[Flashcoders] Using BitmapData.draw() with masked items

2011-07-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey folks I'm having an issue with BitmapData.draw(). If i try to use it on a masked item, i get strange results (usually nothing). If i unmask the item first, i get a result as expected but obviously no mask. Is there any way to do both? I'm thinking I'll have to loop through all of the pixels

Re: [Flashcoders] Using BitmapData.draw() with masked items

2011-07-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hmm interesting - okay - i'll give that a shot best a On 28 July 2011 17:12, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Sounds like the classical mask not being in a display list issue, but in a new variation. Ensure that both the mask and the maskee is in the container passed to the

Re: [Flashcoders] Using BitmapData.draw() with masked items

2011-07-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
the rectangle whichever dimensions you care about, but that might do it... On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:26 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hmm interesting - okay - i'll give that a shot best a On 28 July 2011 17:12, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37

Re: [Flashcoders] PureMVC vs Cairngorm // who's better?

2011-07-14 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i have my own and use puremvc but robotlegs is the industry standard now (and has certainly taken over from both puremvc and cairngorm). if you're starting off, go robotlegs best a On 24 June 2011 08:04, Ross Sclafani ross.sclaf...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote my own MVC package. On Jun 23, 2011,

Re: [Flashcoders] Question regarding Bitmap distorting bottom half of Stage elements

2011-06-20 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
sounds like you need to use 2 bitmaps drawn with copypixels and a clipping rectangle to capture the correct half and scale the bottom half with something like the flash and math BitmapTransformer http://www.flashandmath.com/intermediate/gummy/ hope this helps a On 16 June 2011 20:48, Eric E.

[Flashcoders] AS3 request headers

2011-06-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey folks does anyone know if there is a way for flash to simply view the http headers, for instance to see if a json object has been updated before actually downloading it please? thanks in advance A ___ Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] Re: AS3 request headers

2011-06-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ah never mind - i got it http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/URLRequestHeader.html best a On 9 June 2011 18:47, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hey folks does anyone know if there is a way for flash to simply view the http

[Flashcoders] rotate along a path using sine curve

2011-05-26 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey folks i'm trying to get some objects to move along a sine curve on the z axis but i'm having a bit of trouble with the rotationY - i'd like the objects to align along the path so they're always facing 90 degress to the direction they're travelling but they seem to want to keep rotating in

RE: [Flashcoders] rotate along a path using sine curve

2011-05-26 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) Sent: donderdag 26 mei 2011 18:52 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] rotate along a path using sine curve hey folks i'm trying to get some objects to move along a sine curve on the z axis but i'm having a bit

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flushing Socket data when TCP-connection suspends and then resumes

2011-05-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
What was the issue? On May 19, 2011 2:07 PM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Nevermind, found 1 issue in my server... ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] stageListeners in as2.0

2011-05-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hi I take it this is as2 Usually to center a clip, I would use the following : clip.x = Stage.width / 2 - clip.width / 2; clip.y = Stage.height / 2 - clip.height / 2; Other than that I would start looking at how you're scoping your code by using trace(this) within your functions to see if

[Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hey folks Every time I do a big search I seem to get a LOT of as2 links and when I add as3 into the search terms I keep getting links to either a page offering up a bunch of generic documentation pages (ie not direct links to the class I'm looking for) or I get class documentation pages that are

[Flashcoders] Facebook Actionscript Graph API and explorer

2011-04-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hi guys I'm trying to use the Facebook Actionscript graph api but I seem to be having problems in IE (other browsers like chrome and firefox seem okay so far). From what i can tell, it's logging in fine and returning the user id but when i do a lookup on that user with Facebook.api(_user,

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript Framework

2011-04-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey are you using actionscript or mxml? a On 15 April 2011 07:33, Vedanayagam G vedanaya...@nanonino.info wrote: Hi to all,, Any body ill help me for how to get x axis and y axis value in flex mobile project... need to get axis value for image Example: im having world

