Re: [Flashcoders] TLF: Questions... My situation... Your thoughts?
Kevin Newman skriver: ... I don't think they are loaded from Adobe's servers Check the publish settings, the exact url list for each RSL is listed there. TLF defaults to being loaded from Adobe's servers. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] TLF: Questions... My situation... Your thoughts?
Micky Hulse skriver: Thanks for all the additional information Kevin and Henrik! Just out of curiosity, do you guys (or others on the list) use TLF text boxes much? I have yet to need it. I don't to such projects. Besides, I find it fun to work with the direct flash.text.engine classes. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] TLF: Questions... My situation... Your thoughts?
Micky Hulse skriver: Does TLF text add much additional Kb to a document? Some people think so. It's a few hundred kb. But with the RSL preloader that cost is offloaded to the Adobe hosts. You only pay for the preloader that is just a few kb. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] TLF: Questions... My situation... Your thoughts?
Long story short, the TLF library is implemented in actionscript. Said library is hosted on adobe's servers. In order to use the library, the player must have loaded it. The default solution to this used by Flash is to wrap the main movie in a separate preloader movie. This system is called RSL, or runtime shared libraries. The preloader will load the embedded swf file (it uses the DefineBinaryData swf tag for that) and the swz file. This is done because otherwise you would get some nasty verify errors when the movie tries to refer to a class that isn't defined at that point. The effect is that your main movie is no longer the main movie, removing luxuries like being able to use the stage before the constructor finishes. It also complicates the code for loading such a movie into another movie. You have to get thru the preloader movie in order to access the main movie. Luckily, this mess is solved for you by Adobe, use the SafeLoader class that they have written. It will pretend to be a normal Loader that loads a normal movie, letting you ignore the RSL preloader stuff. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Simulating image in textfield in AIR
Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) skriver: For AIR content in the application security sandbox, You don't have to run in the application security sandbox. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] useCapture = true is faster?
Capture happens before bubbling. Go for the capture phase if it works for you and you need to shave a few microseconds. Just remember that the capture phase does not extend to the actual target. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Reusing an Image
Kevin Holleran skriver: then do something like this? Good start, but I suggest using a vector here to make the code simpler. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Reusing an Image
You might want to have a look at the Bitmap.bitmapData property. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
Karl DeSaulniers skriver: Hi Chris, I was rummaging around in one of my php.ini files and found this nifty little tid bit. Take a look. ; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and ; cleaned up by the garbage collection process. session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 Seems you can set a max lifetime for your garbage collection in your php.ini file. (Depending on your server I am guessing) Don't know if you have investigated that option, but if you haven't... Best, Karl Uhm, that's not even remotely relevant. That is the cleanup threshold for abandoned sessions on the server. It has nothing to do with client side memory allocations. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Simple encapsulation question
Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) skriver: I have a typical tabbed layout and am trying to figure out the simplest/best way to reset the focused state on the focused tab when another is clicked. Classes: Tab - contains graphics and a public variable referencing the MovieClip of the over state. Header - creates tabs, adds event listeners, contains array of references to tabs and a function to loop through them and remove the over state child. Is there a better way - to somehow add an event listener to each tab listening for a click on each other tab? Even if I don't know how many tabs there will be? _ _ _ Erik Mattheis | Weber Shandwick P: (952) 346.6610 M: (612) 377.2272 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders The last time I did a tab system I used a different approach. I let each tab worry about the drawing, but I let the container manage what tab is selected. This way it is easy for the manager to just tell the previous tab that it is no longer selected and to tell the new tab that it is selected. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Duplicate varibale definition
The way I would do it is to assign each clickable object the url it needs to go to in a property and then use a single event listener that reads the property to know what url to use. If I was in a really fancy mood I would look into using a component definition to allow the url to be easily set without scripting. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Developer skriver: Wouldn't it also be helpful to have the server-side script verify (validate) the data the swf is sending back up? That way if someone manually triggered the date, the server would not accept it because it doesn't match it's system date. Don. You have a point. The server can reject anything that the client sends. But at the same time you also fail to get it. The client doesn't have to care for what the server does. So what if the server doesn't like the date? The client has no obligation to care about that. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Kevin Holleran skriver: Thanks to everyone for all of your responses. What is going to happen, is the application is going to hold a coupon. That coupon will be retrieved from a database and passed into the Flash application. I guess as I am writing this, the script will just check the date and if it is not correct, it can simply not return the coupon. My question revolved around a user manipulating the date passed into the flash application and causing the coupon to show up before the countdown is really up. Well, in that case the server has a chance to withhold data until it is satisfied, so that should be perfectly hacking proof. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Jordan L. Chilcott - Interactivity Unlimited skriver: Unless the client is actually displaying a countdown, it has no need for the data. All the client needs in this case is a polling mechanism to occur on a set interval, whether or not it intends to display any countdown down. No data needs to be pass back to the server. All the client is essentially asking is coupon?. Server either gives a coupon or something else that is of no use for anyone to manipulate. jord To elaborate on that idea: Client asks the server and the server either sends the coupon or the time left. The client then acts differently depending on the received data. This way there is only one request made in either case. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Glen Pike skriver: Hello, The parameters that you pass to the SWF in your HTML are different to communicating with a back-end system. If you look at URLLoader in actionscript. This enables you to load data as you would load a web-page. You would use URLLoader with your server-side code, e.g. PHP to do GET and POST type requests: This way, your users cannot inject their own date and it is also possible to have login type facilities. You clearly haven't heard of HTTP request sniffers. With something like Fiddler http://www.fiddler2.com/ I can easily override the reply from any server. And no, SSL does not help there. I can authorize any certificate authority I feel like, including my own one. And for any other checksum/validation I can always just edit the swf file to skip the check. In the end it is the same ages old trusted client problem. You just can't protect code that runs on the client. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Merrill, Jason skriver: Then you need to provide each user with a computer controlled by you and a competent guard You clearly haven't heard of And he's clearly new to this stuff as he said is his original post, so lay off play nice. There's no reason to respond to people like that. The whole reason for these forums is so people can ask questions about things they don't know about, and they shouldn't have to feel intimidated. Point taken. My briefness makes me sound rude. I need to watch my wording and remember to include enough facts to support my comments for the unexperienced people. I've stopped counting how many times I've done this kind of mistakes. My apologies to everyone involved. Rest assured that no harm was meant. My urge to ensure that people on the Internet are right makes me do mistakes once in a while. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Kevin Holleran skriver: I am not concerned with the user SEEING the data, I just don't want them to be able to load the SWF in a way that they would be able to pass in their own values. Then you need to provide each user with a computer controlled by you and a competent guard to prevent the user from tampering with the hardware. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] newbie class question
Kian Chang skriver: Hi all, thanks for taking the time to read this and help a newbie out. I'm just getting my feet wet with AS3 as I've finally decided to abandon the AS2 way of life. I'm trying to use CustomOrientation.as, and I keep getting 3 errors in my main .fla file, error 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method addFramScript. 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type Class to an unrelated type flash.display.StageOrientation 5000: The class 'CustomOrientation' must subclass 'flash.display.MovieClip' since it is linked to a library symbol of that type In my main.fla file I call CustomOrientation and I have the line: new CustomOrientation(stage, true, true, false, false); in the code in the first key frame, any help would be greatly appreciated. The first one means that you need to subclass MovieClip if you use any framescripts. Either move the framescripts to the class or extend MovieClip. The second one means that you somewhere are trying to use the StageOrientation class as an instance of it. I am not sure where that error is, but you should be getting a good linenumber in the compiler error list. The last one is just garbage caused by the other errors. Ignore it, it will disappear when the rest of the errors goes away. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Rendering limitation? Bitmap goes poof.
Filters rend to bitmaps. Said bitmaps have maximum sizes. You actually get a trace entry when this limit is hit. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
Kevin Newman skriver: I have pretty good experience exporting to QuickTime right from Flash - though others swear it's problematic (maybe they are doing it wrong?). Maybe they are using actionscript? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
Christoffer Enedahl skriver: It sounds like it's time to encode the flash animation to video. For some of the cases, yeah. You are right in that encoding to video would solve the issue for local playback. Give me a shout when you find a tool that actually can do it properly. But it is not acceptable for online distribution. I myself hate people uploading video encodings of their vector animations. It's needlessly big files and the quality just isn't as good as the source material. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
I have been thinking a lot about the problem of optimizing animation playback. I know that some people here are unfamiliar with working with real animations and have been doing applications instead. Please consider this aimed at real animations like in movies and games. While the best solution is to simply make the animation simpler so that it is easier to render, that is far from an easy, or even possible solution. Instead the idea is to dynamically adjust the rendering quality. But as I will explain, it is far from a simple task. Please excuse any too easy for me explanations, I aim for a post that any developer can read and understand. As most of you know the Flash player have three main rendering quality options, low, medium and high quality. There is also the option to go for best, but that is largely the same as high. What the rendering quality control mainly controls is the subpixel rendering. When flash detects that a shape has an edge on a non integer position it will do subpixel rendering for that pixel. The subpixel rendering is surprisingly simple, flash just scales up the area (factor 2 for medium, 4 for high) and renders the new pixels. It then takes the