Re: [Flashcoders] Error#1065

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Charles Parcell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:08 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Error#1065 Having read numerous past posts on this list, I am still not clear on how to fix the issue I have. If anyone is curiou

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Optimising file size - stripping down

2008-09-19 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Optimising file size - stripping down - Original Message - From: "SJF" &l

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Optimising file size - stripping down

2008-09-19 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "SJF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:10 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Optimising file size - stripping down Yes he was building components at the time, so maybe I have my wires crossed. Anyway, ignore the thread so far, what I wo

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Optimising file size - stripping down intrinsics...

2008-09-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "SJF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:12 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Optimising file size - stripping down intrinsics... Paul - I once worked with a guy who was building components for a large teen-focused community site (Co

Re: [Flashcoders] Optimising file size - stripping down intrinsics ...

2008-09-17 Thread Paul Andrews
I've often seen people trying to highly optimise file sizes and IMHO it's a wasted exercise unless there are very strict guidelines for file size or existing file sizes are highly excessive. I can't help but think that stripping away parts of core classes is overkill. There's has to be a better

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with "ExternalInterface.call" in AS2

2008-09-13 Thread Paul Andrews
A better strategy might be to have two swf stub loaders that do not change. The stub loaders will load the main movies (top.swf and bottom.swf). When one swf needs to load a different swf, it communicates that via a local connection and the loader can then load an alternative swf. No javascript

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with "ExternalInterface.call" in AS2

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Andrews
This exact same post was also crossposted on flash_tiger.. - Original Message - From: "Andy Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:11 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Problem with "ExternalInterface.call" in AS2 Hi List, New to the list so this is my first

Re: [Flashcoders] Help Please

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Eng. Omar Eltonoby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:41 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Help Please Hello, I'm trying to resize the created movie clip (via width and height) but that seems to have no effect. Is there any restriction

Re: [Flashcoders] Spinning world..

2008-09-06 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Zeh Fernando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:21 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Spinning world.. First thought was PaperVision3D, but I really wonder if it's up to doing the rotating globe with cities attached

[Flashcoders] Spinning world..

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Andrews
Today I took a spin around the FWA site www.thefwa.com and came across http://www.bartleboglehegarty.com/ where they have a sphere with cities attached to it and it responds to mouseover and drags, to control selection and rotation. Very nice. Usually I can make a good guess as to how a partic

Re: [Flashcoders] Singleton lookups vs Events ...

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "S0 F1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:16 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Singleton lookups vs Events ... Any thoughts on whether it's more efficient (in terms of development and player performance) to use Singleton's (with static pu

Re: [BULK] Re: [Flashcoders] Unloading an SWF in Flash andcontrollingthe loadedSWF

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Andrews
Susan, I suspect that you'll also have to use the removeChild() method to remove the loader from the display list. removeChild(loader); Otherwise the display list will still have a reference to the loader object and stop the object being garbage collected. Paul - Original Message ---

Re: [Flashcoders] Unloading an SWF in Flash and controlling the loadedSWF

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Andrews
Hi Susan, Check out the documention for the Loader() Class - you'll find that the loaded swf is a child of the loader. AS3 won't unload instances while there are any references to them. You can try unloading the loader - it won't be unloadable while the 'i' variable is refering to the instan

Re: [Flashcoders] Memory usage and bitmapdata issue in flash game design

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Beach Boy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:16 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Memory usage and bitmapdata issue in flash game design We have a huge movieclip of 5000 by 5000 pixels with different (transparant) layers. We can make an

[Flashcoders] Flash Player 9, https and firefox

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Andrews
I recently supplied some flash to a client who deploys it via dynamically created html pages (with sharepoint in the mix). The flash reads an xml configuration file. Natuarally during testing everything has worked without problem, however once deployed on the end-client site, https has become

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flash - cross-platform? really?

