Re: [Flashcoders] Calling native code from Flash

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Andrews
ocket server would then handle the requests and be able to process them natively. Again, there would be a huge latency compared to a native call. PHP eg: HTH, Best, Karl On Jul 19, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: On 19/07/2011 08:46, Gerry Beauregard wrote: Hi Paul, thanks f

Re: [Flashcoders] Calling native code from Flash

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Andrews
r flash to grab from. Best, Karl On Jul 19, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: On 19/07/2011 09:48, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Hi Gerry, Can you utilize php as a mediator? Flash<->PHP<->DLL I think there would be a huge latency, which would defeat the purpose. The fastest alternat

Re: [Flashcoders] Calling native code from Flash

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Andrews
On 19/07/2011 17:18, David Cohn wrote: Gerry, If you can go with an app, check out Zinc. It offers several system interfaces, including invoking DLLs directly: http://www.multidmedia.com/support/livedocs/ --Dave It attracted some poor comments at one time - I don't know if that has changed.

Re: [Flashcoders] SWF size reduction

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Andrews
On 17/09/2011 10:48, Gerry Beauregard wrote: Thanks for the quick feedback. Is there any way to tell the compiler that the SWF won't be loaded by another SWF, and that it's therefore safe to strip out unreferenced features? I think you're flogging a dead horse, on this one.. _

[Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Andrews
What's the best way to turn this: myXMLNode = < row id="a" /> < row id="b" /> < row id="c" /> ; into: < row id="a"> < row id="b" /> < row id="c" /> Using some E4X? It's not so much a case of adding b and c as children of a, but of removing them so I don't end up with: < row id="a"> <

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Andrews
ed- too much going on at once! Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect II Bank of America Global Learning ___ -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul An

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Andrews
l Learning ___ -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:54 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation On 11/10/2011 16:33, Merr

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Andrews
On 11/10/2011 17:38, Merrill, Jason wrote: Just trying to help. :) Yes, I appreciate it. Thank you. I don't know if this helps what you're trying to do, but I have found it much easier to parse XML data into value objects and vectors, then doing the data manipulations from there, rather th

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Andrews
remove them from their parent. What I really wanted to do was delete row.(@id=="b"). I should say that a better representation of what I wanted to do (just using e4X) is this: Make into: as you say deletion was the problem. Paul Hope this helps. Gle

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-14 Thread Paul Andrews
h Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Thanks - that works well and I hadn't considered using setChildren. It's a great solution that shows my simplification was too simple! If I have but want then it's closer to the real-life scenario and a bit harder. Thanks f

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-16 Thread Paul Andrews
On 16/10/2011 10:06, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote: Here's one way: var xml:XML = ; var ids:Array = ["a", "d"]; for each (var s:String in ids){ xml.row.(@id == s).children = xml.row.(@parent == s && @id != s); while(xml.row.(@parent == s && @id != s).length()) delete xml.row.(@parent

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-16 Thread Paul Andrews
On 16/10/2011 13:01, Paul Andrews wrote: On 16/10/2011 10:06, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote: Here's one way: var xml:XML = ; var ids:Array = ["a", "d"]; for each (var s:String in ids){ xml.row.(@id == s).children = xml.row.(@parent == s && @id != s)

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X XML manipulation

2011-10-16 Thread Paul Andrews
On 16/10/2011 14:16, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote: It's getting rather interesting :D var xml:XML = ; for each (var row:XML in xml.row){ if(row.@id != row.@parent){ xml..row.(@id == row.@parent).appendChild(row.copy()); delete xml.row.(@id == row.@id)[0]; } } trac

Re: [Flashcoders] animation memory leak ... please help

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Andrews
On 18/10/2011 21:46, Chris Foster wrote: If you're already manually removing event listeners and deleting created objects, and you really wanna nail this and don't mind spending a few hours learning something new then I totally recommend the Temple Library for ActionScript 3 by MediaMonks Th

[Flashcoders] Tween

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Andrews
I'm just thinking about the best way to do this (OK, the laziest way to do this). I have a MC at point A and want to tween it to point B. OK, no problem. But really, I don't want my MC to move in a straight line, I want it to oscillate - I guess as a damped (attenuated at both ends) sine curve

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Andrews
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. TweenMax and the Bezier has done the trick. I usually just plug away with TweenLite and I've not come across greensocks Bezier before. Thanks again. Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figl

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Andrews
On 07/11/2011 22:35, Nathan Mynarcik wrote: You can keep TweenLite if you need to cut down on filesize and use the below: import com.greensock.plugins.*; TweenPlugin.activate([BezierThroughPlugin, BezierPlugin]); And if you dont use one of those, just omit.

