Re: [Flashcoders] Ángel Ambrosio quiere mantener el contacto en LinkedIn

[Christian Pugliese]

thought i was the only one to notice that, and for a second i thought my
name was marc... lol

chris.



2010/3/22 Zeh Fernando 

> Yeah. Just the normal "someone wants to keep contact in linkedin" type of
> stuff.
>
> 2010/3/22 Karl DeSaulniers 
>
> > My spanish is rusty, what did he/she ask?
> > Is this another one of those emails where someone is wanting Flashcoders
> as
> > a friend on LinkedIn?
> >
> > Karl
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mar 22, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Ángel Ambrosio wrote:
> >
> > LinkedIn
> > Ángel Ambrosio souhaite se connecter à vous sur LinkedIn :
> > --
> >
> > Marc:
> >
> > Me gustaría añadirte a mi red profesional en LinkedIn.
> >
> > - Ángel Ambrosio
> >
> > Accepter l'invitation de Ángel Ambrosio
> >
> >
> http://www.linkedin.com/e/XEzBlT6odM8buZtuxRkFg2aRojmbrRCwd4dkwunRTj8bdkAw2T/blk/I1907571572_2/1BpC5vrmRLoRZcjkkZt5YCpnlOt3RApnhMpmdzgmhxrSNBszYOnP8Tdj4TdjsMej59bSV3nQ8OlP15bPcPcjkQe3oScj4LrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/
> >
> > Voir l'invitation de Ángel Ambrosio
> >
> >
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Re: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

[Christian Pugliese]

Btw, ABC.com is streaming Lost Final Season online in Flash, I wonder, in
case he haven't seen yesterday, if Steve Jobs will watch it online in Flash,
or will he just go illegal and download via torrent? what about those agency
guys as well? (just kidding)




On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 16:10, David Hunter  wrote:

>
> it will be interesting to see what happens.
> this post on the topic of html5 vs flash is well balanced and
> non-inflammatory:
> http://richardleggett.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/01/the-world-is-moving-to-html5
> this post from someone at photoshop might cheer everyone up:
> http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/01/sympathy_for_the_devil.html
> there are heaps of other articles i've seen but these are two good recent
> ones.
> david
> > Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:55:14 -0300
> > From: ar...@artur.com
> > To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
> > Subject: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash
> >
> > from my client ( an established design agency in NYC ):
> >
> > artur,
> >
> > I've been doing a lot of research and polling of colleagues.
> >
> > *Here's my takeaway:*
> >
> > - no one knows what's going on
> > - flash developers I've spoken to all are saying it's no big deal,
> > proceed with flash
> > - all designers are making an abrupt shift away from flash, steering
> > their clients as a result
> > - clients are questioning flash even without prompting
> > - media has called for the death of it
> >
> > I think the answer is that Flash will need to change ASAP, or else I
> > can't recommend it without looking like an ignoramus to clients.
> > That sucks, because I love Flash, but it's not where the momentum is
> > moving.
> >
> > People still look at it as non SEO friendly.
> >
> >
> > they now want to do all future sites in html/css/jquery - powered by
> > WPress or Joomla/Drupal.
> >
> > any articles , facts, that i can point them to that may change their
> minds?
> >
> > thanks
> >
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Re: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

[Christian Pugliese]

I second Soren...

Good designers and developers must choose what fits best each website, and
that should have been done by a long time, now things are just going to get
more serious. Flash wont die, not in a near future, html5 badly supports
video tag, there are browser compatibility stuff, there are interactive, etc
etc... Flash people and Adobe just need to learn how to argue better, and
this had happen before.

Chris.



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 15:46, Soeren.Meyer-Eppler <
soeren.meyer-epp...@buschnick.net> wrote:

> > People still look at it as non SEO friendly.
> >
> > they now want to do all future sites in html/css/jquery - powered by
> > WPress or Joomla/Drupal.
>
> I think for the type of site where html/css/jquery is enough to
> implement it Flash is indeed a bad choice. What should be it's value
> proposition in those cases? At best it won't get into the way. At worst
> it'll increase load times, worsen SEO, break browser navigation, won't
> allow proper page links, won't honour browser color settings, won't
> degrade well, won't allow my adblockers etc... In my personal experience
> I have seen far more bad flash sites than usable ones. Granted, we are
> finally past the "skip intro" infant stage, but there is still a lot of
> garbage out there.
>
> Now don't get me wrong, I think flash fills a very important niche for
> developing highly interactive, dynamic and media rich browser
> applications. No other tool even comes close in the domains flash really
> shines - but please don't think it's the right platform for every website.
>
> best regards,
>
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Re: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

[Christian Pugliese]

sorry to say, but not a respectable agency in that case, not even aware of
what's really going on.



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 14:55, artur  wrote:

> from my client ( an established design agency in NYC ):
>
>   artur,
>
>   I've been doing a lot of research and polling of colleagues.
>
>   *Here's my takeaway:*
>
>   - no one knows what's going on
>   - flash developers I've spoken to all are saying it's no big deal,
>   proceed with flash
>   - all designers are making an abrupt shift away from flash, steering
>   their clients as a result
>   - clients are questioning flash even without prompting
>   - media has called for the death of it
>
>   I think the answer is that Flash will need to change ASAP, or else I
>   can't recommend it without looking like an ignoramus to clients.
>   That sucks, because I love Flash, but it's not where the momentum is
>   moving.
>
>   People still look at it as non SEO friendly.
>
>
> they now want to do all future sites in html/css/jquery - powered by WPress
> or Joomla/Drupal.
>
> any articles , facts, that i can point them to that may change their minds?
>
> thanks
>
> artur
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Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

[Christian Pugliese]

I think the real fact is money.
If apple allows flash on iPad/iPhone, can you imagine how many AppStore
games/apps would be unnecessary because you'd have it online in flash.







