RE: [Flashcoders] Flash File Upload using .NET

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
a file if safe mode is on and your PHP script is not the owner... This thread was never about PHP was it? Or was that a side question Carl asked? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions ___

RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:41 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format So to get text into the PDF you would need

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Fuse kit: tweening xscale / yscale += not =

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
I've always been told parseInt() is better/more consistent to convert numbers than Number() - I've tried both and always had better results with parseInt(). Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From:

RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
that helps. I don't want to do too much support or up-front info on Flashcoders, but I figured I'd follow-up this one since others may want to know. I'd prefer to do support and other questions off-list. :-) g. On 10/20/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realized after I sent that my

RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
first. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:09 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] advice needed: textformatting or css?

2006-10-26 Thread Merrill, Jason
I went through the whole WSIWYG text editor in Flash programming thing in Flash 8 recently. I ended up figuring out that using the TextFormat class is the only really viable/sane way to go. It works pretty well, but some things like fighting with the Selection object were a royal pain. But it

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop settings

2006-10-26 Thread Merrill, Jason
Slightly offtopic, but does anyone know how to turn code hinting/completion back on in FlashDevelop? I have the latest version, but can't figure out what I did to turn it off. Also, is the only way to change the default font and color highlighting by messing with the XML files in the application

RE: [Flashcoders] IDE Question / annoyance

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
I always figure sharing assets across movies is just asking for trouble, so in cases like that I load them from the filesystem at runtime. That's what I do anyway, doesn't mean you can't make it work. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions

RE: [Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d program

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Blender - very Powerful tool, not too bad to learn (though takes time reading the tutorials) - and Opensource (free!). Would recommend you check out Blender (or also Wings 3d, though I haven't tried that yet). However downside is no .swf output - though you could bring the model into

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parsing problem

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Can you provide some usage instructions (i.e. what the arguments n and r are for)? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven

RE: [Flashcoders] Can anyone download Flex Builder 2?

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Adobe's site is having issues. I.e. The Flex homepage loaded for me, but it took forever. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

[Flashcoders] Key combination Ctrl+S not allowed?

2006-10-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
I am trying to capture control+S in a Windows file running in the Flash 8/9 player (IE 6). This is because I have a save feature in my RIA. I can capture S being down, I can capture Ctrl being down, I can capture ctrl+7 being down, but not ctrl+s? I even tried capturing ctrl+g (g is keycode

RE: [Flashcoders] Key combination Ctrl+S not allowed?

2006-10-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:56 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Key combination Ctrl+S not allowed? I am trying to capture control+S in a Windows file running in the Flash 8/9

RE: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
Also if you are running a newer version of Windows Server (like Windows Server 2003), you'll need to add .flv as a mime type. There's an Adobe technote about it. Some other servers may require it as well. If it's UNIX, then case-sensitivity should be checked as well.

RE: [Flashcoders] wmode=transparent and buttons behavior woes

2006-10-31 Thread Merrill, Jason
Off the top of my head (not exactly sure what you mean by on wrong moments and behave in some strange way), but it could be one of these two problems: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19435 or: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/54.html Jason Merrill Bank of

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: wmode=transparent and buttons behavior woes (Merrill, Jason)

2006-10-31 Thread Merrill, Jason
The more we rely on the browser, the more handling of browser differences we must negotiate. You sound like you just polished off a big Apollo sundae. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread Merrill, Jason
Video capabilities can be a big seller - also the fact most people have it now is another. The much enhanced security of the 8 player could be your Ace of Spades though. Might be hard to convince them that the blur, dropshadow, glow etc. effects you can do dynamically would be worth it, but its'

RE: [Flashcoders] Create zip file through flash

2006-11-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
In my application I am having a button, which when pressed should compress some chunk of files to zip file. I am jus wondering whether this can be done through Flash or not? Depends on what you mean by through Flash. Not natively in Flash because Flash is a client-side application. You're

RE: [Flashcoders] Create zip file through flash

2006-11-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:48 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Create zip file through flash In my application I am having a button, which when pressed should compress some chunk of files to zip file

RE: [Flashcoders] Create zip file through flash

2006-11-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
Flash Player 9 can do it. We wrote an unzip class in AS3 some time back: He's talking about zipping up files on the local filesystem. Flash 9 can do that? Flash 9 has native filesystem access which would allow compressing files on your hard drive? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Print Function and Callbacks ?

