RE: [Flashcoders] Finding the swf background colour

2006-02-07 Thread Mike Mountain
As with the FPS - but all the info is there - original to each swf, we just can't get at it - seems silly when we can get all the System.capabilities that we can't even get the most basic of info pertaining to the swf we're in. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] using flash for UI in applications

2006-02-02 Thread Mike Mountain
What's wrong with the new external interface api? M ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Seeking a bit of drawing API inspiration..

2006-02-02 Thread Mike Mountain
I missed the very first post - but is there a reaosn you're not using bitmap data to achieve this? (ie. Not flash 8?) M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 02 February 2006 13:16 To: Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] Seeking a bit of drawing API inspiration..

2006-02-02 Thread Mike Mountain
Be interesting to see the speed diff between rolling your own and having a circle in the libray (100px diameter, centered on the reg point) and simply attaching it and scaling to size. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
the opposite - that convolution is proving more cpu intensive than blurfilter? Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my tests convolution filter was much faster than a blurfilter. But it's an easy one to swap oout and test for yourself... Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
Interesting, it runs like a dog with blur filter on mine, fast and sweet as pie (a bit 'shaky' but not enough to be a problem) with convolution on my PC. You PC or Mac? M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cédric Muller Sent: 31

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
in IE convo is still faster - not got firefox at work so can't test. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of franto Sent: 31 January 2006 10:35 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance in your

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
I notice between lines 29 33 of your convolution version you have pushed a blurFilter into the filterArray It's blurring the individual item - the second time around blurs the entire canvas. This still means Blur + blur = slow on Pc/ fast on mac blur + convo slow on mac/fast on PC - if

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
In that test the convolution filter came out marginally faster than no filters at all! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Duguid Sent: 31 January 2006 13:05 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders]

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
Are these just the filters applied to a stright MC? It'd be interesting to see the same thing done double buffered - with the filters being applied to the bitmapdata before it is drawn back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
Yes - on my PC. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of franto Sent: 31 January 2006 13:21 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance but not on PC :)) On 1/31/06, Mike Mountain [EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Mountain
so, please wrote the times, its really strange Blur: 5622 Conv 3x3: 5625 Conv 5x5: 14453 None: 5640 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] ConvolutionFilter performance

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Mountain
In my tests convolution filter was much faster than a blurfilter. But it's an easy one to swap oout and test for yourself... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: 30 January 2006 10:03 To: Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] Easiest way to strip an MC of all it's filters?

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Mountain
I want to return an MC to it's original state What's the quickest way - setting the filter array to null or an empty array doesn't seem to reliably work. M ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Easiest way to strip an MC of all it's filters?

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Mountain
list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Easiest way to strip an MC of all it's filters? Mike Mountain wrote: I want to return an MC to it's original state What's the quickest way - setting the filter array to null or an empty array doesn't seem to reliably work. M

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: AMFPHP for commercial projects

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Mountain
I think Adobe (still not happy writing that) are happy with the legal ambiguity They don't come off as oppressing the little guy, but equally not many large commercial projects will take the risk of going down the amfphp route . M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: AMFPHP for commercial projects

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Mountain
Yeah, but subtle. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Britton Sent: 26 January 2006 15:50 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: AMFPHP for commercial projects If that is their approach, it inhibits AMFPHP

RE: [Flashcoders] Aliased text corruption problem

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Mountain
I get this with other fonts too...but it's more random - sometimes I get block artefacts as well. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Cutting Sent: 20 January 2006 13:17 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] Stolen content

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Mountain
At least one of the sites did give credit (the french one if I recall) although it was pretty much a cut and paste job... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Grden Sent: 19 January 2006 13:34 To: Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Mountain
Yup doesn't work for me anymore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller Sent: 14 December 2005 09:53 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me broken

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Mountain
instances of textboxes using the font. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Mountain Sent: 14 December 2005 10:04 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me Yup

RE: [Flashcoders] Displaying transcript on-screen for hearing-impaired

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Mountain
You can embed cue points in flash 8 flvs Then use these to trigger your subtitles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derivative Sent: 14 December 2005 16:26 To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Displaying

RE: [Flashcoders] Displaying transcript on-screen for hearing-impaired

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Mountain
Yeah - sorry what I meant was if you use the flash 8 video encoder tool there's a whole section in the setting devoted to cue points, event triggering etc. It's a bit easier to set up than the old MX04 way if I recall. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] debug tool?

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Mountain
I use Xray all the time - can only praise it, it saves me no end of time. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Grden Sent: 13 December 2005 04:33 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] debug tool? Hey Mike,

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Mountain
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerem Gülensoy Sent: 13 December 2005 14:24 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: AW: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me it still works fine for me...what

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading Xml from Flash over Http

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Mountain
Strange that this should come up, the other day my colleague was working on a file that used relative refferences loaded in from XML, it worked fine, the next day when he open it up it had stopped working - the fix we found was instead of: mydir/myfile.xml Was to use /mydir/myfile.xml The odd

RE: [Flashcoders] Convert .FLV to Quicktime

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Mountain
can you import the flv into the flash timeline and just export as quicktime? M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brumm, Mike Sent: 08 December 2005 23:09 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] Convert .FLV to

RE: [Flashcoders] FAQ Adobe acquisition of Macromedia

2005-12-07 Thread Mike Mountain
Our long-term plan is to develop a universal client by combining PDF, Flash and HTML in a single, integrated runtime. How does this differ from a browser? M ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] FAQ Adobe acquisition of Macromedia

2005-12-07 Thread Mike Mountain
So is this to target the 'Konfabulator' widget style market - or will my bank build me a custom app to do my online banking? The security and sandbox issues will be interesting here - the browser developers already have their hands full plugging holes - it'll be interesting to see Adobe tackles

