Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 text problem

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
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Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 text problem

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
to clarify: I think the reason that the bold setting got us is that the CS5 authoring environment does not seem to indicate how text is styled. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: Hi John, We've been confronting similar issues the last few days

[Flashcoders] interesting AS2 SharedObject bug

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using an AS2 SharedObject along with Red5 to synchronize a group of user in a real-time game. I found an interesting bug. I have an array: var someArray:Array = [1,2,3]; I have a dataObject that contains someArray and some other properties: dataObject = { someProperty: 1,

[Flashcoders] in AS2, what is the correct way to update a DataGrid's dataProvider

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have a screen with a DataGrid that displays live data, that is, data which is constantly changing. It's not a very large amount of data, so I just make a query to the server every 2 seconds to get the new data. When the new data comes in, the easiest thing to do would be to simply set the

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem embedding and using a font variant

2011-04-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
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Re: [Flashcoders] Emanuele Canavesi invited you to Dropbox

2011-03-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
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[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop vs Flash Builder 4

2011-01-26 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've been using FD2 for a long time. I especially like the code-injection feature. I'm working with a lot of legacy Flash work that includes lots of symbols and time-lining. Compiling with FD2 and injecting into an existing swf containing the already compiled symbols is dramatically faster.

[Flashcoders] Android development using Flash/Flex

2011-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
A recent comment from Anthony Pace reads If you would prefer I help kick off the new year by asking some stupid questions, rather than Google the answers, I will gladly accommodate you. Here's one for you guys. I'm trying to find some good literature on what the options are for developing

[Flashcoders] OT JOB: RealBasic contract job in Minneapolis

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew Sinning
LearningWare Inc. (www.learningware.com) is looking for a RealBasic programmer for a short-term contract job. The target platform is Mac OS. Local developers only, please. You can work from home, but we would like to meet with you face to face. Thanks! Andrew Sinning LearningWare, Inc

[Flashcoders] AS2 compile problems when variable name is the same as a package name

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've never noticed this before. I had a variable named view referencing a class view.PlainText. I kept getting compiler errors. Changing the variable name to currentView fixed the problem. Can somebody explain? I'm sure I've had conflicts like this before. Maybe the problem is that I

[Flashcoders] vmode=exactfit cropping bottom under IE

2010-07-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using the swfobject to display my movie in a stand-alone window with no other html content. I'm using: width = 100% height = 100% scale = exactfit Under IE on Windows, the movie is properly sized, but there's about 15 pixels of white space added to the top of the window. As a result,

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect

2010-05-29 Thread Andrew Sinning
for polymorphism and overriding everything, and then set yourCombo.__proto__ to YourComboBoxClass.prototype. Just a hack to see if that is where the problem lies :). regards, JC On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.comwrote: We've built an AS2 application

[Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect

2010-05-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
We've built an AS2 application that can be embedded into various LMSs, etc. Curiously, when embedded in Adobe Connect (also written in AS2), the ComboBoxes aren't rendered correctly. Rather than dropping down, the menus are displaying above the widget, even though there is plenty of room

[Flashcoders] input TextFields in embedded swf stealing focus

2010-05-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Our project is build in AS2. It's imported into an AS3 console written in Flex. The problem is that the input type TextFields in the embedded movie are stealing focus from the other TFs in the container console. I can tab between the TFs in my movie. If I click inside one of the TFs in the

[Flashcoders] call AS function from html links

2010-04-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
In AS2, is there a straightforward way to use the TextFormat.url and TextFormat.target properties to call an AS function when a user clicks on a text fields? This seems like it should be a pretty basic function. I want to have some text with some hyperlinks, but the hyperlinks need to call

Re: [Flashcoders] call AS function from html links

2010-04-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
/actionscript_dictionary073.html Slightly different, but hopefully it shouldn't be too difficult to work in? Glen Andrew Sinning wrote: In AS2, is there a straightforward way to use the TextFormat.url and TextFormat.target properties to call an AS function when a user clicks on a text fields

[Flashcoders] mask anomaly with AS2 loaded into AS3

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm developing a project in AS2 that gets loaded into an AS3 parent movie. In my layout, I have an instance of a symbol (it has an identifier and a class). Within the onLoad function of this class, one of the movie clips is defined as the mask of another. For the instance that is initially

[Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
I use SharedObject.getLocal() to store preferences from Flash, but what about passwords? When I log in to gmail, ebay, etc., my passwords are pulled from a vault, which I have access to by virtue of being logged in to my computer. I can look these up in my browser. What's an acceptable way

Re: [Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
that are quite secure. Your password would not be included, and that would make some people very angry (and rightfully so.) On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: I use SharedObject.getLocal() to store preferences from Flash, but what about passwords? When I

Re: [Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
The session id option is great, and more user friendly, too. Mark Winterhalder wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: Since putting the login screen in html isn't an option, then should I just make the user re-enter their password everytime

[Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have a Flash movie that is using 50-70% of CPU. I've never thought of this as unusual, but our partner on this project finds this to be very high, so I'm looking into how I can reduce this. I am using AS2 and authoring for Flash Player 8. I'm testing under Windows using Firefox, but I get

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks! Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi Andrew... Even though you said it might not be the renderer, I wonder if you set the stage quality to medium, that might make a difference, as the anti-aliasing is processor intensive. If that degrades the text of your textfields, you could see how the

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks Fahim. Could you please clarify: We're using vector images. How do I control if vectors oustide the screen are rendered? For reducing CPU usage, is it better to cache the images or not? Many of them are being cached because we're using a lot of filter effects. Fahim Akhter

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Setting the _quality to LOW has no effect on the CPU usage, so would this point to some cause other than vector rendering? The application uses a lot of memory, about 200,000K, but this would necessarily require a lot of CPU usage, right? Lot's of apps use way more memory but not use so much

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
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Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
as in: _visible = false; Keith Reinfeld wrote: What's odd to me is that all of this CPU is getting used even though these movie clips are completely invisible. Invisible as in visible = false, or alpha = 0? Rendering alpha at anything under 100% is quite cpu intensive. Regards, Keith

[Flashcoders] Local Storage Flash Player Settings alert

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew Sinning
On his Mac under Safari, my boss is getting an Adobe Flash Player Settings alert regarding Local Storage whenever my application tries to access a SharedObject.getLocal(). I've never seen this in my own testing, and I'm using the same code that I've used in other projects and he's never

[Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled, modular design

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Sinning
Following the discussion about root yesterday, it got me thinking about a constant problem I face. Object-A needs to listen to events coming from objects B, C and D, but only if and when these objects actually exist. There's no guarantee that any of the objects B, C and D will be

Re: [Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled, modular design

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Sinning
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:04 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled,modular design Following the discussion about root yesterday, it got me thinking about

[Flashcoders] php-AS2 compression/decompression

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
Has anybody successfully compressed text data using php and then decompressed using AS2? I've tried this using a php lzw script by Jakub Vrana and an AS2 lzw script by zeh.com, but the data doesn't seem to decompress all the way. I wonder if it has to do with the way the data is encoded on

[Flashcoders] OT: How good is TCP/IP compression

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
Related to another post about php to AS2 compression/decompression: How good is the compression built in to TCP/IP? I'm dealing with a large xml file with a huge amount of redundancy, probably 75% of the values in each data item are identical, and of course all of the node and attribute

[Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox breaks tabEnabled of TextFields

2010-01-31 Thread Andrew Sinning
In trouble shooting a problem tabbing between TextFields, I pasted my form layout into a simple movie. The tabbing was still broken. I stripped it down to just the TFs, still broken. Finally, I simply removed the ComboBox component from my library and tabbing works just fine. Put the

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox breaks tabEnabled of TextFields

2010-01-31 Thread Andrew Sinning
So, I needed to set the tabChildren = true for the container MovieClip, then it worked. question: how far up the parent-chain does the tabChildren property need to be set? All the way up to _root? If a swf is imported into a clip, does it need to get set all the way up to _level1? Andrew

[Flashcoders] AS2 DataGrid -- disable rollover states

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using a DataGrid to display user answers, and they are color-coded red and green to indicate right and wrong. I want to completely disable the rollover and selection transitions. These should be static, non-selectable items. To change the color of each item I'm using

Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Sinning
I think Wired doesn't like Flash because it's not the next big thing. Their mission is ultimately to promote technical innovations (and to lesser extend openness), and Flash is perceived as entrenched. If the iPad is broadly adopted, content providers like the NYT will move away from Flash

[Flashcoders] how to refresh AS2 DataGrid

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
I want to be able to maintain any user changes to the sorting and column widths of my DataGrid. So, as data changes come in, I changed the properties of existing objects within the dataProvider, as well as adding new items as needed. The problem I can't figure out how to get the display on

