[Flashcoders] Re: OTish MP3 files for a piano scale

2011-02-08 Thread Alan Neilsen
I have also made a piano keyboard years ago and had the same problem. In the end I found a series of C notes from a grand piano and used SoundForge to change the pitch on the notes, thus extrapolating all the notes of the keyboard from those Cs. This message is for the named person’s use only.

[Flashcoders] Fwd: Looking for Flash/Web Designer! Great

2010-09-07 Thread Alan Neilsen
This is meant to be a Flash coders list. When did it become a job-seeker site which apparently specializes in underpaid web developer jobs? Most developers I know are very busy people who do not need their time wasted by spurious, inappropriate posts to the list. This message is for the

[Flashcoders] Re: Re: Producing a random list with no repeats

2010-05-09 Thread Alan Neilsen
Thanks to all the suggestions re my random list problem. Particular thanks to Gerry Beauregard for this suggestion: It's probably best just to create an Array or Vector containing numbers 1 to 40. (Vectors are only available in AS3, not sure about Array). Shuffle the array, then choose the

[Flashcoders] Producing a random list with no repeats

2010-05-05 Thread Alan Neilsen
I am working in ActionScript 2. I want to create a quiz in which 10 questions are randomly selected from a block of 40 questions. I found the following code, but I can't work out how to stop it doubling up the questions. function randRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number { var

[Flashcoders] Filter rendering error warning

2010-03-24 Thread Alan Neilsen
clients. Has anybody seen this sort of thing before, and maybe has a solution to stop this filter rendering error from occurring? Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality

[Flashcoders] Re: AS2: blank input text field when clicked

2010-02-15 Thread Alan Neilsen
) { whichPage = int(enterPage.text); holder_uh.myPageFlipperuh.gotoPage(whichPage); go_btn._visible=false; } } }; Alan Neilsen This message is for the named

[Flashcoders] AS2: blank input text field when clicked

2010-02-10 Thread Alan Neilsen
) { if (mouseY = 72) { enterPage.text = ; } } } } } Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or; lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error

[Flashcoders] AS2 SWFs with pageFlipper component

2010-02-04 Thread Alan Neilsen
SWF using it is loaded. Can anyone shed any light on why it only works on the first SWF loaded, and what I might do to make it work when subsequent SWFs are loaded? Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged

[Flashcoders] Why is my HTML file so huge

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Neilsen
then goes on like that for more than 14,000 lines with, as I said, many repetitions of all the text used in the SWF. I have seen this sort of thing before, but have no idea what is causing it. Can anybody shed light on this for me? Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only

[Flashcoders] Enter key to activate focused button

2009-12-13 Thread Alan Neilsen
and do a search for addEventListener I get no results - which seems ludicrous to me. How is it possible that the term addEventListener does not exist anywhere in the Flash Help system? Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary

[Flashcoders] Why doesn't Enter key work on focused button?

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Neilsen
(pME:MouseEvent):void { first _btn.tabIndex=1; second _btn.tabIndex=2; third _btn.tabIndex=3; } button3_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fnClick); Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential

[Flashcoders] getting text from textfile.txt into a dynamic text field

2009-11-23 Thread Alan Neilsen
that text into a dynamic text field. Can anyone please give me a simple example of how to do this. Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or; lost by any

[Flashcoders] Testing before removing a child

2009-11-18 Thread Alan Neilsen
that loader_clip.removeChild(ldr); } But when I trace (loader_clip.child) it comes back undefined whether the child is still there or not. What can I use to test this so loader_clip.removeChild(ldr); doesn't produce an error if the child has already been removed? Alan Neilsen This message is for the named

[Flashcoders] loading a SWF to a specified layer

2009-11-12 Thread Alan Neilsen
How can load a SWF into my movie so it does not end up on the very top layer? I am using the following to load the SWF which works, but always puts the loaded SWF on a layer above everything else: // Load SWF for sawn timber intro var urlSawn:String=swfs/sawn_intro.swf; var

