wondering how strict people generally follow event-driven loose coupling design when using MVC - so it seems you're saying, for small MVC projects, callbacks are OK, but for large projects, they should really be 100% event driven-loosely coupled. Gotcha - thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:19 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] MVC and Event Architecture Merrill, Jason wrote: I know there is probably no definite right or wrong answer here, and it depends on the type of project, but I'm curious to get your opinion, if you're experienced with the MVC pattern (not frameworks per se that use MVC, I know about, say, Commands in Cairngorm and have checked into the Pure MVC architecture with its use of Notifications [though I only partially understand the Façade - I do something similar I think in a class I call MVC]- just interested in your opinions of raw MVC development). My question is, in practice, when programming with the MVC design pattern, I know the Model is usually completely decoupled from outside classes, but do you usually completely decouple all other classes like views and controllers as well, in favor of dispatching events? Therefore communication between MVC classes are triggered completely by events (seems logical, but its also a heck of a lot of event handling) or do you have some coupling going on (i.e. the controller calls a method in the view telling it to change). Or do you follow what some frameworks do and use Command classes with lots of event handling going on? Trying to find a good mix, I can see advantages and disadvantages both ways. I'm doing a lot of event dispatching, but it seems a bit like overkill in
RE: [Flashcoders] re: gotoStopAndWait
Senocular explained it well here:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2113726#post2113726
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Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:31 PM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] re: gotoStopAndWait
(I think there was a problem when i sent my initial email so resending)
Hey list,
Here's a problem i've had to lesser or greater degrees for pretty much
ever. I'm sure everyone's come across it.
Depending on what's going on, on the site, or especially if it's during
the application initialization.
Here's an example scenario,
You have 10 different illustrated pants for a character in a MovieClip,
each mapped to a different label.
Based on the database information, you load the proper 'pants' swf, then
switch to the variation of it based on the frame label using gotoAndStop.
However when you try to access, pants.getChildByName('thing') you
receive null.
Sometimes the assets are just not ready yet, period case closed.
I've tried different solutions to this problem on different projects,
ranging from
-moving asset initialization function (sometimes just not an option)
-creating a FrameDelay class,
-creating enterframe listener checking then killing itself once the
asset is accessible,
- and shamefully even sometimes having to use setTimeout with 250 ms
when the site was live and there was no time for elegant work arounds
--
I'm aware of how the flash player works, that it needs a step sometimes
to process the assets in the frame.
Does anyone have a kind of magic bullet solution or workaround for this
or in general i'm interested in hearing how you guys have dealt with
this problem.
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Re: [Flashcoders] removeMovieClip, Flashlite3, AS2
When I list out the properties of this I am seeing something along the lines of _level0.movie1.aMovie0 Where movie1 is another movie clip that was also loaded. Shouldn't aMovie0 be removed since the movie clip was removed when I did: my_mc.removeMovieClip(); Or is this the mysterious second reference that I need to delete? --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Juan Delgado zzzar...@gmail.com wrote: From: Juan Delgado zzzar...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] removeMovieClip, Flashlite3, AS2 To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 7:19 AM Assuming you have no listeners attached to it or other external references to the object, try this: mc.removeMovieClip(); mc = null; delete mc; Yes, it's a pain in the ass, but you need it to keep footprint low on mobile devices. HTH, Juan On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Jim Lafserjimlaf...@yahoo.com wrote: Tried that. Have also verified that the depth is in valid range. --- On Tue, 8/4/09, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] removeMovieClip, Flashlite3, AS2 To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 4:32 PM Hi, I have a suggestion, but someone may have a more in-depth answer. Have you tried just using: removeMovieClip(my_mc); ? Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm k...@designdrumm.com http://designdrumm.com On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Jim Lafser wrote: I'm having some trouble with removeMovieClip - it doesn't appear to be working I have code that does an attachMovie that looks like: var my_mt_mc:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip( ... ); var my_mc:MovieClip = attachMovie(linkageId, aMovie+depth, depth, init); and later I do my_mc.removeMovieClip(); If I list the properties of this using for(var i in this) I can see that aMovieX still exists. I've tried doing a removeMovie on aMovieX, but that doesn't work either. The movie clip has an onUnload method and I can see that it gets called. Any suggestions? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://blog.zarate.tv ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Re: Custom Dialog Accessibility Implementation
