[Flashcoders] FLV runtime error

2008-01-02 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I'm getting this error from FLVPlayback 3.0 - triggered by mouse over and outs when skinAutoHide is set to true: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at fl.video::UIManager/http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal

RE: [Flashcoders] FLV runtime error

2008-01-02 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
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RE: [Flashcoders] Advanced Rollover Physics/Math...

2009-02-12 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Thinking of the position of imaginary vertical and horizontal lines between the elements may be a better approach. -- Erik Mattheis Senior Interactive Developer Weber Shandwick Digital Minneapolis ph: 952 346 6610 cell: 612 377 2272 -Original Message- From:

[Flashcoders] is this the getURL bug?

2009-02-24 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Suddenly a few weeks ago, getURL actions in several dozen swfs began to fail consistently when served from a particular server. The SWFs will work when viewed outside of HTML as well locally or on any other server. The content-length of the SWF is correct on the problematic server. Adding a

RE: [Flashcoders] is this the getURL bug?

2009-02-24 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] is this the getURL bug? Think I fixed it by using a URLRequest rather than getURL - AS3 though... I do remember this being a problem in IE before that. (Apologies if you are still on AS2). The other way maybe to try _self instead of _blank??? Mattheis, Erik (MIN

RE: [Flashcoders] is this the getURL bug?

2009-02-24 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:57 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] is this the getURL bug? Don't know if this helps, but it sounds like it might be similar to your problem?? http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157581 Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) wrote: Yes

RE: [Flashcoders] is this the getURL bug?

2009-02-24 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
An example: Illustration of getURL not working without a _blank parameter when served from a problematic server, but fine on another: http://weber10.ws-wr.com/em/swftest/test_badServer.html http://weber10.ws-wr.com/em/swftest/test_thisServer.html Also illustrated IE (6 and 7) leaving a window

RE: [Flashcoders] is this the getURL bug?

2009-02-24 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
/4a8 f27962bab6a0e Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) wrote: Yes, that sounds similar although these movies had been working as expected for years and they still work everywhere except when served by one particular server. Unfortunately, the server they're stored on. It also is similar to this: http

[Flashcoders] Capturing TextEvent from image in textfield

2009-11-10 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
How do I send an event from a click on an image in a textfield? Clicking on the actual text fires the event, but it doesn't fire when clicking on an image from the library placed inline: pageText.displayValue.htmlText = 'pa href=event:a1bimg src=plus /Our world-class scientists/b/a/p';

RE: [Flashcoders] Capturing TextEvent from image in textfield

2009-11-10 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
in textfield http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextField.html#event:link On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) wrote: How do I send an event from a click on an image in a textfield? Clicking on the actual text fires the event, but it doesn't

[Flashcoders] Drop shadow behavior

2010-02-01 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I have a sprite with two children, a bitmap and a dynamic mask. I apply two filters two it - a BevelFilter when it's added_to_stage, and a DropShadowFilter later. When I add the drop shadowfilter, it only displays in what would be the rectangular hit area unless a) I don't add the bevel filter

RE: [Flashcoders] Keep getting Error #1009: Cannot access a property

2010-02-02 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
It means you're trying to manipulate an object represented by a variable with a null value. For instance, var mc:MovieClip; mc.x = 9; will generate that error as you've just defined that mc will be a movieclip and its initial value is null. var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); mc.x = 9; Will

[Flashcoders] RE: Drop shadow behavior

2010-02-02 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
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RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-03 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Echoing Chris from earlier, I hope nobody here feels compelled to argue for Flash when it's not the best fit for a project. As far as a stock response to an objection to Flash, perhaps a question What features do you want the product to have and where and for who do you need it to run? Based

RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-03 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
In my experience, it's been several years since I've had to think about providing alternate content to anything but search engines, the player penetration has been so high for target audiences it hasn't made sense to worry about. The two exceptions being when something has to be 508 compliant

RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-04 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Afterwards, Macromedia bribed - er, hired Nielsen as a usability consultant. I wonder if Adobe will offer Jobs $1 a year for some important sounding title. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global