average value of the pixels and uses that as the value of the real pixel. Low quality skips subpixel rendering completely. Now, this does change the rendering cost quite a lot. As such, it is the stock option for controlling rendering cost in the player. What some people may not know is that the Flash renderer is smart enough to skip frames. What this means is that if it detects that it is too far behind it will simply skip the drawing step and move directly on to the next frame. This can happen multiple times in a row in severe cases. This is rather easy to detect. If the drawing skip is skipped, so is the Event.RENDERED event. Just by checking if there was one between Event.ENTER_FRAME events it is possible to see if the previous frame was skipped. Similarly you can get a good estimate of how long the frame took to draw by computing the time between the Event.RENDERED event and the Event.ENTER_FRAME event. It is not perfect since it includes the wait after the rendering, but that is not a problem in practice. Now we define the problem. We want to draw the graphics at the highest possible quality, but without forcing Flash to skip frames. To do this we have the option of changing the current rendering quality before each frame is rendered. In more specific situations we also have the option of changing various effects, but for easy discussion we will stick to just the rendering quality. So the question becomes, what is the condition for changing quality? A naïve option is to change the quality if the previous frame took too long to render. A slightly better option is if we can pre-render each frame and get the rendering cost on a reference machine. Then we can scale the reference value to the current machine based on a known reference point, a previously rendered frame. However, this approach has the issue of the rendering cost not scaling linearly between machines. The largest reason is that different machines might be displaying the animation at different sizes. As rendering in different sizes can change cost geometrically this makes it hard to scale properly. A different idea that I have been thinking about is to use the frameskip amount as a deciding factor. However, I think that it may lead to similar results as the rendering time. Furthermore complicating things is the fact that changing the rendering quality invalidates the dirty region caching that the player does. While the effect of this differs depending on the animation being suitable for the dirty region system, it is a possible cost. There is also the issue of it being jarring to the user when the quality does change. The solution to that seems to be hysterics, that we have a threshold before changing back. Overall, this is a complicated matter and I am requesting feedback from people with experience dealing with this issue. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
You bring up a lot of valid points, but you fail to focus on the main concern here, how to deal with the graphics being the most heavy part. Please keep in mind that I am trying to focus on how to deal with animations that can't be simplified much. I am looking for a generic solution to the issue of the graphics taking too long to draw. Reducing complexity is of course a good idea. And yeah, filters are expensive and provide little benefit most of the time. But what can you do when you have exhausted your options to edit the content? You only got the quality setting left to use. With that said, you bring up some important points about how much frameskip can be tolerated. Also, thanks for reiterating my own points about how to capture performance statics. That part is easy. But it is what to do with the gathered data that I worry about. How do you decide on the thresholds? Can you successfully predict when it is worth to change the quality? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
Ktu skriver: But what can you do when you have exhausted your options to edit the content? You only got the quality setting left to use. - maybe then you've got to re-evaluate what you are doing or use the quality settings. How do you decide on the thresholds? Can you successfully predict when it is worth to change the quality? - Trial and error will probably be the only way,... ? I am looking for a generic solution to the issue of the graphics taking too long to draw. - Your solution will have to be based off of your requirements. A totally generic solution probably won't be actualized until more specific solutions are gathered, anaylized and merged. If your render phase of the elastic racetrack is consuming more than the entire frame/slice, then I think you will have a serious problem on your hands. If you share your requirements, maybe an appropriate solution could be determined. Well, I am aiming for a solution for animators. They don't have any code running. They are just animating. Often they aren't doing anything wrong. It is just too much. I got some rather stupid heavy animations if you want to see them, I can't say that they are doing anything wrong. The load just becomes unbearable in fullscreen. And when I say animations I mean stuff worthy of showing on TV. The original task that Flash dealt with. I want to find something to help animators who have some heavy scenes. They just love drawing detailed animations. And I just love watching the results, they are quite nice looking. I just wish that more people had things like vcams and as such, I aim to make the best tools. The remaining thing is a simple quality auto toggle. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flash.filesystem not in Flash?
Merrill, Jason skriver: Or if you switch to a Flash wrapper tool like mProjector or Zinc. Wrappers are lame compared to AIR if you ask me. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flash.filesystem not in Flash?
Merrill, Jason skriver: i think AIR has negated the need for these windowless flash wrappers - are these still in production? Yes, the tools are still out there. AIR requires installation of the AIR runtime first. The wrappers do not, they are standalone .exes. For first time user, it would be a two-step installation to run an AIR app. So it depends on what your client needs/wants and what the user can do. For example, AIR is not an approved tech in our environment, so if this were us, we'd have to look at other options. Because it is much easier to get a random wrapper approved than AIR. Oh wait, it shouldn't be. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] how to get a byteArray of multiple sounds?
