Re: [Flashcoders] Tweener still in development

2010-06-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Andrews 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

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" wrote: If you like stricter more OO code, you can try GTween from Grant Skinner. Not quite as fast in performance as the TweenLite family. http://www.gskinne

[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 certain

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 wrote: > I could have sworn that there was a skin with a fullscreen option. > > ___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.fi

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." 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 code works

[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 t

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 wrote: > I don't need a textfield on stage to embed. > I adjusted my Test.as: > > package { > >import flash.dis

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)
thods, 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 c

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); }

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" 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? Any guidance in

Re: [Flashcoders] Combat Game in flash

2010-07-27 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
pleasure :) On 27 July 2010 06:47, Sumeet Kumar wrote: > Thanks a lot. The link really helped. > - Original Message - From: "allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)" > > To: "Flash Coders List" > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:17 PM > Subject:

[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/ http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::enterFullScreenTakeOver(

[Flashcoders] [worked around] flvplayback fullscreen button

2010-08-04 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
n 3 August 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 met

[Flashcoders] [SOLVED] flvplayback fullscreen button

2010-08-04 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
all 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) < a

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 test():vo

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 wrote: > Hey all together, > > i was wondering if i can get the url where my flash mov

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 tha

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

2010-08-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ssage says something 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 (th

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 wrote: > I have given the target object the same name as (possible more then 1) > dragobject(s). > So now I am trying to check

[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] 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 c

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 wrote: > http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
mynarcik.com > 254.749.2525 > www.mynarcik.com > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Kurt Dommermuth >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,

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

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 wrote: > Exactly. I don't think XML would be considered code, but they could > justify > anyth

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 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] 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 wrote: > Ah - yes, the cool icon must learn robotlegs... > > once you know an MVC framework - in theory i guess it more or less applies > to

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 th

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 numvideo

[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 setti

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 wrote: > John Goodman skriver: > >> >> ___ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> > I agree. >

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 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 parts where

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 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 cut and past it into, s

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 wrote: > Is there a way to return the attributes name of an xml node? > > So if I have: > > > > 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: >

Re: [Flashcoders] Counting xml attributes

2010-11-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
> 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: [Flas

Re: [Flashcoders] pureMVC, swfaddress and multiple proxies

2010-11-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hats what you were getting at? > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM, allandt bik-elliott > (thefieldcomic.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

[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 see

Re: [Flashcoders] loadermax load issue?

2010-12-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ple file(s). > > Jack > > PS The "loading twice" thing sounds related to file size audits - please > see > the explanation at http://www.greensock.com/loadermax-tips/#10 > > > -Original Message- > From: allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) [mailto:al

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> wr

[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 http://www.blog.elimak.com/2010/08/simple-connection-flashfacebook

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 wrote: > hi,

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 wrote: >

[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] RE: quiet in here at the moment

2011-03-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
http://www.greensock.com/flash-html5/ On 8 March 2011 18:00, dave matthews 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 expensive and > complic

[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 http://chattyfig.fig

[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 se

[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 lookin

[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", lin

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

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
new URLVariables(); > > variables.access_token = token; > > 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) < >

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

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
stFriends(success:Object, fail:Object):void { if (success) trace("success"); 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) -

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

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
but it doesn't actually 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 > ar

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

2011-04-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
} One question tho - can i use the facebook friend selector and just return the results without the apprequest firing off to them? thanks a On 15 April 2011 12:14, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) < alla...@gmail.com> wrote: > the documentation seems to say that it can: >

[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, handle

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 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 map if im clicking

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 (a

[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 o

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" wrote: > Nevermind, found 1 issue in my server... > ___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___

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 you're

[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 circ

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

2011-05-26 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
g.figleaf.com > [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@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 ge

[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@chattyfig.f

[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

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. Dol

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 wrote: > I wrote my own MVC package. > On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Ben Sand

[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 i

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 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 > draw call. >

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

2011-07-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
gt; > make 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

Re: [Flashcoders] Exclude classes

2008-06-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
could you get rid of the main classpath and use a subset of the classes in a separate classpath would take time to sift through them all if it's possible On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Viktor Hesselbom < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if there's a way to exclude certai

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting simple XML data into Array

2008-06-20 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
XmlGrab might be useful if you're as2 - it's a class that loads xml and converts it into an object http://www.brandnewbox.co.uk/docs/Home/Plugin:XMLGrab/ alz On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Ashim D'Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > E4X means that XML is pretty much read like an Array. > So th

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you do this? (animating gradient fill colours)

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
not entirely sure but it sounds like a tweenmax color matrix tween take a look at http://blog.greensock.com/ a On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Ali Drongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya, how do you think you would do this? Can anyone point me to some > tutorials or give me a snippet? > Cheers

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you do this? (animating gradient fillcolours)

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
a movie clip but how is the gradient bit achieved? > Cheers, > Ali > > > > On 8 Jul 2008, at 09:39, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: > > not entirely sure but it sounds like a tweenmax color matrix tween >> >> take a look at http://blog.greensock.c

Re: [Flashcoders] Basic loop problem

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
okay - this is quite a quick one to solve the problem you're having is that you're overwriting the htmlText each iteration so you're only outputting the last iteration of the loop what you need to do is add the output of the loop iteration (that is every time the loop fires) to the htmlText as it

Re: [Flashcoders] Basic loop problem (with end of message)

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you could reset the list every time the loop is called so: var len2 = cueArray.length; mainText.htmlText = ""; for (var i = 0; i"; } On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Paul Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your help. This gets me closer to what I'm looking > for. > > Unf

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Displaying images from a directory

