[Flashcoders] Bizarre: Movie not loaded... on local machine
For the last couple of weeks I have not been able to view any Flash files embedded in any pages on my local machine. I don't know why. If I right click where the flash movie should be displayed, I get a message that says Movie not laoded... I am running Apache 2 on a PowerBook G4 laptop with OSX and have tried both Flash Player 8 9. I also recently setup a Windows XP box with Apache2 and am having the same problem. I wish I had more information, but that seems to be all I can think of. This is an odd situation, but if I am having it on two computers, a Mac and PC, somebody else must have encountered it as well. Thanks, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe to Open Source Flex!!!
Technology becomes open-source. Therr IDE's (Flash CS3, Flex Builder) remain products to be sold. This way, they are still market leader to a market, which becomes more open and thus stronger than before, right? Sounds like an excellent business move to me! Feed the community, let the community feed you. -Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Media Player
Steven I think it is available as beta here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Media_Player On 4/20/07, Steven Loe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As they said in the video: Public beta: this summer Public release: End of 2007 --- Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be stupid for asking but could someone tell me where I can get the media player used here: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/events/nab2007/webcast/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Flash Media Player
I may be stupid for asking but could someone tell me where I can get the media player used here: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/events/nab2007/webcast/ I went to the Multicast website and saw that they had something called Interactive Media Player. Just to be clear, I am not talking about the entire application, just the media player part that has email, send link and help functionality as well as bandwidth detection and video source switching from the context menu. Thanks, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] How to create a preloader that plays in full
I want to create a preloader that plays through even if the rest of the timeline has been loaded. I saw a tutorial on this some time back but can't find it now. Forgive me if this is a common request or something but I have searched and searched but can't find it. The problem is probably that I'm not sure what keywords to use for a good search. Anyways, any help would be appreciated. -Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to create a preloader that plays in full
Thanks for the sarcasm but I am not just trying to create a simple preloader that plays until the movie has loaded. Rather, I want to create a preloader that has two functions: 1) to preload the movie (of coarse) and 2) to play the entire preloader's timeline even if the movie has already been preloaded. It's the second part that I am having trouble with. A traditional preloader plays until the movie has been loaded. Instead, I want the preloader to play in entirely even if the movie has already been loaded. This way, the preloader is not just a progress bar but an element of the movie. I hope that makes sense. On 10/5/06, Michael Stuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Roberson schrieb: I want to create a preloader that plays through even if the rest of the timeline has been loaded. I saw a tutorial on this some time back but can't find it now. Forgive me if this is a common request or something but I have searched and searched but can't find it. The problem is probably that I'm not sure what keywords to use for a good search. you cannot find *anything* about how a *preloader* is made in flash ? is the list archive down ? is flashkit down ? is google down ? micha ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to create a preloader that plays in full
Marcelo, I think your concept will work for my project.
Thanks all,
Aaron
On 10/5/06, Marcelo Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just from the top of my head here, so excuse if anything is wrong
but couldn't you put at the end of the preload animation something like
stop();
if (getBytesLoaded() == getBytesTotal()){
play();
} else {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (getBytesLoaded() == getBytesTotal()){
delete this.onEnterFrame
play ();
}
}
HTH
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Re: [Flashcoders] How to create a preloader that plays in full
Yeah, I think that is essentially what Pete and Marc said. Thanks On 10/5/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're going to need a preloader for your preloader... ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
The navigation to the right of the horse and below the company name and tagline loaded on first try? What browswer are you using? -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked fine to me! Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
Chad, I have the z-index for the Flash movie set to 0 and the window mode to transparent, which is supposed to fix the discrepancy between the Gallery image and the Flash movie. It works in Firefox 1.5 on Windows. I will check into it for Safari. Thanks, Aaron On 9/18/06, Chad Mefferd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron, I'm viewing on a Mac OSX 1.3.9 in Safari. Your Galley page is fighting with the underlying menu for which should be forward in the z-index but the menu links are now working where as they didn't on your last site check. Chad Mefferd - Director of Digital Media Morris Printing Group E-MAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and or legally privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient(s) of this message or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please notify the sender, delete or destroy all copies of the original message. On Sep 18, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Aaron Roberson wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
I just realized that the problem of the navigation not loading the first time around happens when a user has Flash 7 and uses the express install to update to 9. Once the update is complete and they are redirected to the website, the navigation doesn't load. If you have the Flash uninstaller handy and an earlier version of Flash handy as well, please visit my page with Flash 7 or below, accept the express install prompt, and see if the navigation loads upon being redirected to the site. That may be asking a bit, so thank you very, very much if you are inclined, Aaron On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The navigation to the right of the horse and below the company name and tagline loaded on first try? What browswer are you using? -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked fine to me! Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