Pierrick Pluchon skriver: Hi List, I'm currently working on a little musical app with multiple sounds. Think of it like a piano - each key plays a different note. What i'm trying to do is to record my whole composition as a byteArray and to export it as wav file. The export is ok, i get good results when I play one note at a time, but when I play more than one note at a time, the notes come out separately, instead of as a chord. I thought i could use SoundMixer.computeSpectrum(), but it doesn't work, or at least i get a really shitty sound. Any suggestions? Sound.extract combined with your own mixing. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] how to get a byteArray of multiple sounds?
You need to do your own mixing. First you need a way to get each note and then a way to know when each note should play. With that information you can start mixing, read the value of the first sample from each note currently playing and add them together, this is the mixed value. Now write that out and you have mixed one sample worth of audio. Repeat a few million times, but with the next samples and you are done. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Quick greeting
John R. Sweeney Jr skriver: TestŠ TestŠ Is this mic on? Nope. Try this one: ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OTish MP3 files for a piano scale
Kerry Thompson skriver: ... and volume controls wouldn't be able to emulate different attacks. Yes they could. Who is to say that you can't make the control change based on the frequency? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OTish MP3 files for a piano scale
Kerry Thompson skriver: Henrik Andersson wrote: ... and volume controls wouldn't be able to emulate different attacks. Yes they could. Who is to say that you can't make the control change based on the frequency? Of course you could base the volume control based on the frequency. You could emulate louder notes, but I'm not talking about a good-enough sound. I'm talking about a realistic piano sound. There is much more that goes into the attack than volume, though. There are overtones; noise (the hammer hitting the strings, for example); the speed of the rise and fall, which vary by note, and affect the harmonics differently; and other factors. The attack, sustain, and decay are much too complex to be accurately reproduced by simple volume control. Accepted, no _simple_ volume control would do. The overtones and the noise would have to be properly simulated too. It's just a matter of how much effort you want to put into it. But I think that we can agree that he is not asking for something even close to what you'd tolerate. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OTish MP3 files for a piano scale
Kerry Thompson skriver: Maybe one of the musical geniuses on the list knows. In the meantime, I'll ask some of my musician/computer friends. I'd try the classical software synth approach. Pianos are pretty close to sine waves with an envelope filter controlling the amplitude and some reverb I've read. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OTish MP3 files for a piano scale
Kerry Thompson skriver: I would use midi, then. Midi capabilities are pretty much universal these days, and you'll need a lot smaller download. Plus, mp3's have a lag on startup--not bad, but it gets annoying pretty quickly. Midi won't have that problem. Except for the tiny detail that Flash doesn't do MIDI. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Events for setChildIndex, swapChildren, swapChildrenAt
ekameleon skriver: Sorry... I forget : or handle the added events with addEventListener( Event.ADDED , .. or addEventListener( Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE That's not enough, what about stuff getting removed? What about two things swapping positions? Is there even an event for the last thing? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Screen rendering problem
Karl DeSaulniers skriver: Also, if I am not mistaken, you should never cacheAsBitmap on any moving objects. I believe this is a no no on the processing end of flash as it has to cache it every time it moves. Unless it is a very small graphic.. but then why would you need to cache it. :) Best, Karl The idea is to draw the object once and reuse the already drawn copy. It is ideal for when the object remains unchanged but has moved to a new position. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Call method by name: A few questions...
You want the getDefinitionByName function, not the dynamic property access syntax. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Player 10.2 RC
(About fullscreen with multiple monitors) I can't believe that they are claiming that fixing a on-and-off bug for the last couple of years is a feature. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How to utilize this code:public staticconst: Needhelp understanding...
Ivan Dembicki skriver: Hello Merrill, This message w/attachments (message) is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or proprietary. [...] - are you sure? this list is public. Yeah, people need to turn off their boilerplate signatures. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] test
Mendelsohn, Michael skriver: Test: is the list alive? No, it died, the funeral is on feb 29. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Problems when converting to Number
Anthony Pace skriver:
trace(Number('1992.2'));
//why does it output 1992.3
//I am assuming I am missing something pretty obvious
First it is parsed to binary floating point, losing accuracy and then it
is output as decimal form again, losing accuracy again.