2006-11-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Flash doesn't have access to the operating system on any platform. In this particular sense of the PrintJob class, that may be true, but there are things like the FileReference class which will allow you limited OS access (controlled by the user) to say browse to a file, select it, and upload it,

RE: [Flashcoders] setNewTextFormat and textField.variable

2006-11-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
Curious, why are you using the Textfield.variable property? I would recommend making the switch over to textfield.text or textField.htmlText so as to avoid any complications and do it the Actionscript way. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness

[Flashcoders] Explain Classid and Codebase to me

2006-11-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
Can someone explain what classid and codebase are used for in embedding ActiveX controls in a webpage? Why are they necessary and where do they come from? We have an activeX control (A flash player wrapper) which is acting up on certain severs but not others, and I'm trying to track down why.

RE: [Flashcoders] preventing scientific notation

2006-11-06 Thread Merrill, Jason
According to the manual flash should be able to handle numbers up to Don't believe everything you read in the help docs. ;) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change

RE: [Flashcoders] FLEX 2.0 Chart and PDF Generation

2006-11-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
Is there a way to include a chart created with the FLEX Charting library into a PDF file ? I also would like to know if it's possible to do it in batch mode ! Claude, try the flexcoders list at Yahoo. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness

RE: [Flashcoders] How to play automatically an MP3 file when user loads webpage

2006-11-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
I want a webpage to play automatically an MP3 file when user loads the webpage. I guess I'm not understanding your constraint, because if you tell the sound in Flash to play, it will play (as soon as the flash file loads). Why involve Javascript? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning

RE: [Flashcoders] How to play automatically an MP3 file when user loads webpage

2006-11-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
I want a webpage to play automatically an MP3 file when user loads the webpage. Every MP3 Flash Player I found need to click Play: http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/ http://blog.forret.com/2005/01/playing-mp3-with-an-embedded-flash-play er/ Well, sure - that's how they chose to code their

RE: [Flashcoders] Closing Browser Through Flash/Javascript

2006-11-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
You can also do a trick where you do a getURL() to a small special html file which simply has this in it: BODY ONLOAD=top.close() Should be pretty transparent to the user. So essentially, the HTML file does the Javascript, not Flash. However, if the original Flash file is not spawned from

RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting a click on an html link in a text field

2006-11-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
A side note, fairly irrelevant, but I heard/read somewhere asfunction is going away in AS3 - I think I saw that in the AS3 documentation - anyone know what the equivalent form would be in the future? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original

RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting a click on an html link in a text field

2006-11-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
in a text field I don't know squat about as3 yet, but from the docs there is this: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/as3preview/langref/flash/text/Text Field .html#event:link -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Wednesday

RE: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Hiding loadsound URL from Activity Monitor

2006-11-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
AFAIK Flash doesn't care about mime-types, simply enough to rename the file - if it is a valid mp3, Flash will handle it correctly. But Windows Server 2003 for example has have MIME types added in order to serve files. So right, doesn't matter to Flash - MIME type settings are server side. So

RE: [Flashcoders] Test if using ActionScript 2.0

2006-11-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
My limited understanding is all .swfs compile down to bytecode anyway, and it's the Flash player that contains the runtime and inteprets the AS 1.0 or 2.0 bytecode as the case may be, not the .swf, so I don't think that would work. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational

RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without versioning?

2006-11-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without versioning? if they dont have flash player, then they won't have the required version number anyway, so wouldn't the version detection scripts still work? On 11/9/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without versioning?

2006-11-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 09 November 2006 18:53 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without versioning? Yes, but I don't want my scripts to HAVE version detection

RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without versioning?

2006-11-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
swfobject is only 6.7kb... it doesn't get much lighter than that. if you *really* need something smaller (which sounds like a ridiculous need to me) Before you actually think I have a ridiculous need - I'm not talking about filesize necessarily, I'm also talking about controlling large amounts

RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without versioning?