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash

2011-11-09 Thread Paul Andrews
On 09/11/2011 14:39, Henrik Andersson wrote: I see no reason why flash 11 would be the last player version. In fact, the article is quite clear that Adobe does not mind it if other parties were to port their players (providing they properly license it of course), just that they will no longer do

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash

2011-11-09 Thread Paul Andrews
r platform they have no choice for the most popular browser, so the fragmentation isn't down to them. The world doesn't stand still. On 9 November 2011 16:19, Paul Andrews wrote: On 09/11/2011 14:39, Henrik Andersson wrote: I see no reason why flash 11 would be the last player

Re: [Flashcoders] Using a Flash Component in a Flex AS3 Project

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Andrews
On 10/11/2011 19:18, Kerry Thompson wrote: This is for a Facebook game, so it has to be light--I can't use Flex components. So why are you using Flex? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/

Re: [Flashcoders] Using a Flash Component in a Flex AS3 Project

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Andrews
On 10/11/2011 21:17, Kerry Thompson wrote: Paul Andrews wrote: So why are you using Flex? For the FlashBuilder IDE. Flash can't hold a candle to FlashBuilder for writing code. The debugger alone is worth the price of admission. I still use Flash to do my layouts, and import the swf&#

Re: [Flashcoders] Using a Flash Component in a Flex AS3 Project

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Andrews
On 10/11/2011 23:59, Kerry Thompson wrote: Paul Andrews wrote: What about just using FB with the flash IDE - you can tell the IDE to use FB as a class editor. Hmmm... never thought of that. I like it. Is that Edit -> Preferences -> ActionScript -> ActionScript 3.0 Settings ->

[Flashcoders] nextFrame doesn't work

2011-11-13 Thread Paul Andrews
Well, of course nextFrame works, but only the first time around in an app I've been asked to look at (not my app). In this AS3 app targetting FP9, we have a bunch of nested movieclips. Interaction with the app involves dragging and dropping a movieclip to the right target then paging through a

Re: [Flashcoders] nextFrame doesn't work

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Andrews
Frame(); as an alternate option. Might create a pseudo reset that will allow the nextFrame() to function in the whole dynamics of your dilemma. JAT HTH, Karl On Nov 13, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: Well, of course nextFrame works, but only the first time around in an app I've bee

Re: [Flashcoders] nextFrame doesn't work

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Andrews
Thanks for the suggestion Karl. The mc contained components on seperate frames - the code above would let me access all children, but only of the current frame. My problem was an inability to change frame. Paul HTH, Best, Karl On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:08 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: On 14/11/2011 09:0

Re: [Flashcoders] nextFrame doesn't work

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Andrews
On 14/11/2011 10:15, tom rhodes wrote: is the playhead moving on a parent timeline? if you go to a keyframe in a parent timeline where there is a new instance of the MC you are manipulting then that cause cause you some problems. No, it wasn't moving. All fixed now through brute force. Even t

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Open Screen!

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Andrews
On 01/05/2008 15:19, Patrick J. Jankun wrote: Wow, seems Adobe makes a big turn! Anybody ready that already? Great news indeed, maybe finally we can drop that crappy flash ide :] http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200804/050108AdobeOSP.html Yes, 2008, all our yesterdays

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Open Screen!

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Andrews
On 22/11/2011 10:44, Paul Andrews wrote: On 01/05/2008 15:19, Patrick J. Jankun wrote: Wow, seems Adobe makes a big turn! Anybody ready that already? Great news indeed, maybe finally we can drop that crappy flash ide :] http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200804

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe is my down-ass chick

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/12/2011 10:01, Karina Steffens wrote: ios apps? Since when does the apple store allow apps compiled from Flash? If only... Since a long, long time. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mail

[Flashcoders] CS5.5 and FlashBuilder 4.6

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Andrews
To get FB 4.6 up and running, I had to remove AIR support for CS5 and CS5.5. Now FB4.6 runs fine, but I can no longer publish to IOS with CS5.5. I'm not sure which way to proceed with this. Any ideas? Thanks, Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashco

Re: [Flashcoders] Magic

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Andrews
It's been around for quite a while. I hate it when you can't just see how much something costs. It doesn't support actionscript, so in the interest of fairness, here's one that does: http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/index.html Again no connection. It would be great if there was a low