I just walked around the office and confirmed that on three other computers in both IE and Firefox the navigation does not appear the first time visiting the site. Even when clicking on the graphic buttons in the content of the home page the navigation still doesn't show up. The only ways to get the navigation to show up were to 1). click on any button in the flash header (ie Home, Contact) or 2). click on the navigation in the footer. Interesting enough, the navigation in the footer is also being built using XML and is being parsed with XSLT. I'm at a loss for why this strange behavior is taking place. Thanks guys, Aaron P.S. Really, I don't think that the express install and redirection is the problem, but once you have visited the site and got the navigation to work, the only way to replicate the problem is to uinstall Flash, install Flash 7, express install 9, and revisit the site. On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just realized that the problem of the navigation not loading the first time around happens when a user has Flash 7 and uses the express install to update to 9. Once the update is complete and they are redirected to the website, the navigation doesn't load. If you have the Flash uninstaller handy and an earlier version of Flash handy as well, please visit my page with Flash 7 or below, accept the express install prompt, and see if the navigation loads upon being redirected to the site. That may be asking a bit, so thank you very, very much if you are inclined, Aaron On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The navigation to the right of the horse and below the company name and tagline loaded on first try? What browswer are you using? -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked fine to me! Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
Danton and Slangeberg, You didn't have to click elsewhere on the website (namely the Home or Contact links in the header or the navigation in the footer) in order to get the navigation beside the horse to display? That is odd, because on more than one computer in our office the navigation does not load the prior to clicking elsewhere on the website. I am going to go check it on our Mac workstation in IE 5, Firefox and Safari. -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine in IE 6, as well Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The navigation to the right of the horse and below the company name and tagline loaded on first try? What browswer are you using? -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked fine to me! Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because you probably need to restart the browser to fully load the new flash player. For that reason, I don't even use the updater. I just let the alternate content (using SWFObject) link to the flash installer at adobe's site. Not as cool, but seems to be most reliable. I'd be happy to hear about any better strategies out there! Scott Scott, That was my first impression, but that theory didn't hold true after visiting the site on several computers with Flash 8+ and the navigation didn't load. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
The radiation levels for the atomic bomb are within specs for apocalyptic terror - that must not be the problem. I didn't have the detection on frame one and the code for the nav on frame two but I changed it so that I have the detection on frame one and the code for the nav on frame 6 but it still is not working. Go figure? -Aaron On 9/18/06, Ryan Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it is apocalyptic radiation from the mushroom cloud in banner image at the top? Anyway, SWFObject should not be the problem here. If you see the flash at all it would seem to be working. The only thing I can think of would be that your detection script is not working properly. Are you doing it like he says to do it on the swf object page? Detection on frame one and code for the nav on frame 2? It is working fine for me. I am on xp sp2, IE 6.0.29, Flash player 9 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Aaron Roberson Sent: Mon 9/18/2006 10:20 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject The navigation to the right of the horse and below the company name and tagline loaded on first try? What browswer are you using? -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked fine to me! Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
Danton, Thank you so much! You narrowed it down alright. The navigation doesn't appear when visiting www.whitehorsemedia.com while it does appear when visiting whitehorsemedia.com (without the preceding www). Now I have to discover why it would work with one and not the other... -Aaron On 9/18/06, Danton Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron, Your website loaded up quickly when I visited it the first time. The navigation appeared without having to click anywhere else. Now, however, after exiting both browsers it took your website several minutes to load your home page and I don't get any navigation in both browsers. These are the results that I get when I visit http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/. When I visit http://whitehorsemedia.com/ I get the navigation. Results based upon a handful of visits with some really slow dowload times. Regards, Danton Aaron Roberson wrote: Danton and Slangeberg, You didn't have to click elsewhere on the website (namely the Home or Contact links in the header or the navigation in the footer) in order to get the navigation beside the horse to display? That is odd, because on more than one computer in our office the navigation does not load the prior to clicking elsewhere on the website. I am going to go check it on our Mac workstation in IE 5, Firefox and Safari. -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine in IE 6, as well Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The navigation to the right of the horse and below the company name and tagline loaded on first try? What browswer are you using? -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked fine to me! Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please - Problem with swfObject