2006-11-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:43 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection

RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without versioning?

2006-11-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
, Merrill, Jason wrote: FYI - I looked in more detail at swfobject as was suggested and the only think I needed to pull out of it and plug into our other detection and embedding scripts was in the catch/try statements: axo = new ActiveXObject(ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash); Not specifying

RE: [Flashcoders] Google image search from Actionscript

2006-11-16 Thread Merrill, Jason
Also, do people use the Flash webservices component/class for anything real or does one always end up doing one's own server-side coding (aside from wrapping the web services call to get around security restrictions)? Is there a reason to use a web service rather than constructing a query string

RE: [Flashcoders] connecting excel spread sheet to Flash

2006-11-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
You can also use server-side apps to convert an uploaded Excel doc to XML and then do whatever with it - run SQL statements, other server side scripts, or back into Flash - no manual save as XML required, but it does require some savy backend stuff and/or third party components. Jason Merrill

RE: [Flashcoders] connecting excel spread sheet to Flash

2006-11-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
it seem to requrie NO special saving of the spread shets frmo the sales peoples point of view (to explain to them even the most basic of XML will be futile... ;) Thanks, Nik On 11/22/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use server-side apps to convert an uploaded Excel doc to XML

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed

2006-11-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
I got the same message when helping someone out on Flashnewbies this morning. Maybe they're on both lists. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick

RE: [Flashcoders] Whats the deal with AS3 Math.random?

2006-11-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
I've noticed that my random functions aren't nearly as random as I would like (I see annoying patterns all the time) - it seems the same set of numbers pop up frequently for each session. Good idea Ron. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed

2006-11-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
I did as well. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Hoffman Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:26 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE:

RE: [Flashcoders] actionscript in FLV?

2006-11-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
How would it execute - it would be playing inside the Flash player called from a .swf anyway right? So I would say no to having AS inside the .flv - as flv is not a .swf. But read up on .flv and cuepoints in the help docs. Curious why? Isn't the .flv going to be played in a .swf anyway? You

RE: [Flashcoders] Old Flash Problem - Clips stop receiving clicks

2006-11-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
I see it in IE all the time. If you ever look at MSNBC.com's image galleries, the Flash buttons do this quite often, even with Flash 9. I have never found a workaround. It's an extremely annoying bug. I've tried some of Grant Skinner's suggestions from his blog with limited success. Jason

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way todo this?

2006-11-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
I have found a major issue with the Fuse kit - it's huge and has huge overhead. It's a great set of classes, does some neat things, don't get me wrong, but I found that using it in code-intensive app brought it down and made it unusable. I switched back to the built-in Tween and Transition

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
I just keep my own static Animation class handy, which simplifies the tween and transition classes: import mx.transitions.*; import mx.transitions.easing.*; class com.boa.effects.Animate{ public static function fadeIn(clip:MovieClip, time:Number):Object{ return

RE: [Flashcoders] How variables when using setInterval ...

2006-11-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
Just keep an array of the intervals and refer to that. Then you only declare the array, and add and subtract the intervals from the array. Plus keeps it all nice and tidy. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] getting 5 random numbers out of 0-16 no dups

2006-12-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
Quick question. Whats the fastest way to get 5 random numbers out of a list of X number of numbers without having any duplicates? I like this: function rndNumArray(max:Number, noZero:Boolean):Array{ var a:Array = new Array(); var n:Array = new

RE: [Flashcoders] xml thumbnail gallery reverse order problem

2006-12-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
i'm kind of a noob, so there is probably a really simple solution i'm overlooking. i was thinking: how would one reverse the order in which flash is processing/placing the thumbs? or maybe instead of using my script, there's some kind of for loop that might work? Note that a loop like this:

RE: [Flashcoders] xml thumbnail gallery reverse order problem

2006-12-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
That's odd, it should be incrementing K from 0 and then up from there. Have you done a trace on the value of k to see if it really is going down instead of up? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] xml thumbnail gallery reverse order problem

2006-12-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
No, it doesn't help, since the first index is out of range :) What do you mean? There's nothing wrong with the way they wrote that either - this works for me: myArray = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]; for(var i=myArray.length; i=0; i--){ trace(i) } I don't think they meant the word Array literally...