Re: [Flashcoders] how to refresh AS2 DataGrid

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
Solution: dataGrid.dataProvider = dataGrid.dataProvider Nathan Mynarcik wrote: Try myDataGrid.removeAllColumns(); and reload it. You can maybe set a timer that calls a function to update it. --Original Message-- From: Andrew Sinning Sender: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] does Flash check for code 304 (not modified) when loading in another swf?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using AS2 and targeting Flash Player 8. When a movie loads in another swf (or an image for that matter), does it check the server to see if there's a newer version? I will often include a time-stamp as a query-string parameter to prevent loading a cached version, but what if I want do

[Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have button that requires two clicks in order to completely select. I'm not looking for a double-click, but rather the second click (onRelease) confirms the user response. In the GUI, the first click cause a change in the graphic and there is a prompt click to confirm. What I'm finding

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
to prevent the onPress. Any clicks that occur before the mouse is moved will then call onRollOver and onRollOut in succession. Andrew Sinning wrote: I have button that requires two clicks in order to completely select. I'm not looking for a double-click, but rather the second click (onRelease

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
: Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com To: Flash Coders flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:34 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1pixel I have button that requires two clicks in order to completely select. I'm not looking

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using AS3 for FP8. I'll see if I can publish to FP9. Merrill, Jason wrote: Ah. What Flash player version and Flash IDE version are you using and targeting? Seems like this used to be a bug with the Flash player and present in AS2 apps. It used to annoy me on sites I would build or sites

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
AS3 for FP8 FP 8 doesn't support AS3. So if you're using FP8 AS2 and are using v2 components, they above solution applies. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
Typo. I meant AS2! Paul Andrews wrote: Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm using AS3 for FP8. I'll see if I can publish to FP9. Surely that's not possible. AS3 is for FP9 and up. Sounds like you are using AS2, in which case you will still be using AVM1 even with FP9. Paul Merrill, Jason wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] does Flash check for code 304 (not modified) whenloading in another swf?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
version when there was a newer version available. --Original Message-- From: Andrew Sinning Sender: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com To: Flash Coders ReplyTo: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] does Flash check for code 304 (not modified) whenloading in another swf? Sent

Re: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code injection

2010-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
it) to workaround this problem, I think. Checkout the -mx option: http://www.mtasc.org/ Hope it helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/1/13 Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com I started looking into using FlashDevelop's code injection tonight. I'm using AS2. I don't think trying to use

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code-injection and Vizzy Flash Tracer

2010-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using AS2. Does anybody know how to get FlashDevelop to compile a swf that will trace out to Vizzy Flash Tracer? I had to set the compile option Use MX classes to true in order to get my classes to compile, so maybe this is preventing the MX mode to work. I'm able to get it to trace out

Re: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code-injection and Vizzy Flash Tracer

2010-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
); } Then in the code that gets compiled in FD I changed the Object prototype to call _root.traceOut(str): Object.prototype.trace = function (str:String):Boolean { _root.traceOut(str); } Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm using AS2. Does anybody know how to get FlashDevelop to compile a swf

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code injection

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
I started looking into using FlashDevelop's code injection tonight. I'm using AS2. I don't think trying to use this is going to be very practical, as the compiler is rather strict in ways that the Flash IDE isn't. In fact, it's so strict that it won't even compile some of the MX classes!

Re: [Flashcoders] archives?

2010-01-10 Thread Andrew Sinning
looked at were from Feb, May, June, etc. of 2007. On 1/8/2010 2:43 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: Andrew Sinning wrote: Are there archives of this list since 2007? The only one I can find ends on Dec '07. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce file size caused by redundant classes in loaded-in movies

2010-01-10 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks Jaun Pablo. This is perfect! - Juan Pablo Califano wrote: I never actually tryed it, but I remember I bookmarked a link about this some time ago, maybe you find it useful: http://exanimo.com/actionscript/flash-cs3-and-exclude-xml/ Cheers Juan Pablo

[Flashcoders] archives?