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Re: [Flashcoders] problem with adding two digits
tom rhodes skriver: yup interesting that the old AVM gives you what you'd think... Pure luck, you might have compiled against something that happened to drop the decimal instead . ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Components With Pure ActionScript
it...@aol.com skriver: Hello, Am wondering whether it is possible to generate the basic Flash components like buttons, checkbox and scrolling fields with pure ActionScript (no Flex), i.e., without placing them in the Flash IDE library. Thanks, Daniel A No. They need their skin symbols. And they need their swc too, without it they can't be included by the compiler. Putting the component in the library links in the swc in addition to copying the skin symbols. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] fscommand Issue.
Omar Fouad skriver: Hello all, I'm trying to call a function in JavaScript from a SWF file (AS3). fscommand(start, 1); This function works fine. However, when I pass a variable to the fscommand parameters argument, JavaScript doesn't work: fscommand(start, myString); // this doesn't work. Am I missing something? How about the ExternalInterface class? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] RE: swf not compiling
David Benman skriver: I've had intermittent problems compiling on with CS4 on Mac OS X. I think its usually something with the IDE environment rather than the specific Flash project. These are things I try. You forgot the classic of nuking the profile directory. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Masked mc and total size
Glen Pike skriver: mc.mask.width? What if the maskee is smaller? What if the mask and the maskee only partially overlaps? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Masked mc and total size
natalia Vikhtinskaya skriver: Mask is 100px width. Image is 200px width. Putting 3 masked mc in one container don't give 300px width. True, but if you put the image at (0,50) the visible size is 50 pixels. That is, assuming that the image has the registration point in the top left corner. And that the mask covers the region (0,0) to (100,100). My point is that you can't just take the width of the mask or the maskee but have to actually check how they intersect. Good luck if the mask/maskee isn't rectangular and/or rotated. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Masked mc and total size
natalia Vikhtinskaya skriver: How I can check how they intersect? Can you explain at this example how I should calculate total size? You can find the bounding boxes with the getBounds method and take it from there. But it is still only the bounding boxes. And things do get complicated when things are scaled, rotated or otherwise transformed. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] E4X strangeness
Mendelsohn, Michael skriver: Hi list... For some strange reason (and I mean REALLY strange), the second statement below depends on the first statement. As far as I can tell, the two lines have nothing to do with each other. When c runs, clickedOne returns an XMLList. When c is commented out, clickedOne returns null. var c:XMLList = topicData[0].descendants(*).(hasOwnProperty(@title) @title == String(u[info][text])); var clickedOne:XMLList = topicData[0].asset.(hasOwnProperty(@title) (@title == String(u[info][text]))); Could it somehow be that initializing var c creates something that's next needed for the var clickedOne to evaluate properly? I can't see any reason how this should happen. But my gut instinct says that you should decompile the output and see how the generated loops look like. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Deep diving into playerglobals.swc
I am sure that most people here know what playerglobals.swc is, but I might as well explain it anyway. The playerglobals.swc file is used by the compiler to know how the flash player api looks like. It lists all the classes, packages and so on. What may not be immediately obvious is that it includes everything, not just the documented features. But it also exposes some code that is real normal actionscript code. By unpacking the swc (just a renamed zip) and decompiling the contained swf you can see all of this. Some of the highlights are the ExternalInterface class and the URLLoader class. They are nearly completely made out of normal actionscript code. But there is also several plain undocumented features. Let me list what I know of: * adobe.utils.ProductManager - AIR application manager thing, also related to the flash player self updating. * flash.trace.Trace - No idea what this is, but the source code to the class is in the tamarin repository. * Object._propertyIsEnumrable, Object._setPropertyIsEnumrable - Prototype inheritance stuff. * flash.automation.* - My guess is that this is related to the colaboration with google regarding automated spidering of swf files. * flash.display.AVM1Movie - It has some unusable features to actually talk to the movie. * flash.display.MovieClip - I hope that you all know of the addFrameScript method by now. * flash.system.Security - The disableAVM1Loading and sandboxType properties. Rather self explanatory properties. * flash.system.System - The nativeConstructionOnly method. No idea what this one is for. But it seems to want something constructible. * flash.system.Capatibilites - The _internal property. * flash.ui.MouseCursorData - A new one for 10.2 I believe. It allows you to provide your own real os level mouse cursor. Also see the new Mouse.registerCursor method. It is rather self explanatory how to use it. * flash.utils.SetIntervalTimer - Not sure what the point is for this one. I wonder if there is anything else that I may have missed. In any case, it would be fun to have some clarity in the less understood parts. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting bitmap data after successfully loading a swf file
There are several ways to get at the assets. The most obvious one is to simple ask the code in the loaded swf to give you what you want. You can use all the fancy factory patterns that you've been reading about this way. Personally I keep it simple and just store each thing in an object that I can then read from the main swf. But you don't need any code in the loaded swf at all, you can just use the getDefinitionByName function. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Testing display object if its MovieClip or BitMap?