[Flashcoders] Retail sites

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Andrews
I've built retail front-ends using flash in the past and I'd like to learn a bit more about common practices for categorising stock and generating stock numbers. Where would I start? Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] I invite everyone to troll Apple's support forums

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Andrews
Count me out on that one. On 12/01/2012 21:53, Anthony Pace wrote: I know Apple will probably never allow Flash on their Mobile devices, and with Adobe backing out of Mobile the future of the Flash Player is looking grim; yet, I have been having a good old time bitching about it on their forum

[Flashcoders] Stability of flash debug plugin

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Andrews
I'm running the flash debug player - 11.1.102.55, usually on FF. It seems particularly prone to crashing when it comes across an error. It often dies whilst remote debugging. Anyone else see this? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figl

Re: [Flashcoders] Updating to 10.3 or 11 External player in cs5.5?

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Andrews
On 08/02/2012 18:38, Steven Hargrove wrote: Hi all, I've configured my cs5.5 IDE to compile to FP 10.3& 11. The problem is, when I test movie and run my SWF in the External test player - its still using 10.2. It compiles the SWF to the proper version, but it just makes it more difficult to test

Re: [Flashcoders] Updating to 10.3 or 11 External player in cs5.5?

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Andrews
On 08/02/2012 22:44, Peter Ginneberge wrote: Cos then you're not really debugging. In order to get trace output you'd have to start a Remote Debug Session. So instead of just doing "CTRL+Enter" you'd have to: - Publish (ALT+SHIFT+F12) - start Remote Debug Session (no shortcut) - switch to brows

Re: [Flashcoders] Stability of flash debug plugin

2012-02-10 Thread Paul Andrews
Thanks for the tips. FF10 does seem better! On 07/02/2012 17:55, Dennis Ernst wrote: It's been pretty bad. FF 10 seems to have improved the situation. To debug you have to think in short spurts or disable/lengthen the timeout on the plugin-container. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/P

Re: [Flashcoders] PDF files in Flash

2012-02-12 Thread Paul Andrews
On 12/02/2012 15:02, Dave Watts wrote: Has anyone heard of or has done this before? I have a client that wants a Flash app and one of the requirements is to be able to pull PDF's into the interface. There are some 80 different PDFs and he use to have a app built in Director using the PDF Xtra

Re: [Flashcoders] Large Images with Alpha Channel

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Andrews
On 11/02/2012 05:43, Ben Sand wrote: I'm working on a game with some large images (up to 4k x 4k) I might look at paging images that size - I guess they're backgrounds of some sort? For the transparency, I'd probably look at creating a shape to act as a mask, then you can create a MC or sprit

Re: [Flashcoders] Large Images with Alpha Channel

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Andrews
On 14/02/2012 22:01, Ben Sand wrote: On 14 February 2012 21:17, Paul Andrews wrote: On 11/02/2012 05:43, Ben Sand wrote: I'm working on a game with some large images (up to 4k x 4k) I might look at paging images that size - I guess they're backgrounds of some sort? Yes, backgr

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: MVC

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Andrews
Excellent job. I have one small point, on a practical level. For the views, in particular, I don't usually pass arguments to the constructor. It's not such a big deal for code-only examples, but in my flash world I mix my components between stuff created dynamically and things created in the

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: MVC

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Andrews
ion of not liking it - your example is perfect for a coded-only solution, slightly less practical when working in a mixed-mode with the Flash IDE being involved in view instantiation. On 16 February 2012 11:46, Paul Andrews wrote: Excellent job. I have one small point, on a practical level

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: MVC

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Andrews
On 16/02/2012 11:11, Paul Andrews wrote: On 16/02/2012 10:54, tom rhodes wrote: traditional vanilla MVC tends to use composition like the example given, check out robotlegs if you don't like it :) then you inject dependencies instead of passing them around and everything gets a bit more lo

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: MVC

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Andrews
istener(MouseEvent.CLICK, this.stage_clickHandler) } I definitely agree that Ross' example is the most succinct MVC example I've ever seen. Top job. On 16 February 2012 12:21, Paul Andrews wrote: On 16/02/2012 11:11, Paul Andrews wrote: On 16/02/2012 10:

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] 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] 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] 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
- 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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?

2008-04-16 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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] 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] 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

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
- 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 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] 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"

[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] 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

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] 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

[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] 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] 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 __

[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

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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.

[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] 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

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
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

[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
- 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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