[Flashcoders] Detect when AIR (Android/iOS) exits

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Newman 

Hi,

I know there is a way to specifically exit AIR apps on Android at least, 
but does anyone know how to detect when someone presses the home button 
in iOS (and event or something) - to save the current running state?


thanks,

Kevin N.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS5 and photoshop import and TLFTextfield

2010-10-18 Thread Patrick Matte 
In fact, not only is there no options to create regular TextField instead of
TLFTextField but all the fonts are wrong in the TLFTextFields.

I opened Flash CS4 and imported the same PSD file and every TextField had
the correct font.

Thumbs down Adobe Flash CS5...




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> Is there any way to import a PSD file in Flash CS5 and get a good ol'
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[Flashcoders] Flash CS5 and photoshop import and TLFTextfield

2010-10-18 Thread Patrick Matte 
Is there any way to import a PSD file in Flash CS5 and get a good ol'
TextField instead of the new TLFTextField?



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Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Newman 
The OP referenced "old" players. I didn't think "freedom" players were 
the topic.


There is the GPL 3 Lightspark player:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspark

Kevin N.



On 10/18/10 12:23 PM, strk wrote:

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:05:28PM -0400, Kevin Newman wrote:


On alternative platforms - AS3 (AVM2) is available on more platforms
than it used to be, even being supported in some versions of Flash Lite,

I disagree. There is NO _free_ player supporting AVM2 movies.
Free player means virtual support for _any_ platform.

See some screenshots of Gnash on embedded devices:
http://wiki.gnashdev.org/Gnash#Screenshots
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash

So, there's surely MUCH WIDER availability of players for AVM1 than
there is for AVM2.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau 


 free = opensource ?!?

Am 18.10.2010 18:40, schrieb Henrik Andersson:

strk skriver:

I disagree. There is NO _free_ player supporting AVM2 movies.
Free player means virtual support for _any_ platform.



You must be using some definition of "free" that doesn't involve beer.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Henrik Andersson 

strk skriver:

I disagree. There is NO _free_ player supporting AVM2 movies.
Free player means virtual support for _any_ platform.



You must be using some definition of "free" that doesn't involve beer.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread strk 
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:05:28PM -0400, Kevin Newman wrote:

> On alternative platforms - AS3 (AVM2) is available on more platforms 
> than it used to be, even being supported in some versions of Flash Lite, 

I disagree. There is NO _free_ player supporting AVM2 movies.
Free player means virtual support for _any_ platform.

See some screenshots of Gnash on embedded devices:
http://wiki.gnashdev.org/Gnash#Screenshots
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash

So, there's surely MUCH WIDER availability of players for AVM1 than
there is for AVM2.  

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Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Newman 
Flash Player 8 supports only AVM1 bytecode (compiled from Actionscript 
1.0 and 2.0 - and haXe).


Flash Player 9+ supports AVM1 and AVM2. Actionscript 3.0 gets compile 
into AVM2 bytecode (and haXe).


There is no way to use Actionscript 3.0 with Flash Player 8 and lower.

Even if you use haXe, the display list API is different when targeting 
Flash 9+ vs. Flash 8- so even haXe isn't completely compatible.


On alternative platforms - AS3 (AVM2) is available on more platforms 
than it used to be, even being supported in some versions of Flash Lite, 
but AS2/AS1 (AVM1) is still more compatible (especially with older 
hardware/platforms).


Kevin N.


On 10/18/10 7:53 AM, Beatrix Krümmer-Frau wrote:


 Hi all,

I am searching informations about using Actionscript 3 for projects, 
which have to run in old, old Flash Versions.  I need arguments for 
customers who still work with Actionscript 2.

Any suggestions are welcome, will do a paper on this issue.

Thanks in advance



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[Flashcoders] Catch / Error Trap 404 in Chrome?