[Flashcoders] Custom FLVPlayback skin volume control

2010-03-04 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I need to have a volume control in a FLVPlayback custom skin that scrubs vertically instead of horizontally. I'm looking for the class file I'd have to modify but can't find one that references the standard skin scrubbder, volumeBarHandle_mc. My thought is that I can have my vertical scrubber

RE: [Flashcoders] swf doesn't work the same online

2010-03-08 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
What's broken about it? I recently had an issue with filters working differently in the browser than the authoring environment ... _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 -

[Flashcoders] RE: Manipulating and Removing loaded swf

2010-03-09 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
You need to declare a variable in your class and assign the movieclip to it - outside a function, ie var myMC:MovieClip; then you could change addChild(loadEvent.currentTarget.content); to myMC = loadEvent.currentTarget.content; addChild(myMC); and manipulate it myMC.x += 10; remove it

RE: [Flashcoders] OOP Books (OT)

2010-03-10 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I got AS 3 w/Design Patterns right when I delved into AS3 and I found the examples too long and complicated to follow. I would not recommend it as an introduction to OOP. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here.

[Flashcoders] Convert Flex to FLA

2010-03-10 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Is there a way to convert a Flex 3 project to Flash? Tried decompiling the SWF with FlashDecompiler, but it decompiles it back into a Flex project. I inherited a complex Flex project and have to deliver major edits to it in 2 weeks ... things is, I've not worked in Flex before! _ _ _ Erik

RE: [Flashcoders] OOP Books (OT)

2010-03-10 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Susan Day Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:29 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Books (OT) On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) ematth...@webershandwick.com wrote: I got AS 3 w/Design Patterns right when I delved into AS3

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: was swf doesn't work the same online

2010-03-11 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I switched my default browser to Chrome a week or so ago, both on my Windows box at work and Mac at home. It's noticeably faster than FF, especially on the Mac and it has a built-in developer tool which shows all requests. There's a FireBug Lite extension for it

RE: [Flashcoders] Passing Call To Child

2010-03-11 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
The missing .html thing has to be a simple mistake you're not seeing. Have you tried tracing the value at every point where it gets passed around? _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency

RE: [Flashcoders] Facebok Flash API

2010-03-15 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I much prefer the FBJS bridge over the AS 3 Client Library. Much simplter. This is based on a day and a half working with the client library to wrap my head around it and come up with a single working example - I was up and running with the whole FB API through the FBJS bridge in an hour tops.

RE: [Flashcoders] Passing Call To Child

2010-03-15 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Navigation(' Home ', 'index', 235, 0x97f9ec); // What does this do? Please post function. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report

RE: [Flashcoders] Anyone else having issues with the latest version of the flash plug in?

2010-03-15 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
About the time of that update a project stopped working when exported from CS3 unless flash.text.TextField was explicitly imported - worked fine without it when exported from CS4. I chalked it up to a difference between CS3 and CS4, but the problem did occur around the time of the last Player

RE: [Flashcoders] Calculator

2010-03-17 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
What's the difference between a sum and a total? Knock knock. Who's there? Nose! Nose who? Who knows? _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes

RE: [Flashcoders] bubbling listening

2010-03-18 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I've been thinking about the below message from Jason and tried rearranging a simple project into a MVC for a while this afternoon, but couldn't figure out how to do it without breaking encapsulation. I think I'm not getting the MVC advantage because I don't understand one of two things - or

RE: [Flashcoders] bubbling listening

2010-03-18 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:43 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] bubbling listening I've been thinking about the below message from Jason and tried rearranging a simple

[Flashcoders] right-click triggers MOUSE_LEAVE?

2010-03-22 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I want to allow users to copy text from a dynamic text field. When I right-click on the textfield the MOUSE_LEAVE event fires (which hides the textfield - I intend for MOUSE_LEAVE to hide the textfield). Googling, I find no results of someone else experiencing the problem I'm assuming this

[Flashcoders] RE: right-click triggers MOUSE_LEAVE?