The problem is with loading the xml so I am going to open a new thread with an appropriate heading. Thanks everybody! Aaron P.S. The reason everyone was able to see the navigation was because I included a link to http://whitehorsemedia.com which loaded it correctly while I was visiting www.whitehorsemedia.com which was not. On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danton, Thank you so much! You narrowed it down alright. The navigation doesn't appear when visiting www.whitehorsemedia.com while it does appear when visiting whitehorsemedia.com (without the preceding www). Now I have to discover why it would work with one and not the other... -Aaron On 9/18/06, Danton Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron, Your website loaded up quickly when I visited it the first time. The navigation appeared without having to click anywhere else. Now, however, after exiting both browsers it took your website several minutes to load your home page and I don't get any navigation in both browsers. These are the results that I get when I visit http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/. When I visit http://whitehorsemedia.com/ I get the navigation. Results based upon a handful of visits with some really slow dowload times. Regards, Danton Aaron Roberson wrote: Danton and Slangeberg, You didn't have to click elsewhere on the website (namely the Home or Contact links in the header or the navigation in the footer) in order to get the navigation beside the horse to display? That is odd, because on more than one computer in our office the navigation does not load the prior to clicking elsewhere on the website. I am going to go check it on our Mac workstation in IE 5, Firefox and Safari. -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine in IE 6, as well Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The navigation to the right of the horse and below the company name and tagline loaded on first try? What browswer are you using? -Aaron On 9/18/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked fine to me! Scott On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take a look at the folowing website: http://whitehorsemedia.com If you are visiting the page for the first time, the navigation in the Flash header does not load (I am using xml to define my navigation and actionscript to parse it). However, when you click on a link in the body of the page, when that page loads the navigation in the header also loads. Once it does, you can revisit the home page and any other page and the navigation will load everytime. It just doesn't load the very first time. This started happening when I switched over to swfObject to embed my Flash movie and to detect the clients Flash player version. Does anyone have any ideas why the navigation is not loaded at first? More importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Help Loading and Displaying XML
I have a menu constructed from XML and I am parsing it in Flash to create my site navigation. However, I am having a problem loading the xml so that it is parsed and displayed on my website when accessed directly (as in http://whitehorsemedia.com) and when accessed using www.whitehorsemedia.com (using the preceding www). Here is the code I am using to load my xml: menu_xml.load(http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/menu.xml;); If you go to http://www.whitehorsemedia.com the navigation displays fine. But if you go to http:whitehorsemedia.com the navigation does not display at all. If I change the code to: menu_xml.load(http://whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/menu.xml;); I get the opposite effect. How can I get the navigation to display at both addresses? Thanks in advance, Aaron Roberson ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Loading and Displaying XML
Serge, Thank you for your help. I copied and pasted that code into a new document named crossdomain.xml and uploaded it to the root of my server and now it works! Here is a page on Adobe.com about crossdomain.xml: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14213 This is the only legitimate fix for me since my movie is on more than one page across several directories. Relative paths would not have worked. Thanks all, Aaron On 9/18/06, Serge Jespers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aaron, Put a crossdomain.xml in the root of the server and it will all work out... The file should look like this: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM http://www.macromedia.com/xml/ dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd cross-domain-policy allow-access-from domain=whitehorsemedia.com / allow-access-from domain=www.whitehorsemedia.com / /cross-domain-policy Serge I have a menu constructed from XML and I am parsing it in Flash to create my site navigation. However, I am having a problem loading the xml so that it is parsed and displayed on my website when accessed directly (as in http://whitehorsemedia.com) and when accessed using www.whitehorsemedia.com (using the preceding www). Here is the code I am using to load my xml: menu_xml.load(http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/ menu.xml); If you go to http://www.whitehorsemedia.com the navigation displays fine. But if you go to http:whitehorsemedia.com the navigation does not display at all. If I change the code to: menu_xml.load(http://whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/menu.xml;); I get the opposite effect. How can I get the navigation to display at both addresses? Thanks in advance, Aaron Roberson ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Loading and Displaying XML
Luchyx, Thanks for the suggestion, I am going to pass in the url using flash vars as you have suggested. -Aaron On 9/18/06, l u c h y x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your movie should receive or load a URLparameter such as: mymenu.swf?xml_config_path=?php echo $_SERVER['host']./menudp.xml;? And you don't need to hard-code the uri in the SWF anymore. On 9/18/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Serge, Thank you for your help. I copied and pasted that code into a new document named crossdomain.xml and uploaded it to the root of my server and now it works! Here is a page on Adobe.com about crossdomain.xml: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14213 This is the only legitimate fix for me since my movie is on more than one page across several directories. Relative paths would not have worked. Thanks all, Aaron On 9/18/06, Serge Jespers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aaron, Put a crossdomain.xml in the root of the server and it will all work out... The file should look like this: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM http://www.macromedia.com/xml/ dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd cross-domain-policy