2010-10-18 Thread Jer Brand 
It's probably something stupid, but  my Google-foo that's failing me:

Working with a flash.display.Loader and intentionally passing in a url
that's invalid so I can trap 404's. I'm working in Firefox, chrome and IE6,
and FF and IE recover from the 404 (FF doing console traces that bear out
what's happening). However, Chrome is displaying a browser-generated error
in the console, and stops all execution in the flash player. Here's the
slightly-made-up code:

private function init_overlay( )
{
_overlay = new Loader( ) ;
this.addChild( _overlay ) ;
 this._overlay.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.INIT ,
onOverlayLoaded ) ;
this._overlay.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
onOverlayError ) ;
 this._overlay.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(
HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, onOverlayHTTPStatus ) ;
this._overlay.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(
SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, onOverlaySecurityError ) ;
 try{
this._overlay.load( new URLRequest( Configuration.overlay ) ) ;
} catch(e:Error){
 js.Log("TRY-CATCH")
}
}
private function onOverlayLoaded( event:Event )
{
js.Log( "Status is OK" ) ;
}
private function onOverlayError( event:Event )
{
js.Log("IOError" ) ;
}
private function onOverlayHTTPStatus( event:HTTPStatusEvent )
{
js.Log("Status is " + event.status) ;
}
private function onOverlaySecurityError( event:SecurityErrorEvent )
{
js.Log("Security Error") ;
}


Firefox traces "IOError" as you'd expect, IE doesn't trace, but the real
code in onOverlayError recovers from the error and continues.  Chrome traces
"Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not
Found)" and stops dead.  Anyone see what I'm missing, or is this a known
issue?

Jer
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Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Henrik Andersson 

Beatrix Krümmer-Frau skriver:


Hi all,

I am searching informations about using Actionscript 3 for projects,
which have to run in old, old Flash Versions. I need arguments for
customers who still work with Actionscript 2.
Any suggestions are welcome, will do a paper on this issue.

Thanks in advance



The old flash player will ignore the swf tags related to as 3.
New players will ignore as 2 related tags when the swf declares that it 
is as 2.


I actually asked a guy I know (nickname jan_flanders) to make a tool to 
create a swf with both as 2 and as 3 code. It's not that useful in 
practice, but at least I can prevent the main timeline from running 
wildly on way too old players and can show an version error screen.


But if you want to code the application twice (u mad?), the tool is 
designed to be able to do it.

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[Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau 


 Hi all,

I am searching informations about using Actionscript 3 for projects, 
which have to run in old, old Flash Versions.  I need arguments for 
customers who still work with Actionscript 2.

Any suggestions are welcome, will do a paper on this issue.

Thanks in advance

--
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Dipl. Ing. Designer|CEH-LPIG-1
Flash/Flex Developer
Network Security Administrator

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Re: [Flashcoders] Any good references for swarming/flocking/fractal algorithms?

2010-10-18 Thread John McCormack 

 < I wished I'd asked sooner!
Amen.

I had a search for ActionScript boids and some useful links came up.
This one has some an fla to download...
http://jobemakar.blogspot.com/2007/05/flocking-birds-boids-deviation.html

John

On 18/10/2010 09:00, Paul Andrews wrote:


 On 18/10/2010 08:45, John McCormack wrote:

 Paul,

There are some useful things here, mostly(?) java but the approach is 
helpful:


http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/

http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/boids/pseudocode.html
http://benfry.com/writing/

John



Some really interesting stuff - thank you.

I wished I'd asked sooner!

Paul
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Re: [Flashcoders] Any good references for swarming/flocking/fractal algorithms?

2010-10-18 Thread Paul Andrews 

 On 18/10/2010 08:45, John McCormack wrote:

 Paul,

There are some useful things here, mostly(?) java but the approach is 
helpful:


http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/

http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/boids/pseudocode.html
http://benfry.com/writing/

John



Some really interesting stuff - thank you.

I wished I'd asked sooner!

Paul
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Re: [Flashcoders] Any good references for swarming/flocking/fractal algorithms?

2010-10-18 Thread John McCormack 

 Paul,

There are some useful things here, mostly(?) java but the approach is 
helpful:


http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/

http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/boids/pseudocode.html
http://benfry.com/writing/

John

On 18/10/2010 08:06, Paul Andrews wrote:


 On 18/10/2010 06:48, mika wrote:

You could have a look at Flint Particle system also

http://flintparticles.org/examples/flocking-3d


Excellent. Thank you.

Paul
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Re: [Flashcoders] Any good references for swarming/flocking/fractal algorithms?

2010-10-18 Thread Paul Andrews 

 On 18/10/2010 06:48, mika wrote:

You could have a look at Flint Particle system also

http://flintparticles.org/examples/flocking-3d


Excellent. Thank you.

Paul
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