Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData size limit

2006-10-05 Thread Bill Brown
Dave, I'm not sure if this is appropriate for your application, but I ran into a similar problem when creating a project using high-quality panoramic photos. The way I worked around it was by slicing up my image into 2880 px tiles, then re-assembling them with actionscript on the stage. Cheers,

[Flashcoders] Dynamic BitmapData morph?

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Brown
Just wondering if anyone has tried to create a dynamic morph between two bitmaps using the BitmapData class and filters in Flash 8? If anyone has seen this, can they provide links? If it hasn't been done, does anyone have any idea how to tackle something like this? ConvolutionFilter? Thanks, BB _

[Flashcoders] setTextFormat in a V2 TextInput component

2006-06-08 Thread Bill Brown
Does anyone know if it is possible to use setTextFormat on a V2 TextInput component? Browsing the mx.controls.TextInput class, it looks like there is a private reference to a TextField called "label". Does anyone know if there is a way to target this directly from outside the component? Thanks,

[Flashcoders] Exporting dynamically generated vector drawings

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Brown
Can anyone recommend a method of exporting dynamically generated drawings (using the Drawing API) from Flash to a high-quality printable format? I'm trying to create a .pdf or .ai file of actionscript generative art so that I can send it to the printers for poster-size prints. I saw Joshua Davis

Re: [Flashcoders] LF: Flash representation of Board of Directors network

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Brown
Thank-you very much for the link. It's a beautiful project. Cheers, BB On 5/15/06, Ettwein, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.theyrule.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Brown Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006

[Flashcoders] LF: Flash representation of Board of Directors network

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Brown
Does anyone remember the URL for a flash project that showed the connection of the CEOs and board of directors for the major companies of the world? It allowed you to see how many companies each person was on the board of directors for. You could also expand company nodes to see all the board of d

Re: [Flashcoders] Typographic Mosaic

2006-02-21 Thread Bill Brown
ble.com > Flash components development. > Usability services. > > > Bill Brown wrote: > > > > Does anyone know how to create a typographic mosaic in Flash, or if > there > > are any related tutorials? > > I'm trying to do something along the lines of Amaz

[Flashcoders] Typographic Mosaic

2006-02-20 Thread Bill Brown
Does anyone know how to create a typographic mosaic in Flash, or if there are any related tutorials? I'm trying to do something along the lines of Amaztype http://amaztype.tha.jp/ except with small-size words filling in the large-size word. I think the main question is how do you determine the lar

[Flashcoders] Re: Lines of code in a Flash project

2006-01-30 Thread Bill Brown
Agreed, lines per hour is not a very valuable metric, but it's a relatively quick and easy metric to calculate. I remember reading somewhere that the average programmer writes about 10 lines of good production code per hour. I'm guessing this included all time for project coordination, architectur

[Flashcoders] Lines of code in a Flash project

2006-01-27 Thread Bill Brown
Does anyone know a quick way of counting the lines of code in a Flash project? I just finished a large project with several dozen classes and was curious about my lines per hour ratio. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://

Re: [Flashcoders] Line optimization

2006-01-27 Thread Bill Brown
uot;: > > http://motiondraw.com/md/as_samples/t/LineGeneralization/demo.html > > hth > -- > Andreas Weber > motiondraw.com > > > -Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill > Brown > Se

[Flashcoders] Line optimization

2006-01-25 Thread Bill Brown
Does anyone know where I can find code or equations for the line optimization of curves? I'm looking for something similar to the way the Flash Authoring Environment implements Modify > Shape > Smooth, Modify > Shape > Straighten, and Modify > Shape > Optimize. _

[Flashcoders] Single giant bitmap vs Multiple smaller bitmaps - Performance Effects?

2005-11-01 Thread Bill Brown
Is there any rendering performance difference between using one giant bitmap versus slicing up the bitmap into smaller bitmaps? I am creating a scrolling game for a kiosk, so memory usage is not a big issue. Currently I am slicing up one long unique image (no patterns or repetitive parts) into seve