RE: Re[4]: [Flashcoders] xml thumbnail gallery reverse order problem

2006-12-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
Ok - then this: myArray = [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]; for(var i=myArray.length-1; i=0; i--){ trace(myArray[i]) } Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Flashcoders] Switch case problem...

2006-12-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
Your code looks fine, (other than a lot of redundancy that could be reduced), so it's time to throw some traces in there to be sure the right values are both being set, as well as tripping at different points in the switch statement. I think if you make liberal use of some traces, you will find

RE: [Flashcoders] webservice delay

2006-12-06 Thread Merrill, Jason
See Webservice.status in the help docs. You can also show the animation when the call is initiated, and then use WebService.onResult to hide the animation. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] webservice delay

2006-12-06 Thread Merrill, Jason
i tried ur suggestion but that did not work ! You're not providing any source code to back up your claim or to give the intended impact of your exclaimation point. How are you starting the webservice? How are you telling the animation to display? How are you telling it to hide? I use the

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

2006-12-06 Thread Merrill, Jason
That rocks. I'm blown away. I wonder if Adobe is working 3D into Flash IDE 9. Microsoft just released WPF/E and Expression Blend will be available for purchase in Q2 2007 - the Flash competitor that does 3D. I wonder if the Flash 9 IDE will be available before - say Q1 2007... Jason Merrill

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

2006-12-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
I'm not too keen on seeing 3D interfaces and spinning/whirling items anytime soon. That includes product items for the most part too. 3D is useful for all kinds of things - besides the obvious one: games, there is also product training, product promotions (you said you weren't keen on that,

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

2006-12-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
I have no idea what Quartz is, but Director is a quality package with excellent scripting capabilities and accelerated 3D. Director does not run in the Flash player. A huge disadvantage in practicality for large and/or controlled audiences IMO. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

2006-12-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
describe your point of view here? For my instance, I'm running a visualization as an exe off the desktop (independent of the browser). Would director be worthwhile to look into for this instance, as I would be using it for a very specific usage? -lincoln On Dec 7, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Merrill

RE: [Flashcoders] .net remoting

2006-12-11 Thread Merrill, Jason
I am trying to use a remote webservice in .net in my flash application. Can any body please give me link to the tutotrial or tell me how can I use a .net weservice in my flash application using remoting component. Try the Webservice component instead of the Remoting component.

RE: [Flashcoders] Webservice performance these days

2006-12-11 Thread Merrill, Jason
Also, so that I make sure I have my technology correct, as I understand with remoting the client receives native data types from the server. Webservices receives XML, or is it any string data? it's SOAP - which is an XML protocol over HTTP. So it's essentially a string of XML data. I use it,

RE: [Flashcoders] Webservice performance these days

2006-12-11 Thread Merrill, Jason
, that is what I was thinking. So the WebService (and supporting classes) parse the returned SOPE for you, so when you get the callback you are just handling native data types? Or do you have to build your own parser? On 12/11/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, so that I make sure

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems playing FLVs through Director shell

2006-12-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
What version of the Flash player is the Director Xtra built on? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness Blumenthal, Peter wrote: Last night I tried to Run the app on my home PC which had IE6 installed under XP Pro (worked fine), gulp install IE7

RE: [Flashcoders] Looking for Flash Contractor

2006-12-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
Hey, I have an idea: Flash-related job postings are fine but for the sake of the hundreds of subscribers, let's keep the resultant chatter off-list. Thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___

[Flashcoders] Area of a triangle using perimiter values only

2006-12-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
I'm trying to figure the area of a triangle in Actionscript using the perimeter values only, not the traditional simple formula: area = (height/2)*base because figuring the height is tricky given the triangle will be drawn in odd ways (i.e. a not horizontally alinged base), so I am

RE: [Flashcoders] Area of a triangle using perimiter values only

2006-12-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
a distributive method of multiplication? Again, rusty, but a thought. Let us know what you figure out!! Cheers On 12/14/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure the area of a triangle in Actionscript using the perimeter values only, not the traditional simple formula

RE: [Flashcoders] Area of a triangle using perimiter values only

2006-12-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
Thanks - all, yes Jake saw it first and others chimed in with the same thought, my numbers did not compute because they did not make a triangle. I have it working now. The formula is fine, and this function works for me as long as the values come from a true triangle: public static

RE: [Flashcoders] MX transitions: Website that shows examples?