On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:40, Glen Pike  wrote:

> If the browser an open source one you can change the logo :)
>
>
> Angela Ferraiolo wrote:
>
>> We could be more active. Rather than show the blue logo, we could
>> substitute a message that reads "Steve Jobs won't let you see this.
>> Please go to the iTunes store and pay him for something to watch."
>> Right now we are simply wasting our message opportunity.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Christian Pugliese 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Lee Brimelow has a fantastic post about this:
>>> http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:03, artur  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> /i was wondering what the communities thoughts were about this:/*
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/ten-things-missing-from-the-ipad/
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> *Flash*
>>>>
>>>> Many people will bemoan the lack of Flash in the iPad. It wasn't
>>>> mentioned,
>>>> but eagle-eyed viewers would have seen the missing plugin icon on the
>>>> New
>>>> York Times site during yesterday's demo, and given that Apple clearly
>>>> hates
>>>> Flash as both a non-open web "standard" and as a buggy, CPU-hungry piece
>>>> of
>>>> code, it's unlikely it will ever be added, unless Apple decides it wants
>>>> to
>>>> cut the battery life down to two hours.
>>>>
>>>> Who needs Flash, anyway? YouTube and Vimeo have both switched to H.264
>>>> for
>>>> video streaming (in Chrome and Safari, at least -- Firefox doesn't
>>>> support
>>>> it), and the rest of the world of Flash is painful to use.
>>>>
>>>> In fact, we think the lack of Flash in the iPad will be the thing that
>>>> finally kills Flash itself. If the iPad is as popular as the iPhone and
>>>> iPod
>>>> Touch, Flash-capable browsers will eventually be in the minority.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> go.
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

[Christian Pugliese]

Lee Brimelow has a fantastic post about this:
http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703




On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:03, artur  wrote:

> /i was wondering what the communities thoughts were about this:/*
> *
>
> *
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/ten-things-missing-from-the-ipad/
> *
>
> *Flash*
>
> Many people will bemoan the lack of Flash in the iPad. It wasn't mentioned,
> but eagle-eyed viewers would have seen the missing plugin icon on the New
> York Times site during yesterday's demo, and given that Apple clearly hates
> Flash as both a non-open web "standard" and as a buggy, CPU-hungry piece of
> code, it's unlikely it will ever be added, unless Apple decides it wants to
> cut the battery life down to two hours.
>
> Who needs Flash, anyway? YouTube and Vimeo have both switched to H.264 for
> video streaming (in Chrome and Safari, at least -- Firefox doesn't support
> it), and the rest of the world of Flash is painful to use.
>
> In fact, we think the lack of Flash in the iPad will be the thing that
> finally kills Flash itself. If the iPad is as popular as the iPhone and iPod
> Touch, Flash-capable browsers will eventually be in the minority.
>
>
> go.
>
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Re: [Flashcoders] mac vs pc

[Christian Pugliese]

50% Mac > all my freelancer jobs
50% PC > all may day job

if I could I'd use 100% of Mac, but the agency I work for only uses PCs...
perhaps I love the Mac I miss a looot a FlashDevelop version for OSX.

Christian Pugliese
www.chrisid.com




On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 15:20, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

> 99% Mac and 1% PC
> I only use PCs to test websites on IE.
> Mac for everything else I need.
>
> Karl
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:10 AM, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote:
>
>  90% Mac, 10% PC.
>>
>> PC for mostly Director development
>> MAC for Flash, web, audio and video work.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> on 8/10/09 5:55 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) at
>> alla...@receptacledesign.com wrote:
>>
>>  So the question I'm really getting to is, how many people use osX
>>> (using windows in boot camp doesn't count) and how many are using
>>> windows for their main work machine and what kind of software setup
>>> are you using?
>>>
>>> thanks for your time guys
>>> Allandt
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Interactive Multimedia Developer
>>
>>
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>> 945 Washington Blvd.
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[Flashcoders] Loader bytesTotal equals to 0

[Christian Giordano]

I've a strange bug which seems on the Flash Player. Basically on
Windows / IE when the page is reloaded, the preloader logs the
progress of the bytesLoaded correctly, but the totalBytes are
incredibily 0. I tried both to check the ProgressEvent or the
loader.contentLoaderInfo itself, the result doesn't change.

I am wondering if anyone have ever encountered in this absurd issue (I
couldn't find anything on the web).


Thanks, chr
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[Flashcoders] Pseudo 3D car games

[Christian Giordano]

Hi guys, I remember there is a technique used by some car games, like
I presume here:

http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-3D-Rally-Racing-4621.htm

Which allows you to have realistic car games without a real 3D engine.

Does anyone remember the name of this technique and have some
information about how to implement it?


Thanks a lot, chr
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[Flashcoders] Re: Flex 2 SDK command line compiling on mac

[Christian Giordano]

Ok, it seems that is due to the white spaces included in the path, but here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/2/releasenotes_flex201_sdk.html

They say in the bug fixed from 2:

187387 Mxmlc not working on Mac/Linux with spaces in path

!!!

In flex3 sdk seems fixed, at least :S


chr


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> Eclipse + FDT and for compiling I used ANT scripts quering mxmlc. When
> trying to compile on mac I get:
>
> command line: Error: unknown configuration variable ''
>
> I'm trying all the possible options in the world but the error is not
> so helpful.
>
> I added mxmlc to the shell commands and then, as soon as I specify few
> parameters, like:
>
> mxmlc '/Users/christian/Documents/workspaces/flash_as3/Tilt
> Viewer/src/App.as'
> -output='/Users/christian/Documents/workspaces/flash_as3/Tilt
> Viewer/bin/tilt_viewer.swf'
>
> and I get the same error.
>
> I tried passing also the -load-config parameter but without help. I
> don't know really what to do/think. My mac os x is 10.4.11, any help
> would be very appreciated.
>
>
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[Flashcoders] Flex 2 SDK command line compiling on mac

[Christian Giordano]

Hi guys, I'm moving some AS3 projects from Win to Mac. I work on
Eclipse + FDT and for compiling I used ANT scripts quering mxmlc. When
trying to compile on mac I get:

command line: Error: unknown configuration variable ''

I'm trying all the possible options in the world but the error is not
so helpful.