[Flashcoders] Getting hypertext to work

2009-07-13 Thread Alan Neilsen
When I use 'Options' in 'Properties' to apply a link to text in my Flash movie (CS4), it works okay when I test the movie, but when I create the SWF and try the same thing, it tells me, Adobe Flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation. This seems strange, because hypertext created

[Flashcoders] Re: Flash CS4 very slow

2009-06-11 Thread Alan Neilsen
Thanks Patrick Matte Installing the Flash CS4 update from http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html has fixed the problem I had with Flash CS4 running slowly (and a few other thing). I recommend all Flash CS4 users do themselves a big favour and install this update. Alan Neilsen

[Flashcoders] Flash CS4 very slow

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Neilsen
anything - it just locks up for those seconds. 4 or 5 seconds does not sound much, but when it happens again and again and again day after day it really slows my work down. Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged

[Flashcoders] DisplayObject's filtered dimensions too large to be drawn

2009-05-25 Thread Alan Neilsen
Can anybody tell me what might cause this, Warning: Filter will not render. The DisplayObject's filtered dimensions (4365, 240) are too large to be drawn. There is nothing in my project with dimensions anywhere near that, so I am at a loss as to what it means. Alan Neilsen This message

[Flashcoders] Re: Re: Passing text between SWFs

2008-10-27 Thread Alan Neilsen
{ MovieClip(event.currentTarget)._parent = this; trace(_parent.ldr1); } } Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality

[Flashcoders] Re: Re: Passing text between SWFs

2008-10-23 Thread Alan Neilsen
Thanks dr.ache I still can't get this to work. Whatever is wrong, it doesn't like the line public function completeHandler(event:Event) {. I get Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Event I tried adding import flash.events.Event, but then I get several various errors.

[Flashcoders] Passing text between SWFs

2008-10-22 Thread Alan Neilsen
to pass user input text from one SWF to another. Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or; lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error

[Flashcoders] Accessing text between SWFs

2008-10-15 Thread Alan Neilsen
in the first SWF (e.g. Fred Smith) to be accessible by the second SWF (rte2124b_topic1.swf)? I want the print-outs from the second SWF to start with This activity was completed by User Name (e.g. Fred Smith). Alan Neilsen This message is for the named person’s use only. It may contain

[Flashcoders] Making dynamic text look the same as static text

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Neilsen
properties for that dynamic text field. Can anyone advise how I make those properties work for a dynamic text field? Alan Neilsen E-delivery Resources Developer Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE Wallis Street Seymour, Vic. 3660 Phone: 0357352466 Mobile: 0437355688 * Please consider the environment

[Flashcoders] Re: Re: huge html file (Glen Pike)

2008-07-31 Thread Alan Neilsen
WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7bd7.html / HTML publishing templates WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7bb4.html (the template has a tag $MT which will be replaced by all the text in the Movie) Alan Neilsen E-delivery Resources Developer Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE Wallis Street Seymour, Vic

[Flashcoders] huge html file

2008-07-30 Thread Alan Neilsen
I am revisiting a fla I worked on a couple of years ago (Flash 8) and have upgraded it and saved and published it in Flash CS3. For some reason I end up with a html file that is 2MB which is full of paragraph text from the swf, with each paragraph repeated in the html file 120 times. What am I

[Flashcoders] Re: Adding n days to dateField.selectedDate

2008-04-14 Thread Alan Neilsen
Thanks Gabino, Matthew Michael Can anyone tell me why the following isn't working. I get an error that there is no property with the name 'time' referring to 'd.time+=(8640*283). var d:Date=new Date(2008,3,14); d.time+=(8640*283); // 283 days, in milliseconds

[Flashcoders] Adding n days to dateField.selectedDate

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Neilsen
I am building a cattle birthing calculator. Can anyone help me with the code to add a certain number of days (usually around 283) to the output of a dateField.selectedDate (breeding date) so the result can be put into a string and output to a text field such as, The estimated birthing date is