allow-access-from domain=whitehorsemedia.com / allow-access-from domain=www.whitehorsemedia.com / /cross-domain-policy Serge I have a menu constructed from XML and I am parsing it in Flash to create my site navigation. However, I am having a problem loading the xml so that it is parsed and displayed on my website when accessed directly (as in http://whitehorsemedia.com) and when accessed using www.whitehorsemedia.com (using the preceding www). Here is the code I am using to load my xml: menu_xml.load(http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/ menu.xml); If you go to http://www.whitehorsemedia.com the navigation displays fine. But if you go to http:whitehorsemedia.com the navigation does not display at all. If I change the code to: menu_xml.load(http://whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/menu.xml;); I get the opposite effect. How can I get the navigation to display at both addresses? Thanks in advance, Aaron Roberson ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- l u c h y x r i a e v o l u t i o n (r) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.riaevolution.com Phone: +54 (11) 4931-7006 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Embed fonts problem
Did you choose export to first frame in the linkage property? Right click on the embeded font in the library and choose linkage to set this. HTH, Aaron On 9/18/06, Leonardo Sá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have set up a regular dynamic text field in flash. However, when I try to embed a font on it (which is Arial) it just wont show up. It shows no text at all where it supposed to be. When i use no embedded fonts, the text shows up fine, but anti-alias does not work. Any ideas? best regards, -- Leonardo Sá EMBRATI - Soluções on-line Rua Conde d'Eu 118 - Boa Vista (81) 8822 7374 (81) 3221 2494 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please
Ryan, I went ahead and switched over to swfObject. I really like it! One thing. After installing Flash 8/9 via express install, when the browser is redirected back to the page the navigation does not appear. However, after clicking elsewhere and going to a new page the navigation appears. Do you have any ideas as to why and how I can prevent this from happening? -Aaron On 9/12/06, Ryan Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using swfObject? If not I would give it a look. The detection works great. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Roberson Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 1:47 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please So it didn't work without Flash 9? Do you know if you had Flash 7 or 8 installed? Thanks, Aaron On 9/12/06, Ryan Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I installed flash 9 it worked fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Roberson Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:02 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please I have a flash banner on my site that is parsing xml and displaying a navigation menu. I have recieved a couple of reports that some users are unable to click through to the pages linked in the navigation. Could as many as possible take a look at the site and tell me if the navigation works. If not, does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the links to not work? Site to check: http://whitehorsemedia.com Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with video chat on FMS
Try the FlashCom chattyfig mailing list or the flashcomguru forum for help with FMS. -Aaron On 9/13/06, franto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i got problem with video chat application on FMS (Flash media server 2) all is descirbed here http://www.franto.com/blog2/problem-with-video-chat-please-help please help me find solution, i got deadline tommorow :))) Thanks a lot in advance - Franto http://blog.franto.com http://www.flashcoders.sk ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Site Check Please
I have a flash banner on my site that is parsing xml and displaying a navigation menu. I have recieved a couple of reports that some users are unable to click through to the pages linked in the navigation. Could as many as possible take a look at the site and tell me if the navigation works. If not, does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the links to not work? Site to check: http://whitehorsemedia.com Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please
On 9/12/06, Éric Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to install flash player 9... are those users having the problems without administrator rights? :-\ No, they have adminstrative rights. In fact, one of them told me they had to install Flash 9 but once they did and returned to the links no longer worked. -Aaron Aaron Roberson a écrit : I have a flash banner on my site that is parsing xml and displaying a navigation menu. I have recieved a couple of reports that some users are unable to click through to the pages linked in the navigation. Could as many as possible take a look at the site and tell me if the navigation works. If not, does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the links to not work? Site to check: http://whitehorsemedia.com Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- === Éric Thibault Programmeur analyste Réseau de valorisation de l'enseignement Université Laval, pavillon Félix-Antoine Savard Québec, Canada Tel.: 656-2131 poste 18015 Courriel : [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Avis relatif à la confidentialité / Notice of Confidentiality / Advertencia de confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please
I really thought I was publishing as Flash 8. Is it possible to publish for Flash 9 anyways? Perhaps is is just the detection script that is requiring Flash 9, in which case the navigation system should work without it. Any ideas? On 9/12/06, Mick G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeh, it might be overkill to publish as Flash 9 just for a navigation system. On 9/12/06, Ryan Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I installed flash 9 it worked fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Roberson Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:02 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Site Check Please I have a flash banner on my site that is parsing xml and displaying a navigation menu. I have recieved a couple of reports that some users are unable to click through to the pages linked in the navigation. Could as many as possible take a look at the site and tell me if the navigation works. If not, does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the links to not work? Site to check: http://whitehorsemedia.com Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Formating/Styling Dynamic Text