I added mxmlc to the shell commands and then, as soon as I specify few
parameters, like:

mxmlc '/Users/christian/Documents/workspaces/flash_as3/Tilt
Viewer/src/App.as'
-output='/Users/christian/Documents/workspaces/flash_as3/Tilt
Viewer/bin/tilt_viewer.swf'

and I get the same error.

I tried passing also the -load-config parameter but without help. I
don't know really what to do/think. My mac os x is 10.4.11, any help
would be very appreciated.


Thanks, chr

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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 an Mac - compiler errors with SVN-folders

[christian]

Hi,

I have the same problem and it's not a GUI issue ... The problem is  
that Flash CS 3 doesn't find any classes - i.e. the document class of  
the FLA or classes imported in the timeline. Nobody using the IDE  
anymore? ;-)


Best,
Christian

Am 31.08.2007 um 07:29 schrieb Nick Johnston:

You can filter out the .svn files using gProject (http:// 
gskinner.com/products/gProject/). In the settings you can filter  
out single character strings (such as the "." in .svn)


I hope this helps, as it has helped me in development.

Cheers,
Nick

mathis wrote:

Hi there,

anybody found a workaround for the following scenario? When  
checking out larger svn-projects, Flash CS3 on Mac OSX seems to  
get confused by the .svn-folders. E.g. it doesn't find classes.  
When removing those .svn-folders, everything works fine - but this  
isn't an option for working professionally... :)


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mathis

Btw. - is there a bugzilla for the Adobe Suite?

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[Flashcoders] NetStream.publish record settings

[Christian Pugliese]

Hi,

I'm publishing and recording a stream for late playback, thru NetStream 
encoding:


var userCam:Camera = Camera.get();
userCam.setMode(320, 240, 15);
userCam.setKeyFrameInterval(60);
userCam.setQuality(144000, 85);

ns.attachVideo(userCam);
ns.publish(camName, "record");

Then, why the saved .flv file has a lower (poor) quality compared to the 
one being live streamed?

Shouldn't this be recorded with the same quality it has been published?

This doesn't happen if I encode the live feed thru FlixOn2 or Flash 
Media Encoder, both them saves the flv with the same streamed quality.



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Re: [Flashcoders] OT:How was this done?

[Christian Giordano]

If you want to be updated with his works you have to read his blog:

http://toxi.co.uk/blog/

or check his flickr account:

http://flickr.com/photos/toxi/

As far as I remember he rendered it at very high definition, I'm quite
sure it wasn't happening in real-time (sometimes he uses a high
quality renderer that takes quite a while to process frames).

Best, chr

On 3/29/07, Glen Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Programming was done by Karsten Schmidt (toxi) who has done lots of
processing stuff for the past few years.  I love this guys work, but
have not seen any new stuff on his site - toxi.co.uk - for a while.  I
guess he has been busy in other places...

Lovely visuals though

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[Flashcoders] [JOB] Permanent role available for central London for Flash developer

[Christian Giordano]

Here the post about an open position in my team, I'm posting on behalf my
team leader.

-

My team at LBi is dedicated to creating the RIA bits of cutting-edge online
and offline user experiences... meaning that we build everything from RIA
components for large CMS-driven websites to insane standalone kiosk
applications. We are dedicated to using the right tool for any particular
task, so whilst ActionScript development would be a large part of your role
initially, you would be developing skills in AJAX / Unobtrusive JavaScript /
semantic XHTML + markup (and possibly some Ruby On Rails and mobile
platforms) as time goes on.

We are backed by a large tech department, as well as large design and 'user
experience architecture' departments, and we always work to the highest
possible standards.

If you are interested in this opportunity then please contact me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Job title: RIA Developer

Responsibilities:


  - Actionscript 2.0 Development using FDT / Eclipse / Swfmill / MTASC /
  ANT
  - Occasional maintenance of legacy Flash applications ( i.e. stuff
  done via the Flash IDE)
  - Development of further RIA skills as mentioned about

Skill requirements:

  - Object Oriented ActionScript 2.0
  - 3+ years Flash experience (although experience is less important
  that a willingness and ability to learn)

Beneficial knowledge:

  - XHTML and Unobtrusive / OO JavaScript experience would be great
  - Test Driven Development experience a bonus
  - Java experience would be nice

Company blurb:
LBi UK is the leading digital communications company in the UK. Our
expertise leads the industry in Media,  Strategy, Technology  and Creative.
We combine these skills to help our clients communicate effectively with
their audiences through digital channels. We are 450 in London, and we are
part of LBi Group that has 1,300 like minded digital professionals spread
across 29 offices in Europe and the US.

Our breadth and depth of skills, our scale and our international reach allow
our blue chip clients to make the best use of digital channels to improve
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if you are willing to learn and use cutting edge technologies.


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[Flashcoders] Microsoft wireless keyboard trouble with flash

[Christian Pugliese]

Just got a new microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse... it works fine with
all apps, but... only with flash nothing works, CTRL + anykey, Shift +
anykey, F1-F12... any ideas??
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Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

[Christian Giordano]

Scott Hyndman wrote:

Oh, that was the Ruby version. I just tried the Java version and I'm
getting about 2000 fps. 4x faster doesn't "REALLY suck" in my book.
And what would you expect? Java's pretty speedy.


