Re: [Flashcoders] Still Infinitely Looping

2009-11-21 Thread Jared
if you have or not)and then ask questions when you're out of options. Jared Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Latcho spamtha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Beno, The power of debugging (or finding a bug) is also the power of using elimination to isolate a problem. By re

Re: [Flashcoders] XMLList question

2010-02-05 Thread Jared
My rule of thumb is anything that will be used for display text is in CDATA tags, not attributes Sent from my iPhone On Feb 4, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I always use CDATA tags for text in nodes where special characters might exist. I really strongly second

Re: [Flashcoders] removeChild Question

2010-02-24 Thread Jared
And you wrote addchild(mc) - that's like writing this.addchild(mc). Also parent is a property so mc.parent should always trace, like mc.alpha etc... Hth Sent from my iPhone On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Geografiek geograf...@geografiek.nl wrote: I don't think a class can have children,

Re: [Flashcoders] Error 1009

2010-02-24 Thread Jared
Also, if you go to publish settings enable debugging or whatever, you can see the line number of the errors. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Keith Reinfeld keithreinf...@comcast.netwrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-08 Thread Jared
Someone said that this was just a proposed version of the policy, and that the 4.0 SDK isn't out until summer so they won't finalize it until then...we'll see Sent from my iPhone On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: I know BRUTAL. I mean,

Re: [Flashcoders] flash for Android: resources?

2010-04-22 Thread Jared
any kind of Flash Player installed, so you can't see Flash content. Zeh On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:30 PM, jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com wrote: And as far as I understand it: flash player 10.1 is available on android, meaning you can view flash content when you browse the web

Re: [Flashcoders] can't get swfObject flashvars to work

2010-04-23 Thread Jared
try root.loaderinfo.parameters Sent from my iPhone On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote: Hi list... I'm trying to pass along navigator.userAgent to flahsvars through swfObject and I can't get it to work. Here's what I have: script

Re: [Flashcoders] Template w/ XML?

2010-04-30 Thread Jared
Try root.loaderinfo.parameters.varname Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:11 AM, John Singleton johnsingleton...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-08 Thread Jared
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 Sent from my iPhone ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] flash game source code

2010-06-04 Thread Jared
I think seb lee-delisle has one in his game dev class source code. I don't know if it helps but here we are. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 4, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Eric E. Dolecki edole...@gmail.com wrote: found this in 0.25 seconds, but didn't download to check it:

Re: [Flashcoders] adjusting postion of dynamically loaded images

2010-07-01 Thread Jared
Try it in the second trace you have; it's not loaded When you're first tracing Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Pankaj Singh singh.pankaj.iitkg...@gmail.com wrote: even after using INIT i m getting 0 width because event listener function is never called (trace statement is not

Re: [Flashcoders] Could this be done more elegant.

2010-08-13 Thread Jared
This is a great idea, thanks for sharing never tried to adjust quality like this. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Ktu ktu_fl...@cataclysmicrewind.com wrote: This doesn't change the way it works, but you could rewrite the addValue stuff to this: buffer += (fps = 45) ? 1 :

Re: [Flashcoders] Impossible?

2010-09-03 Thread Jared
A bitmap either has transparency or it doesn't; you need to set the alpha flag to true or you cannot get transparency data. Another thought would be blend modes - screen the flame w/black bg on your image and draw() the result. I know that doesn't answer your q but it will give you the intended

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

2010-09-07 Thread Jared
I like the occasional job post. This one is def a terrible crap post though for sure. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 7, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: This is meant to be a Flash coders list. When did it become a job-seeker site which apparently specializes in underpaid

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting modified variable without return

2011-01-21 Thread Jared
Yeah I'd say either through an event or else set a reference to the class which would be simpler but not a best practice as it would create a dependency. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2011, at 9:36 AM, ktt kestuti...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I have a class, which loads and process XML -

Re: [Flashcoders] Library asset rename

2011-07-12 Thread Jared
That sounds like a job for jsfl - dot know of any other simpler ways to import + rename files automagically sent from my phone On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: I'm using Flash CS5.5 and recently imported about 200 mp3 samples. I needed to create instances

RE: [Flashcoders] FlashLite Phones?

2005-10-24 Thread Jared Freeze
I have a 6620 with the flashlite player working well on it. . . Available from cingular. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Bedar Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:43 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] FlashLite

RE: [Flashcoders] Webservices best practices

2005-12-20 Thread Jared Freeze
/JSON.as And more: http://ajaxian.com/archives/2005/12/yahoo_json_api.html Jared -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Weyert de Boer Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:14 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Webservices

[Flashcoders] cms solution for flash sites?

