Hey all - I have to recreate a Director app/dvd I've done a few times
-- it's basically a presentation creation engine that allows one to
pick slides and video and create their own small presentation. The
client wants the ability to export standalone files, so I was
exporting quicktime moves from
Yeah; I thought about a 'player only' exe that would load in an
external xml I create (since that's how it's working internally) --
the trouble is that they wanted it to be 'packaged' for playback; my
original thought was using the QTXtra to export a full Quicktime movie
with all the slides as one
Thanks all --
Franto yours is the way I want to go - but how can I modify your
code for a bigger map? Meaning I've got a HUGE bitmap that I want to
create a matrix for -- and rather than the 8x8 tile I'm thinking
something much larger, ie 50x50 blocks - so I modified the mc's to be
50x50 --
Hey - say I've got a repeating setInterval.
If I hit clearInterval() while it's waiting, does it hit that function
one more time or stop it immediately? I'm having some kind of ghosted
thing happening over here...
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Does anyone have a recursive folder/file checker that would work with
mProjector? I've done this before but having SUCH a brainfart and
would appreciate the assist.
Even looking at X-Ray's recursive feature but its' WAY more than I need
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I'm sure others can point out how to fix this; I'm using mProjector to
get a folder and file structure, hopeing to get a recursive
folder/file read working -- I'm using mProjector for this..
I know EXACTLY where the problem lies, but can't figure out a remedy
for it...(I'm using debug as a trace
Hey all - I've got dndTree from Drumbeat Insight in an application;
when it's in authoring and .swf mode the custom menus work, but when
it's in projector mode they don't; what am I missing?
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I've got what should seem simple - 3 different slideshows on the stage
being fed from an xml file -- for some reason they're glitching out --
I'm thinking it's because of TransitionManager losing scope?
Ive got a zip up at grimmwerks.com/test.zip if anyone feels like
lending a hand.
Thanks.
ARGH.
I found the problem - I was trying to do a reflection with another
class, and that messed with the display.
HOURS wasted on stupidty. Hooray.
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I'm curious...
Say I've got main.swf which loads in sub.swf; sub.swf has within it's
library, a 'prefMC' which is set to be ready with the class of prefMC
on the first frame.
Can I, within main.swf, after loading in sub.swf, dynamically generate
another instance of prefMC within main.swf?
What would be the quickest way of flipping images into a bitmap data?
I found this nice example of bitmapdata being used for transitions
(http://www.senocular.com/flash/files/gridraisetransition.fla) but it
only works with library items; I've tried loading external images into
an mc and then
Hey all - I'm trying to script a custom cellrender with a datagrid;
I'm successfully passing in the local file path of an external file,
but this filepath won't work in a cellrender -- either as a loadmovie
or as a Loader contentPath -- yet the same loadMovie works outside of
a cellRender with no
And the answer is NOT Listorine.
I'm going a bit nutty here. I've got one major .fla which has a lot of
birthing movieclips. I've been VERY careful not to do this at the root
level, instead in it's own container, because it's supposed to be loaded
wtihin another shell flash file...
Well, I'm
Ok, I've discovered the problem I was having previously -- to sum up,
I have a .swf movie that plays beautifully on its own.
I then started coding a shell to, on different durations (setInterval)
load in this and other .swf into a movieclip.
I've been VERY careful about scope issues, not doing
Just for FYI - there are NO AS2 components in these movies - the one
that DID only had a Loader in the library.
This is driving me nuts.
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Sigh.
I'm an arse. It must be the two days of programming.
I mistakenly gave the subclips loader the main clips global object. Of
COURSE that would work the way it is.
Sorry for the white noise.
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Hey all -
I've got an application I'm building that is using a digital signage
system as an animated menu system, using 2 cards for a 3 LCD output.
I'm seeing some TERRIBLE tearing during the animations.
At first I thought it was the LCD screen; but swapping in a CRT and I
still see the
I'm creating a digital signage playback application that's running on
an HP machine and has to play across three monitors -- lcd screens at
1280x768, playing back in Zinc.
When there's a bit of movement (ie for a test we're looking at
hotelqt.com) -- there's quite a bit of tearing on the
Seems odd that it's not noticeable in the same way on the mac os though...