2006-12-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
I second this testament. I have been using the Fuse Kit for a bit am very happy with it. Just to chime in, the Fuse kit is HUGE. I would recommend against it in some situations where performance is a factor. If it doesn't effect performance, it's a great set of classes. Just be sure to test

RE: [Flashcoders] Area of a triangle using perimiter values only

2006-12-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
I'd stick to using Heron's rule -- there is no reason why it shouldn't work given correct inputs, and it is less expensive computationally. Yeah, but then by switching, I'd be insulting the other Mathematician dude who invented divide by 4 equation, just for the sake of pleasing Heron. I

RE: [Flashcoders] MX transitions: Website that shows examples?

2006-12-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
1. Fuse -- From what I have gathered, this is great for big projects, but not so much for the small things. But not really big projects, or projects that already have a lot of overhead in the CPU already. I have found the performance of Fuse to be less than satisfactory in stressful situations.

RE: [Flashcoders] TextArea Component (Flash 8)

2006-12-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Have they increased the puny amount of HTML that is allowed in Flash? Nope, unfortunately. I've been down the exact same road - what I have learned is using the TextFormat object, while not perfect, will save you a lot of headaches. Searching through strings - what a pain, and a major

[Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash

2006-12-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
I know with the security of the Flash player, it's probably not possible or easy (unless MS has some sort of webservice for Exchange servers built in or something) to grab a person's Outlook Calendar or Task list - but what about a Flash desktop application - is that information available through

RE: [Flashcoders] MX transitions: Website that shows examples?

2006-12-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Ryan, calm down dude. He asked the question, So, out of all the above mentioned classes/scripts, what is best? - he then summarized what he had learned about the Fuse kit from the thread, and I felt he was missing an important thing I had said about the Fuse kit's size and performance. Why do

RE: [Flashcoders] MX transitions: Website that shows examples?

2006-12-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Oh, sorry! I did not mean to talk out of term. Only wanted to know if there was another reason for your dismissal. Uh, no - just what I said. What in the world could you possibly be talking about? Like I am making my own competing classes or something 30k is large but not so unreasonable

RE: [Flashcoders] 2D arrays

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
You need to also declare the sub-arrays So: var arr = new Array(); arr[1][1] = whatsup; becomes: var arr = new Array(); arr[1] = new Array() arr[1][1] = whatsup; Also, don't forget arrays start numbering at 0, not 1. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America

RE: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
You could certainly do this using, for example, ASP or ASP.NET to invoke ADSI/CDO interfaces. Thanks for the responses! I'll check into that - probably getting beyond the scope of this list now. But good to know in theory I could call a webservice to call ADSI Jason Merrill Bank of America

RE: [Flashcoders] Password Protected Webservice call - Help Please!

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Is the URL the full URL to the Webserice? i.e. import mx.services.* myWS = new WebService(http://www.bankofamerica.com/WebService/myWebService.asmx?WS DL) Who owns the webservice? Can they tell you if additional user name and password variables need to be attached to your URL string when you

RE: [Flashcoders] Password Protected Webservice call - Help Please!

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Also, I looked on the web, and the closest answer I could find was for a PHP solution, where the username and password are part of the URL since the HTTP directory may be password protected: //PHP script define('username', 'foo'); define('password', 'bar'); // This is location of the remote

RE: [Flashcoders] XMLAS vs XPATH

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Can anyone tell me the relative merits of XPATH vs XMLAS? What's XMLAS? A search for it on Google didn't turn up much. In regards to XPath, do you mean the xfactorstudios XPath classes, the built-in XPath stuff in the Flash 8 player, or the W3C XPath language standards? Jason Merrill Bank of

RE: [Flashcoders] Password Protected Webservice call - Help Please!