4x faster? well, it's also 11 times smaller :)

where do u read 2000 frs? My eyes, that can see only 30 frs, see only a 
cranky animation. Probably it's only an animation synch issue.


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Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

[Christian Giordano]

> I recently completed a project using LWJGL (http://www.lwjgl.org) and it

was blistering fast. In fact, I'm going to be open-sourcing it
sometime today if you're interested. It was a game, but I wrote lots
of code that could be applied anywhere, including tweening and shape
primitive drawing tools.


I had a look to the typical gear example, and I have to say that it 
REALLY sucks, comparing to the one I see recently done in Ruby + OpenGL 
(here the .exe: http://nuthinking.com/temp/gears.rar).


The code seems fine but it is way too cranky, I'm wondering if it is a 
performance issue then. I didn't do the gear in Processing, but I don't 
think it can go worse than that.


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Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

[Christian Giordano]

slangeberg wrote:

Regarding performance, FP9 is showing some nice 3D potential (for a 1-2meg
VM):

http://www.papervision3d.org/demos/seahorse/


Papervision is for Flash 8 and as far as i know, in terms of graphics, 
the performance between AS2 + FP8 and AS3 + FP9 are almost the same.


Then of course all the Math computations (frequently used in 3D) are 
faster. So yes, probably for 3D AS3 could help. I'm still waiting to 
make proper tests though.



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Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

[Christian Giordano]

If you really want to get into doing 3d viz work, use Java and OpenGL - 
and skip Processing unless you just want to jump right in and be able to 
see your results faster.


As Jon says, OpenGL could easily be the best solution, or Java3D at 
least. Look these examples without opengl:


http://jamesnsears.com/applets/spies/
http://www.acoustic-cartography.com/processing/

Then of course it depends which kind of application u r doing. For the 
web, OpenGL can work but as far as I know only with client hacking.



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Re: [Flashcoders] >> for function

[Christian Pugliese]

rec[i] means 'rec' array index 'i'.

try this:
_root["rec"+i].text = i;




Laurent CUCHET wrote:

Hi,

There is 100 textfields ( rec1 to rec100 ) and I try to fill all of them
with a for function :

for (var i:Number = 1; i<=100; i++) {
rec[i].text = i;
}

It doent work

Havee you got an idea why ?

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[Flashcoders] ns.onStatus calling a function

[Christian Pugliese]

can't I call a function inside a ns.onStatus ?
ie:

ns.onStatus = function(info) {
   if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Start") {
  trace(info.code);
   callTheFunction();
   }
}

the trace line executes, an any other event occurs normally, but the 
callTheFunction() is never called?


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Re: [Flashcoders] Synchronizing multiple flvs

[Christian]

Yeah, bitmap data is y our best bet, as you only will be dealing with 
one video playback, and can basically create quadrants out of the video 
that replicate to your tile grid.


I saw an example of this somewhere, but I forget where it is now, sorry.

Christopher Whiteford wrote:

Thanks for the ideas.

I will give it a try on the BitmapData copy and the DisplacementMap 
filter

and let you all know what the outcome is.
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Re: [Flashcoders] weird class could not be loaded.

[Christian Pugliese]

do you mean the full path on the publish settings as2 preferences? if 
yes, i´ve already done that...

date & time is ok too, anyway i´ve deleted the aso file...
still the same fu*** thing... only the check syntax generate the error...



Hans Wichman wrote:

Hi,
it might be that you are using relative class paths.
If so, the fla will compile all right, but during syntax check, there 
is no
relative path to start from. You will need to add a full absolute 
classpath,

and it should go okay.

grtz
JC


On 9/6/06, Adrian Ionut Beschea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


It happened to me as well.
Is the date&time of your computer screwed up ? Usually when flash 
compiles
classes, it saves them as .aso files. If the class file is actually 
older,
then he skips the compiling I think. Deleting the aso files should do 
the

trick.
That's the only explanation I could come up with.


Mike Keesey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's the path? Is the
class name actually "myClass"?

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Mike Keesey
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Pugliese
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> Subject: [Flashcoders] weird class could not be loaded.
>
> Ok, this is driving me nuts...
>
> Everything is working and ok: path, declaration, the fla compiles
> alright...
> but when i check the syntax on the .as where i'm importing the class,
i
> get the following error:
> - The class or interface 'myClass' could not be loaded.
>
> again, the classpath and declaration is ok... anybody already got
> something like this?? is this a bug? is this an ufo?
>
> cheers
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[Flashcoders] weird class could not be loaded.

[Christian Pugliese]

Ok, this is driving me nuts...

Everything is working and ok: path, declaration, the fla compiles alright...
but when i check the syntax on the .as where i'm importing the class, i 
get the following error:

- The class or interface 'myClass' could not be loaded.

again, the classpath and declaration is ok... anybody already got 
something like this?? is this a bug? is this an ufo?


cheers


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Re: [Flashcoders] Scrubber for streamed flv

[Christian]

We've done it using BitmapData... basically, onPress to start scrubbing, 
we set the video object to invisible and capture the image of the object 
using bitmap data.


On stop of scrub, reverse the process...

hopefully that helps... again, this is only as 2.0 at 8 at this point, 
but figured i'd throw out my 2 cents.


greg h wrote:

Sammi,

You might want to repost this question over on the FlashComm list:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcomm

Some members there have posted
AS3/FMS2(though 


as yet, not an AS3 scrubber).

The FlashComm list is subscribed to by most of the FMS heavies.  As 
such, if
you can repost your question there you will be delivering it to an 
excellent

"target audience".

hth,

g

On 8/24/06, Samúel Jónasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,

anyone done a "scrubber" in as3 for a streamed flv from FMS2?

I am not having any problems with repositioning the playhead.  My
problem is that while scrubbing I want to display a still frame from the
video where the scrubber is (as it is dragged).