Well, found a blog post that lead me in the right direction here: http://www.yswfblog.com/blog/2009/01/12/creating-accessible-components-in-flash-and-flex-part-2/ If anyone's interested: http://www.yswfblog.com/blog/2009/01/12/creating-accessible-components-in-flash-and-flex-part-2/#more-114The key piece I was missing was the accLocation(childID:uint):* method. As I found, creating an accessibility implementation for any MovieClip/Component effectively hides the children from MSAA. Your accesssibility implementation must provide access to all the children, their roles, names, states, etc. and returning a child from accLocation() will make that object visible to MSAA and allow it to interrogate that accessibility implementation. Now if there were some simple way of making flash hookAccessibility for an implementation applied to a MovieClip (other than derive from UIComponent) I'd be a happy camper. Jer On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Jer Brand thejhe...@gmail.com wrote: (Flash CS3 using ActionScript 3) Not sure if anyone's done something similar, but am hitting a serious frustration point. If I'm overly wordy, I apologize. I'm working on a project where I need to create a modal menu dialog that must be accessible, preferably telling MSAA that is is an actual dialog, has a title bar, close button and exposes it's child controls (text and buttons). The window is an external swf (typically created by an artist, wired by me at runtime), loaded in via a loader, and the loader.content pulled out and added as a child of the main view class. I've been working for a day or so at creating my own MenuDialogAccImpl class, based off the Flex TitleWindowAccImpl. The problem is this: If I use a customized version of this implementation, ACCExplorer ignores the contents of the swf, only reports the existance of the title bar and a Dialog -- names/roles/states specified by childIDs 1 2. Event worse, these are ghost entries in MSAA that don't actually reflect the actual controls in the swf. Without an Accessibility Implementation, the items appear to MSAA with no parent-child relationship, and the MenuDialog is a simple graphic. I've looked at all of the classes in the Flex mx.accessibilty package, and the Flash flash.accessibility and mx.accessibility package (which are incidentally for AS2) and the vast majority of these are built for simple, non-container components. TitleWindowAccImpl and PanelAccImpl are both overly simple and nearly identical, and neither has any obvious code for dealing with the actual children of the window itself. I feel like I'm missing something basic here. How would a container expose it's children to MSAA? Flex obviously does this, but I can't find the code that would have this effect -- the children are wrapped in the Dialog object and that doesn't map to an implementation. Is there some code in flash.accessibility.AccessibilityImplementation that handles containers and exposes the children to MSAA. Unfortunately, nothing I've tried has worked. The only solution I can think of so far is not a workable one: To manually iterate each visible child of the MenuDialog from within the MenuDialogAccImpl and manually hand that item over to MSAA. Thing is, those children have their own AccImpl (SimpleButton, text, etc) and doing things this way breaks the connection to that object in MSAA. On top of that is the fact that the menus are fairly graphical ordeals, and I cannot predict the contents -- the app is used to deliver thousands of courses. Seriously frustrated and begging for help. Thanks folks. Jer ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Free UML tool for AS3?
Grant Skinner's gModeler was never updated for AS3 (and the last news on his project page was in April 2004), are there any other good free UML modeling tools out there for AS3? I googled a lot, but couldn't find any - a lot of discussion about building one, but nothing I could actually download. Thanks. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] other lists for compiler design, assembly, and machine code?
Thanks to Paul, Ian , and Kerry for your responses. I absolutely require additional knowledge of assembly and machine code for me to compile the final result and to take advantage of the different types of hardware the way I want/need to. I know I am a long way away, even with my books; yet, the final result even if it takes years, (although I doubt it should take that long once I have exhausted the documentation, as I learn pretty quickly) it will be worth it. The purple dragon is what I am reading now, and the compiler design handbook is what I will be reading next. I am pretty sure I should be able to make my way through them in a few months; yet, I am very interested in what small-c has to offer too. I will definitely take a look at the haxe source when I am ready to learn ocaml. Any other advice about books, lists, or trends is appreciated. Thanks, Anthony Ian Thomas wrote: You could do worse than take a look at the sources for both MTASC and haXe. MTASC is a compiler for AS2. http://mtasc.org/ haXe is a compiler for... uh... haXe. But haXe is a very AS3-like language (it has its roots in AS). http://haxe.org/ Both are written by Nicolas Cannasse. Both are written in the functional programming language OCAML and are lightning fast. A lot of people swear by functional languages for compiler-writing these days; BNF-style rule-based parsing maps on to functional languages much more naturally than on to OOP/procedural languages. HTH, Ian On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Kerry Thompsonal...@cyberiantiger.biz wrote: Anthony Pace wrote: Can anyone recommend a good mailing list for compiler design for newbies? I have books on it, and I know the basics of how to perform tokenization and lexical analysis; yet, even with study and practise, I am most likely going to be considering myself a newbie in the compiler design realm for at least a few years. Keep in mind that my assembly is very rudimentary, and my machine code is even worse I did some compiler work for Borland, but that was 15 years ago or more. Anybody remember Borland's Fortran compiler? No? I thought not. I don't know of compiler mailing lists, but I can tell you that you probably don't need assembly or machine code. We did the Fortran compiler in C (not C++), with very little inline assembly code. I don't know of anybody who has done machine code for 20 years or more. It is truly obsolete unless you're writing for some proprietary hardware. There is a school of thought that you ought to be able to write a compiler in its own language. I.e., if you're writing a C++ compiler, you would write it in C++. I don't know if that would apply so well to ActionScript, though, because of its speed. I would probably choose a language that compiles to machine code, like C++, rather than a tokenized language--you want that extra speed boost in your primary tool. Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
