[Flashcoders] OT: How good is TCP/IP compression

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
Related to another post about php to AS2 compression/decompression: How good is the compression built in to TCP/IP? I'm dealing with a large xml file with a huge amount of redundancy, probably 75% of the values in each data item are identical, and of course all of the node and attribute

[Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled, modular design

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Sinning
Following the discussion about root yesterday, it got me thinking about a constant problem I face. Object-A needs to listen to events coming from objects B, C and D, but only if and when these objects actually exist. There's no guarantee that any of the objects B, C and D will be

Re: [Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled, modular design

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Sinning
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:04 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled,modular design Following the discussion about root yesterday, it got me thinking about

[Flashcoders] Local Storage Flash Player Settings alert

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew Sinning
On his Mac under Safari, my boss is getting an Adobe Flash Player Settings alert regarding Local Storage whenever my application tries to access a SharedObject.getLocal(). I've never seen this in my own testing, and I'm using the same code that I've used in other projects and he's never

[Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have a Flash movie that is using 50-70% of CPU. I've never thought of this as unusual, but our partner on this project finds this to be very high, so I'm looking into how I can reduce this. I am using AS2 and authoring for Flash Player 8. I'm testing under Windows using Firefox, but I get

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks! Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi Andrew... Even though you said it might not be the renderer, I wonder if you set the stage quality to medium, that might make a difference, as the anti-aliasing is processor intensive. If that degrades the text of your textfields, you could see how the

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks Fahim. Could you please clarify: We're using vector images. How do I control if vectors oustide the screen are rendered? For reducing CPU usage, is it better to cache the images or not? Many of them are being cached because we're using a lot of filter effects. Fahim Akhter

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Setting the _quality to LOW has no effect on the CPU usage, so would this point to some cause other than vector rendering? The application uses a lot of memory, about 200,000K, but this would necessarily require a lot of CPU usage, right? Lot's of apps use way more memory but not use so much

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
/photos/fahimakhter[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/fahimakhter[image: devianArt]http://degothicangel.deviantart.com Signature powered by WiseStamp http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.comwrote: Setting the _quality

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
as in: _visible = false; Keith Reinfeld wrote: What's odd to me is that all of this CPU is getting used even though these movie clips are completely invisible. Invisible as in visible = false, or alpha = 0? Rendering alpha at anything under 100% is quite cpu intensive. Regards, Keith

[Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
I use SharedObject.getLocal() to store preferences from Flash, but what about passwords? When I log in to gmail, ebay, etc., my passwords are pulled from a vault, which I have access to by virtue of being logged in to my computer. I can look these up in my browser. What's an acceptable way

Re: [Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
that are quite secure. Your password would not be included, and that would make some people very angry (and rightfully so.) On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: I use SharedObject.getLocal() to store preferences from Flash, but what about passwords? When I

Re: [Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
The session id option is great, and more user friendly, too. Mark Winterhalder wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: Since putting the login screen in html isn't an option, then should I just make the user re-enter their password everytime

[Flashcoders] mask anomaly with AS2 loaded into AS3

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm developing a project in AS2 that gets loaded into an AS3 parent movie. In my layout, I have an instance of a symbol (it has an identifier and a class). Within the onLoad function of this class, one of the movie clips is defined as the mask of another. For the instance that is initially

[Flashcoders] call AS function from html links

2010-04-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
In AS2, is there a straightforward way to use the TextFormat.url and TextFormat.target properties to call an AS function when a user clicks on a text fields? This seems like it should be a pretty basic function. I want to have some text with some hyperlinks, but the hyperlinks need to call

Re: [Flashcoders] call AS function from html links

2010-04-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
/actionscript_dictionary073.html Slightly different, but hopefully it shouldn't be too difficult to work in? Glen Andrew Sinning wrote: In AS2, is there a straightforward way to use the TextFormat.url and TextFormat.target properties to call an AS function when a user clicks on a text fields

[Flashcoders] input TextFields in embedded swf stealing focus

2010-05-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Our project is build in AS2. It's imported into an AS3 console written in Flex. The problem is that the input type TextFields in the embedded movie are stealing focus from the other TFs in the container console. I can tab between the TFs in my movie. If I click inside one of the TFs in the

[Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect

2010-05-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
We've built an AS2 application that can be embedded into various LMSs, etc. Curiously, when embedded in Adobe Connect (also written in AS2), the ComboBoxes aren't rendered correctly. Rather than dropping down, the menus are displaying above the widget, even though there is plenty of room

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect

2010-05-29 Thread Andrew Sinning
for polymorphism and overriding everything, and then set yourCombo.__proto__ to YourComboBoxClass.prototype. Just a hack to see if that is where the problem lies :). regards, JC On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.comwrote: We've built an AS2 application

[Flashcoders] vmode=exactfit cropping bottom under IE

2010-07-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using the swfobject to display my movie in a stand-alone window with no other html content. I'm using: width = 100% height = 100% scale = exactfit Under IE on Windows, the movie is properly sized, but there's about 15 pixels of white space added to the top of the window. As a result,

[Flashcoders] AS2 compile problems when variable name is the same as a package name

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've never noticed this before. I had a variable named view referencing a class view.PlainText. I kept getting compiler errors. Changing the variable name to currentView fixed the problem. Can somebody explain? I'm sure I've had conflicts like this before. Maybe the problem is that I

[Flashcoders] OT JOB: RealBasic contract job in Minneapolis

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew Sinning
LearningWare Inc. (www.learningware.com) is looking for a RealBasic programmer for a short-term contract job. The target platform is Mac OS. Local developers only, please. You can work from home, but we would like to meet with you face to face. Thanks! Andrew Sinning LearningWare, Inc

[Flashcoders] Android development using Flash/Flex

2011-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
A recent comment from Anthony Pace reads If you would prefer I help kick off the new year by asking some stupid questions, rather than Google the answers, I will gladly accommodate you. Here's one for you guys. I'm trying to find some good literature on what the options are for developing

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop vs Flash Builder 4

2011-01-26 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've been using FD2 for a long time. I especially like the code-injection feature. I'm working with a lot of legacy Flash work that includes lots of symbols and time-lining. Compiling with FD2 and injecting into an existing swf containing the already compiled symbols is dramatically faster.

Re: [Flashcoders] Emanuele Canavesi invited you to Dropbox

2011-03-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
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Re: [Flashcoders] Problem embedding and using a font variant

2011-04-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
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[Flashcoders] in AS2, what is the correct way to update a DataGrid's dataProvider

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have a screen with a DataGrid that displays live data, that is, data which is constantly changing. It's not a very large amount of data, so I just make a query to the server every 2 seconds to get the new data. When the new data comes in, the easiest thing to do would be to simply set the

[Flashcoders] interesting AS2 SharedObject bug

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using an AS2 SharedObject along with Red5 to synchronize a group of user in a real-time game. I found an interesting bug. I have an array: var someArray:Array = [1,2,3]; I have a dataObject that contains someArray and some other properties: dataObject = { someProperty: 1,

Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 text problem

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
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Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 text problem

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
to clarify: I think the reason that the bold setting got us is that the CS5 authoring environment does not seem to indicate how text is styled. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: Hi John, We've been confronting similar issues the last few days

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