2009-06-29 Thread jared stanley
hey all, when building basic portfolio sites for clients(i.e. galleries containing image + text, showcasing photos, projects, etc) what is the best cms to use? Best meaning simple + free. Basically something enabling the client to add a new item in the gallery, change the order of the gallery,

Re: [Flashcoders] cms solution for flash sites?

2009-06-29 Thread jared stanley
with (possibly :) ) HTH Glen jared stanley wrote: hey all, when building basic portfolio sites for clients(i.e. galleries containing image + text, showcasing photos, projects, etc) what is the best cms to use? Best meaning simple + free. Basically something enabling the client

Re: [Flashcoders] rendering 3d model of a car for use in flash as an image sequence (360)

2009-07-02 Thread jared stanley
yeah, lower the quality between stopping points if there are any, a big filesaver is to remove every other frame, although depending on what you're doing that is too big of a quality loss. depending on the sequence try reusing images for symmetrically-flipped images; i.e. a 360-degree spin at 90

Re: [Flashcoders] Image loader problem

2009-07-25 Thread jared stanley
the basic concept is this: 1. create list of images from xml in an array 2. load the first one, increment some sort of var imagesToLoad or something. 3. when that one is .COMPLETE, handle it(set dimensions or whatever you were referring to above). 4. increment a var imagesLoaded or something,

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flash full screen examples

2009-08-07 Thread jared stanley
seems like a very popular trend, therefore if you look on the fwa you'll find that many if not most of the sites on there implement this. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Mendelsohn, Michaelmichael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote: Thanks Brian, I think I've seen that one before, but the swfObject

Re: [Flashcoders] bounce easing function for tweener

2009-08-13 Thread jared stanley
go into the penner's easing classes, copy the bounce function class and rename it, then mess with the constants in the math in there. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Merrill, Jasonjason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Greensock's TweenMax and TweenLite include source code you can modify

Re: [Flashcoders] bounce easing function for tweener

2009-08-13 Thread jared stanley
of the default bouncy bounce). Zeh On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM, jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.comwrote: go into the penner's easing classes, copy the bounce function class and rename it, then mess with the constants in the math in there. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Merrill

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder 3 auto-complete vs. FlashDevelop

2009-08-13 Thread jared stanley
FDT does the auto-error check, which is so sweet - i read that FD doesn't have the ability to get that info, even with a plugin... I have built projects on all three, and if I'm on pc I like FD with the find/replace expanded extension. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steven

[Flashcoders] FLV export - size(w, h) vs data rate

2009-08-25 Thread jared stanley
Hey all, wondering if anyone can give me direction on this: I have a large video site, the vid area is 1000x600. Videos are streaming from Akamai. It's playing fine on large computers w/fast connections; Needless to say it's getting chugging on slower/older setups. I would like to enable the

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV export - size(w, h) vs data rate

2009-08-26 Thread jared stanley
cool. I've heard that scaling up works the processor more, but haven't found any substantative evidence. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Peter Bpete...@googlemail.com wrote: I did a lot of work around optimising videos about a year and a half back. For my money, I'd say you get better

[Flashcoders] DSL - Standard Consumer K / Sec?

2009-08-27 Thread jared stanley
Hey all, Looking for stats on connection speeds; looking for a 'minimum system requirements' spec for connection...what would be an 'average' DSL connection? I have Charles proxy open and throttling the connection to test this flash site, wondering what is the lowest common denominator to test

Re: [Flashcoders] streaming video on my server

2009-09-08 Thread jared stanley
I remember running into this a few years ago; it had to do with the server not recognizing the .flv filetype - i would check that first. as far as just playing it off your server, you might want to try progressive download instead of streaming; that is the most common way of serving video and

Re: [Flashcoders] streaming video on my server

2009-09-09 Thread jared stanley
glad it worked! On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Bassam M sense...@gmail.com wrote: thank you Jared, I found the solution it was the MIME TYPE i have to add flv MIME type to the IIS http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/194/tn_19439.html On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:05 AM, jared stanley jared.stan

[Flashcoders] angular rotation with easing

2009-10-07 Thread jared stanley
hey all, I can't believe i haven't come across this before now, but I am having issue with the rotation of a movieclip when it hits 180 jumping to -180 and doing the 'long way around' rotation. The following code works fine: var dx:Number = arrow_mc.x - mouseX;\r\nvar dy:Number = arrow_mc.y -

Re: [Flashcoders] angular rotation with easing

2009-10-07 Thread jared stanley
yeah i'm aware of the short rotation parameter in tweenmax, but trying to roll my own, looking through that class now. thanks! On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Greensock's TweenMax and TweenLite classes have an optional parameter that

Re: [Flashcoders] angular rotation with easing

2009-10-07 Thread jared stanley
, jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com wrote: yeah i'm aware of the short rotation parameter in tweenmax, but trying to roll my own, looking through that class now. thanks! On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Greensock's TweenMax and TweenLite

Re: [Flashcoders] Best way to find a REALLY specialized flash/actionscript developer?