2010-03-22 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:08 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] right-click triggers MOUSE_LEAVE? I want to allow users to copy text from a dynamic text field. When I right-click

RE: [Flashcoders] flv stop loading / close netconnection

2010-03-22 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I need to use myFLV.getVideoPlayer(0).close() to stop the download Try myFLV.closeVideoPlayer() _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes

RE: [Flashcoders] Distribute evenly over half a circle

2010-03-23 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Half a circle is PI radians, so you'd increment by Math.PI / (totalNumbers - 1) Try - function plot():void { var totalNumbers:int = 5; var radius:Number = 30; var startAt:Number = Math.PI/2; var arc:Number = Math.PI / (totalNumbers - 1); for (var

[Flashcoders] RE: right-click triggers MOUSE_LEAVE?

2010-03-23 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:13 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: right-click triggers MOUSE_LEAVE? Code that illustrates the behavior I'm trying to avoid: stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, stageOffHandler); // embed code

RE: [Flashcoders] What good is a Controller?

2010-03-31 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I didn't use AS3 until I had to a year and a half ago, Yahoo! IMVs started requiring AS3. The Facebook ActionScript API is AS3 as well and I'm sure there's many, many other similar examples. I predict you'll eventually have an opportunity that requires knowing AS 3! _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior

RE: [Flashcoders] Transition from AS2 to AS3... with minimum pain

2010-03-31 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
You don't *have* to use design patterns, you can learn the syntax by just doing everything in your document class as you would make an AS2 project with all the script in the first frame. I found and still find http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223798 useful and it used to show up a

RE: [Flashcoders] AS2 what am I missing?

2010-04-06 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I've done things along the lines of making MovieClip A a button with showHandCursor set to false. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 – Gold Medal Winner The Holmes

RE: [Flashcoders] changing url without reloading page/swf in as2.0

2010-04-07 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/ From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Amol [a...@yonearth.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:33 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders]

[Flashcoders] IE7 reload stageWidth bug

2010-04-08 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I'm up against the bug discussed here: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/issues/detail?id=3 - on page reload, IE7 returns 0 for stage.stageWidth and stage.stageHeight. As a quick fix, I hardcoded stageWidth and stageHeight, but I need a solution that will allow the movie to figure things out

[Flashcoders] RE: IE7 reload stageWidth bug

2010-04-08 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 10:03 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] IE7 reload stageWidth bug I'm up against the bug discussed here: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/issues/detail?id=3 - on page reload, IE7 returns 0 for stage.stageWidth

RE: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Ba ns the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-09 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Thanks for the Theory, Carl - I'd elevate it to a Law: It's about harnessing the iPhone/iPad momentum at any cost - forwarded your insight to my coworkers. But I wonder how much of this is based on the old MS vs Apple war - calculated on the fact there's probably more C++ than ActionScript

RE: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Ba ns the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-10 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Dave Watts: I don't really think that's the right comparison, though. AS3 is a lot more like Java and C# than C++ is, actually. The core syntax is very similar across all four of those languages, of course, but the way you approach problems in AS3, Java and C# is different from how you approach

RE: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Ba ns the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-11 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
OK, that sort of makes sense - the sort of because cross-platform compiled apps can already be accepted or rejected at the app store level. If money from developers was a major cash flow avenue, this would make total sense but compared to the app store, it's not, AFAIK. It seems it would be a

RE: [Flashcoders] PDF and flash

2010-04-14 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Using Acrobat or Illustrator as an intermediary would be the most straight forward way. From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers [k...@designdrumm.com] Sent: Wednesday,

[Flashcoders] custom seekBar

2010-04-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Has anybody made the seekBar UI component work when a FLVPlayback goes to full screen mode? Google comes up with a lot of people having the problems, but have not found a solution that works for me. This is the precise problem I'm having:

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash and iThingammybob

2010-04-21 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
The word from other cross-compilers is Apple says they are in compliance with the new terms, or the new terms won't be enforced, or something. Example: http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/04/corona-and-iphone-os-4-0/ I believe that Corona will be fine, and we are committed to delivering the best

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 FLVPlayback buffering state never ends bug

2010-04-21 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
In the interest of just getting another pair of eyeballs on the problem, some obvious things I'd check for: - Are you testing with different videos, maybe it's a problem with the video? - Have you reproduced the problem with a video served from another FMS? Maybe it's a problem on the server? -