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you could use php in the holding page to pass the flashVars to the flash movie On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, SJM - Flash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem is the flash file is going to be embeded into a templete page to > be added to a CMS unfortunatly there is no option for me to use any

Re: [Flashcoders] tracing height

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you should look at movieClipLoader ( http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=1998.html ) this allows you to add listeners to the loader (in your case, you should use onLoadInit) to fire a method/function On Tue, Jul 8, 2008

Re: [Flashcoders] tracing height

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
there's an example of some code if you look at the onLoadInit link http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=1998.html On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you do this? (animating gradient fillcolours)

2008-07-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
lol it helps when the guys that write these things are on the boards :D On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Rich Shupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, Jack... You sound like you know TweenMax pretty well. > > (Heh.) > > Thanks for the great work! > > Rich > http://www.LearningActionScript3.com > >

Re: [Flashcoders] Overlay problem

2008-07-14 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
if you add a boolean to your script that states whether the movie is operational or not, then you can add an if statement to your links / buttons that ask if the boolean is true so: var bMovieEnabled:Boolean = true; myLink.onRelease = Delegate.create(this, linkOnRelease); function linkOnRelease(

Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0

2008-07-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
The problem with splitting Flash up into the Designer App and the Coder App (Talking Flash here, not Flex which i've never used) is that those of us that have to deal with Flash as a scaling entity (I'm a freelance developer so this week it's banners, next week it's site development and OOP) will b

Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0

2008-07-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i think someone has touched on it before, but if there is to be code applicable to movieclips / buttons on stage then they should work similarly to the way motion tweens can be copied as actionscript - allow the bad behaviour for numpties and quick jobs, but then compensate to move the code to wher

Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0

2008-07-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
s young. > > But i hope that Adobe can give the right way in order to do more and better > with low work. > Adobe have great experience in designer-tool-market, I'll hope for the > future. > > Daniele Tassone > > > > 2008/7/18 allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic

Re: [Flashcoders] Shared fonts

2008-07-22 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
mate it's definitely a weakness of flash but i wouldn't quite call it a bug Adobe needs to look at it tho, coz having a common font library is tough (although one of the guys i worked with said it was possible by copying the format from the loaded swf) i found this online that looks like it might

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 shop

2008-07-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i worked with a back-end guy to produce a solution that all worked on xml produced by php with a mysql database. He built an app that would allow the client to do stock checking, product updates and that kind of thing and I built the front end for it by grabbing his xml files. I haven't seen any o

Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript

2008-07-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
if you put any code on the timeline and then make that layer a guide, it can also happen not that it's ever happened to me erm... was a mate of mine, yeh that's it On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Steven Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Helmut Granda wrote: > > The question now is, h

Re: [Flashcoders] stop microphone echos

2008-07-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
if the mic is picking up the speakers on the end users machine then there's really very little you can do about it - anyone who plays mmo's with ventrilo will testify to that On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:11 AM, laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Anyone knows how to stop the beautifull echo

Re: [Flashcoders] stop microphone echos

2008-07-25 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i also agree but don't have an answer On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:46 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no offence taken - made me laugh > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:24 AM, laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey

Re: [Flashcoders] stop microphone echos

2008-07-25 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ixer recording configuration is configured to record >>> "stereo mix" you route the sound of your microphone through your flash >>> application back to the soundcard and then it stays looping (same idea as if >>> your speakers play too load and the microphone pi

Re: [Flashcoders] ...Friday, 5:38 pm

2008-07-25 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
it brings up a serious point tho - can flash survive with the amount of animosity there is towards it? On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Zárate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hahahahaha, pretty accurate, i'd say :P > > Nah, don't even try to edit it, they will jump like animals... I > honestly don't

Re: [Flashcoders] Masking Effect

2008-07-29 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you could convert the lines to fills (under object i believe) or you could use a bitmap (remember to use runtime bitmap caching) On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Sander Schuurman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi cool list, > > I'm working on a masking effect and set it up with a mask MovieClip wi

Re: [Flashcoders] ...Friday, 5:38 pm

2008-07-29 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
rofl ~shuffles away nervously despite innocence a On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Matt S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting question Allandt...a little TOO interesting...Anyone else > wonder if he's workin for...Silverlight??? > > :P > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Allandt Bik-Ell

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

2008-07-30 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
if you do make a test, you have to give the applicant a chance to do it in a natural environment, like that test you did where you could take it home. If you're breathing down their neck, they may fail because of nerves more than anything else (i'm good in interviews but blank if put on the spot)

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

2008-07-30 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
agreed on that On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ibrahim Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > at the end you need your work done in any case in specific time with the > best performance. > so, giving him tasks related to your work in real environment with ability > to access internet on anything he nee

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

2008-07-30 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hmmm - i didn't do bad (without looking stuff up) but i must say that i've not been asked to do a single as3 project since i started doing agency work - the only time i've done an as3 project was for an interactive cd so i could set my own target for the projector file. Most of the work i do in dig

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

2008-07-30 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hardly any AS2 (maybee some banners in FP8). So we > try to advice/push the client towards AS3 projects, which, most of the > times, is better for all parties invloved. > > Sid > > > > On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:24 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) > wrote: > >

[Flashcoders] When to use AS3?

2008-07-30 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
So we > try to advice/push the client towards AS3 projects, which, most of the > times, is better for all parties invloved. > > Sid > > > On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:24 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) > wrote: > > hmmm - i didn't do bad (without looking st

Re: [Flashcoders] When to use AS3?

2008-07-30 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
gt; jumping back and forth between the two on a daily basis which is > probably the worst of all. coding half your day in AS3 and the other > half in AS2 is such a mindf*ck. > > .m > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:48 AM, allandt bik-elliott > (thefieldcomic.com) <[EMAIL PROTECT

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