Muzak, I just tried that and still the text is not bold. I'm not sure what is going on... I created a font symbol in the library, checked export for ActionScript and gave it an identifier of ArialBold. For my dynamic text field, I selected the font ArialBold* (Note the asterick, indicating that it is a font symbol in the library). What am I missing? -Aaron On 8/23/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When adding a font symbol in the library, make sure to give it an 'Identifier' (right click Linkage.. Export for ActionScript) Muzak - Original Message - From: Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Help Formating/Styling Dynamic Text rw, I have tried two techniques for embedding my fonts: 1. In the library panel, choosing New Font, and selecting my font (Arial, bold, 12pt). 2. In the properties panel, selecting my font and choosing embed and selecing a-zA-Z. Neither of these methods are working :( The first method does nothing at all, while the second method makes the fonts dissapear all together. Any suggestions? -Aaron On 8/22/06, R.A. Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This typically happens when you have not embedded the bold variant of the font (assuming your dynamic textfield is using embedded fonts). -rw Aaron Roberson wrote: When I dynamically load text into a dynamic textfield using xml the text does not remain bold. How can I get the dynamic text to be bold? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Help Formating/Styling Dynamic Text
When I dynamically load text into a dynamic textfield using xml the text does not remain bold. How can I get the dynamic text to be bold? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Formating/Styling Dynamic Text
rw, I have tried two techniques for embedding my fonts: 1. In the library panel, choosing New Font, and selecting my font (Arial, bold, 12pt). 2. In the properties panel, selecting my font and choosing embed and selecing a-zA-Z. Neither of these methods are working :( The first method does nothing at all, while the second method makes the fonts dissapear all together. Any suggestions? -Aaron On 8/22/06, R.A. Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This typically happens when you have not embedded the bold variant of the font (assuming your dynamic textfield is using embedded fonts). -rw Aaron Roberson wrote: When I dynamically load text into a dynamic textfield using xml the text does not remain bold. How can I get the dynamic text to be bold? Thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
I am creating a dynamic drop down menu using XML and I am having
trouble spacing out each menu item.
Is there a way of determing the size of the text in each xml node?
Thanks for your help,
Aaron
P.S. This menu is based on a tutorial at kirupa.com.
Here is the XML:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
menu name=navigation
item name=Home link=http://whitehorsemedia.com; /
menu name=About Us link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/index.cfm;
item name=Our Name
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/name.cfm; /
item name=News link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/news.cfm;
/
item name=We Believe
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/believe.cfm; /
item name=Staff
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/staff.cfm; /
item name=Projects
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/projects.cfm; /
/menu
/menu
Here is the ActionScript:
// generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu)
// given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu
// as well as any of the submenus
GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
// variable declarations
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
// for all items or XML nodes (items and menus)
// within this node_xml passed for this menu
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc, i);
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.link = curr_node.attributes.link;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
// item submenu behavior for rollover event
if (node_xml.childNodes[i].nodeName == menu){
// open a submenu
curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function(){
var x = 200;
var y = this._y + this._height;
GenerateMenu(curr_menu, submenu_mc, x, y,
1000, this.node_xml);
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
};
}else{ // nodeName == item
curr_item.arrow._visible = false;
// close existing submenu
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function(){
curr_menu.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
};
}
curr_item.onRollOut = curr_item.onDragOut = function(){
// restore color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setTransform({ra:100,rb:0,ga:100,gb:0,ba:100,bb:0});
};
// any item, menu opening or not can have actions
curr_item.onRelease = function(){
Actions[goToURL](this.link);
CloseSubmenus();
};
} // end for loop
};
// create the main menu, this will be constantly visible
CreateMainMenu = function(x, y, depth, menu_xml){
// generate a menu list
GenerateMenu(this, mainmenu_mc, x, y, depth, menu_xml.firstChild);
// close only submenus if visible durring a mouseup
// this main menu (mainmenu_mc) will remain
mainmenu_mc.onMouseUp = function(){
if (mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc
!mainmenu_mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse,
_root._ymouse, true)){
CloseSubmenus();
}
};
};
// closes all submenus by removing the submenu_mc
// in the main menu (if it exists)
CloseSubmenus = function(){
mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
};
// This actions object handles methods for actions
// defined by the XML called when a menu item is pressed
Actions = Object();
Actions.gotoURL = function(urlVar){
getURL(urlVar, _blank);
};
// load XML, when done, run CreateMainMenu to interpret it
menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
menu_xml.onLoad = function(ok){
// create main menu after successful loading of XML
if (ok){
CreateMainMenu(200, 250, 0,
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
I'm half way there...
I figured out how to resize the movie clip based on the length of the
text being loaded from the name attribute of the xml node. I added the
following line to my code:
curr_item.name.autoSize = left;
Now I need to figure out how to make the spacing between each menu
item 15px. Sounds simple, and is for others, but now that each movie
clip is a different size I'm not sure how to do that. Any help on that
would be appreciated!