[Flashcoders] JW Player API documentation

2010-04-22 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Has anyone made a plugin for the JW Player? I'm tasked with doing so, and can't find documentation of the API. Is there any? Do they just expect you to dig through the classes and figure out what you can do? Thanks. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T 952 346 6610 C 612 377

RE: [Flashcoders] JW Player API documentation

2010-04-22 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JW Player API documentation We've done several. *http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/Player5PluginsBuilding --Matt * On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) ematth...@webershandwick.com wrote: Has anyone made

RE: [Flashcoders] JW Player API documentation

2010-04-22 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JW Player API documentation This? http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/Player5Api On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) ematth...@webershandwick.com wrote: Thanks, have seen that page - I'm looking for documentation in the sense

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Ha ha http://topherchris.com/post/558594718 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I see you're trying to be objective, but the crux of Job's bogus argument is it's impossible to make good apps for the iPhone in the Flash development environment, and they're protecting their consumers. Others have pointed out that even if this is true, which it's not, part of the problem

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
thing, etc. It's very interesting reading for the first twenty posts or so, but i think its time for me to filter this thread. E. Sent from my iPad On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) ematth...@webershandwick.com wrote: I see you're trying to be objective, but the crux

[Flashcoders] Timer object created twice in class

2010-05-04 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Here's a snippit and a timeline version of it - when I run it on the timeline, it works as expected, but when I run it within my class it acts as though there are two instances of the _timer object. On the timeline, it works as expected, tracing, 1 1 True But when I have it inside my class,

[Flashcoders] RE: Timer object created twice in class

2010-05-04 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:59 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Timer object created twice in class Here's a snippit and a timeline version of it - when I run it on the timeline, it works

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: Timer object created twice in class

2010-05-04 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
employees only) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:33 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Timer object created

RE: [Flashcoders] iPhone viable solutions???

2010-05-04 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I believe Adobe's already demonstrated this, as well as bringing in illustrations from Illustrator and PS - google for adobe smart paste to get a video demo. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global

RE: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface broken? chrome and safari on linux...

2010-05-05 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/external/ExternalInterface.html Flash Player for Linux version 9.0.31.0 and later supports the ExternalInterface class in the following browsers: Browser Mozilla 1.7.x and later Firefox 1.5.0.7 and later SeaMonkey 1.0.5 and

RE: [Flashcoders] XML Question

2010-05-05 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I think you just need a root node. var xmlData:XML = new XML (rootPAGE pg_name='index'DETAILSpage/DETAILS /PAGE/root); trace(xmldata.pa...@pg_name.tostring() == index); // true var xmlData:XML = new XML (PAGE pg_name='index'DETAILSpageDETAILS /PAGE); trace(xmldata.pa...@pg_name.tostring() ==

RE: [Flashcoders] Changing display index on the stage

2010-05-05 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Look into getChildByName to get a reference to the MC on the stage, ie getChildByName('instanceName').x. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The

RE: [Flashcoders] Question about Flash Builder 4

2010-05-05 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Go me! What about just saying nav.btnBack.gotoAndStop(1); nav.btnNext.gotoAndStop(1); _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 – Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global

RE: [Flashcoders] Question about MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER and ROLL_OUT

2010-05-05 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Instead of using a MC the size of the stage, you may want to try listening like - this.root.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, overHandler) and this.stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, offHandler); _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272

[Flashcoders] RE: PDFs, HTML5 and iPads

2010-05-11 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I hear this new technology, CSS-P is going to make using tables for layout obsolete. Ha ha. And Mac's Preview app is the default PDF reader. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report

[Flashcoders] RE: changing parent from child

2010-05-11 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Did you mean to say removeChildAt(0)? Have you tried Loader.unload()? _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year

RE: [Flashcoders] Buggy Tween

2010-05-13 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Could it be you have var tween_handler:Tween inside of a function? If it's a class variable it won't get garbage collected, if it within a function it's eligible for garbage collection when the function is complete. YES: class myClass { var tween_handler:Tween; function myFunction() {