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript Framework

2011-04-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi sina for loading assets, I would look at LoaderMax (especially if you've ever had any experience with tweenlite or tweenmax as it's written by the same guys) if you're also after a full blown framework, a lot of people recommend either robotlegs or puremvc so i'd receommend looking at these

[Flashcoders] [SOLVED] facebook actionscript graph api - post to /feed

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
; urlRequest.variables = variables; var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); urlLoader.load(urlRequest); On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:14 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hi guys i'm having a bit of trouble with the facebook actionscript graph api

[Flashcoders] Re: [SOLVED] facebook actionscript graph api - post to /feed

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
); else trace(fail); } Thanks in advance a On 15 April 2011 10:43, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys found the problem(s) - i hadn't added the access_token to the params and it didn't like the actions{} object (although Facebook.ui was quite happy

[Flashcoders] Re: [SOLVED] facebook actionscript graph api - post to /feed

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
say how you would go about doing that (!!!) thanks in advance A On 15 April 2011 12:13, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Do you know if it's possible to retrieve user ids from the request_ids array returned by the Facebook.ui(apprequests, ) dialogue

[Flashcoders] Re: [SOLVED] facebook actionscript graph api - post to /feed

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
a On 15 April 2011 12:14, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: the documentation seems to say that it can: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/ http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/The content of a request object

[Flashcoders] facebook actionscript graph api - post to /feed

2011-04-14 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys i'm having a bit of trouble with the facebook actionscript graph api While i can get posting to /feed to work with Facebook.ui, (does a facebook popup), i can't seem to get it to work with Facebook.api here is my code: var values:Object = { name:This is my title,

[Flashcoders] Re: xliff and as3

2011-04-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi did anyone have any thoughts on this? thanks a On 8 April 2011 12:19, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hi guys i am currently working on a large as3 project that will require quite extensive localization and we're looking at using xliff as the standard

[Flashcoders] xliff and as3

2011-04-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys i am currently working on a large as3 project that will require quite extensive localization and we're looking at using xliff as the standard to make this simple. If i was using the flash IDE, i'd use the strings panel to simplify this down nicely but as i'm using flashdevelop, i can't

[Flashcoders] LoaderMax retrieve content multiple times

2011-04-01 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi folks quick question regarding loadermax - does anyone know if it's possible to retrieve multiple copies of the same loaded image as you can with bulkloader? thanks a ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: quiet in here at the moment

2011-03-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
http://www.greensock.com/flash-html5/ http://www.greensock.com/flash-html5/ On 8 March 2011 18:00, dave matthews davidmatthews_...@hotmail.com wrote: quiet in here at the moment... Flash has been losing steam for a long time. The base of noobies got away from Adobe. The tools are too

[Flashcoders] quiet in here at the moment

2011-03-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
everyone still alive? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Form inside a Google Flash Banner :: Possible?

2011-02-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you'll be better of contacting google but as far as i'm concerned, as long as your crossdomain.xml on the site with the script is correct, you shouldn't have any worries that said, what you're describing is really sounding like a rich media banner best On 1 February 2011 16:43, artur

Re: [Flashcoders] Form inside a Google Flash Banner :: Possible?

2011-02-01 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
shouldn't be a problem afaik. The only issues you will run into will be security sandbox stuff which you'll need to set on the domain that the form script resides on. I would speak to google about resolving security issues on the banner itself best a On 31 January 2011 18:47, artur

[Flashcoders] Facebook API implementations

2011-01-14 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey guys i have a couple of questions regarding using the facebook api that i'd like cleared up if possible. We're looking at settling on a set of classes to work with the facebook api. We've previously used the set up detailed in

Re: [Flashcoders] loadermax load issue?

2010-12-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
at http://www.greensock.com/loadermax-tips/#10 -Original Message- From: allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) [mailto:alla...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:15 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] loadermax load issue? hey all just wanted to run something

Re: [Flashcoders] loadermax load issue? [UPDATE]

2010-12-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi jack just a quick update - we've tried turning the auditing off and setting the bytesLoaded but neither has fixed the issue we're going to try editing the headers of the xml best a On 7 December 2010 11:43, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hey jack

[Flashcoders] loadermax load issue?