-Aaron
On 8/17/06, Elena Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By size, are you referring to the length of the text (in this case the
name?)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron
Roberson
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:55 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
I am creating a dynamic drop down menu using XML and I am having
trouble spacing out each menu item.
Is there a way of determing the size of the text in each xml node?
Thanks for your help,
Aaron
P.S. This menu is based on a tutorial at kirupa.com.
Here is the XML:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
menu name=navigation
item name=Home link=http://whitehorsemedia.com; /
menu name=About Us
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/index.cfm;
item name=Our Name
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/name.cfm; /
item name=News
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/news.cfm; /
item name=We Believe
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/believe.cfm; /
item name=Staff
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/staff.cfm; /
item name=Projects
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/projects.cfm; /
/menu
/menu
Here is the ActionScript:
// generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu)
// given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu
// as well as any of the submenus
GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
// variable declarations
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
// for all items or XML nodes (items and menus)
// within this node_xml passed for this menu
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc,
i);
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.link = curr_node.attributes.link;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
// item submenu behavior for rollover event
if (node_xml.childNodes[i].nodeName == menu){
// open a submenu
curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function(){
var x = 200;
var y = this._y + this._height;
GenerateMenu(curr_menu, submenu_mc, x, y,
1000, this.node_xml);
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
};
}else{ // nodeName == item
curr_item.arrow._visible = false;
// close existing submenu
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function(){
curr_menu.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
};
}
curr_item.onRollOut = curr_item.onDragOut = function(){
// restore color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setTransform({ra:100,rb:0,ga:100,gb:0,ba:100,bb:0});
};
// any item, menu opening or not can have actions
curr_item.onRelease = function(){
Actions[goToURL](this.link);
CloseSubmenus();
};
} // end for loop
};
// create the main menu, this will be constantly visible
CreateMainMenu = function(x, y, depth, menu_xml){
// generate a menu list
GenerateMenu(this, mainmenu_mc, x, y, depth, menu_xml.firstChild);
// close only submenus if visible durring a mouseup
// this main menu (mainmenu_mc) will remain
mainmenu_mc.onMouseUp = function(){
if (mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc
!mainmenu_mc.hitTest(_root
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
Jason,
I used textfield.autoSize = left which seems to fix half of my
problem. Maybe I can use textfield.textWidth to fix the other half -
which is to get the menu items to be evenly spaced from one another
and not spaced on a static value.
I post back...
Aaron
P.S. That textfield is name.
On 8/17/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
XML is actually not relevant to the question here. Only the text string
you get from it is. Once the text string is in a TextField, you should
just be able to use the TextField.textWidth property.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Roberson
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:55 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
I am creating a dynamic drop down menu using XML and I am having
trouble spacing out each menu item.
Is there a way of determing the size of the text in each xml node?
Thanks for your help,
Aaron
P.S. This menu is based on a tutorial at kirupa.com.
Here is the XML:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
menu name=navigation
item name=Home link=http://whitehorsemedia.com; /
menu name=About Us
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/index.cfm;
item name=Our Name
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/name.cfm; /
item name=News
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/news.cfm; /
item name=We Believe
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/believe.cfm; /
item name=Staff
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/staff.cfm; /
item name=Projects
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/projects.cfm; /
/menu
/menu
Here is the ActionScript:
// generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu)
// given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu
// as well as any of the submenus
GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
// variable declarations
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
// for all items or XML nodes (items and menus)
// within this node_xml passed for this menu
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item =
curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc,
i);
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.link = curr_node.attributes.link;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
// item submenu behavior for rollover event
if (node_xml.childNodes[i].nodeName == menu){
// open a submenu
curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function(){
var x = 200;
var y = this._y + this._height;
GenerateMenu(curr_menu, submenu_mc, x,
y,
1000, this.node_xml);
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
};
}else{ // nodeName == item
curr_item.arrow._visible = false;
// close existing submenu
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function(){
curr_menu.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
};
}
curr_item.onRollOut = curr_item.onDragOut = function(){
// restore color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setTransform({ra:100,rb:0,ga:100,gb:0,ba:100,bb:0});
};
// any item, menu opening or not can have actions
curr_item.onRelease = function(){
Actions[goToURL](this.link);
CloseSubmenus();
};
} // end for loop
};
// create the main menu, this will be constantly visible
CreateMainMenu = function(x, y, depth, menu_xml){
// generate a menu list
GenerateMenu(this, mainmenu_mc, x, y, depth,
menu_xml.firstChild);
// close only submenus if visible durring a mouseup
// this main menu (mainmenu_mc) will remain
mainmenu_mc.onMouseUp = function(){
if (mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc
!mainmenu_mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse,
_root._ymouse, true
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
Elena,
Option 2 is exactly the track I am currently taking!
