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programming for 25 years. It's just some aspects of Flash I'm not yet
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, myRoot.getNextHighestDepth());
It's probably better to use DepthManager, especially if you're going to have
components, to get the depth. Regardless, you'll have much more maintainable
code with AS2 (or AS 3, if FP 9 is your target). They're much more
OOP-oriented.
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Jesse Graupmann wrote:
This works, but it's not really doing anything specific to AS2.0
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it
lately.
Thanks, Hans. I'll try that. Now that you mention it, there is a warning in
the docs about that.
As to ComboBox woes, I have my share of horror stories to share.
But I'll spare you.
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Just look around, go to a contemporary bookstore
Ok, since it's Friday afternoon, I'll bite.
What's a bookstore?
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very
code-intensive. It calculates what you need to save for retirement, and uses
some heavy-duty actuarial math, but few graphics.
So, the piece is very light, and the load bar is superfluous on broadband.
Even on a 28.8 modem, it only takes a couple of seconds to load.
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Start with those two, and you really can't go wrong. There are a lot of
other good books, but I consider those the cream of the crop.
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inherited, not declared.
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Hans Wichman wrote:
okay thanks that comes as closest to an explanation as I'd like I
guess, but.
If I declare a method test() in superclass, i can call it from the
subclass
using super.test().
Whether I have overwritten it or not.
So why doesnt the same go for fields.
I think
.
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Hans Wichman wrote:
yep they should have copied that [private and protected] from java years
ago :))
Or from C++ years before Java was born ^_^
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model easier to understand than the class/object model? I'll admit to having
a strong bias for the class model from my time with C++ and Lingo, and
having a tough time when first introduced to the prototype model.
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neither procedural nor OOP. They're just the
basics.
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since everyone knows that cats don't know their own names.
Unless you believe e. e. cummings ^_^
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You can't just teach somebody to snowboard without first teaching them
how to ski.
Ooh, that's going to get a reaction from the boarders. I'm going to go wax
my skis and stay out of this one ^_^
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what Kerry Thompson wrote. Alan was quoting me.
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Ambivert wrote:
I just joined Shelfari to connect with other book lovers. Come see the
books I love
and see if we have any in common. Then pick my next book so I can keep on
reading.
What does this have to do with Flash?
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, and performance was
more of an issue than it is now. Still, it's a perfectly logical and solid
OOP implementation.
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Or, when you want to change tempo, delete the old timer and replace it with
one with a new interval.
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EKA+ wrote:
The event model concept it's not very for a newbee POO
developper
I understand your point, and agree.
I must have been asleep at the switch, though. What is a POO developer?
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Now, back to Flash before we get chastised by the moderator.
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you're creating a component
(the only uses I know of for static classes is components and class
libraries). AS2 components are, by definition, Movie Clip subclasses, so you
have to make the class extend MovieClip.
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Give him a sample problem and time his generation of a solution
Who, the recruiter or the candidate? ;-)
Ok, it's Friday. Back to Flash.
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times I've been swamped and looking for a reliable third hand.
But not professional recruiters.
My 2 ¥
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components. For example:
class com.services.myClass extends MovieClip
The keyword static is conspicuously absent there. Perhaps that's the
confusion. You don't declare the class static like you would a method or a
property.
Is that more clear?
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+ years experience, and I spent my first 6 Flash
months on Newbie before I came over here. I never felt out of place, and,
once I felt I had a good enough handle on Flash's way of doing things, I
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be a better forum.
I am still on Flashnewbie, but now I answer more questions than I ask, which
is as it should be. I couldn't have made it to where I am now without the
help I got there, and it's my turn to help the next wave, many of whom will
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8% annual return, and you want $1,000,000 in 25
years, how much do you need to set aside each month?
TIA.
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Here it is in Lingo (from my book - sorry some line breaks have come in,
I'm
on a computer with no Director so I had to cut and paste from the
documentation). The second function is the one you're
of
formulas in Wikipedia under Time value of money. I think this is the one I
want:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money#Example_5:_Calculate_the_v
alue_of_a_regular_savings_deposit_in_the_future.
I'll convert that to ActionScript and post it for the archives.
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if the problem
persists.
This is a little out of date, but still relevant to people using non-Unicode
fonts. It's an article I wrote for MX Developer's Journal, and it's online now
at http://director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=1143
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View, you do Regional and
Language Options - Change Keyboards - Add - Russian. Then set the input
field to Arial Unicode MS, and it might work.
Other than that, you might have to go to a Russian system to input Russian
characters.