Micky Hulse skriver: trace(getQualifiedClassName(loadedDisplayObject)); Would that be the best way to test for MovieClip or Bitmap? It fails the empty base class test. It is an extremely bad way. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Testing display object if its MovieClip or BitMap?
Karim Beyrouti skriver: attached a class that does that, hope it helps... The mailer ate it. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting bitmap data after successfully loading a swf file
SWF files are not bitmaps. Stop trying to treat them like bitmaps. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on calling subscriber script on another server
Paul Steven skriver: I realise this is probably something that requires a crossdomain.xml file on the other server but this is not possible. Why not? Did you even ask the people responsible for the server? Either they are going to fix it quickly or they are going to turn you down. And if they turn you down, then you shouldn't be doing this to begin with. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on calling subscriber script on another server
Paul Steven skriver: Therefore [I] doubt... Quit being so lazy and contact them already. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on calling subscriber script on another server
Paul Steven skriver: Thought I could get some help here not labelled lazy! You do realize that it takes just as long to simply ask the site in question right? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ARgb to Rgb
Karim Beyrouti skriver:
Thanks Karl,
had seen that one, but it slightly confused me, i go this out of it which is
kindof wrong:
private function ARGBtoRGB( argb : uint ) : uint {
var alpha:uint = (argb 24 0xFF );
return alpha % argb
}
My head hurts from trying to figure out what that is supposed to do.
Here is the one liner that you want:
argb 0x00FF
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Re: [Flashcoders] Iterating internal list of definitions
Tom Gooding skriver: Hi- does anyone know if it's possible to access the list of definitions available by 'linkage' in an external swf? Short of manually parsing the file, nope. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How to detect for modifier (alt/ctrl) keys
I am curious, does the key say Alt or AltGr? They are not quite the same. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Set HTTP cookies with navigateToURL()
Alexander Farber skriver: My problem is, that I can't find the way to set HTTP cookies through the navigateToURL() method. Please advise me Normally it would be the same as any other http header, it's part of the URLRequest class. However, the cookie related headers are on the blacklist. Adobe very specifically says that you may not set it. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How to view and edit alternate content
Run the flash player uninstaller? They actually provide one, just for cases like this. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 4?
They don't need a new major version. They need a new minor version. A little bigger than the Vector addition. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] MAX
Merrill, Jason skriver: And don't forget the free Droid 2s they gave us and Martha Stewart paying a visit. :) I didn't those parts where important enough to mention. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Removing movieClip from memory
Jeremy Hicks skriver: We've created a class for tracking what is in memory. It doesn't add any cleanup functions but it gives a good indicator what's there so you can see if your efforts are having a positive effect. Can't you use the flash.sampler package to track things automatically? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Removing movieClip from memory
Objects can not be destroyed explicitly. You need to do your own cleanup work and then wait for the garbage collector to reclaim the memory. The garbage collector is unpredictable and may or may not run at all. If you need any specific work done at a specific time, do it yourself. Also, the stopAllSounds method is a bad hack. It really does stop all the sounds. Even ones that you may have wanted left alone. I never use it. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] MAX
For those that missed the keynote, let me do a quick summary of the Flash relevant stuff: * Hardware accelerated 3D * Hardware accelerated Video * The Flash platform has more devices, including settop boxes, blueray players and tvs. * Game controller support Watch the rerun on http://max.adobe.com/online/monday/ if you want to see the full thing. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
Karl DeSaulniers skriver: Oh and any Movieclips you have that play content inside them, move their content to a new layer on the main timeline. Unless you need them to be scripted. Like perhaps it's a particle effect. Or even worse, a virtual camera. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
The built in exporter is crap and doesn't deal with actionscript. You might get better luck with a 3rdparty solution. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov
I would rather use a dedicated tool. Googling swf to video should find most of them. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] RFC: Performance monitor
I have been working on a little tool to detect lag.
It simply draws a little square with a number showing how long the last
frame took to rend. The square changes color depending on the detected
frameskip. Anything over some flashes of yellow is grounds for concern.
Is there anything about this that I can improve? Or even worse, did I
make any mistakes?