RE: [Flashcoders] Oh the irony

2010-05-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I'll say this again: I see no financial benefit to Adobe for keeping the Flash Player the standard for a rich Internet. If HTL5 + JS can do everything - or part of everything - the Flash Player can do. There's no harm done to Adobe by adding a Export as HTML5 option. We've even seen it

RE: [Flashcoders] Oh the irony

2010-05-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
We want to do something like http://www.gettheglass.com/but NOT in Flash, because Flash is dead. You can do that in HTML5 right? And it needs to run perfectly on the iPad. .m On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) ematth...@webershandwick.com wrote: I'll say this again: I

[Flashcoders] RE: Astra Components

2010-05-19 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I found this quite thorough: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-flash/classreference/ - _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report

RE: [Flashcoders] Upgrade from MX2004 to CS4 - issues?

2010-05-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
You won't be able to save as a MX2004 file from CS4. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR News Agency of

[Flashcoders] NativeWindow options

2010-05-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
I'm having trouble finding examples of how to get html in NativeWindows to scale as I want. The following makes a portion of the HTML the size of the window that spawned it visible. I need to launch a resizable window and have HTML completely fill it at an arbitrary size. Help? Thanks! var

RE: [Flashcoders] Upgrade from MX2004 to CS4 - issues?

2010-05-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
so vague. I'm trying to guess what the problems anticipated might have been. Cheers Paul On 20 May 2010 16:01, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) ematth...@webershandwick.com wrote: You won't be able to save as a MX2004 file from CS4. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952

[Flashcoders] RE: NativeWindow options

2010-05-24 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR News Agency of the Year -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) Sent: Thursday, May

[Flashcoders] preventing control characters from being typed

2010-05-26 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
I need to make a form that can be used without a mouse. I have private function keyHandler(e:KeyboardEvent):void { if (e.controlKey) { switch (e.keyCode) { case SAVE : saveCurrentContent(); break; etc, which captures a control-s just fine, but it types a box character

RE: [Flashcoders] preventing control characters from being typed

2010-05-26 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] preventing control characters from being typed Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) wrote: I need to make a form that can be used without a mouse. I have etc, which captures a control-s just fine, but it types a box character into the textfield. How do I go about preventing

[Flashcoders] anone else @flashbelt10?

2010-06-15 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Predicted winners: CS5, cornstarch AIR 2.0 4or mobile, cornstarch;. Losers: Apple, Apple. Flash 10.1 on Android 2.2 is unbelievably fast. Saw a a 2000 triangle 3-d flight simulator on a NexusOne - flawless. Lots of wink-wink stuff about 10.1 for RIM too. The big letdown (and quick

[Flashcoders] Video encoding service

2010-07-15 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
We have a client need to allow users to record their own podcast with their webcam but don't want to shell out for Flash Media Interactive Server. Thoughts, recommendations? Link to thread in archive? Options we're exploring - Red5 - con: no longer supported Wowza server - con: server apps must

RE: [Flashcoders] Video encoding service

2010-07-15 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
We use encoding.com for other things, but I don't believe it can do what we wish here: We need to grab the video from a website visitor's webcam, send the video to a server - preferably ours - to be served on demand later. Make sense? (thought ankoder.com does this, it doesn't.) Am I missing

RE: [Flashcoders] Help with addChild

2010-07-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Yes, more code please. _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR News Agency of the Year -Original

RE: [Flashcoders] Help with addChild

2010-07-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
; popInstance.y = 10; popInstance.name = 'cityPopout'+btnNum+'_mc'; popInstance.alpha = 1; addChild(popInstance);//no error or result So here it only works if I use stageBtn.addChild(popInstance) On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW

[Flashcoders] RE: Flex

2010-07-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
I was able to find my way around after watching the days 1 and 2 videos: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal

RE: [Flashcoders] Help with addChild

2010-07-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
one of the buttons on stage. How do I add a class (myPopout) to the stage? On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) ematth...@webershandwick.com wrote: I'd guess your other class is not in the display list. Do you say addChild(OtherClass) anywhere? _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash detect and redirect code

2010-07-23 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ won't redirect but provide alternate content, generally considered superior to redirection. From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Steven