2008-08-13 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Ashim D'Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: Flash - cross-platform? really? Hate to push this around again, but I've been searching heaps for this to no avail. I found one r

Re: [Flashcoders] Saving user feedback to file

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Andrews
Adrian, Flash can't write directly to a file when running in a browser. If you run in a browser the only way to write to a file will be via a server component. You'll either have to use AIR and the AIR API to write the data away. The other alternative is a technology such as Zinc to give you a

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Destructors and Garbage Collection ...

2008-08-02 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Steven Sacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Destructors and Garbage Collection ... It's a dangerous business removing instances when there are still references to them. Che

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Destructors and Garbage Collection ...

2008-08-02 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "S0 F1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:11 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] AS3 Destructors and Garbage Collection ... What is the point of a class (one that is instantiated and used via composition within another class) having a destructo

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Andrews
I didn't think you were allowed to talk about the CS3 certification questions? - Original Message - From: "Kerry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Flash Coders List'" Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:40 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee Alan Skinne

Re: [Flashcoders] Best Practices for Flash Video and FlashSiteDelivery AS3

2008-07-25 Thread Paul Andrews
hough, I don't quite understand this. Does this method actually stop the error from occurring/interfering? Or does it simply hide it? Probably a stupid question but I would love some clarification. Thanks for the nice comments about the site. I really love developing in flash.

Re: [Flashcoders] Best Practices for Flash Video and Flash SiteDelivery AS3

2008-07-25 Thread Paul Andrews
Da.vid, First of all congratulations on a VERY impressive design. Your client must be impressed - I certainly am. Mostly it works well on my XP laptop. If you send out 15,000 email links to subscribers it's certain that with even the most perfect website, there may be complaints. Out of 15,0

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - MovieClip in MovieClip not showing

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Keith Reinfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Flash Coders List'" Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:53 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 - MovieClip in MovieClip not showing Hi Cor, If you comment out the lines where you are attempting to set the height and widt

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - MovieClip in MovieClip not showing

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:24 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 - MovieClip in MovieClip not showing Have you added the instance of LesViewer to the display list? He shouldn't have to, Les

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - MovieClip in MovieClip not showing

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Andrews
Have you added the instance of LesViewer to the display list? Paul - Original Message - From: "Cor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Flash Coders List'" Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:10 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] AS3 - MovieClip in MovieClip not showing I am trying to put some MovieClip in

Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Steven Sacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0 Everyone forgets their roots. Nobody remembers what it was like when they were first learning

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Andrews
Thanks Tim and Sunil - something to check out. Paul - Original Message - From: "tim shaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS Hi Paul, I've recently played around with Drupal as well because it's

Re: [Flashcoders] Why is amfphp cool?

2008-07-14 Thread Paul Andrews
First of all, is there any point in crossposting the same question across three lists? For simple uses, there's little point in using amfphp. If you have static data available in XML format, then for simple uses it's the preferred solution. Amfphp comes into it's own where there is a large a

Re: [Flashcoders] loop or if

2008-07-13 Thread Paul Andrews
i always being 2 doesn't make much sense (in the trace anyway). var i:Number = 2 ; btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, f1); function f1(e:MouseEvent):void { if (i < 10) { trace("i = " + i); i = i+2; } } Paul - Original Message - From: "Bassam M" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting url variables through AVM1Movie

2008-07-10 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Moshen Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:48 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Getting url variables through AVM1Movie Anyone know if it's possible to get url variables in a loaded swf that's being run in AVM1Movie? AS3->AVM1Movie->loa

Re: [Flashcoders] preloader problem - browser cache

2008-07-05 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Pavel Krusek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 9:51 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] preloader problem - browser cache Hi List, is there a way to determine in AS3 (or more precisely in preloader swf) if "main" swf is al

Re: [Flashcoders] filmmering FLV playback - why and how to fix that

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Andrews
I cant understand that I havent heard about this issue before! 2008/7/3 Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What settings did you give the encoder - maybe your bitrate is too high. It certainly stutters on my machine. Maybe you have too many keyframes. Paul - Original Message - From:

Re: [Flashcoders] filmmering FLV playback - why and how to fix that

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Andrews
What settings did you give the encoder - maybe your bitrate is too high. It certainly stutters on my machine. Maybe you have too many keyframes. Paul - Original Message - From: "Martin Klasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:03 PM Subject:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:35 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS I'm sorry, you're right - I read the thread to fast, I thought they said CVS, not CMS! Ah! I thought you had some cle

[Flashcoders] Actionscript Virtual Machine-1

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "namrita.srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS can anyone give me a link as to where can i find a knowledge base on - Actionscript Virtual Machine-1 ??? Would

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Andrews
e worked with Alfresco as well. XML makes things pretty easy to integrate although there are always hiccups you'll face. In which case, it's good to have some server side script on your side to translate if nessecary, especially with WebServices. 2008/7/2 Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Andrews
ongflashstrong-xml-editor/7588 Some others... http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/fcms/ http://fcmspro.com/ http://flashblocks.com/ http://www.flashden.net/item/simple-website-strongcmsstrong/1074 - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews To: Flash Coders List Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash & CMS

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Andrews
From what I've seen, most CMS platforms are (unsurprisingly) oriented towards HTML. I'm just checking that there isn't some Flash CMS gem out there that I'm not aware of. I can't help feeling that there's as much effort involved in bending Joomla (say) to be useful for flash as just rolling out

[Flashcoders] Flash & CMS

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Andrews
I just wondered if there was a favourite CMS that was popular for use with Flash applications, or (as I suspect) do most developers just roll their own with MySQL? Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig

Re: [Flashcoders] Warning: 3596: Duplicate variable definition.

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Andrews
What's the problem with "private var bSprite:IDESprite;" ? Paul - Original Message - From: "eric e. dolecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Warning: 3596: Duplicate variable definition. on a related note.

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-27 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Stuart Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:22 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Document viewer Hi, I have a project where I need the client to be able to view documents in the browser (PDF, Word, RTF and Excel). However, the requir

Re: [Flashcoders] question re: path for nested movies

2008-06-27 Thread Paul Andrews
I always use relative paths if possible. Helps avoid potential sandbox issues. The path will be relative to the loading swf. Why are relative paths an issue here? Paul - Original Message - From: "Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "flashcoders" Sent: Friday,

Re: [Flashcoders] switch statement more efficient than if...else?

2008-06-25 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "flashcoders" Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] switch statement more efficient than if...else? Hi guys quick question that came up in a conversation I had the other day

Re: [Flashcoders] stopping an AS2 MovieClip..

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Andrews
#x27;re using the Flex compiler and so using the [Embed] tag. Not sure how to achieve the same effect in CS3. Ian On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Ian Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Co

Re: [Flashcoders] stopping an AS2 MovieClip..

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Andrews
worth a try; you never know, it might cure a bunch of problems. Thanks Ian. CS3 seems a bit sniffy about loading some swfs into the library. One of my loader versions loads into the library, but another just doesn't. Hmm.. I love this particular project. Paul Ian On Thu, Jun 19, 20

[Flashcoders] stopping an AS2 MovieClip..

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Andrews
Despite some great help, I'm having some fun controlling my AS2 Movieclips from an AS3 project. The basic scenario (as before) is that I have AS3Project, AS2ProxySWF, AS2SWF The AS3Project loads the AS2ProxySWF. The AS2ProxySWF messages the AS3 Project to say that it's running. The AS3Projec

[Flashcoders] CS3 Restyling slider drag handles

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Andrews
I'm prepared for a Doh moment.. I've reassigned the style for an AS3 Slider drag thumb programatically. No problem - except that it's a bit squashed. Why is it squashing my replacement MovieClip? As an experiment, my perfect square is now an oblong. :-( Paul __

Re: [Flashcoders] Requesting Permission to Shoot Edelstar, Cap'n

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Andrews
I think he's already gone. No need to kill the list. Paul - Original Message - From: "BOYD SPEER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Requesting Permission to Shoot Edelstar, Cap'n Could someone please take the li

[Flashcoders] Streaming Video question

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Andrews
I've been developing a video player for a client. It looks as though the client may switch to using a streaming server. The video content is over an hour long, so I wonder if there is an optimal size/length we should be looking at for the video files. Previously, the video was split into a lot

Re: [Flashcoders] Haven't received emails.