At least test it with your own content, it might be able to give you
valuable insight on where you have rendering issues.
package HTools {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;
import flash.utils.*;
import flash.text.*;
import flash.ui.*;
public class PerformanceMonitor extends Sprite {
private var logFile:ByteArray;
private var renderTime:uint;
private var exitTime:uint;
private var enterTime:uint;
private var prevEnterTime:uint;
private var saveRef:FileReference;
public var logging:Boolean=false;
public var totalSkippedFrames:uint;
private var tempFrameSkip:uint;
public var lastFrameSkip:uint;
public var checkTimeline:MovieClip;
private var label_txt:TextField;
private var realtime:Boolean=true;
public function PerformanceMonitor() {
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE,init);
logFile=new ByteArray();
label_txt=new TextField();
var format:TextFormat=new TextFormat();
format.align=right;
label_txt.defaultTextFormat=format;
label_txt.selectable=false;
label_txt.width=25;
label_txt.x=-4;
addChild(label_txt);
contextMenu=new ContextMenu();
var logEntry=new ContextMenuItem(Log);
logEntry.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,doLog);
contextMenu.customItems.push(logEntry);
}
private function init(e:Event):void {
addEventListener(Event.EXIT_FRAME,exit);
addEventListener(Event.RENDER,render);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,enter);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,toggle);
buttonMode=true;
}
private function redraw():void {
graphics.clear();
if(logging) {
graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF);
} else if(realtime) {
graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF00FF);
} else {
graphics.lineStyle(1,0x00);
}
label_txt.textColor=0x00;//set each frame so that
it can be overriden eventually later
switch(lastFrameSkip) {
case 0:
graphics.beginFill(0x88);
break;
case 1:
graphics.beginFill(0xE0E000);
break;
case 2:
graphics.beginFill(0xFF6600);
break;
default:
if(lastFrameSkip=stage.frameRate) {
graphics.beginFill(0x00);
label_txt.textColor=0xFF;
} else
if(lastFrameSkip=(stage.frameRate1)) {
graphics.beginFill(0x00);
label_txt.textColor=0xFF;
} else
if(lastFrameSkip=(stage.frameRate2)) {
graphics.beginFill(0x7E);
} else {
graphics.beginFill(0xFF);
}
break;
Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)
John Goodman skriver: ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders I agree. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference
Lehr, Theodore skriver: 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method save through a reference with static type flash.net:FileReference Why would it work in one but not the other? Because only one of them targets FP 10 where the method was added. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8
Beatrix Krümmer-Frau skriver: Am 18.10.2010 14:08, schrieb Henrik Andersson: The old flash player will ignore the swf tags related to as 3. This means: as long as I write AS3 syntax without as 3 specific classes it can work? No, not only would that be completely useless practically, but it's not even possible. The old player does not have the new vm. They don't understand the bytecode and they don't know of the tags related to it. New players will ignore as 2 related tags when the swf declares that it is as 2. I dont think this is true, as even new players detect as 2 and play it. Please pay more attention, I explicitly stated that they only do it when the swf is declaring that it uses as 3. The fact that I have already tested this should be evidence enough. 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. I am mad on the fact: 80% of my customers want and use as2. Thanks a lot in advance, and still searching adobe site for documentations They don't document this. And the tool is not publicly available. I am happy to send it to whoever asks for it, but it is not for people who doesn't even understand what it does. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8
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. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8
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. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS4 to Flash CS5: Size Problem
Save as XFL and report back what files are taking up the majority of the size. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Call to a possibly undefined method inflate through a reference with static type flash.utils:ByteArray
Dave Watts skriver: I'm trying to compress XML data being exchanged via Socket with a Perl backend and after taking several hurdles, I'm stuck at this error message: 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method inflate through a reference with static type flash.utils:ByteArray. In your code, if there's nothing to read, your exception handlers fall through after calling handleTcpError. At compile time, the compiler has no guarantee that there'll be anything in the byte array. So what? That is no grounds for throwing a compiler error. It's your job to ensure that stuff is setup properly at runtime. A runtime issue will never raise a compiler time error. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Call to a possibly undefined method inflate through a reference with static type flash.utils:ByteArray
Alexander Farber skriver: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Henrik Anderssonhe...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Dave Watts skriver: In your code, if there's nothing to read, your exception handlers fall through after calling handleTcpError. At compile time, the compiler has no guarantee that there'll be anything in the byte array. So what? That is no grounds for throwing a compiler error. It's your job to ensure that stuff is setup properly at runtime. A runtime issue will never raise a compiler time error. No, I think Dave has a valid point - if my ByteArray _bytes is null - because a socket read has thrown an exception, then the compiler might be able to recognize it (same is in Java). The compiler does not know that an exception has been thrown. That's runtime events. Exceptions are not checked in actionscript, so the compiler MAY NOT raise any errors. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] AIR 2 / 10.1 + Microphone
Trust me on this one, computeSpectrum is not useful for anything but music visualization. It provides no gurantees that it wont miss samples, in fact, it is highly likely that it will. That makes it unacceptable for any serious use. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FLV audio doesn't stop
Off the display list does not mean not playing. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 where to put tween engines etc?