2010-12-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey all just wanted to run something by you guys before i went to greensock. We've started using LoaderMax in house and we're starting to get some weird load errors (or lack thereof) we're adding everything into the queue manually, setting event listeners and starting the queue and everything

Re: [Flashcoders] pureMVC, swfaddress and multiple proxies

2010-11-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
at? On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hi guys i'm in a studio that has been looking at various frameworks and have settled on pureMVC due to the large preinstalled userbase (i would have preferred to go straight to robotlegs

Re: [Flashcoders] Counting xml attributes

2010-11-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
yep var listAttribs:XMLList = myxml.t...@*; trace(listAttribs.length()); best a On 8 November 2010 13:42, Lehr, Theodore ted_l...@federal.dell.com wrote: Is there a way to return the attributes name of an xml node? So if I have: tag a=1 b=2 c=3/ I would get back: a, b, c

Re: [Flashcoders] Counting xml attributes

2010-11-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
oops var listAttribs:XMLList = myxml.t...@*; var noOfAttribs:int = listAttribs.length(); var attrib:XML; for (var i:int = 0; i noOfAttribs; i++) { attrib = listAttribs[i]; } On 8 November 2010 13:58, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: yep var

Re: [Flashcoders] Counting xml attributes

2010-11-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
that? From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [ flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) [alla...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 9:00 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Counting xml attributes oops var

Re: [Flashcoders] Saving to clipboard

2010-11-02 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
possibly? http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/desktop/Clipboard.html On 2 November 2010 14:28, Lehr, Theodore ted_l...@federal.dell.com wrote: So I have a button that will save a mc as a jpg - what I am wondering is is there a way to save a mc so someone could just

Re: [Flashcoders] MAX

2010-10-26 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
* Game controller support * Hardware accelerated 3D there's a combo and a half for you a On 26 October 2010 10:01, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Merrill, Jason skriver: And don't forget the free Droid 2s they gave us and Martha Stewart paying a visit. :) I didn't those

Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)

2010-10-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i'm on the fence On 21 October 2010 09:41, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: John Goodman skriver: ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders I agree.

[Flashcoders] pureMVC, swfaddress and multiple proxies

2010-10-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys i'm in a studio that has been looking at various frameworks and have settled on pureMVC due to the large preinstalled userbase (i would have preferred to go straight to robotlegs but i guess that using puremvc will give me some history with mvc implementations other than my own) i'm

Re: RE: [Flashcoders] FLV audio doesn't stop

2010-10-01 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hey jason I think you're falling foul of the way that flvplayback creates new Video objects every time you add a new stream without destroying the previous streams. You also cannot kill your last one if you only have one left which I think causes issues like yours but I think you can use

Re: [Flashcoders] Embedding Fonts, it should be easy...., right!

2010-09-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i've also found problems if you don't use the actual names (which can be viewed in the flash ide) for the font (which can be the same as long as the weights are different and matching the names in ) here is a sample from a font embed class that i used on a recent project note: the fontName for

Re: [Flashcoders] PureMVC or RobotLegs ?

2010-09-14 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
we've just moved from custom mvc frameworks to pureMVC but if it was left up to me it would be RobotLegs a On 13 September 2010 21:19, Karim Beyrouti ka...@kurst.co.uk wrote: Ah - yes, the cool icon must learn robotlegs... once you know an MVC framework - in theory i guess it more or

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple backing off. Why?

2010-09-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
there's a bit of a developer exodus from iOS to android at the moment (certainly they're learning to use android alongside it) http://www.techeye.net/mobile/developers-migrate-from-iphone-to-android-in-droves / http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/5514-here-comes-the-android-gold-rush

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple backing off. Why?