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
I've tried that, doesn't seem to work... So you know who owns the webservice and what the username and password is? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

RE: [Flashcoders] Password Protected Webservice call - Help Please!

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Found this - read this technote: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19226 Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options

RE: [Flashcoders] Password Protected Webservice call - Help Please!

2006-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Seems to me like you could do the same thing without PHP at all. Just use the username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax in your AS when making the web service call. The host browser should send along the login with the request. Jpsh if you look at my post a little closer, I wasn't suggesting PHP at

RE: [Flashcoders] polymorphism question (design)

2006-12-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
Don't be afraid to make a wrong first step. But more importantly, be fully prepared to fix a wrong first step. That's excellent advice Hank and I'll second it. I have never had a project that when finished, I didn't think, wow, if I could do this over again, I would do it 'this' way instead.

RE: [Flashcoders] Good External Actionscript Editor for Mac?

2006-12-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
(even so mac textmate pc sepy). Sorry to go a little off-topic for this thread, but what about Textmate vs. Flashdevelop on Windows (pc - that term is a bit oldskool IMO) ? For free editors, I haven't found one better than Flashdevelop. I used Sepy, Eclipse and SciTe Flash previously and have

RE: [Flashcoders] Senior Developer Posisition

2006-12-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yeah, good luck with that. It's a seller's market right now. I wouldn't take a senior level position for less than $US 85K a year. I think that was 35-40k in the UK - so not USD and not as bad as it sounds. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness

RE: [Flashcoders] Good External Actionscript Editor for Mac?

2006-12-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
I meant Textmate Mac vs. Windows Flashdevelop I realized after I sent that Textmate is Mac OS only. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent

RE: [Flashcoders] Multidimensional Object/Array Question

2007-01-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yeah, i don't touch AS2's xml api any more than I have to. I know there are other systems out there, but I find XPath does the job for me about 100% of the time. Here's a little tute I threw together for XPath: A little clarification I think is needed on that: 1) That's technically

RE: [Flashcoders] FileReference + ASP + FlashPlayer9

2007-01-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
We do it with Flash 9 and .ASP .NET and it works fine. Not sure about classic ASP - is that what you refer to? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Adobe download site slow

2007-01-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yes, I've noticed it being very slow the past month or so. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Cutting Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:32 AM To:

RE: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
that ain't that big. Maybe your internet sucks, though. There's only one internet. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
We investigated this recently. We found the easiest thing to do was create the drag interaction on a clip which has the standard horizontal orientation, and then rotate that clip. Constraining it to a sloped line was possible, but very tough to get smooth. Jason Merrill Bank of America

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle So y=mx+c doesn't give good results? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 05 January 2007 15:42 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Drag

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:16 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle Much like y = mx + b when determining the slope of a line. I think that was algebra... :) - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle You can project a perpendicular line from the mouse to the target line and then find the intersection. Stick the movieclip there. bingo. Merrill, Jason wrote: But he's talking about constraining a movie clip

[Flashcoders] iPhone Flash

2007-01-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Wow, see the iPhone just announced today from Apple yet? Drool!!. anyway, anyone know if the built-in Safari browser comes with the Flash player and if so, which version? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness

RE: [Flashcoders] Will the new iPhone run flash?

2007-01-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yeah, I think this phone runs circles around the other phones you mentioned, so even though it's not going to replace your 80GB iPod, but related to what you said, the features it has (due to the fact it's running OSX) will rock the industry and make it worth the price... and prices will come down

RE: [Flashcoders] iPhone Flash

2007-01-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Link(s)? www.apple.com Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] uploading and sending am messege back

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
Hi all I see that fash dosent have any way of sending back a messge from the server after upload is doen The onComplete event for the FileReference class works for me. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness

RE: [Flashcoders] as 3 help

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
Does anyone know if macromedia is going to add the help files to the flash 9 IDE? No, but Adobe will. Look at the Flex 2 docs online to see the the AS 3.0 docs. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___

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