2009-10-12 Thread jared stanley
charles i have a guy that can do it, he's not cheap but he's fast. shoot me an email if you're interested. jared at jared stanley dotcom On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Charles Skip Norton cnor...@centralnervous.com wrote: Hey everyone - this is my first post to this list (I've been part

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread jared stanley
CS4 works well, i just used this on a project (I think this was even working in CS3). On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:07 PM, jonathan howe jonathangh...@gmail.com wrote: My experience with SWF to Video is that it's using a pretty low-tech solution - essentially it stepped through your movie one

[Flashcoders] Facebook examples - NON-Flex

2009-10-22 Thread jared stanley
Looking for examples of getting the FB API to work with the Flash IDE, all examples found are using mxml in flex. Any pointers? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Great to be part of the group

2009-10-23 Thread jared stanley
i'm here. live by alamo square park and work in SOMA. welcome the list. FYI there's also a group here called san flashcisco. the name is so terrible but they met last night and it was great; all the dudes from adobe there showcasing cs5 stuff, super sweet. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM,

Re: [Flashcoders] JSFL dynamic textfield antialiasing question...

2009-11-17 Thread jared stanley
solution. jared On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Chris Foster cfos...@catalystinteractive.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm using JSFL to modify a bunch of FLAs created by a designer. I need to change the antialiasing on a large number of textfields from 'bitmap' to 'antialias for animation

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating And Printing String With AS3

2009-11-20 Thread jared stanley
you might want to check this list out: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashnewbie there are tons of archives you can go through, most all of your questions are answered in there. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:07 AM, David Hunter davehunte...@hotmail.com wrote: beno, is

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating And Printing String With AS3

2009-11-20 Thread jared stanley
ranges - (Basic Latin is useful).  If you animate text, change the Aliasing to ...Animation.   When you create a text field, set embedFonts to true:   e.g.     atty.embedFonts = true; I did all of this. David Hunter asked about the bgcolor. It's black Jared Stanley suggested another

Re: [Flashcoders] Baby Step #2

2009-11-20 Thread jared stanley
FYI i've had luck getting most of the latest flash books on amazon used for $5-20 each. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:31 AM, beno - flashmeb...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li wrote: :) Ok, and now for something completely different: you have

Re: [Flashcoders] Font Inside Library

2009-11-24 Thread jared stanley
here's a tutorial http://theolagendijk.wordpress.com/2006/08/12/embedding-fonts-in-flash/ On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:17 AM, beno - flashmeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; David Hunter was nice enough to supply me with some corrected code, but it doesn't work for me because I can't figure out how

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-07 Thread jared stanley
let me get this straight: 1. you had some talented offshore web contacts in the Ukraine 5 years ago. 2. you 'went into the jungle' and were off the grid for 5 years. 3. you get back and agree to a flash ecommerce project, not having talked to a flash outsourcer(5 years ago an ecommerce site in

Re: [Flashcoders] Colour Matching

2009-12-15 Thread jared stanley
exporting the images out from photoshop at the same time would keep them the same, so you're saying an image displayed in flash differs from an image displayed in html - this i haven't heard of. this article http://www.viget.com/inspire/the-mysterious-save-for-web-color-shift/ talks about getting

Re: [Flashcoders] Rotation

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
Beno, there's a list on here called 'flash newbies' or something - despite the name there are great resources. The level of questions you're asking are definitely pointed more to that list, please start posting there I think you and everyone else will have a better experience. On Mon, Jan 25,

[Flashcoders] Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
color of an image separately. Thanks! Jared ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Sprite alpha

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
whenever I see odd behavior with alpha I assume it has to do with a parent clip or setting it to 50 instead of .5 - and it usually happens when I'm feeling frantic on a project. hth jared On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: Eric E. Dolecki wrote: huh

[Flashcoders] Re: Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
here are some examples of the previous block of code. http://lab.freestyleinteractive.com/jared/bitmap/revival.html http://lab.freestyleinteractive.com/jared/bitmap/heman.html http://lab.freestyleinteractive.com/jared/bitmap/thundercats.html it appears that the dominant color is showing

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
awesome Juan, I think that post has what I'm looking for. thanks for the reference! Jared On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Juan Pablo Califano califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it's not exactly what you're after, but here's a good method for extracting a color palette from

Re: [Flashcoders] Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-26 Thread jared stanley
yeah Thanks Dave. fyi here's a blog post on my findings so far with screenshots: http://www.jaredstanley.com/blog/?p=40 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Dave Mennenoh d...@blurredistinction.comwrote: Jared, the 1x1 trick doesn't really work that well in Flash as you may have already

[Flashcoders] is it ever ideal to NOT use weak references?