2010-01-08 Thread Andrew Sinning
Are there archives of this list since 2007? The only one I can find ends on Dec '07. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Repost: how to reduce file size caused by redundant classes in loaded-in movies

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
Sorry about this. I posted this yesterday, but my inbox has been down for the past 3 days and all of my incoming mail appears to have been black-holed. A swf that I am loading in to a parent movie has symbols that are linked to classes that are already available in the parent movie. This

[Flashcoders] how to reduce file size caused by redundant classes in loaded-in movies

2010-01-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
A swf that I am loading in to a parent movie has symbols that are linked to classes that are already available in the parent movie. This is causing the file size of the loaded-in movie to become much larger than it would otherwise be. The problem is that the symbols import classes which

[Flashcoders] AS2 static var persisting when movie unloaded

2009-12-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
I load in a movie into a container movie. The loaded-movie uses _lockRoot = true. A singleton instance of a class is created and set as a static variable of the class. The movie is then unloaded and another instance of the movie is loaded into the same container. Should static members in

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 static var persisting when movie unloaded

2009-12-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
think of it as once loaded, always loaded, once loaded, never replaced. First version in is the version for the rest of the session. Hope that helps. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman - Original Message - From: Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com To: Flash Coders flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 static var persisting when movie unloaded

2009-12-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
replace the existing one. Basically think of it as once loaded, always loaded, once loaded, never replaced. First version in is the version for the rest of the session. Hope that helps. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman - Original Message - From: Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com To: Flash

[Flashcoders] how clearInterval in AS2 when swf unloaded from parent

2009-11-24 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have a movie that is loaded into another movie. The child-movie uses an interval to periodically update itself. My problem is that this continues to get triggered even after the child-movie is unloaded from it's parent. I've tried using an onUnload event in the _root of the child-movie

[Flashcoders] Flicker feed doesn't seem to load

2009-11-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've set up a feed at flicker: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157602175489935nsid=14206...@n04lang=en-us When I load it in using the following code, there are zero attributes and zero nodes: var loader:URLLoader = new

Re: [Flashcoders] Flicker feed doesn't seem to load

2009-11-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
element, there is a tag: dc:date.Taken2007-09-26T19:22:29-08:00/dc:date.Taken Once I remove the name-space attributes from the root tag, these dc tags result in a script error. Andrew Sinning wrote: I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've set up a feed at flicker: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Flicker feed doesn't seem to load

2009-11-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
. Resulted in errorous code / xml. I ended up stripping the namespace from the xml. Latcho Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm finding to problems with the flick feed that I'm trying to load. In the root tag there are name-space attributes: xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/; xmlns:flickr=urn:flickr

[Flashcoders] how to create rss/data changes on server, how to process in AS3

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm working in Flash, not Flex. I have a php script that takes an incoming query from AS3 and returns the resulting data. The data changes very quickly over time. Currently the script returns _all_ of the available data. I then read in all of the refreshed data into AS3, compare each item

Re: [Flashcoders] how to create rss/data changes on server, how to process in AS3

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Sinning
running, you can run your PHP commands and talk to MySQL db's. You just have to watch out for some environment variable differences - webserver vs command line sometimes have different ini settings, paths, etc. Glen Andrew Sinning wrote: Thanks Henrik. I've been using Red5 do to simple multi

Re: [Flashcoders] IE and https

2009-11-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
-and-browser-cache-test-suite/ hth, Bob -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 12:16 PM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] IE and https I just changed

[Flashcoders] CS3 doesn't compile after Open Recent

2009-10-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
If I select my FLA using Open Recent, Flash can't find the document class and it won't compile. After this I have to completely close down Flash to get it to compile anything. (But sometimes, like just now, I couldn't reproduce this even though it's been happening constantly for the past

[Flashcoders] add properties to Event object

2009-10-27 Thread Andrew Sinning
Why can't I add any properties to an AS3 Event object? I get a 1056: cannot create property prop-name on Event Event extends Object, right? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] add properties to Event object

2009-10-27 Thread Andrew Sinning
Okay. I just read the manual entry for dynamic and the explanation for how sealed classes improve performance. Very helpful and interesting. Glen Pike wrote: Andrew Sinning wrote: Why can't I add any properties to an AS3 Event object? I get a 1056: cannot create property prop-name on Event

[Flashcoders] DataGrid not updating after DataProvider item changes

2009-10-24 Thread Andrew Sinning
Publishing for F9 with AS3, using Flash not Flex. I have a simple DataGrid. I've added 9 items to its DataProvider. They are simple objects of a type Candidates that doesn't extend any other class. I have columns for 4 public properties of Candidate: name, voteUnits, percentVote and