2010-09-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
agreed On 10 September 2010 17:41, Carl Welch carlwelchdes...@gmail.com wrote: I don't believe apple really gives a crap about developers. We can thank the FTC probe for their sudden change of policy. I still feel burnt by Mr. Jobs. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:05 AM, allandt bik-elliott

Re: [Flashcoders] Best (fastest/memory efficient) way to animate bitmaps

2010-09-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i was always under the impression that the best way of doing that (for games sprite animations for instance) is bitmap 'blitting' where you use a tilesheet and then use bitmap draw to pull the current frame you want to show into your actual sprite a quick search turned this up which looks pretty

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
how does cs5 generate files for iphone? Does it create a swf and then use a cocoa framework to make it work or does it transcode the file directly into objective c? suddenly looks very interesting again a On 9 September 2010 14:46, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
www.mynarcik.com On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Kurt Dommermuth k...@kurtdommermuth.com wrote: shit. I don't want to read their damn agreement. What the hell does this mean? On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:59 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
) or objective C code being generated. Zeh On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:59 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: how does cs5 generate files for iphone? Does it create a swf and then use a cocoa framework to make it work or does it transcode the file directly

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
the downloaded code thing prevents oracle from creating a jvm and adobe from creating flash plugin although why they need it as it's already in their eula a On 9 September 2010 17:27, Kurt Dommermuth k...@kurtdommermuth.com wrote: Exactly. I don't think XML would be considered code, but they

[Flashcoders] free fdt pure from facebook group

2010-08-16 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys i'm just doing this myself but it seems that powerflasher is giving away fdt pure until the end of the month. It's a bit like the way adobe was giving flexbuilder away during the flashbuilder beta and the way drug dealers give away a free sample to get you hooked from the site: *Sign-up

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting the url where my Flash movie was embeded

2010-08-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i think your best bet is to write a javascript function that returns window.location.href and then use the ExternalInterface class to call that function within the flash best a On 12 August 2010 10:51, Pedder b_gro...@gmx.de wrote: Hey all together, i was wondering if i can get the url where

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting the url where my Flash movie was embeded

2010-08-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
or you could do it all from within flash using var:urlPath:String = ExternalInterface.call(“window.location.href.toString”); On 12 August 2010 11:29, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: i think your best bet is to write a javascript function that returns

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting the url where my Flash movie was embeded

2010-08-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
like cannot access http://www.facebook.com...; So, i now make the call with a try block and parse the error message with a regex and get my wanted url. Yeah! Thank you! Chris Am 12.08.2010 um 12:30 schrieb allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com): or you could do it all from within flash

Re: [Flashcoders] I have a drag and drop question.

2010-08-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
make sure you turn mousechildren to false on all your draggable items to make sure that you're testing against the same object each time a On 12 August 2010 15:11, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: I have given the target object the same name as (possible more then 1) dragobject(s). So now I am

[Flashcoders] [worked around] flvplayback fullscreen button

2010-08-04 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
2010 19:14, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hi folks i'm having a really wierd error when i hit the fullscreen button for my flvplayback implementation TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at fl.video

[Flashcoders] [SOLVED] flvplayback fullscreen button

2010-08-04 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
of the flvplayback instances will try to react to it in their own way and if they are set to take over the screen, they will fight the player we actually want to use if it doesn't. ouch - 2 hours i'll never get back a On 4 August 2010 10:48, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] Question on variable init in a for loop

2010-08-04 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
no that's correct but id should be declared outside of your loop - as3 will actually give you a duplicate variable error for putting it inside the loop. you can also refer to your iterator (i) after the loop is done i'd rewrite your function like this var arObj:Array = [{},{}] function

[Flashcoders] flvplayback fullscreen button

2010-08-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi folks i'm having a really wierd error when i hit the fullscreen button for my flvplayback implementation TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at fl.video::UIManager/

Re: [Flashcoders] Combat Game in flash

2010-07-27 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
pleasure :) On 27 July 2010 06:47, Sumeet Kumar sume...@sebiz.net wrote: Thanks a lot. The link really helped. - Original Message - From: allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6

Re: [Flashcoders] Combat Game in flash

2010-07-26 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
You could try somewhere like flashkit.com if you're after samples On 26 Jul 2010 10:20, Sumeet Kumar sume...@sebiz.net wrote: Hi All, We are developing a one to one combat game(sword fighting). We are planning to use AS3.0 and Flash cs4. Are there any tutorials/sample code available for help?