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Andrews
It's not just you - almost a three day gap. Paul - Original Message - From: "Vlado Krempl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:25 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Haven't received emails. Hello everyone, I haven't received any flash coders emails for the past few day

Re: [Flashcoders] papervision3D 2 - great white

2008-06-08 Thread Paul Andrews
. So if you're trying to get your old code to work... you might have some trouble. If you're using it for the first time, you might want to find some code that the author is sure works, and test with that. Either way, http://papervision2.com/ has some decent first timer tutorials that c

Re: [Flashcoders] papervision3D 2 - great white[solved]

2008-06-08 Thread Paul Andrews
Oops, I had my classpath mixed up with an older version of PV3D.. - Original Message - From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:54 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] papervision3D 2 - great white I've

[Flashcoders] papervision3D 2 - great white

2008-06-08 Thread Paul Andrews
I've downloaded PV3D 2 - great white. Problem is that I'm unable to get the sources to compile cleanly (I've tried several revisions). It's not a case of compilation errors in my code - it's the PV3D 2 classes throwing up compilation errors. Anyone had problems, or better still, anyone with a

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Usage of [Event....]

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Andrews
Yes, it's pretty well explained in the Flex documentation: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Parts&file=metadata_141_09.html Paul - Original Message - From: "Helmut Granda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List"

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 2.0 (AS 3.0) question - knowing when aMovieClip is on it's last frame.

2008-05-30 Thread Paul Andrews
frame. Paul, This post includes sending data between AVM2 and AVM1 but it also shows manipulation of a movie clip. You could apply the same technique to the SWF PPT. http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/12/14/sending-data-from-avm2-to-av m1/ Rich http://www.LearningActionScript3.com On 5/3

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 2.0 (AS 3.0) question - knowing when a MovieClipis on it's last frame.

2008-05-30 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Ian Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS 2.0 (AS 3.0) question - knowing when a MovieClipis on it's last frame. Hello Paul, Regarding messaging an AS2 swf within an AS3 swf

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 2.0 (AS 3.0) question - knowing when aMovieClipis on it's last frame.

2008-05-30 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Dennis - I Sioux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS 2.0 (AS 3.0) question - knowing when aMovieClipis on it's last frame. ._totalframes would be the one then. In a onEnterframe..

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 2.0 (AS 3.0) question - knowing when a MovieClipis on it's last frame.

2008-05-30 Thread Paul Andrews
Thanks Glenn - I wan't worried about using the frame count, I just wondered if there was another mechanism I hadn't thought of. Unfortunately, I don't think this is acheivable from AS3 - it won't have access to control the AS2.0 clips timeline. Paul - Original Message - From: "Glen P

[Flashcoders] AS 2.0 (AS 3.0) question - knowing when a MovieClip is on it's last frame.

2008-05-30 Thread Paul Andrews
AS2.0 question: I have some AS2.0 swfs supplied to me (generated by captivate) that are loaded as part of my application. Unfortunately they don't have a stop() on the last frame, so they loop. Fortunately they are completely linear, so they play through from start to finish (and over again).

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex or Flash better for this?

2008-05-29 Thread Paul Andrews
Flex mxml is compiled into a swf and that is run - the mxml is not normally deployed, so dynamic updating of mxml is not normally done (there are server-side solutions to do that, but I wouldn't recommend them). Given what you've said about your application, unless you are able to use the flex

[Flashcoders] Powerpoint to swf

2008-05-29 Thread Paul Andrews
What are my best options for encoding individual slides (the complete presentation) to separates swfs? Would my options change if the controlling code were in As2 or AS3? Currently I realise that loading a converted AS2 swf into an AS3 project won't allow me to pause the swf mid-flight. Paul

Re: [Flashcoders] need help.. switch statement parameters

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "rlyn ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 4:35 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] need help.. switch statement parameters its giving me 1120 error on switch statement parameters.. "switch(event.target.selection.name) {" what am i missing on th

Re: [Flashcoders] Giving all objects new methods ...