Wish I could find more samples for as3/fms2 :(

Sammi
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[Flashcoders] HTTPS and IE and Forms...oh my

[Christian]

In searching through the archives, I found two solutions for this known 
issue, but was curious if anyone else knew of any other solutions.


Basically, I'm looking to submit from data to an https://whatever.com 
url and have that URL provide a post back of confirmation.  The Swf 
itself resides on exactly the same https://whatever.com server, so we 
are even in the same directory.


The two solutions I found are:

   - Do it through flash remoting
   - Ensure that the following headers are in place: Pragma:no-cache or 
Cache-control:no-cache
 
The above set up is working fine in pretty much everything but IE, but I 
can't even get so much as a Data capture in IE.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Christian

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[Flashcoders] OFF - Siemens SL75 Menu

[Christian Pugliese]

Anyone knows how to unpack the extension .SDT ?
I need to reproduce the interface of Siemens SL75 Mobile for a website, 
and I´d like to know if there is any way to get the icons, themes 
directly from the mobile. With the data cable i found thess .sdt files 
under the themes folder. any tips?

cheers, Chris.
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[Flashcoders] how to hide your AS 2.0 from flash leech software

[Christian Pugliese]

anybody knows some effective way to make your classes hidden from that 
flash's leech softwares? like so-think...



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[Flashcoders] NetConnection, Load Movie and AOL

[Christian]

Yes, three seemingly unrelated things, but I am running into a couple of 
issues and was curious about something.


In loading an external FLV using NetConnection (not from FLash Media 
Server), I was under the impression that is essentially just pulling the 
file via HTTP, not creating a proxy or anything like that.  Is this true 
or false?  The reason I ask, is because in what i am testing, loadMovie 
of a swf works fine, but loading the FLV fails.


So this leads me to the AOL part.  The NetConnection doesn't seem to 
work within the AOL environment because every byte has to go through, in 
and out, their servers.  So, for some reason, NC isn't working.  Has 
anyone here ever developed for AOL and run into this problem?  If so 
what was the work around?


I'm trying to avoid flipping over to delivering video via embedded into 
a swf.


ANy help is much appreciated.
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[Flashcoders] Windows Media Player and FLash Overlay

[Christian]

I have checked the archives and couldn't find much, but I wanted to do a 
sanity check to make sure I wasn't loosing my mind.


I, for some crack smoking reason, seem to remember reading that WMP10 
had Flash overlay support.  Am i completely off here or is there a 
setting that I'm missing.


I can't seem get this to work and it's kind of driving me nuts to figure 
it out.


Any and all help is much appreciated.

Christian
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Re: [Flashcoders] Conditional Import Statements

[Christian]

Unfortunately I am packaging up a set of classes for mass distribution 
for work, so that won't work.  That would be too easy :)




Scott Hyndman wrote:

You could also use haXe, which offers conditional compilation. The
language isn't so different than ActionScript either.

Scott

On 6/5/06, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hrmmm... interesting.  I'll have to try that out, but seems like
potentially a lot of overhead no, with the subswf's, and then managing
naming, loading and possible deletion?

Thanks for the help though, this is at least a good start.

Tyler Wright wrote:
> The only way is to compile the classes into a seperate SWF's and at
> runtime
> when you make the check load in the appropriate SWF. Not a very simple
> solution.
>
> I've found that a good solution, if you can afford to combine the 
classes

> into one, is making a runtime check on functionality.
>
> jsConnection = (ExternalIntervace != null) ? callEI : callGetURL;
>
> function callEI()
> { ... }
>
> function callGetURL()
> { ... }
>
> make sense?
> Tyler
>
>
> On 6/5/06, Janis Radins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> no there is no way
>> improts are executed at compile time all you can do is to define 
which

>> class
>> to use depending on player version
>>
>> 2006/6/5, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >
>> > Hey Guys,
>> >
>> > So i'm in the process of writing a class that does a lot of 
JavaScript

>> > handling.  The tricky part is, I want to use External Interface for
>> > those files published in 8 and simple getURL calls for those 
published

>> > in 7 or below.
>> >
>> > For all intents and purposes, this is a private class that won't be
>> > exposed to the public, so I can't simply require the user to import
>> > version 8 of class or version 7 of class.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to do a conditional import based on published 
version,

>> > instead of runtime version?  I often use $version to detect major
>> > version of play to handle other functionality, but as you all know
>> > External Interface breaks if not published in 8.
>> >
>> > OR better yet, could I simply just copy the file to the FP7 
folder and

>> > fake it?
>> >
>> > Does this make sense or am I smoking crack here?
>> >
>> > Christian
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Re: [Flashcoders] Conditional Import Statements

[Christian]

Hrmmm... interesting.  I'll have to try that out, but seems like 
potentially a lot of overhead no, with the subswf's, and then managing 
naming, loading and possible deletion? 


Thanks for the help though, this is at least a good start.

Tyler Wright wrote:
The only way is to compile the classes into a seperate SWF's and at 
runtime

when you make the check load in the appropriate SWF. Not a very simple
solution.

I've found that a good solution, if you can afford to combine the classes
into one, is making a runtime check on functionality.

jsConnection = (ExternalIntervace != null) ? callEI : callGetURL;

function callEI()
{ ... }

function callGetURL()
{ ... }

make sense?
Tyler


On 6/5/06, Janis Radins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


no there is no way
improts are executed at compile time all you can do is to define which
class
to use depending on player version

2006/6/5, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> So i'm in the process of writing a class that does a lot of JavaScript
> handling.  The tricky part is, I want to use External Interface for
> those files published in 8 and simple getURL calls for those published
> in 7 or below.
>
> For all intents and purposes, this is a private class that won't be
> exposed to the public, so I can't simply require the user to import
> version 8 of class or version 7 of class.
>
> Is there a way to do a conditional import based on published version,
> instead of runtime version?  I often use $version to detect major
> version of play to handle other functionality, but as you all know
> External Interface breaks if not published in 8.
>
> OR better yet, could I simply just copy the file to the FP7 folder and
> fake it?
>
> Does this make sense or am I smoking crack here?
>
> Christian
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Re: [Flashcoders] Conditional Import Statements

[Christian]

Yeah, maybe, that's an interesting approach actually.