Re: [Flashcoders] DataGrid not updating after DataProvider item changes

2009-10-24 Thread Andrew Sinning
for any changes to the data and refresh when a change happens? J.A.T. Karl On Oct 24, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Andrew Sinning wrote: Publishing for F9 with AS3, using Flash not Flex. I have a simple DataGrid. I've added 9 items to its DataProvider. They are simple objects of a type Candidates

[Flashcoders] (red5) SharedObject.send() to specified members only

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using red5 under AS3. Is there a function built into red5 that will restrict the list of members who receive a send() message, or is this something I will need to write using java? I have a host and several hundred clients. I want send messages from clients to the host without adding

[Flashcoders] AS2 SharedObject with Red5

2009-10-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
Is there a way to connect a SharedObject to a NetConnection in AS2? This appears really easy using AS3, but under AS2 the implementation of the NetConnection object is quite different, and SharedObject lacks the connect() method. Thanks! ___

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 SharedObject with Red5

2009-10-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
); --- C: -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2009 8:27 AM To: Flash Coders Subject

[Flashcoders] how to set DataGridColumn textAlign

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm trying to set the textAlign of a column in the DataGrid component. There are examples of how to do this in Flex, but the required methods/properties seem to be missing from fl...DataGridColumn. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] totally lost figuring out AS3 JSON Class

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've been using JSON forever with AS2. It's a single as class in org.JSON. I've downloaded the as3 core library from JSON.org. It's 283 files, and there's no explanation for what to do. The main JSON class is in adobe.serialization.json, which seems to suggest that this is an adobe class.

Re: [Flashcoders] totally lost figuring out AS3 JSON Class

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
; Where rawData is the loaded JSON data. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com To: Flash Coders flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:27 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] totally lost figuring out AS3 JSON Class I've been

Re: [Flashcoders] totally lost figuring out AS3 JSON Class

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
classes. You can use the .as source files (com folder) or the .swc, whichever you prefer. Did you get the library from googlecode? http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/downloads/list - Original Message - From: Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders

[Flashcoders] monitor outgoing http requests

2009-10-08 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm trying to track down an issue with a cross-domain policy violation. Something in one of my movies is making requests to an outside server, but I can't seem to track it down. I get a request for resource at www.domain.com was denied message, but I need to figure out what exactly was being

Re: [Flashcoders] monitor outgoing http requests

2009-10-08 Thread Andrew Sinning
the denied request. The request is sent by the player only when there are no crossdomain issues. It might help you to narrow your search, though. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2009/10/8 Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com I'm trying to track down an issue with a cross-domain policy

[Flashcoders] basic mtasc question

2009-09-23 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm getting really impatient with the FDE compiler. Probably my fault for piling on so many classes, but I need to keep moving forward. When using mtasc to inject code into a swf, does all the AS get replaced, or only the main class? I'd like to leave frame scripts in place. I only want to

Re: [Flashcoders] instantiate symbol linked to parent movie's library

2009-09-22 Thread Andrew Sinning
a long time, so I'm not sure I got the steps all right, I might have those files somewhere. Hope that helps! Hans On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.comwrote: How would one instantiate a symbol instance linked to the parent movie's library? E.g., there's an asset

Re: [Flashcoders] instantiate symbol linked to parent movie's library

2009-09-22 Thread Andrew Sinning
It was one of those hacks, but it's been a long time, so I'm not sure I got the steps all right, I might have those files somewhere. Hope that helps! Hans On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: How would one instantiate a symbol

Re: [Flashcoders] instantiate symbol linked to parent movie's library

2009-09-22 Thread Andrew Sinning
, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.com wrote: How would one instantiate a symbol instance linked to the parent movie's library? E.g., there's an asset in top most movie's library called Asset. The presentation

[Flashcoders] instantiate symbol linked to parent movie's library

2009-09-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
How would one instantiate a symbol instance linked to the parent movie's library? E.g., there's an asset in top most movie's library called Asset. The presentation engine is a separate swf that gets loaded into the top most movie. From within this movie, using AS2, I need to create an

[Flashcoders] opening multiple instances of swf in Flash player

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm working with the BreezeServicesEmulator, and it doesn't appear to work with swfs running within the browser, at least not using Flash Player 8 with AS2 under Windows Firefox. So, to test my project I need to run one swf with the BreezeServicesEmulator and then two instances of the client