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Not exactly, but I appreciate the post.
My problem is that even if I set something as editable, I'm not
getting a textField where one can enter the data.
For example in this tutorial: http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/cellrenderer/
If you doubleclick the car icon, you get a textField to enter
Maybe I spoke too soon - is the editableLabel just an inherent part of
a UIComponent? Maybe it's the way I'm creating the columns that is the
problem; I just set the carDB icon column to editable = false and it
shut it off properly...
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Ok if I create a datagrid and assign a dataprovider, all the datagrid
components are fields, but only the first colun is editable -- I've
tried doing dg.getColumnAt(2).editable = true both before and after
the dataProvider set, but it's always just the first column that
remains editable...
what
AH! Thanks Matthew -- though I didn't set the grid.editable to false
-- when I set it to TRUE, then it all worked.
So though the columns themselves are set to true, if the grid wasn't
set to true, it canceled it all out...
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Dammit - them beanz ain't cool enough...
hate to be more of a PITA than I already am -- but now I want to make
the first column NOT editable.
So I've set the db.editable = true -- that sets all them beanz editable.
Then I've dg.getColumnAt(0).editable = false -- and that bean is still
flipping
It seems to be always editable.
menuGrid.dataProvider = pMenu;
// setting editable stuff
menuGrid.editable = true;
menuGrid.getColumnAt(0).editable = false;
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You know, even if I SET the grid.editable = false, the first column is
ALWAY editable.
I've even flipped cellRenderers as tests -- this thing is driving me bonkers.
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Hey again.
I'm trying to set the comboBox cellRenderer I'm using to have a
dropdown.rowHeight of 60 (big text) -- since I'm using the cellRender
in a dataGrid, this slows everything down to a crawl.
Is this the only way that I can set a comboBox's rowHeight? Is there
anyway I can do it with
Hey - I'm merely curious...
Say I do this:
tPhoto = pGui.thisScreen.createEmptyMovieClip(photoMC,
pGui.thisScreen.getNextHighestDepth(),{_alpha:0});
tPhoto.cacheAsBitmap=true;
bkgrnd = new BitmapData(1, 1, false, 0x00FF, {_alpha:0});
tPhoto.attachBitmap(bkgrnd, 1);
Now, say later, in some
Hey all --
I'm using a NumericStepper in a CellRender and I'm getting some kind of
weirdness when I'm clicking on it - it dissappears while I'm stepping
up/down, and if I hold it down I get the '256 levels of recursion' happening
in it.
In the .as file I've got the change happenining in there -
Curious - does anyone have a good example of a NumericStepper CellRender?
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Is there any way of setting like the regpoint of a movieclip to it's
center on the fly without repositioning it?
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I've got an app that's a glorfied slideshow, slowly adding mc's and
gettingNextHighestDepth() -- at some point I'm assuming it will get to
the maxDepth; what would be the best way of resetting this?
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That'll do it! Thanks.
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Hey all - have a shiny new macbook 17 and have installled Parallels,
allowing me to run windows without rebooting.
I want to install Flash Media Server 2; whenever I launch it, it
bounces a few times then quits...
Has anyon gotten this setup to work?
Curious - can't figure out where there's a second example of the classes
floating around -- any suggestions?
**Error** C:\Documents and Settings\grimmwerks\Local Settings\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash
8\en\Configuration\Classes\com\grimmwerks\bakery\NumericStepperCell.as: Line
13: The name
I'm having a bit of a problem both getting and setting htmlText in a
textfield in Flash. I've done this previously but can't figure out
what the problem is...
Let's start with what I need to do: I basically need a way for a user
to input text, add some basic html properties (size/bold, etc),
No - the field's not masked; turns out I have to import all the states
ie bold, italic, etc, for some reason.
But the bigger thing is this: I know I've seen examples of flash being
used as word processors - ie ways of setting formatting on text.
If I've got that, how can I save that info to be
It's got to be something stupid.
I'm using the textformatter from netdrims -- I've got an input
TextField that I only want Baskerville to be used - but the ability to
set the bold or italic is needed.
I've embedded the font in the field but when I set text as bold or
italic, it disappears.