RE: [Flashcoders] text effects similar to fonttwister product

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Mountain
Hi Rishi You've posted on this several times now with the same question and have been given good advice - ie. Check out the displacement map filter option. Your only other option is to get the array of pixels for an offstage text box and work out the transformations yourself and apply them to an

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 security settings tool

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Mountain
I may have been dreaming but I'm sure someone posted a link for a tool to disable the sandbox for flash 8 swfs running in embedded apps. Anyone repost? I know about the activeX settings, http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security_08.htm l but if we had a tool which

RE: [Flashcoders] water ripple

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Mountain
Andre Michelle has a beautiful example on his site - http://lab.andre-michelle.com/ See 'rain' and 'wate'r - there's no source but it looks like he's just using displacment maps You never know if you ask nicely he may send you the fla. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] DOS support for swf's

2005-11-28 Thread Mike Mountain
We have some LED dislays in the field that use very small res 16 colour VGA graphics, all the hardware that runs them is quite old. Hence we use old and bespoke software to create very small animation packages to run on these systems. I'm looking for a solution to unify some of our authoring

RE: [Flashcoders] Post awaiting for approval[OT]

2005-11-22 Thread Mike Mountain
Not sure flashcoders is the place to post asking for reviews - but as you asked.. I'd have preloader for all the apps - at the moment you can see them 'build' on screen - a place holder with a load bar would be a better way to hide the fact the images are still loading in, and reassure the user -

RE: [Flashcoders] embedFonts oddity

2005-11-21 Thread Mike Mountain
You've not got Auto kern turned on by any chance - I find it monkeys with dynamic text boxes to the point that it's useless. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judah Frangipane Sent: 18 November 2005 20:14 To: Flashcoders mailing

RE: [Flashcoders] embedFonts oddity

2005-11-21 Thread Mike Mountain
, Ian On 11/21/05, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've not got Auto kern turned on by any chance - I find it monkeys with dynamic text boxes to the point that it's useless. M ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Copying an MC as a bitmap

2005-11-21 Thread Mike Mountain
I'm sure I used to know how to do this but it seems to be eluding me... Say I have an MC (may be made up of text, vectors and bitmaps) on the stage or in the library and I want to copy it as a bitmap into a holder mc on the stage - how do I copy the MC's bitmap properties? In pseudo code

RE: [Flashcoders] Movie seems to unload?

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Mountain
Hi Stathi Just out of interest are you using a preloader toload your content in? That may explain the initial load followed by the error - try the content without the preloader - if that works your problem is in there somewhere. Cheers M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash

2005-11-07 Thread Mike Mountain
Prolly going to get shot down for this - but I don't see the point of using Flash and Ajax together - flash can do everything Ajax can and more, so if you're going to use flashthen 'use' flash. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash

2005-11-07 Thread Mike Mountain
Success won't be down to just ease of development or features, it will depend on backing from early adopters. Most sites that you'd think would benefit form an RIA (banking, shopping, auctions etc.) are still using fairly old (read reliable) set ups. They are more IA's than RIA's - sure we're

RE: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash

2005-11-07 Thread Mike Mountain
Correction www.rac.co.uk Best mapping tool going -Original Message- From: Mike Mountain Sent: 07 November 2005 12:37 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash Success won't be down to just ease of development or features, it will depend

RE: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash

2005-11-07 Thread Mike Mountain
Yep. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Romeny Sent: 07 November 2005 14:32 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash You mean map24.com (which powers rac.co.uk).

RE: [Flashcoders] Batch linkage jsfl command

2005-11-03 Thread Mike Mountain
var lib = fl.getDocumentDOM().library; if (lib.getItemProperty('linkageImportForRS') == true) { lib.setItemProperty('linkageImportForRS', false); } lib.setItemProperty('linkageExportForAS', true); lib.setItemProperty('linkageExportForRS', false); lib.setItemProperty('linkageExportInFirstFrame',

RE: [Flashcoders] Batch linkage jsfl command

2005-11-03 Thread Mike Mountain
Oh it does work, it just doesn't refresh the library view. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Mountain Sent: 03 November 2005 15:04 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Batch linkage jsfl command var

RE: [Flashcoders] Batch linkage jsfl command

2005-11-03 Thread Mike Mountain
Enabling the Export for ActionScript option automatically sets the linkage ID to the name (without path) of the symbol. So setting the linkageIdentifier isn't really required. Just a FYI :-) As per my example, no looping required...wonder if there's a way to refresh the library though

RE: [Flashcoders] Batch linkage jsfl command

2005-11-03 Thread Mike Mountain
Not quite - if you try the script I posted it doesn't update the library view with the linkage names until you click on them - even though it's done it's mojo. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: 03 November 2005 16:19 To:

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash player keeps 'downgrading' itself

2005-10-25 Thread Mike Mountain
More info: http://blog.fuelindustries.com/archives/000108.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Mountain Sent: 25 October 2005 09:46 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash player keeps 'downgrading

[Flashcoders] OT: Flash player keeps 'downgrading' itself

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Mountain
OK I know for sure I'm not the only one this is happening to, but I wanted to get a consensus of how common this is. My Flash player keeps silently reverting to version 7, I don't know if it's a website I visit forcing a silent 'downgrade', or something to do with my PC (win XP). Anyone else

RE: [Flashcoders] Fears and anxiety regarding Flex

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Mountain
Add some to that list: As2 currently compiles down to As1, I assume this is NOT the case with AS3, therefore to take advantage of the speed increases that player 8.5 offers, you have to develop in AS3? Flash's USP as far as I'm concerned is it's very easy to pick and and develop/design

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