[Flashcoders] Form app questions, frustrations
I have a mx2004Pro form application I'm working on and the following bizarre behavior is happening: - switch back and forth between screens, working on this and that, and over time the visible property for various forms revert to true at run-time although their property value in the design environment is still set correctly to false. That is, when my app starts, randomly some forms start defaulting to visible. I've taken ALL code out of the project to verify this is not something with my code. It's not. Is the form application support in MX2004 just that buggy? If so, wtf? - also, why does ONLY absolute pathing work for setting values/properties on forms in a form application? In the code layer for my main form, the top level form, I have code that is attached to a menu that has the requisite setVisible(true/false) code to show and hide various screens(forms) based on menu selections by the user. But, I've verified that ONLY absolute pathing works e.g. _root.frmMain.frmDesktop.setVisible(false); //frmMain is the top level form with a child of frmDesktop But, Since the code exists in a code layer for frmMain, why doesn't this work: This.frmDesktop or even, this._parent.frmDesktop when referenced from within a contained component's function handler? Thx!! Chris ___ 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 generate a swf and convert it to adownloadable screensaver serverside?
I'm writing a win32 app that will host a swf as its GUI and also a portion of that application will be used as a screensaver. I'm not sure my deployment strategy (a typical windows installer the includes the exe and its dependencies) would work for you but the screensaver host app(exe) will be programmed to download SWFs to execute as the screen saver graphics module. In fact, I'm going to use asp.net web services as the means to determine which SWFs are available to display, etc. This could be pretty easily adapted to dynamically determine the SWF your customer wants to display, download it and then display it. Once downloaded they wouldn't have to do anything to configure the saver, etc though my application will support the settings selected by the standard windows screen saver configuration dialog. Anyway, I'll probably open source what I'm doing and when it's ready send you a link if you're interested. But, I'm not sure if the deployment strategy for the exe and the discovery mechanism of which SWF to display are workable for you. If so, just drop me a line off-list and I'll see what I can do to help. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Baltzer Hennelund Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:50 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] How to generate a swf and convert it to adownloadable screensaver serverside? Hi all, Hope someone has a solution to this issue. I client of mine wants a 'create screensaver' feature on their flash website. Based on some default flash template the user should be able to customize it and finally download it as a personal screensaver. In the old days I would use Generator to create and export the customized swf - but it has been deprecated for since flash 6!? After that step I would then need to convert the generated swf to a screensaver/exe file on the server which finally can be downloaded by the user. The question is if that is possible at all and if so which setup/software would I need. BTW I'm on a .Net platform if that matters. Thanks a lot Martin Hennelund ___ 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] C++ flash host supporting transparency
Very interesting, no I hadn't heard of this library. But, I'm looking through the docs very carefully right now... Very interesting. Thanks Mark! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Winterhalder Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:09 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] C++ flash host supporting transparency Why reinvent the wheel? Did you have a look at SWHX yet? It works for Windows and OSX, Linux support AFAIK would need FP9, maybe more. I'm not sure about transparency, but since Screenweaver could do it, it's probably there. http://haxe.org/swhx I don't want to stop you from rolling your own, if that's what you want, I just thought I'd point you to it in case you haven't heard about it yet. Mark On 10/11/06, Chris Douglass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I'm building a C++ app to run on Windows (then maybe on Mac and X) that will host SWFs. On Windows I'm using the Flash activeX control to host my Flash app. I'd like to render the Flash viewport/window onto my application's surface with transparency such that only the content on the stage is drawn to my window. Does anyone know how you would implement this within a custom host/container like mine? How do the browsers implement this (well the ones that support it)? Does Flash tell the host the key color being used for transparency? I've seen a few articles here and there that Flash sends its output to an off-screen buffer that the browsers use to render Flash content with non-rectangular transparency. But, I'm not sure how as a host container the Flash frame buffers and transparency key color are accessible to me. Does the stage color become the RGB key color value that Flash communicates to the browser to assist with this process? What if that same color is used in the content of your movie/content within your SWF? Do the browsers render those pixels transparently as well? Anyway, I'm going to start some tests but thought maybe someone could shed some light for me. Also, does anyone have experience building their own SWF host application that runs on Windows and Mac? I need to port my app (and am not interested in using the commercial swf/exe hosts out there, at least not yet ;]) to the Mac, so whatever transparency technique I use on Win32 would hopefully not require a full-rewrite on the Mac (yeah right). Is there an SDK for people wanting to build their own hosts for Flash apps? Is there a lower-level interface/API I can tap into that exposes the Flash content/internals so that developers can write their own unique hosts? What wrapper/API is exposed to the Mac platform developers for creating containers on OSX? Thanks for ANY input :) I'll start fiddling with WMODE and see what happens for starters... Where is the definitive internals book on the Flash runtime engine? Does one exist? Chris Douglass Innovative Code Design Atlanta, GA www.innovativecode.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] C++ flash host supporting transparency
Hey, I'm building a C++ app to run on Windows (then maybe on Mac and X) that will host SWFs. On Windows I'm using the Flash activeX control to host my Flash app. I'd like to render the Flash viewport/window onto my application's surface with transparency such that only the content on the stage is drawn to my window. Does anyone know how you would implement this within a custom host/container like mine? How do the browsers implement this (well the ones that support it)? Does Flash tell the host the key color being used for transparency? I've seen a few articles here and there that Flash sends its output to an off-screen buffer that the browsers use to render Flash content with non-rectangular transparency. But, I'm not sure how as a host container the Flash frame buffers and transparency key color are accessible to me. Does the stage color become the RGB key color value that Flash communicates to the browser to assist with this process? What if that same color is used in the content of your movie/content within your SWF? Do the browsers render those pixels transparently as well? Anyway, I'm going to start some tests but thought maybe someone could shed some light for me. Also, does anyone have experience building their own SWF host application that runs on Windows and Mac? I need to port my app (and am not interested in using the commercial swf/exe hosts out there, at least not yet ;]) to the Mac, so whatever transparency technique I use on Win32 would hopefully not require a full-rewrite on the Mac (yeah right). Is there an SDK for people wanting to build their own hosts for Flash apps? Is there a lower-level interface/API I can tap into that exposes the Flash content/internals so that developers can write their own unique hosts? What wrapper/API is exposed to the Mac platform developers for creating containers on OSX? Thanks for ANY input :) I'll start fiddling with WMODE and see what happens for starters... Where is the definitive internals book on the Flash runtime engine? Does one exist? Chris Douglass Innovative Code Design Atlanta, GA www.innovativecode.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] Re: zinc kills a variable with a new String()?
Does AS support explicit byRef and byVal function argument modifiers? If
so, maybe that would help.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of grimmwerks
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:11 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: zinc kills a variable with a new String()?
Of course, the var i fixed it (in the 'for') -- but I don't get why it
blewup; I've noticed this elsewhere too today.
Say I had a function that calls a subfunction, ie
mainStuff = function(){
for(i=0; itheList.length; i++){
ret = subStuff(tList[i]);
}
}
subStuff = function(which){
for(i=0; iwhich.length; i++){
//whatever
}
}
I noticed that 'i' would get shared across the instances, that it wouldn't
work. ie it would work in mainstuff, bounce to subStuff which would iterate
more, get mainStuff confused, etc.
This is in direct violation to what the local var should be, no? I mean,
I've never experienced that before.
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