There's also a txtFormat component from netdrims that is nice...
..me I'm also running into trying to glom htmlText into a CDATA in an
xml file; I had done something recently using zinc that would save an
htmlfile whenever someone would create rich/html formatted text that
would have to
...is it possible at all? I'm trying to save textfield's htmlText in
CDATA in an xml doc rather than creating seperate .html files and
linking them.
Everytime I create a node with the proper
tTop = ![CDATA[;
tEnd = ]];
Then the damned thing goes all rootlt;![CDATA[]]gt;/root on me.
I wonder if it's possible to extend the XMLNode class so that CDATA
can be added by just creating a text node that DOESN'T urlencode all
the characters?
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If someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here - I thought I've
finally hacked a way of using CDATA on the fly:
- when adding a new CDATA node I add a new element/textnode with
something as a flag to parse for
duh. embedFonts
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Hey all.
I'm attempting to use some embedded fonts with Flash, and it just
doesn't seem to be working.
In the library I've added a new font, selected the font I wanted to
use and called it 'Q_Body_Text'. I then have this test script:
tBodyText = new TextFormat();
tBodyText.font =
Ok, I've got a class that I've used that all it does is take in a
string of htmlText, create a textfield and apply it. But something is
happening that is killing the text for some reason;
If I send INTO the function this htmlText:
TEXTFORMAT LEADING=-5P ALIGN=RIGHTFONT
FACE=QuadraatSans-Regular
I've got textFields using html text that I need to get an accurate way
of finding the line count...I got it working when I knew the size of
the font attributed to that textField, but with one field it can have
multiple formats.
It's been a long tired weekend of sleepless coding, so I'm going to
Is there a simple way of duplicating an object that has many subobjects?
In director it's as simple as obj.duplicate() -- but there's nothing
in Flash...
I'm trying to create a list of 'saveable' objects that have many
branching children, and of course I'm really just creating all these
Started and finished! Thanks Eric.
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Ok - I've got this class -- it's really a sort of 'column text' class
for laying out nice stylized text -- the user can choose how many
columns there are onscreen.
Now I won't get into all the specifics, but there's a background color
that's being drawn based on how much text is in a column;
Ok, I've got an app that uses a static variable; I've got 'templates'
that use x instances of this class.
When the user loads in a new template when a previous template has
already existed, I get some 'leftover' variables.
Is there a function that is called when a class is 'killed', ie the
I've done the dstObj[i] = copy( srcObj[i] );
Here's the weirdness: the test code:
tPage = new Object({banner : 0,templateType : sub,dated : false,cHome :
true})
trace(trace 1: + tPage);
tObj = new Object();
tObj.page = mx.utils.ObjectCopy.copy(tPage);
trace( trace 2 : page: + tObj.page);
I can't figure this one out - the .swf works just fine (I figured out
the problem with the object not really part of a class; faked it out)
-- but it's now busting when playing in zinc, which I don't
understand...
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Replying to myeslf, but here's the weirdness; it's not ObjectCopy - my
variable dies.
Here's a part of the code that works in .swf but not in Zinc; debug is a
global method I'm using to either output to the output window or popup an
input box if in zinc:
debug(total screens: +
What the...? I don't get what's going on here:
Here's a part of the code that works in .swf but not in Zinc; debug is a
global method I'm using to either output to the output window or popup an
input box if in zinc:
debug(total screens: + gApp.screens.length);
tX = new String();
for
Of course, the var i fixed it (in the 'for') -- but I don't get why it
blewup; I've noticed this elsewhere too today.
Say I had a function that calls a subfunction, ie
mainStuff = function(){
for(i=0; itheList.length; i++){
ret = subStuff(tList[i]);
}
}
subStuff = function(which){
for(i=0;
Here's the deal: I've got a little movieclip that is loaded into a movie
instance.
The movieclip births a class I called nSlideshow - all it really does is
create another movieclip on the fly and slowly cycle through an array of
images by an interval.
Well when I 'close' the window, it kills
Ok, this is a flash question
I've got a class I'm using in an app - it's really simple, just is a
'slideshow' type class; it gets a list of images and cycles through
them as a slideshow with an interval between.