I am having a hard time adjusting the width of the movie clip based on
the length of the text after setting it to auto size. Can you help?
Here is my code:
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc, i);
curr_item.name.autoSize = left;
curr_item._width = curr_item.name.textWidth;
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// truncated
Thanks,
Aaron
P.S. Option #2 is:
quoteYou could set autosize = true for the dynamic text field, then retrieve
the length of the text field once populated with the text, the adjust the
width of the movie clip based on it.. all on the fly./quote
On 8/17/06, Elena Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A couple of ideas that pop in my mind
1. You can store the name in a temporary string and get the length of it
with string.length - then change the width of the movie clip accordingly
2. You could set autosize = true for the dynamic text field, then retrieve
the length of the text field once populated with the text, the adjust the
width of the movie clip based on it.. all on the fly.
Let me know if any helps!
ELENA BLANCO
Blancomedia
WEB APPLICATION ARCHITECT
920 HULL STREET
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
p: 541.490.4993
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w: http://www.blancomedia.com
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
Yes, I am referring to the length of the text in the name attribute of
the xml nodes.
The script is creating a new movie clip based on an existing movie
clip in the library. The movie clip in the library (menuitem) has an a
movie clip (arrow) and a dynamic text field (name). When the script
creates the new movie clips for each menu item, instead of making them
the width of the text, they are the width of the movie clip in the
library. The width of the movie clip in the library is based on the
text inside, which makes me think that I could change the width of the
generated movie clips based on the text loaded from xml.
I hope that makes sense!
On 8/17/06, Elena Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By size, are you referring to the length of the text (in this case the
name?)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron
Roberson
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:55 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
I am creating a dynamic drop down menu using XML and I am having
trouble spacing out each menu item.
Is there a way of determing the size of the text in each xml node?
Thanks for your help,
Aaron
P.S. This menu is based on a tutorial at kirupa.com.
Here is the XML:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
menu name=navigation
item name=Home link=http://whitehorsemedia.com; /
menu name=About Us
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/index.cfm;
item name=Our Name
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/name.cfm; /
item name=News
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/news.cfm; /
item name=We Believe
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/believe.cfm; /
item name=Staff
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/staff.cfm; /
item name=Projects
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/projects.cfm; /
/menu
/menu
Here is the ActionScript:
// generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu)
// given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu
// as well as any of the submenus
GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
// variable declarations
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
// for all items or XML nodes (items and menus)
// within this node_xml passed for this menu
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item =
curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc,
i);
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.link = curr_node.attributes.link;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
// item submenu behavior for rollover event
if (node_xml.childNodes[i].nodeName == menu){
// open a submenu
curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
Elena,
Option 2 is exactly the track I am currently taking!
I am having a hard time adjusting the width of the movie clip based on
the length of the text after setting it to auto size. Can you help?
Here is my code:
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc, i);
curr_item.name.autoSize = left;
curr_item._width = curr_item.name.textWidth;
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// truncated
Thanks,
Aaron
P.S. Option #2 is:
quoteYou could set autosize = true for the dynamic text field, then retrieve
the length of the text field once populated with the text, the adjust the
width of the movie clip based on it.. all on the fly./quote
On 8/17/06, Elena Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A couple of ideas that pop in my mind
1. You can store the name in a temporary string and get the length of it
with string.length - then change the width of the movie clip accordingly
2. You could set autosize = true for the dynamic text field, then retrieve
the length of the text field once populated with the text, the adjust the
width of the movie clip based on it.. all on the fly.
Let me know if any helps!
ELENA BLANCO
Blancomedia
WEB APPLICATION ARCHITECT
920 HULL STREET
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
p: 541.490.4993
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w: http://www.blancomedia.com
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Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
John,
That is what I am trying to do but it's not working for some reason.
Can you detect any problem or give me a suggestion with the following
code:
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc, i);
//set text field to auto size with left alignment
curr_item.name.autoSize = left;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.link = curr_node.attributes.link;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
// set movie clip width to the width of the text loaded from xml
curr_item._width = curr_item.name.textWidth;
// set x coordinate to the coordinate passed in times
the width of the movie clip
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
Thanks,
Aaron
On 8/17/06, John VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there are many ways to do the spacing. if your mc is sized after the width
of the textfield, just add the witdh of the mc to its _x plus the 15px for
spacing to get the _x of the next mc.
On 8/17/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm half way there...