I'll report back on how I handled this later.

Christian

Danny Kodicek wrote:
You could try a JSFL approach: make a macro that writes in the 
appropriate import statement just prior to publish.


Danny


no there is no way
improts are executed at compile time all you can do is to define 
which class

to use depending on player version

2006/6/5, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Hey Guys,

So i'm in the process of writing a class that does a lot of JavaScript
handling.  The tricky part is, I want to use External Interface for
those files published in 8 and simple getURL calls for those published
in 7 or below.

For all intents and purposes, this is a private class that won't be
exposed to the public, so I can't simply require the user to import
version 8 of class or version 7 of class.

Is there a way to do a conditional import based on published version,
instead of runtime version?  I often use $version to detect major
version of play to handle other functionality, but as you all know
External Interface breaks if not published in 8.

OR better yet, could I simply just copy the file to the FP7 folder and
fake it?

Does this make sense or am I smoking crack here?

Christian
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[Flashcoders] Conditional Import Statements

[Christian]

Hey Guys,

So i'm in the process of writing a class that does a lot of JavaScript 
handling.  The tricky part is, I want to use External Interface for 
those files published in 8 and simple getURL calls for those published 
in 7 or below.


For all intents and purposes, this is a private class that won't be 
exposed to the public, so I can't simply require the user to import 
version 8 of class or version 7 of class.


Is there a way to do a conditional import based on published version, 
instead of runtime version?  I often use $version to detect major 
version of play to handle other functionality, but as you all know 
External Interface breaks if not published in 8.


OR better yet, could I simply just copy the file to the FP7 folder and 
fake it?


Does this make sense or am I smoking crack here?

Christian
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Re: [Flashcoders] geturl:javascript is causing images to not display on IE

[Christian]

Hrmmm... I'll have to throw up my test later as getURL:Javascript 
doesn't seem to work anymore. 

Most of the documentation i'm seeing out there is stating that any file 
published in flash 8 doesn't allow for the getURL("javascript") calls.


Is there a security setting that needs to be in place for this to work?

Geoff Stearns wrote:

it still works fine - same as always.




On May 30, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Christian wrote:

I was under the impression that getURL(javascript:) no longer worked 
in Flash 8.  Is this incorrect?


Geoff Stearns wrote:

are you making the js call before the page is done loading?

the browser might be treating is as an anchor click and stop loading 
the remaining items on the page (this is normal browser behavior)


since you are using Flash 8, why not use ExternalInterface to make 
the call? in IE that will have the player use fscommand (basically) 
and i think your images will stop dissapearing. (or failing to load 
as the case may be)



On May 28, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Phil Glatz wrote:

I've been experiencing an intermittent problem with a getURL call 
back to a javascript function on the page calling an SWF.


I'm using Flash 8, and testing on XP.  With Firefox, there is no 
issue.  With IE 6, I experience the problem about 80% of the time.  
This issue is that I have my SWF in a div, with some divs below it 
containing some gif images.  When I flush the browser's cache, the 
images always display.  After subsequent page refreshes (F5), the 
images usually don't appear (but sometimes do).


I'm using the SWF to display some variable content, filling dynamic 
text fields from passed variables.  I can also select from a number 
of fonts via a passed var.  When the font changes, the div height 
needed to contain the stage changes.  I created an actionscript 
function that passes the new calculated height back to the page via 
a javascript call:


function resize() {
  if (allowResize == "true") {
h = Math.ceil(pBody._y+pBody._height)+10;
getURL("javascript:setFlashHeight('wrapper','"+h+"');");
  }
}

The HTML page has the javascript function setFlashHeight() that 
resizes the enclosing division for the SWF, via DOM.  Like I say, 
it all works fine with Firefox, and the HTML and CSS are both correct.


I first suspected a DOM issue, but I later discovered that if I 
added a return statement as the first line of the javascript 
function, the problem persisted.


If I comment out the getURL call in the actionscript, my 
disappearing image problem goes away.  So it appears to be a Flash 
issue of some sort, which I'm not understanding.


I've Googled around a bit and can't find anything remotely related 
to this problem.  I'm on a tight project deadline and am about to 
send $99 to Macromedia for a support call.  I thought I'd check 
with this wise group first to see if this rings any bells.  Is this 
some sort of known issue with Flash/IE?  Driving me nuts!


thanks, Phil

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Re: [Flashcoders] geturl:javascript is causing images to not display on IE

[Christian]

I was under the impression that getURL(javascript:) no longer worked in 
Flash 8.  Is this incorrect?


Geoff Stearns wrote:

are you making the js call before the page is done loading?

the browser might be treating is as an anchor click and stop loading 
the remaining items on the page (this is normal browser behavior)


since you are using Flash 8, why not use ExternalInterface to make the 
call? in IE that will have the player use fscommand (basically) and i 
think your images will stop dissapearing. (or failing to load as the 
case may be)



On May 28, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Phil Glatz wrote:

I've been experiencing an intermittent problem with a getURL call 
back to a javascript function on the page calling an SWF.


I'm using Flash 8, and testing on XP.  With Firefox, there is no 
issue.  With IE 6, I experience the problem about 80% of the time.  
This issue is that I have my SWF in a div, with some divs below it 
containing some gif images.  When I flush the browser's cache, the 
images always display.  After subsequent page refreshes (F5), the 
images usually don't appear (but sometimes do).