[Flashcoders] ? Sync SWF applications cannot be authored for Flash 8

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've been playing around with the Breeze Sync SWF SDK for the last few days. It is working for me, although I've got a lot of kinks to work out. I've been assuming that my problems have to do with my implementation, but I just notices this message, stated very clearly and multiple times in

[Flashcoders] FlexBuilder 3 auto-complete vs. FlashDevelop

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm a long-time Flash user just trying out Flex for the second time, last time being about 3 years ago. I have the 60 day trial of Flex Builder 3. Anyway, I've been using FlashDevelop for so long I think I've really become spoiled by its excellent auto-completion feature. Flex Builder

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder 3 auto-complete vs. FlashDevelop

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
Dave Watts wrote: The trick is to type the variable name and the colon, then choose the variable type using autocomplete. Okay, that part is the same in FlashDevelop. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder 3 auto-complete vs. FlashDevelop

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
Okay, so how do I use FD to edit Flex docs? Steven Sacks wrote: FlashDevelop auto-completes class, instance and local vars, as well as native key words like public, private, class, interface, implements, function, static, const, etc. FDT and FB do not. Here's what toggle line does

[Flashcoders] bookmarking a dynamic flash page

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
How could I let the user bookmark the current state of a dynamic flash page? I know how to save the current state of the movie and then just load that as the default, but what if the user should be able to bookmark multiple states, each with its own address? Can javascript tell the browser

Re: [Flashcoders] bookmarking a dynamic flash page

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
sounds like i need to use swfaddress! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] LocalConnection: call functions on passed object

2009-08-02 Thread Andrew Sinning
Using the LocalConnection object, is it be possible to pass a reference to an object from one movie to another, and hence forth call functions within the passed object directly, without having to go through the LocalConnection? This is in AS3. ___

[Flashcoders] a real custom cursor

2009-07-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
Does AS3 support real custom cursors? The only solution that I've found is to hide the cursor and to have a sprite follow the mousex/y around, but it feels like the mouse is sticking when it doesn't refresh a quickly as one would like. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] a real custom cursor

2009-07-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
to it (and controlled the cursor position that way as well)... but that was for a standalone special-case use. I am sure you're not after that kind of thing. Eric On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.comwrote: Does AS3 support real custom cursors? The only solution

[Flashcoders] Error #1107 in player 10,0,22,87

2009-07-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
How do I report this bug? After updating to player 10,0,22,87 (both the debug player and the standard player), I am getting the following error when calling the built-in forEach method on an array. It doesn't happen every time, but it does happen consistently. VerifyError: Error #1107:

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Loader failing under 10,0,22,87

2009-07-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
around what is going on, but at least I've fixed the problem. Andrew Sinning wrote: Are there known issues with player 10,0,22,87 with the Loader class failing when there are multiple Loader children in the display list at the same time?I had a prototype working just fine under Windows

[Flashcoders] AS3 MOUSE_OVER/OUT bubbling

2009-07-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've read though the documentation regarding event bubbling several times, but the concept remains blurry. Perhaps this example will help me get my head around it. I want to display a custom cursor, a version of the Photoshop flat hand cursor, whenever the mouse is over a cropped image to

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 MOUSE_OVER/OUT bubbling

2009-07-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks Rob. That's just the ticket. Rob Romanek wrote: Hey Andrew, Try setting mouseEnabled to false for your cursor sprite. hth, Rob On 5-Jul-09, at 8:40 AM, Andrew Sinning wrote: The problem is that as soon as the custom cursor's sprite becomes visible, it causes a MOUSE_OUT event

[Flashcoders] flv video width/height

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
A colleague converted a 640x480 .mov into a .flv and he says he left the dimensions the same. When I stream it into a swf shell using the NetSteam and Video object, the video.width and video.height dimensions are 320x240 and that's how it shows up when I add it to the stage. Is there a way

Re: [Flashcoders] flv video width/height

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
Okay, I just tried another video that is definitely not 320x240. It doesn't even have the same aspect ratio but it's coming in at 320x240 also. What's up with this? Andrew Sinning wrote: A colleague converted a 640x480 .mov into a .flv and he says he left the dimensions the same. When I

Re: [Flashcoders] flv video width/height

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
that's what i was looking for. thanks! Davide Di Blasi wrote: Hi Andrew , normally you can check the flv dimension by onMetaData handlers of NetStream in As2, I think there should by the same way in AS3. Hope this help, Davide. Andrew Sinning ha scritto: A colleague converted a 640x480

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