That's the answer to the wrong question. The truth is that the option is exactly where you are looking, just look again. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] RS-232 triggered by Actionscript
The flash player has no such feature. In fact, most modern OSes doesn't even let applications bitbang hardware ports directly. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] correct path
Misconception correction time! Read my article: http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/943/1/Actionscript-and-timelines/Page1.html ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Inheritance and abstract classes
I want it to match examples as: Bathroom HAS-A Baththub. Cat IS-A Feline. Cat IS-NOT-A Simalian, but Cat HAS-A Simalian owner. MovieClip IS-A Sprite, but a Sprite can HAVE-A MovieClip child. Loader HAS-A Sprite accessible by the content property. Bitmap HAS-AN associated BitmapData. Socket IS-AN IDataOutput, but Socket IS also AN EventDispatcher. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Downloading a .swc library
SWC files are zip files with swf files inside them (and some other misc stuff). The flash player does not know how to deal with them. You would have to unpack the zip, read the metadata and feed the stored swf to Loader.loadBytes. Or you could just load a swf like everyone else... ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Inheritance and abstract classes
Glen Pike skriver: has a (interfaces) than is a (subclass), That's wrong. HAS-A is not used for interfaces, it is used for reference properties and other forms of containment. Both interfaces and classes use the IS-A relation. You don't say Picture HAS-A IDrawable, you say Picture IS-A IDrawable. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] multi audio channel mp4 video
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-3550 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash On The Beach 2010
David Hunter skriver: Anyone going to Flash On The Beach next week in Brighton? Buy me the tickets and I will be there ;) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] locating point on object
DisplayObject.mouseX ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] locating point on object
I think you are expecting too much, it's a mailing-list. Discussion boards and similar systems doesn't invite to saying thanks. I am not against it, but personally, I find saying thank you to be a bit like noise. It's not very important, but it's nice I suppose. Then again, I don't want to be thanked, I want to share knowledge. Sure, it's definitively nice if I get a reputation, but I don't do it for the reputation. I do it because I want to help people. I guess I am not just big on manners. I focus on actions instead. Not answering my questions hurts me far more than not saying thank you. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] locating point on object
Merrill, Jason skriver: I think one of the main benefits of saying thank you is it tells the rest of the list, problem solved, no need to comment further. So people don't keep replying, they know the solutions given worked and problem solved. Because that has worked so well in the past... We are clearly never going of track on some tangent and we definitely don't argue about which solution is better. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Zooming
Lehr, Theodore skriver: Is there anyway to zoom into a mc and make sure a certain point on an object (just an image converted to a mc in this instance) is always in the center? Yes, with geometry. I recommend using a virtual camera, since it will take out a bunch of complicated (but far from advanced) math. Then you just need to center the camera on the spot using simple geometry. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Zooming
Glen Pike skriver: You should be able to find a nice virtual camera class on Bitey castle guys website. http://www.biteycastle.com/ I prefer my own one, you can stick a camera in a camera with it and it's simpler. But that one isn't half bad either. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Apple backing off. Why?
Carl Welch skriver: I don't believe apple really gives a crap about developers. We can thank the FTC probe for their sudden change of policy. I still feel burnt by Mr. Jobs. I must have missed that, what probe? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Namespaces vs friends
I have been thinking about namespaces in as and have realized that they can be considered a solution to the same problem that friends solve in c++. I wonder which solution is the best. Namespaces are defined once and can be used by multiple files, while friends needs to be listed fully for each class. Namespaces are like passwords and friends are like access lists. Yet namespaces are also like groups. Insight anyone? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Playing With Fire
You don't want a mask. You want a bitmap with alpha values. If you really need two bitmaps, you can use the alpha blend mode to combine them during rendering. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Playing With Fire
George Jones skriver: Any other thoughts? Don't try to use the alpha channel on a bitmap that doesn't have one. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Best (fastest/memory efficient) way to animate bitmaps
allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) skriver: i was always under the impression that the best way of doing that (for games sprite animations for instance) is bitmap 'blitting' where you use a tilesheet and then use bitmap draw to pull the current frame you want to show into your actual sprite I think that's not the fastest way. It's still copying the pixels. I am fairly sure that not copying the pixels is infinitely faster. My money is on the one Bitmap/multiple BitmapData solution. It should be using the least amount of memory and have no data copying at all. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines
Nathan Mynarcik skriver: That link is not even a page long... True, but it's not the actual agreement either. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