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you read a bi-di text file, or XML, or a string passed from, say, an ASP
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Or Director. It's also Adobe, an excellent wrapper for Flash, and a powerful
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I made his company look bad. I guess they would have rather let the client
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Korean).
To me, everything points to yes, you are doing everything right, except
perhaps using the right font. Or, possibly, if you're embedding the font,
you simply need to include the Korean characters.
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, and Arial Unicode MS does have Korean characters. The
Arial installed on my system does not.
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choose the language up front, then load a swf with just
the right character set embedded.
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graphics with a
limited range of colors (the palette). Instead of representing an actual
color, each byte is an index into a palette, so there's an additional step
there that must be performed during rendering.
It's not so simple after all.
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Dwayne Neckles wrote:
I firmly believe its not as hard as it seems... check out mr d00b's
site..
And where might that be? A Google search turned up nothing that looks
relevant.
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, another thing I noticed--you have a lot of spaces in your file names.
That's not a good idea for Internet apps. Concatenate, or use an underscore
instead.
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when
you zip across the screen.
You might try some sort of interpolation algorithm if you need every pixel,
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is--don't just follow
the gurus. Understand the guru's approach, then choose what's useful to you.
The gang of four, as good (and popular) as they are, don't have all the
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}
for (i = 0; i someOtherArray.length; i ++) {
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Make sense?
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AS2 was really just syntactic sugar for AS1, and wasn't strict at all.
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host of other issues that it often costs more to send something overseas.
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And don't get me started on code commenting.
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. At the end of the day, Indians are, well, people. Outside of
cultural issues, there is no significant difference between a Gunjeet Parma
and a Sharon Jones.
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and some other Web-oriented
languages.
What is clear is that, at the moment, Web-oriented development is the growth
field, more so than desktop apps.
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anybody but myself, but that does make me uncomfortable.
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A: An American.
Ok, back to code.
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I have read over your entire document and I have to tell ya, those
requirements are pie!
Yeah, and the position is in Santa Monica, too. Who wouldn't want to live
there? Great town!
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the library doesn't work, as I have found out the hard way.
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regular letters, probably in the system default font. I embedded the font in
the text field (a static text field), and it displays the music notes I
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Romuald Quantin wrote:
This mailing list is great but could you share with me some nice general
actionscript mailing list you might know?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Flash_tiger
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strArray:Array;
var clsRef:Class;
strArray = a.split(.);
clsRef = getDefinitionByName(strArray[0]) as Class;
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I'm sure there are bugs in there, but that's the basic approach I'd take.
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many do you
include in your font? Do you really need the 15th-century character for
county magistrate in Hunan province?
I'm not being facetious. These are realities that font makers face.
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emoticon to appear in
mid-text anywhere' I meant horizontally between the left and right
margins.
If you can place an image, you can specify the font. Use Wingdings for that
one character--it has a smiley face at 0x45, I believe.
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analysis. You
might need to write an ActiveX in C++ (if you're targeting IE on Windows),
or a Firefox plugin. It can be done--it's not easy, and you might run into
problems with customer acceptance of an ActiveX control, but it's still an
option.
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upstairs to start the oven for tonight's
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to format print output with RTF, and if I can do it
without documentation, anybody can. It's cryptic, though, and much more
sensitive to minor deviations than HTML.
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that bug that it was the
VM's fault, then I'd notice something, and I'd be off and running, chasing
that bug, slowly spiraling ever close to the true culprit.
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think there is a reasonable way to do
it in FP 9. I haven't even heard if FP 10 will support bi-di input. I
suspect it will, but I've not heard confirmation from Adobe on that.
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= e.target as MenuButtonSub;
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clip = e.target as MenuButtonSub;
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Sorry--cut and paste error. The case 1 reference to buttons should be
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without the :Array type identifier.
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haven't run into that syntax before. What does the asterisk do for the var
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text up into multiple text fields, and perhaps used a
special font. It also helps to be brilliant as she is, but hard work is more
the key.
Or, wait for F10, which will support bi-di. I think it's in beta, so it
can't be far off.
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. Not that they don't have their place, but I appreciate the
compiler nagging me about mis-typed variables. I'd rather the compiler nag
me than spend half a day chasing down a bug stemming from untyped variables.
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Steven Sacks wrote
Move to AS3. ;)
Alexander, Mary wrote:
Does anyone have a solution for AS2?
LOL. One of the best pieces of advice I've seen on the lists!
You made my day, Steven.
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