Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 read serial data over USB on Mac

2012-08-29 Thread Jim Cheng
What USB device(s) specifically? If it's of the Arduino family, consider: http://code.google.com/p/as3-arduino-connector/ For HID devices (keyboards, mice, gamepads and such): http://code.google.com/p/air-hid-usb/ Hope this helps, Jim On 8/29/12 10:24 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: Is there an

Re: [Flashcoders] modifying fills/curves with AS2 at runtime

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Cheng
without having to worry about invalidation and redrawing. You can find out more about Degrafa here: http://www.degrafa.com/ Jim Cheng EffectiveUI ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman

Re: [Flashcoders] Whaen was Flash 9 player released?

2007-08-31 Thread Jim Cheng
Count Schemula wrote: Approximately when was Flash Player 9 first released? If you mean the first non-beta public release, June of last year (2006), I believe. Emmy Huang, the Flash Player Product Manager at Adobe, has been blogging about every major update to the Flash Player since back

Re: [Flashcoders] How to get the MD5 hash value of a file

2007-08-30 Thread Jim Cheng
Paul Steven wrote: Is there a built in function that will provide me with the MD5 value for a file? I have seen some examples online that provide a MD5 value for a string but I need it for a file. Nothing built in, though if you can read the file into a ByteArray, it's fairly simple to

Re: [Flashcoders] webcam video capture

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Cheng
the full monty, you'll need to go RTMP. Jim Cheng EffectiveUI ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software

Re: [Flashcoders] is flash still alive?

2007-03-12 Thread Jim Cheng
ActionScript developers too--there's quite a bit of demand for top talent--these days, you can pretty much choose what kind of Flash platform work you want to do. Taken in summary, I'd venture to say that the market for ActionScript is better now than it has ever been. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 parseFloat issue?

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Cheng
] 0xf0) != (ba[15] 0xf0)) { return false; } } return true; } /code Jim Cheng effectiveUI ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flashcoders] Number -- how good for use as an integer?

2007-03-05 Thread Jim Cheng
://www.leemon.com/crypto/BigInt.html http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/ Jim Cheng effectiveUI ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flashcoders] Writing out PDFs through code

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Cheng
probably need a wrapper to add filesystem access capabilities to Flash, as the default projector executable doesn't allow writing to the filesystem. For this, you can consider, among others, Northcode SWF Studio, MDM Zinc, or SWHX. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [Flashcoders] XPathAPI recursive XML search

2007-02-27 Thread Jim Cheng
to traverse your XML tree in some other order, you can fairly easily change the while loop structure to accomodate this. If you need help doing this, you can probably compare against my implementation of the traverse method in the DOM3 Node class in the above project. Hope this helps, Jim Cheng

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash wish: Omit comments on publish

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Cheng
Mick G wrote: I've always wondered why there is no option to omit comments when publishing a SWF. We all try comment our code as much as possible and at times it can double (or more) the number of lines of code in an application. This would especially make sense when using other people's

Re: [Flashcoders] extends / super.function() bug

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Cheng
Joeri van Oostveen wrote: I'm having this (weird) problem: the doSomething() gets called 3 times! First time the B version, which calls the A function (2nd one). Next, the A function is called again... which should not be so!!! :( It's a rather annoying but poorly documented bug that's been

Re: [Flashcoders] RTSP in flash?

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Cheng
Wade Arnold wrote: I have a desktop application that I am working on that has one camera that it connects at: rtsp://127.0.0.1/livefeed I have scoured the web and do not see any way of natively accessing this stream from flash. Does anyone know of any third part flash players that allow you

Re: [Flashcoders] simple xor crypting as 3.0

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Cheng
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my goal is to encrypt the hole flv with xor and to decrypt it with the bytearray function from the net-class. but it seems unpossible to send the encrypt data to an video-object cause adobe/flash player 9 dont gives us raw acces to video or sound-objects. please

Re: [Flashcoders] Preventing Compilation of components and source code

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Cheng
Lori Hutchek wrote: different places). I'd like to prevent the code from compiling over and over again into each of these files and make one file that contains all of the code for the application. Does anyone know any tutorials or references I can read up on how to do this? And can u tell me

Re: [Flashcoders] the speed of bitmapdata

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Cheng
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: Here's a great option to accomplish this. Make a movieclip with a 50x50 black rectangle in it, and delete the outline. Put that movieclip behind your video clip, set its _x and _y to the video _x and _y minus 2 and set its _width and _height to the video _width and

Re: [Flashcoders] generating SWF/FLV ?

2006-06-27 Thread Jim Cheng
jcarlos wrote: I'd like to know if someone has some ideas about an app usingo nly AS2 that would get an JPG file, record some sound and them export them as SWF ou FLV, to import further im some other app. Unfortunately, you can't do this with just client-side AS2, as there is neither

Re: [Flashcoders] googletalk/xmpp/flash

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Cheng
Bieniasz, Myles wrote: I know it's possible to build a flash client for XMPP based IM clients and I had at one point seen the now defunct gtalkr.com interface for googletalk. Does anyone have any experience creating a googletalk client in flash or any useful resources regarding this? Thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Decoding xml text w/no CDATA allowed

2006-06-06 Thread Jim Cheng
Merrill, Jason wrote: Is there an Actionscript 2.0 or Xpath equivalent to Javascript and Actionscript 3.0's decode(theStringWithquot;Specialquot;Characters); Hey Jason, I've run into the same issue about a month ago with XML documents that a client had generated from their database,

Re: [Flashcoders] Embedding a SWF using base64 and Data: URI scheme

2006-06-02 Thread Jim Cheng
Tom Lee wrote: In the original Microsoft list of workarounds for the Eolas patch, one of the possible workarounds was to base64 encode your swf and embed the data inline in your object tag. The original page has since been removed, and the only evidence I can now find of this is at

[Flashcoders] [Job] Sr. Flash ActionScript Developer - Denver, CO

2006-06-01 Thread Jim Cheng
Hi everyone, My company (Effective UI/Architekture.com) is once again hiring! We've got quite a number of large Flash/Flex Rich Internet Application projects and not quite enough developers. So, we are looking for a few senior-level (read: kick-ass) developers with very strong ActionScript

Re: [Flashcoders] WAV to SWF Audio

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Cheng
Lewis, Chuck wrote: I have over a thousand audio (WAV) files that I need to convert each to SWF. Try SWFTools' WAV2SWF converter. It's free as in GPL and runs on Windows, OS X, and most Unix systems. http://www.swftools.org/ Jim ___

Re: [Flashcoders] GEDCOM conversion

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Cheng
AuthorDocs wrote: If anyone has experience of converting a GEDCOM (Genealogy) file to xml or something similar, suitable for bringing into flash could they please give me a few pointers? I'm coming up against a personal brick wall on this! Have you seen:

Re: [Flashcoders] Success Stories with Flash Friendly CVS Systems?

2005-12-12 Thread Jim Cheng
Robert Sandie wrote: On my fourth large flash project and have yet to come up with a sound CVS system/workflow for Flash. Does anyone have any best practice stories regarding version control and integration into web development projects? Would love to hear. My team has been using Subversion

Re: [Flashcoders] Success Stories with Flash Friendly CVS Systems?

2005-12-12 Thread Jim Cheng
Judah Frangipane wrote: We have a setup similar to yours. We keep all AS in external files. We still have trouble merging changes from other developers. How do you handle when TortoiseSVN doesn't merge the changes? Have you resorted to locking the files or setting up a linear development