Now it's being used in a movieclip that is in turn being loaded in a
Window
OK, not sure of a way around this one, would appreciate any help (I
have a sneaky suspicion I'll be rolling my own) --
I've got an array of objects, -- ie x = Array([object],[object],[object]);
Where each object has another object -- 'page' -- and then THAT has a
key of 'endDate' -- ie
Trying to build an app and the designer is extremely stringent with
the way the text formatting should appear.
From her photoshop docs she's got blocks of text where she's set the
'add space after paragraph' in the character formatting palette.
It's not clear where or if I can set this in a
I second that Wahoo. I'll raise you a yippee.
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Ok - I've got this kiosk application I'm building - there's a playback
and there's a builder. The builder has a lot of textformatting going
on. Up to now I've been allowing the client to put in their text into
a textfiled, select a pulldown and it automatically inserts the
correct textformatting.
Ah well - I can't get the damn installer to launch on mine.
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Huh - just tried on a Quad. I'll try on a macbook...
Are you as upset as I am about the Core2? Just got my 17 about 2 months ago!
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I've got a list of items that have a lot of stylized text and I'm
saving the items to an xml/text file: is there a 50k limit or
something?
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Trouble is with the appendFile in a loop, there's no return whether
it's successful or not, so I'm going on to the next append while the
previous one is still running.
Someone from the director list gave me this:
you could just save the xml as a couple of temporary files that are
all under 50
ok - still with this app.
I have a map that I'm loading externally - map.swf. In it I'm setting
all kinds of stuff using
_global.gMap(all kinds of functions)
The main swf that loads in this clip, once it's loaded with a
moviecliploader -- I try to trigger one of the functions via
I'm trying to use a p class=' tag around text area's with the
following css, yet nothing is working.
What's the best way of specifying multiple font formatting in a
stylesheet? I've got an example where the p{} specifies the font
familiy, then every version of the class (ie .p2{}) only sets up
I realize now it's only dealing with font-family...
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Got another CSS/htmlText flash question.
What I've been working with is this:
I've got a screen layout program that allows the client to select
background images, and how many columns they want. Then, when any
column is selected they get a live input textbox they can put in the
text they want
Is this true? I'm changing over from textFormatting to CSS and now my
inputText no longer works...
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James O'Reilley was kind enough to begin writing a class for me that
splits htmlText via '/p' and then, based on stylesheets, if the
class for that p has a bottomspacing, it will move the next textfield
down.
This works perfectly except that the text p class='xxx' also shifts
the text down in
It's time for one of those brainfarts.
I'm trying to position a textField's bottom in line with other
textfields; I've added leading to all the textField's so my math is
now off.
All the single-line textFields are positioned properly, but the
mutli-line textfields are not.
In the one I'm
Is it possible to load in an external swf using loadMovie into a main
movie, and then creating new movies on the fly using attachMovie with
ids of the loaded movie?
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This is totally driving me crazy.
I'm creating a textfield as a sub to another clip, setting it's width,
making it autosized, giving it a stylesheet. I then toss in it's
htmlText.
I just want to know if the darn thing is one or more lines. Trouble is
it's not reporting back properly...it seems
How does one actually skin a scrollpane? I've actually got a skinned
UIScrollbar working properly; but as soon as a ScrollPane componenet
is added, it killed everything.
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Even though a TextArea is not editable, the user can still select it.
Is there a simple 'off' feature I've missed?
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duh. TextArea.label.selectable = false.
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I've got an instance of the FLVPlayback in an app that is getting sent
a path; it's contentPath was just being resent the new path.
It's not working 100%, as every so often it decides it doesn't want to
load that requested video.
What's a better way of using one FLVPlayback object that reloads
I'm unsure why I'm getting an endless loop --
I've got each client's so.onSync checking for a change to the
applications.users array, each of which are added on connect.
But for some reason when more than one user connects, they both get
into this endless loop
It's driving me crazy. I've
Anyone have good examples/pointers of both sending
- raw xml data to a php page
- sending variables to a php page without using a browser (ie behind
the scenes).
I've been looking at both LoadVars and XML's sendAndLoad but can't get
it to function...
Hey Lori - did you figure this out?
I'm now a member of the ex-SMM as well... :P
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