I'm using the SWF to display some variable content, filling dynamic 
text fields from passed variables.  I can also select from a number 
of fonts via a passed var.  When the font changes, the div height 
needed to contain the stage changes.  I created an actionscript 
function that passes the new calculated height back to the page via a 
javascript call:


function resize() {
  if (allowResize == "true") {
h = Math.ceil(pBody._y+pBody._height)+10;
getURL("javascript:setFlashHeight('wrapper','"+h+"');");
  }
}

The HTML page has the javascript function setFlashHeight() that 
resizes the enclosing division for the SWF, via DOM.  Like I say, it 
all works fine with Firefox, and the HTML and CSS are both correct.


I first suspected a DOM issue, but I later discovered that if I added 
a return statement as the first line of the javascript function, the 
problem persisted.


If I comment out the getURL call in the actionscript, my disappearing 
image problem goes away.  So it appears to be a Flash issue of some 
sort, which I'm not understanding.


I've Googled around a bit and can't find anything remotely related to 
this problem.  I'm on a tight project deadline and am about to send 
$99 to Macromedia for a support call.  I thought I'd check with this 
wise group first to see if this rings any bells.  Is this some sort 
of known issue with Flash/IE?  Driving me nuts!


thanks, Phil

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Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash IDE

[Christian]

Thanks for all the info everyone.  Definitely good stuff to go read and 
learn more about.  I just get frustrated as things get easier for those 
who don't work at it, while those who work at it get set packing.


I'll attack things with open mind and revisit my opinions.



Muzak wrote:

The other issue i see with flex is it's ability to scale.  It doesn't
seem to have the ability to handle a ton of simultaneous connections very well, ala Flash Media Server.  Perhaps I'm off base 
here, but I'd prefer to develop the front ends in flash and communicate back and forth with a traditional back-end I.E. ASP, PHP, 
etc.  Those things are free to develop on, more prove and seemingly scale a hell of a lot better.  Yes, it's not as simple as an 
"EASY" button, but if work was easy it'd be fun and we'd all be broke.





Have you looked into FDS?
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flexdata_services2/

When you say: develop the front ends in flash
You mean the Flash IDE?

What makes you think developing in Flex does not allow you to communicate with 
any traditional back-end?
Flex Builder is just an IDE. The end result is an swf the same as with the Flash IDE. It's just that an swf published from Flash is 
currently a different version.


regards,
Muzak 



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Re: [Flashcoders] MXI Files

[Christian]

Muzak, would I be able to email you about an MXI issue?  I'm pulling my 
hair out over here.



phaedrus wrote:

Thank You!

  
http://www.muzakdeezign.com/mxi_creator/ 


(And Thank You!)

- phaedrus

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:55 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] MXI Files

Here's the mxi file format specs:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/exchange/mxi_file_format.pdf

And here's a tool that helps with creating mxi files (pc only).
http://www.muzakdeezign.com/mxi_creator/

regards,
Muzak

- Original Message - 
From: "phaedrus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "'Flashcoders mailing list'" 
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:37 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] MXI Files


  

Can someone point me at a good tutorial or writeup on making MXI files?

I want to be able to package a component so that when one includes it in
their project, they also get access to a folder of the resources they may
wish to edit.

It seems like these MXI files are the way to do it, but my reference books
don't have anything to say on them and I'm having trouble filtering out


the
  

noise on google searches.

Thanks!
- phaedrus




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Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash IDE

[Christian]

Obviously this may sound harsh, but because the app you wrote was 
buggier or harder to build isn't a reflection of the technology in my 
opinion.  I've been following this thread pretty closely and have begun 
going through all the responses.  Flex to me has seemed to discredit a 
lot of the flash developers out there buy putting advanced functionality 
at the finger tips of the average user.


I do think that flex will eventually be leveraged correctly, but the 
idea that a whole new IDE must be built simply to build form based 
applications is bizarre to me.  I have to imagine that the potential for 
Flex would extend far beyond Form RIA or else it wouldn't exist.  But 
then again, that's macromedia for you. 

The other issue i see with flex is it's ability to scale.  It doesn't 
seem to have the ability to handle a ton of simultaneous connections 
very well, ala Flash Media Server.  Perhaps I'm off base here, but I'd 
prefer to develop the front ends in flash and communicate back and forth 
with a traditional back-end I.E. ASP, PHP, etc.  Those things are free 
to develop on, more prove and seemingly scale a hell of a lot better.  
Yes, it's not as simple as an "EASY" button, but if work was easy it'd 
be fun and we'd all be broke.


Merrill, Jason wrote:

At my previous employer, wanted to build a project with Flex 1.5, client
couldn't/wouldn't pay for it, so we built it with Flash - took 5 times
longer, and was 5-times buggier but it was do-able.  Basically had to
write the same kinds of classes for Flash that macromedia already built
for Flex, and make it renderable by descriptive XML. It was a fun
project, but I wish I had Flex.  It was a very large interactive portal
with different elements which also displayed metrics dashboards.  


Jason Merrill
Bank of America  |  www.bankofamerica.com
Learning & Organization Effectiveness 
Technology Solutions
 
 
 


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This may be a dumb question, but has anyone ever developed a project in
Flex and towards the end decided that Flash would have been a better
tool for the project?  Or vice-a-versa?

If so, why?  I'm trying to determine if there are any pitfalls of
deciding to use Flex over Flash for larger projects.

Hope that makes sense...

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[Flashcoders] beginBitmapFill makes IDE crash if texture has alpha channel

[Christian Giordano]

As you can imagine it is quite difficult to debug, especially because it 
happens often (not always) and of course because Flash closes in a mo. 
But after hundreds of tests it seems so. It happens during intensive 
calculates and if played outside the IDE nothing bad happens. Did anyone 
encounter the same issue? Any solution also if of course the important 
is what happens outside the IDE?