[Flashcoders] crossdomain.xml and loadPolicyFile

2010-08-26 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Yup, works now! http://weber10.ws-wr.com/EM/armyIMV2010/swf/main.swf _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T 952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year

RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-30 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
This might give you some ideas on accomplishing what you needs to do -use split().join(): http://troyworks.com/blog/2008/03/14/flash-textfield-actionscript-hyperlink-in-as30/ _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts

[Flashcoders] apps that use SWFs as custom skins

2010-08-31 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Yahoo! Messenger IMVs are made with SWFs. Are there any other chat clients or consumer apps that use SWFs to create custom skins? _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T 952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 -

[Flashcoders] RE: map componment

2010-09-09 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Yahoo! Maps AS3 Component: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/ _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T  952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR

[Flashcoders] Simple encapsulation question

2011-03-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
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

Re: [Flashcoders] Simple encapsulation question

2011-03-16 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
the array of references to tabs to reset the focused state of all tabs but the one just clicked? HTH Willem van den Goorbergh On 16 mrt 2011, at 18:00, Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) wrote: I have a typical tabbed layout and am trying to figure out the simplest/best way to reset the focused state

[Flashcoders] Wait for several things to be loaded

2011-03-17 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
I'm building an AIR app following the MVC pattern. Several parts of the model have to be loaded or created before the view can be initialized. I'm doing it like this - which works, but seems clunky. Is there a better way? From the main class of the model: public function Model() { _database

[Flashcoders] Simulating image in textfield in AIR

2011-04-06 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
I'm trying to include an image tag linking to a library item in the htmlText of a TextField in an AIR app. Not possible apparently, For AIR content in the application security sandbox, AIR ignores img tags in HTML content in ActionScript TextField objects. This is to prevent possible phishing

Re: [Flashcoders] Simulating image in textfield in AIR

2011-04-06 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
. On 4/6/11 11:42 AM, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: 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] Getting ID in asynchronous SQLLite connection

2011-04-19 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
I'm looping trough XML defining message board posts and inserting them into a SQLLite database. My problem is I need to insert replies to posts and don't know an ID to create the parent-child relationship. Code example: post contentGood morning!/contentreplysreply

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting ID in asynchronous SQLLite connection

2011-04-19 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
...@designdrumm.com wrote: Can you set an id attr in the post tag like.. post id=message_123456789 Best, Karl On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) wrote: I'm looping trough XML defining message board posts and inserting them into a SQLLite database. My problem is I need to insert

[Flashcoders] Variable scope with asynchronous SQL connection

2011-04-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Two questions about the following snip. 1. The SQLConnection is asynchronous. Is there a possibility the function variable sql would get garbage collected before the event handler fires? 2. Will the same variable ever get marked for garbage collection? 3. Three questions - is there a

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash writing/reading database on MS SQL server

2011-04-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
I use Flash remoting with ColdFusion. There's examples for many server side scripting languages that come up when searching for flash femoting as3 [your preferred server thing]. On 4/20/11 2:31 PM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: Hi List, I am looking for a way to read/write to a database in a MS

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope with asynchronous SQL connection

2011-04-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
(e.target,1); } // On Apr 20, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) skriver: 1. The SQLConnection is asynchronous. Is there a possibility the function variable sql would get garbage collected before the event handler fires? It is a local

Re: [Flashcoders] Test if class is attached to document or symbol?

2011-04-20 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
Put a function in your document class and check if the function is defined? try { myDocumentClassFunction(); // must be your document class catch { // must not be your document class } On 4/20/11 7:31 PM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was just curious if

[Flashcoders] cloning custon events

2011-05-06 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
I've an app that passes events outside of the DisplayList from one class to another. In my extended CustDataEvent class: public var param:*; public function CiustDataEventç(type:String, bubbles:Boolean = true, cancelable:Boolean=false, param:* = null) { super(type, bubbles, cancelable); }

[Flashcoders] AIR Socket.readObject received in multiple ProgressEvents?

2012-02-15 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW)
In a the client of a client/server AIR app I have: function onSocketData(event:ProgressEvent) : void { var result = _socket.readObject(); // do something with result } How can I be sure the whole object is available before I try to use it? Things work as expected most of the time, but with

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