2010-02-05 Thread jared stanley
wondering why it defaults to false, seems like it really only affects GC, so you'd want it set to true by default but maybe i'm missing something. jared ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman

Re: [Flashcoders] Hello Everyone!!

2010-04-19 Thread jared stanley
look through the archives, this is a very active list. http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/private/flashcoders/ before you ask make sure you've thought it through and tried to solve it. be clear on your problem, and teh steps you've taken to try to solve it. when someone gives you an answer

Re: [Flashcoders] flash for Android: resources?

2010-04-22 Thread jared stanley
/adobe_air_applications_for_and.html has links to multiple videos; this link implies that it's easy to do. Jared On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Matt S. mattsp...@gmail.com wrote: So (and pardon me if these are stupid questions), does the final app get converted to an Android format? Or does it actually go

Re: [Flashcoders] The Real Story Behind Adobe’s Fa iled Mobile Strategy

2010-04-23 Thread jared stanley
interesting perspective, thanks for sharing On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:17 AM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.ukwrote: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-underlying-story-behind-adobes-failed-mobile-strategy-2010-4 John ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] security notice: upgrade your flash player

2010-06-10 Thread jared stanley
hmm - tried installing, it had the mac version link buried in an 'other systems' section not on the main page. jeez. also had the mcaffe opt-out which sucks. downloaded it (windows XP, safari) and it failed and uninstalled my flash player. never had an issue before with installation. restarted

Re: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread jared stanley
g AGGIES! :) On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Matt Perkins nudoru.m...@gmail.com wrote: You can also learn as you go, but it's not as complete. I'm one of Jason's coworkers - and while my instructional background isn't nearly as good as Jason's I manage to muddle through :) My degree

[Flashcoders] Trigonometry Problem

2010-08-11 Thread jared stanley
://lab.freestyleinteractive.com/jared/maths/radius.html the start and end is pretty close to what i want, but i'd like the items to rearrange keeping the same angle, so an item that was on the top left would stay on the top left area and an item to the right in the grid would stay to the right in a circle. hope

[Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

2010-09-20 Thread jared stanley
hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks!

Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

2010-09-21 Thread jared stanley
, as opposed to an external site that just uses Facebook Connect. (Or was it the other way around?) Hope this helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/20 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we

Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

2010-09-22 Thread jared stanley
yourself in the first place. I'm sorry this isn't of much help, but I can think of any other work around. Let us know if you find something else. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/21 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com thanks. I think the problem has been isolated

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-22 Thread jared stanley
wow 60 fps sounds impressive! i have not been impressed with the flashiphone demos adobe has been showcasing; they showcased the same blox game when they first announced it and again 6 months later just before release...i would love to see your example as it would be the first smooth-running demo

[Flashcoders] NOOBed - wtf basic procedural tween skipping

2010-09-29 Thread jared stanley
hey gang i have no idea what's going on here - http://lab.freestyleinteractive.com/jared/wtf/ this is a basic tween, clip.x+=20 or whatever. It's totally skipping/chugging? what is up with that? doing a motion tween looks fine, it's just when it's procedural that it's funky. We started noticing

Re: [Flashcoders] NOOBed - wtf basic procedural tween skipping

2010-09-29 Thread jared stanley
: Up the frame rate and lower the x position update or use a tweening class. For the most part I don't really see any skipping/chugging. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:45 AM, jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com wrote: hey gang i have no idea what's going on here

Re: [Flashcoders] flash.filesystem not in Flash?

2011-02-23 Thread jared stanley
i think AIR has negated the need for these windowless flash wrappers - are these still in production? On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Or if you switch to a Flash wrapper tool like mProjector or Zinc. Jason Merrill Instructional

Re: [Flashcoders] ustream on flash

2011-07-27 Thread jared stanley
Not sure about Ustream. The API for livestream is very straightforward; as I recall they're both equally robust. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Gustavo Duenas gdue...@leftandrightsolutions.com wrote: Hi does anyone know where is a tutorial to use ustream on flash.? gustavo D.