[SPAM] Re: [Flashcoders] tint a movieclip

2010-05-19 Thread Latcho
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Re: [Flashcoders] FDT4 or Flash Builder 4

2010-05-19 Thread Latcho
can I addin to this: FlashDevelop 3.1.1 has a profiler now too, simple but yet effective. Also their debugger took off finally. The only thing I miss on FD is SVN integration. But in regard of "setting-up-the-ultimate-flash-development-environment" article which takes half a day to install I gu

Re: [Flashcoders] tint a movieclip

2010-05-19 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
To apply in code the same transform you set at author time in the IDE: var colTransf:ColorTransform = mc.transform.colorTransform; colTransf.redMultiplier = -0.18; colTransf.greenMultiplier = -0.42; colTransf.blueMultiplier = 0.22; colTransf.alphaMultiplier = 0.26; mc.transform.colorTransform = co

[Flashcoders] tint a movieclip

2010-05-19 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... This is probably a bitwise question, which is why I'm posting. I have a grayscale movieclip and I want to give it a particular hue based on a hex value. I don't want it to be tint, where it approaches being a solid color, but rather like watercolors. Additionally, I know that the

RE: [Flashcoders] Flashing Flash

2010-05-19 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Don't remove container_middle at all. Instead add/remove its children: container_middle.addChildAt(newImage, 0); container_middle.removeChildAt(1); Regards, Keith Reinfeld Home Page: http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net > -Original Message- > From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figlea

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashing Flash

2010-05-19 Thread jonathan howe
Looping in frame code, looping in ENTER_FRAME event or looping via a timer? On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Bob Wohl wrote: > W/O seeing what is exactly going on... maybe set the alpha to 0 till it's > been added? > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM, John Singleton > wrote: > > > Hi; > > I have

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashing Flash

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Wohl
W/O seeing what is exactly going on... maybe set the alpha to 0 till it's been added? On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM, John Singleton wrote: > Hi; > I have this code: > >big_container.removeChild(container_middle); >big_container.removeChild(container_middle2); >

[Flashcoders] Flashing Flash

2010-05-19 Thread John Singleton
Hi; I have this code: big_container.removeChild(container_middle); big_container.removeChild(container_middle2); container_middle = new Sprite(); big_container.addChild(container_middle) It loops and is called in each iteration excep

Re: [Flashcoders] Line break in dynamic text imported from xml

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Jinks
Thanks Ktu Yes, that sounds right. However, I'm not trying to enter the text as html. When I've tried to alter the script to allow this, it's crashed. I probably ought to go back and fix this properly, but I'm looking for a way to put line breaks in non-html dynamic text. I'll keep digging and le

Re: [Flashcoders] Line break in dynamic text imported from xml

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Jinks
Thanks for your reply Nathan I've tried \n and it shows up as plain text the same as \r. I'm not sure why this should be, but I'll keep digging. Paul On 19 May 2010 16:35, Nathan Mynarcik wrote: > I believe you can use "\n" in your feedback string and it makes a new line. > > > > > On Wed, May

Re: [Flashcoders] Line break in dynamic text imported from xml

2010-05-19 Thread Ktu
>From what I remember when using xml with html, you need to wrap your html inside of a* * to get it to render properly. You can put a \r or \n in it as well. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Paul Jinks wrote: > It's been a long time since I've done any coding. I think this is > pretty straight

Re: [Flashcoders] Line break in dynamic text imported from xml

2010-05-19 Thread Nathan Mynarcik
I believe you can use "\n" in your feedback string and it makes a new line. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Paul Jinks wrote: > It's been a long time since I've done any coding. I think this is > pretty straightforward but it has me beat. Can you help? > > I'm working on a quiz using AS1 (I

[Flashcoders] RE: Astra Components

2010-05-19 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I found this quite thorough: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-flash/classreference/ - _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Glob

Re: [Flashcoders] FDT4 or Flash Builder 4

2010-05-19 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
It pairs nicely with Flash CS5... do your UI stuff in the IDE and have the project live in FB4. It's a workflow with document class that I've been banging on for a while and I personally like it a lot. The Flex stuff is a bonus. Eric On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Tom Gooding wrote: > Thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] FDT4 or Flash Builder 4

2010-05-19 Thread Tom Gooding
Thanks - not sure I can justify buying both though - is the only unique feature to Flash Builder the ability to do Wysiwyg layouts on Flex forms? On 19 May 2010, at 14:22, John McCormack wrote: Hi Tom, < Has anyone used both in conjunction? This setup of FDT with FB looks promising - I will be

[Flashcoders] Line break in dynamic text imported from xml

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Jinks
It's been a long time since I've done any coding. I think this is pretty straightforward but it has me beat. Can you help? I'm working on a quiz using AS1 (I think) that reads questions and answers from an xml file. (see below for the script). I'd like to introduce line breaks into the feedback,

[Flashcoders] CS4 properties panel

2010-05-19 Thread Glen Pike
Hello, Is there any way of getting the Properties panel in CS4 to layout in the old horizontal fashion? We are not all blessed with super wide screens and I have not really got that much real-estate to p*** it away with panel that is half populated a lot of the time... Grrr.

Re: [Flashcoders] Omit Files on Build in Flash Builder

2010-05-19 Thread Kerry Thompson
Elia Morlin wrote: > No, the files are not directly included. They are files residing in source > folders which should be omitted. I see that I can set a whole folder to be > read-only or archive. Is there no option to "Omit from build"? > > The flow you describe would work I guess. It just seems

Re: [Flashcoders] flash cs5 any good for coding? if not is it any good at all?

2010-05-19 Thread Ktu
> code assist is one of those features you > never knew that you where missing. If you never knew you were missing it, then you were REALLY missing it. CS5 is better for coding. The code hinting is much better. Code hinting saves you millions of keystrokes when you get used to it. Also, CS5 has t

Re: [Flashcoders] FDT4 or Flash Builder 4

2010-05-19 Thread John McCormack
Hi Tom, < Has anyone used both in conjunction? This setup of FDT with FB looks promising - I will be trying it next week: http://blog.hexagonstar.com/setting-up-the-ultimate-flash-development-environment/ John On 19/05/2010 10:52, Tom Gooding wrote: I am about to invest in a few desks worth o

Re: [Flashcoders] flash cs5 any good for coding? if not is it any good at all?

2010-05-19 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
It's better than CS4 for sure. Depends on how you like to work on whether or not it's for you. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote: > Better than cs 4. The improved code assist is one of those features you > never knew that you where missing. > > __

[Flashcoders] FDT4 or Flash Builder 4

2010-05-19 Thread Tom Gooding
I am about to invest in a few desks worth of AS3 IDEs (we have both straight Flash projects and future requirements for Flex applications). I currently use FDT and am pretty happy with it (though not used it for MXML) - my main gripe being the absence of the Flash Builder profiling features - I

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-19 Thread John McCormack
On 08/05/2010 07:48, Jared wrote: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/05/08/apple-is-developing-a-flash-alternative-and-has-been-for-almost-a-year/ Don't know how valid this is but it would explain a lot This gives a 'balanced' view: "At a stroke Apple’s quality argument is effectively blown o

Re: [Flashcoders] Omit Files on Build in Flash Builder

2010-05-19 Thread Elia Morlin
No, the files are not directly included. They are files residing in source folders which should be omitted. I see that I can set a whole folder to be read-only or archive. Is there no option to "Omit from build"? The flow you describe would work I guess. It just seems very cumbersome. Thanks Elia