I figured out how to resize the movie clip based on the length of the
text being loaded from the name attribute of the xml node. I added the
following line to my code:
curr_item.name.autoSize = left;
Now I need to figure out how to make the spacing between each menu
item 15px. Sounds simple, and is for others, but now that each movie
clip is a different size I'm not sure how to do that. Any help on that
would be appreciated!
-Aaron
On 8/17/06, Elena Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By size, are you referring to the length of the text (in this case the
name?)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron
Roberson
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:55 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
I am creating a dynamic drop down menu using XML and I am having
trouble spacing out each menu item.
Is there a way of determing the size of the text in each xml node?
Thanks for your help,
Aaron
P.S. This menu is based on a tutorial at kirupa.com.
Here is the XML:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
menu name=navigation
item name=Home link=http://whitehorsemedia.com; /
menu name=About Us
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/index.cfm;
item name=Our Name
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/name.cfm; /
item name=News
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/news.cfm; /
item name=We Believe
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/believe.cfm; /
item name=Staff
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/staff.cfm; /
item name=Projects
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/projects.cfm; /
/menu
/menu
Here is the ActionScript:
// generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu)
// given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu
// as well as any of the submenus
GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
// variable declarations
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
// for all items or XML nodes (items and menus)
// within this node_xml passed for this menu
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item =
curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc,
i);
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.link = curr_node.attributes.link;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
// item submenu behavior for rollover event
if (node_xml.childNodes[i].nodeName == menu){
// open a submenu
curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver =
function(){
var x = 200;
var y = this._y + this._height;
GenerateMenu(curr_menu, submenu_mc, x,
y,
1000, this.node_xml);
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
Ryan,
I went with option number 1 and it is working like a champ. I did
change one little thing:
last_item = curr_menu[item+i-1+_mc];
to
last_item = curr_menu[item+(i-1)+_mc];
But it works wonderfully now. Thank you all for your help!
-Aaron
On 8/17/06, Ryan Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Aaron. The problem that I can see is that you are setting the x to
the x of the current item, hence you are setting it to its own width.
If you are trying to space them across the screen horizontally you need
to get the x and width of the last clip. Another way to do it is to get
the width of the container clip and use that. This only works if the
container only contains the nav items.
Option 1:
// get the last clip (i-1)
last_item = curr_menu[item+i-1+_mc];
last_x = last_item._x;
last_width = ast_item._width;
// set the x to the last item x plus the last item width
curr_item._x = last_x + last_width;
Option 2:
// set the x to the width of the container
curr_item._x = curr_menu._width;
Option 3:
// Set a fixed width
curr_item._x = i*100;
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron
Roberson
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:23 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
John,
That is what I am trying to do but it's not working for some reason.
Can you detect any problem or give me a suggestion with the following
code:
for (var i=0; inode_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item =
curr_menu.attachMovie(menuitem,item+i+_mc, i);
//set text field to auto size with left alignment
curr_item.name.autoSize = left;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.link = curr_node.attributes.link;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
// set movie clip width to the width of the text loaded
from xml
curr_item._width = curr_item.name.textWidth;
// set x coordinate to the coordinate passed in times
the width of the movie clip
curr_item._x = x + i*curr_item._width;
curr_item._y = y;
Thanks,
Aaron
On 8/17/06, John VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there are many ways to do the spacing. if your mc is sized after the
width
of the textfield, just add the witdh of the mc to its _x plus the 15px
for
spacing to get the _x of the next mc.
On 8/17/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm half way there...
I figured out how to resize the movie clip based on the length of
the
text being loaded from the name attribute of the xml node. I added
the
following line to my code:
curr_item.name.autoSize = left;
Now I need to figure out how to make the spacing between each menu
item 15px. Sounds simple, and is for others, but now that each movie
clip is a different size I'm not sure how to do that. Any help on
that
would be appreciated!
-Aaron
On 8/17/06, Elena Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By size, are you referring to the length of the text (in this case
the
name?)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Aaron
Roberson
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:55 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Help Getting Size of Text Dynamically
I am creating a dynamic drop down menu using XML and I am having
trouble spacing out each menu item.
Is there a way of determing the size of the text in each xml node?
Thanks for your help,
Aaron
P.S. This menu is based on a tutorial at kirupa.com.
Here is the XML:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
menu name=navigation
item name=Home link=http://whitehorsemedia.com; /
menu name=About Us
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/index.cfm;
item name=Our Name
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/name.cfm; /
item name=News
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/news.cfm; /
item name=We Believe
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/believe.cfm; /
item name=Staff
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/staff.cfm; /
item name=Projects
link=http://whitehorsemedia.com/about/projects.cfm; /
/menu
/menu
Here is the ActionScript:
// generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu)
// given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu
// as well as any of the submenus
GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
// variable declarations
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name,
depth);
// for all items