Re: [Flashcoders] Help with first class

2010-07-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
after a quick glance i'd recommend a couple of things: see if you can break your application into smaller chunks that interact with each other rather than have a single class - one of the benefits of oop is being able to visualise the problem as distinct tasks that are handled by separate objects

Re: [Flashcoders] Help with first class

2010-07-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
, for instance) and will help you work out whether a variable is available outside the class at a glance a On 7 July 2010 14:26, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: after a quick glance i'd recommend a couple of things: see if you can break your application

Re: [Flashcoders] Help with first class

2010-07-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
does this line work? DynaBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,DynaBtnRollOverHandler(CityNum)); i wouldn't have thought it would (by using the brackets you are calling that function straight away) it should be DynaBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,DynaBtnRollOverHandler); }

[Flashcoders] FLVPlaybackCaptioning - nicer transitions?

2010-07-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey guys hopefully this is just a quickie for the right guy - i am using the FLVPlaybackCaptioning component to provide subtitles for my video but i'd like it to fade in / out. i've tried using the CaptionChangeEvent .added accessor but unfortunately that is fired when the component removes the

Re: [Flashcoders] How to rotate dynamic textfield

2010-07-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
to do any kind of rotation / alpha transforms on a textfield, you need to have the fonts embedded in the textfield tf.embedFonts = true; (note the font should be embedded in the swf somehow - the simplest method is to have a textfield off-stage with all the characters you want embedded into it)

Re: [Flashcoders] How to rotate dynamic textfield

2010-07-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
to do any kind of rotation / alpha transforms on a textfield, you need to have the fonts embedded in the textfield your text will disappear otherwise On 6 July 2010 11:16, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: I don't need a textfield on stage to embed. I adjusted my Test.as: package { import

Re: [Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts: Works in CS4, Fails in CS5?

2010-06-29 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Out of interest try it with a different font - I've had all sorts of problems embedding Arial in the past On 28 Jun 2010 20:34, Bill S. lists...@fo.com wrote: Hi Karl. I did try all combos of arial, Arial, _arial before asking. And the fontname in the ttf itself is Arial. Also, the exact same

[Flashcoders] physics engines - which do you recommend?

2010-06-25 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys bit of a high level / preference question really - we've been tasked with finding a physics engine and i was wondering which ones you guys prefer? Which are compatible with other tech (like 3d), which are the most flexible and which are the simplest? the ones we're looking at (but

Re: [Flashcoders] custom flv controls

2010-06-25 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
check the skins again - there is definitely a couple with fullscreen in a On 25 June 2010 10:17, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: I could have sworn that there was a skin with a fullscreen option. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] Tweener still in development

2010-06-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys does anyone know if tweener is still being developed as the updates seem to have gone quiet for the last year(ish)? thanks a ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweener still in development

2010-06-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
...@ipauland.com wrote: On 24/06/2010 11:58, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: hi guys does anyone know if tweener is still being developed as the updates seem to have gone quiet for the last year(ish)? I used to use Tweener, but have jumped to TweenLite and family thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweener still in development

2010-06-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
That between as3 demo literally tore my face off - i didn't think it was possible to get faster than tweenlite On 24 Jun 2010 17:27, Ktu ktu_fl...@cataclysmicrewind.com wrote: If you like stricter more OO code, you can try GTween from Grant Skinner. Not quite as fast in performance as the