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Andrews
You're already using inheritance, but probably should be using interfaces, which would allow you to add the tracer method to any class regardless of it's inheritance MyClass implements tracer rather than MyClass extends TracingClass. I can't help but wonder if you're confusing a class having

Re: [Flashcoders] merging data problem

2008-05-11 Thread Paul Andrews
Antony, try this... var workData:Array = new Array(); workData.push({pm:"Bob", resource:"Anthony", client:"Microsoft", role:"Developer", job:"XXX-", totalHours:40}); workData.push({pm:"Dan", resource:"Anthony", client:"Microsoft", role:"Developer", job:"XXX-", totalHours:50}); workData.

Re: [Flashcoders] How to check Recursive Function is finished

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Jason Lutes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to check Recursive Function is finished I occasionally place code at the end of the function to detect when it's not being invoked b

Re: [Flashcoders] How to check Recursive Function is finished

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Andrews
When you call a recursive function from outside of itself and the function returns, then it's finished. //definition function traceMe(n) { if (n<=5) { trace("This is the "+n+"th time that the function is run."); traceMe(n+1); trace("End of the "+n+"th function."); } } // call traceMe(1); // It

Re: [Flashcoders] Deleting Flash Vars

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Ketan Anjaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:59 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Deleting Flash Vars // delete the flash vars to prevent other swfs from accessing delete (root.loaderInfo as LoaderInfo).parameters; but

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex UIComponent disappears

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Phil Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:13 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Flex UIComponent disappears Hi, I am having an issue with a custom UIComponent disappearing after its display properties are changed (x,y,width,height), eithe

Re: [Flashcoders] open swf file inside the flash editor

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Gustavo Duenas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:16 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] open swf file inside the flash editor Ok, Coders, how is going long time no see. I was wondering if I can open the swf files inside th

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Jer Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem? hmmm, that's not so bad... I'm kinda partial to: myMovie.forceUnload() or myMovie

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-15 Thread Paul Andrews
I find it rather bizarre that people feel that it's necessary to beat a drum about this. I doubt that Adobe are sitting back on the issues raised. The thread has the Air of an hysterical mob. It's amazing how so many people have produced fantastic systems using Actionscript 3 in spite of the gl

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-14 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Steven Sacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem? I don't need other companies out there pushing competing technologies to be able to point out t

Re: [Flashcoders] TweenLite, AS2 and negative _xscale

2008-04-13 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:24 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] TweenLite, AS2 and negative _xscale My first outing with TweenLite (AS2). I've been donated a walk

[Flashcoders] TweenLite, AS2 and negative _xscale

2008-04-13 Thread Paul Andrews
My first outing with TweenLite (AS2). I've been donated a walk cycle for a project and it sits nicely in a MovieClip. The walk-cycle is facing left, so I can animate the MovieClip right to left using TweenLite. Perfect. Problem is that going the other way, I've tried flipping the MovieClip

Re: [Flashcoders] books for flash programming

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Kerry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Flash Coders List'" Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:45 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] books for flash programming Vlado Krempl wrote: I'm a designer who is getting more and more interested in programming and not jus

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Pedro Kostelec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3 "Sorry, my fault, sometimes I forgot I am on an international list. You would cry if you see a paycheck of

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-15 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "artur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "flashcoders" Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:36 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs. oh wise list, i have some off-shore flex developers that are looking to upgrade their capabiliti

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-15 Thread Paul Andrews
I disagree - many people are considering using a Mac for flash development, so it's far from useless. Useless to you doesn't mean useless to others. Paul - Original Message - From: "Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:44 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] clean scripting

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "flashcoders" Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:41 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] clean scripting hi just a semantic question really when writing your classes, would you only declare variables in the cla

Re: [Flashcoders] calculating distance between two points

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:53 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] calculating distance between two points Your teacher must be cringing! "The square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares

Re: [Flashcoders] calculating distance between two points

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Andrews
Aha - didn't know about that! Paul - Original Message - From: "Ivan Dembicki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Flash Coders List" Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] calculating distance between two points Or you can use new revolutionary

Re: [Flashcoders] calculating distance between two points

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Andrews
Your teacher must be cringing! "The square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the opposite two sides" should be familar.. ;-) Math.sqrt ( Math.pow(Math.abs(x1-x2),2 )+Math.pow(Math.abs(y1-y2),2 )+)) Paul - Original Message - From: "Lehr, Theodore M (N-SGIS)" <[EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging as3

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Helmut Granda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 7:26 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging as3 Well after hours and hours and hours the problem was the server, so it is all fixed now and the code works properl

Re: [Flashcoders] Placing variables in XML

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Andrews
BTW your xmlString is badly formed. Maybe it should be: var xmlString:XML = first="Mary" last="Roe"/> 99 Broad St. Newton MA 01234 ; Paul - Original Message - From: "Kenneth Kawamoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:20 PM Subject: R

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Database Issue - Need Advice

2008-01-27 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Omar Fouad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Database Issue - Need Advice Another Small Question... Can I Include MovieClips created in Flash inside a Flex Application?

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Database Issue - Need Advice

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Andrews
d Advice So to create an CMS I should use Flex... But it is possible to do it in flash too? I mean if I want to make more Interactive Interfaces, and transitions... On Jan 27, 2008 12:21 AM, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Omar Fouad&q

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Database Issue - Need Advice

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Omar Fouad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Database Issue - Need Advice What do you mean by "Whatever you fear about security using Flex is equally applicable to Fla

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Database Issue - Need Advice

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Omar Fouad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:23 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash and Database Issue - Need Advice Alright, it's been two years since I begun developing flash websites, but only now I understand

Re: [Flashcoders] How much memory elements on the display list take?

2008-01-19 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Matt S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:29 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How much memory elements on the display list take? On Jan 19, 2008 2:43 PM, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Flashcoders] How much memory elements on the display list take?

2008-01-19 Thread Paul Andrews
er and few years later the applications have to be rewritten because there was not a basic structure followed since the beginning. In the end it might be just a personal code style rather than a software developer question... thanks for chiming in. On 1/19/08, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] How much memory elements on the display list take?

2008-01-19 Thread Paul Andrews
Helmut, I think you are finding yourself a tricky way of building applications. If you can give us an idea of what you're trying to build I'm sure we can chime in with a lot of good ideas that will be easier than your current route. For example if you attach elements to a movieclip, you can

Re: [Flashcoders] Dispatch or Call?

2008-01-18 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:33 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Dispatch or Call? Well, it may seem like extra work, but by tying in directly to the other classes, you're tightly coupling your f

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:49 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options It's an example of a transformation of a small number of 3D objects (five, I think). When that count ri

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options In practice I doubt that flash will be able to handle complex models well and that most developers will

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:52 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options FYI - Swift3D now exports to Papervision, and provides the code for you, so you can easily do real 3D

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options I don't think it's a papervision game or 3D game at all. You have

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and 3d asset options

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Andrews
I don't think it's a papervision game or 3D game at all. You have 3D looking graphics with movieclips animated over it. They may be 3D models or artist drawn cycles. I don't have experience of the Swift3D 3D studio exporter, but I know of the Lightwave one. It doesn't export a 3D model, it expo

Re: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question

2007-12-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Muzak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question Avoid states.. they're hard to maintain, control, etc.. Look into using ViewStacks and controling

Re: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question

2007-12-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "ben gomez farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:07 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question First of all, I'll ask this Where is that flexcoders list you all talk about?

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash mx 2004 developer Certification Info

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Andrews
I think you mean: http://www.forta.com/books/0321256026/ Any particular reason you are looking for certification for MX2004 and not Flash Professional 8? Eventually the MX2004 certification will be phased out. Paul - Original Message - From: "Keith Reinfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

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