Re: [Flashcoders] Reverse Compiling

2010-06-22 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
can i recommend installing a subversion server into your workflow to avoid future problems? a On 22 June 2010 15:30, Matt Perkins nudoru.m...@gmail.com wrote: You can decompile it using 3rd part tools but the results aren't perfect. I've used SoThink's Decompiler in the past the edit vendor

Re: [Flashcoders] Reverse Compiling

2010-06-22 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
You might want to check out versions On 22 Jun 2010 18:17, Kerry Thompson al...@cyberiantiger.biz wrote: Gustavo Duenas wrote: how can I install a subversion server on a mac? Do you want an SVN client on a Mac, or do you want to have a Mac SVN server? I've installed SVN on a Linux server, and

Re: [Flashcoders] Free FDT Course

2010-06-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
do they give fdt away for the same price? a On 21 June 2010 15:40, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: This is an excellent course, and free for the moment - but probably not for long: Advanced ActionScript Development with FDT Choose the one with no price:

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 flvPlayback seekbar

2010-06-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey i'm just about to implement another one of these (i used a skin for that last project in the end) so i'll no doubt come across the same issue again - i'll be able to better test the events then a On 17 June 2010 18:45, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: hey

[Flashcoders] as3 flvPlayback seekbar

2010-06-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey guys i usually use a Video class with a netstream object to show video but i've been trying to implement the (supposedly) simpler flvplayback component because of the extra functionality that it provides (like variable streams and metadata cuepoints in f4vs) however i'm trying to add a

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 flvPlayback seekbar

2010-06-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
whichever version ships with that best a On 17 June 2010 17:53, Bob Wohl bob.w...@gmail.com wrote: What version is the FLVPlayback? Have you tried using a simple skin to see if that works as expected? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:42 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Creating an XML Request

2010-06-16 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
there's this http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/XML.html#elements() http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/XML.html#elements()you should also search for e4x wildcards if you want to search for a list of nodes that have a common attribute it's

Re: [Flashcoders] targeting mc

2010-06-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
trace this that calls detailsname.visible = true; a On 11 June 2010 14:53, Lehr, Theodore ted_l...@federal.dell.com wrote: So I am rolling over one mc to impact another and I am trying: function showDetails(e:Event):void { this[details+e.currentTarget.name].visible=true; } why does

Re: [Flashcoders] targeting mc

2010-06-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
things to trace this e.currentTarget.name e.target.name.name (e.currentTarget as DisplayObject).name best a On 11 June 2010 15:06, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Cor wrote: Not sure what or how your object which fires the event looks like? But try:

Re: [Flashcoders] targeting mc

2010-06-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
bugger e.target.name http://e.target.name.name/ http://e.target.name.name/not e.target.name.name On 11 June 2010 15:11, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: things to trace this e.currentTarget.name e.target.name.name (e.currentTarget as DisplayObject).name

Re: [Flashcoders] targeting mc

2010-06-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
also - have you set mouseChildren = false on the items that fire the event if you don't need mouseevents from the children On 11 June 2010 15:12, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: bugger e.target.name http://e.target.name.name/ not e.target.name.name On 11

Re: [Flashcoders] Realaxy ActionScript Editor public beta

2010-06-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
interesting - thanks On 9 June 2010 16:42, Piers Cowburn m...@pierscowburn.com wrote: wow. On 9 Jun 2010, at 16:16, Ivan Dembicki wrote: Hello flashCoders, Realaxy ActionScript Editor public beta released. http://realaxy.com -- iv http://www.bezier.ru

Re: [Flashcoders] another flash without flash library

2010-06-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
it's further ahead than gordon - i think it's a good start On 2 June 2010 00:09, Peter B pete...@googlemail.com wrote: Shame it doesn't supporet anu of the really ineteresting stuff Flash does though. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] XML and htmlText

2010-06-01 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i think that textfields treat returns (\n or \r) in what it expects to be html text as whitespace i'd recommend wrapping any html in ![CDATA[ ]] and just inserting them wholesale rather than getting them as children of a node so thexml mynode![CDATA[pThis is a test. emDo not adjust your

[Flashcoders] another flash without flash library

2010-06-01 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
http://smokescreen.us/ js lib converts flash to svg and html5 they've said they will be open sourcing the project soon works pretty okay on my iphone as well a ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] right to left text in fp9 using xml

2010-05-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys can anyone give me any pointers as to how to support right to left text like arabic in a as3 fp9 site i've done please? my xml is all utf-8 if that makes a difference? thanks guys a ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] union 1000-user free licence announced (multiuser dev platform)

2010-05-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
sweet - now let's get win-gee to re-release his junglewar game and we're set :D a On 28 May 2010 06:12, co...@moock.org co...@moock.org wrote: greetings flashcoders. at fitc, we recently announced a free 1000-user licence for union: http://www.unionplatform.com/?p=1115 also, this week,

Re: [Flashcoders] right to left text in fp9 using xml

2010-05-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
+ _fteContainer.numChildren + at x,y + textLine.x + , + textLine.y); prevLine = textLine; } addChild(_fteContainer); } On 28/05/2010 10:36, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: hi

Re: [Flashcoders] Loader.unload not freeing the memory

2010-05-27 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
isn't unload buggy still? http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/04/failure_to_unlo.html http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/04/failure_to_unlo.htmla On 27 May 2010 13:55, Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.uk wrote: Also note that Flash will only free up memory it thinks it needs

Re: [Flashcoders] Papervision 3d help

2010-05-27 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
yeh you're going to have to get heavily into some as3 - there's no half measures with pv a On 25 May 2010 21:26, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.comwrote: You need to download the Papervision3D library. And you have to know how to use Papervision - you can't just apply small little

Re: [Flashcoders] Oh the irony

2010-05-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i think that adobe should concentrate on 2 areas - the air runtime for application development and the canvas tag for web deployment at the sxsw conference, the adobe flash guy was getting a lot crap over the canvas tag and he eventually responded with the none-too-indecipherable statement that

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: changing parent from child

2010-05-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
definitely - parents call public methods on children, children fire events to inform parents to call methods i never call parent functions from a child a On 11 May 2010 18:15, jonathan howe jonathangh...@gmail.com wrote: As soon as you removeChild on child1, it loses the reference to the

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: PDFs, HTML5 and iPads

2010-05-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
http://www.t3.com/news/amazon-mp3-store-launches-android-app?=43281 http://www.t3.com/news/amazon-mp3-store-launches-android-app?=43281i prefer the amazon mp3 store on the desktop anyway - i don't know how good it is on android but the promise is there at least a On 11 May 2010 18:42, Dave

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
one of the best comments on digg: [quote] iTunes and Quicktime are absolute piles of shit. People talk about Flash crashing a browser? Quicktime is just as bad. Complete shit. iTunes is just as bad as Outlook when it comes to bloatware. Not to mention a horrible to use piece of software.

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ah just re-read the article - this is a javascript framework so nothing to see i guess? a On 10 May 2010 10:19, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: one of the best comments on digg: [quote] iTunes and Quicktime are absolute piles of shit. People talk about

Re: [Flashcoders] debugging Flash apps

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i use flashdevelop, the debugger plugin for firefox and a console logging class that i wrote which i pick up using firebug in firefox a On 8 May 2010 09:01, Jim Andrews j...@vispo.com wrote: I tend to use MonsterDebugger a lot. It is easy to debug stuff in almost any setting outside of

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
, these are extremely horrible proof of concept. The static forms loading is way too long ... and somewhat seems abnormal :| Cedric ah just re-read the article - this is a javascript framework so nothing to see i guess? a On 10 May 2010 10:19, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i find that (even on a mac) iTunes slowly drains the machine of clocks and memory (i don't use it on the pc - if only i could avoid quicktime in the same way) A On 10 May 2010 13:08, Mendelsohn, Michael michael.mendels...@fmglobal.comwrote: I can understand the Quicktime complaints, but what

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