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[Flashcoders] Live Video Encoder

[Christian]

Hey Everyone,

I've been trying to look through the archives with out much luck, and 
Flash-Comm archives are pw protected, so here I am with a question.  
Does anyone have either tutorials or example code of a live video 
encoder for flash?


I have a rudimentary one, but I'm trying to understand what's possible 
and really how to do this the right way instead of the hack way.


Any and All help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Christian
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Re: [Flashcoders] shared objects wrong needed size

[Christian Giordano]

JesterXL wrote:

Nope.  Just because it asks for a meg doesn't mean it'll use a meg.


Ok but if I were a user I would think: "What a f*** does he want to save 
on my PC of a meg size?" when unfortunately it is *only* 100 kb.


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[Flashcoders] shared objects wrong needed size

[Christian Giordano]

Hi guys, in a project I'd like to give the option to the users to save 
as shared object around 110 Kb of data. The problem is that the player 
asks to the user to increment the storage size at 1 MB! Is there any way 
to make the player ask to increment the storage *only* for the needed 
size and not for the next big level?


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Re: [Flashcoders] server-side convert to flv

[Christian]

You could also use the On2 flix engine SDK, which is the SDK for flix 
that you can wrap.  It's a com object and I think they just released an 
update for a linux version as well.


We use it at work for all of our video conversion and it's pretty solid.

Marc Hoffman wrote:
I'm interested in using ffmpeg. Having never used any server-side 
engines/scripting other than a little ASP, I haven't a clue how ffmpeg 
gets implented, and their website seems to presume advanced user 
knowledge. Can anyone steer me to something that explains how to 
implent ffmpeg? For instance, what kind of server, where does the code 
sit, what are some typical application scenarios and how were they put 
together?


thanks,
Marc

At 09:04 AM 4/11/2006, Arthur Debert wrote:
Hi Gerry > Does anyone know of a server-side application to convert 
uploaded > video in mpg, avi, mov or wmv format to > flv? Something 
like what youtube.com is doing? I searched the > archives and 
couldn't find anything. I don't know what youtube is using but, ffmeg 
(http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net) is pretty good. I've been using it 
and it's scriptable. It's LGPL licensed. arthur



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[Flashcoders] Audio Analyzer

[Christian Pugliese]

How could i get the input volume from the microphone or from the current
playing sound inf flash? is that possible? i wanna make a sort of audio
spectrum analyzer, with sliding bars sync with the audio level.

cheers,
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[Flashcoders] testing

[Christian]

testing... coming through?

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Re: [Flashcoders] setting properties on a loaded movie clip with a dynamic name

[Christian]

create a temporary reference

var myMC = createEmptyMovieClip("_cancelOrder",getNextHighestDepth());

now you don't need currentClip

loadListern.onLoadComplete = function(myMC:MovieClip){
   myMC._visible = false;
}


Did I miss something or is that what you were asking for?

David Farrell wrote:

Hope the title isn't too cryptic!

I need to load a dynamic number of images and temporarily set visible 
to false on them.


Simple huh?

well...

I assume I am missing something fairly simple in my process but here 
goes:


[code]
createEmptyMovieClip("_cancelOrder", getNextHighestDepth());
loader.loadClip("buttonCancelOrder.gif", this["_cancelOrder"]);
var currentClip = this["_cancelOrder"];
loadListener.onLoadComplete = function(currentClip ):Void {
currentClip ._visible = false;
}
[/code]

Now... in this instance, I could have passed _cancelOrder through to 
the onLoadComplete (instead of passing currentClip)- since it is a top 
level and predefined var. But seperately in the same script I 
dynamically create movieclips with names like "button"+i - so since 
there is a number in the title (and an indeterminate number of them), 
i need to refer to them in a for loop as this["button"+i]


and you can't pass that through to onLoadComplete - hence I have been 
assigning the dynamic movie to a temporary variable


so far so good.

but when I have a number of these loading, often the next clip is 
assigned to 'currentClip' before the first one has finished loading - 
this means that the currentClip doesn't refer to the movieclip it 
should when the first onLoadComplete is triggered.


how do i get by this?

I basically want to load in X images, and then be able to set 
different properties / onReleases for each of them - but using the 
above, I can't see how to.


It all falls down because the movie clips don't have 'real' names - 
but can only be refered to as this["button"+i] and you can't pass that 
to the movie loader because of the inline function style.


The only thing I can think of is to do a check to see if EVERYTHING 
has loaded, then I could just have a big chunk of code that loops 
round everything and sets all the vars - but that's a bit crap!


Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: [Flashcoders] 8.5 player and javascript

[Christian]

Yeah, external interface works great, but it's not backward compatible 
to 6 or even 7 which is what we need to support.


It'll be interesting to see how fast things move.



Mike Britton wrote:

I suggest switching to the flash.external (ExternalInterface) package.
 This seems to be *the way* to do it in AS3.  I use it currently in
AS2 and it works really well.

Mike
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Re: [Flashcoders] 8.5 player and javascript

[Christian]

I am definitely interested in this, because this will be the second 
change of how to execute JS calls, with getURL no longer working, I'm 
going to be busy writing multiple versions of our tracking classes, 
based on the version of publish.


Can't they just pick one, kill the others, and go from there.  DAMN YOU!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

To be abit more precise I am wondering about the reliability of the fscommand()
function in legacy code when the function migrates to flash.system.fscommand().

Am I right in thinking that publishing <8.5 in 8.5 player would be fine but
publishing 8.5+ might fail?

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Re: [Flashcoders] OT: PSP getting the Flash Player this spring!

[Christian Giordano]

Interestingly, Sony still refers to the Flash Player in the PSP as 
"Macromedia Flash".


To be honest I'm more wondered about this:

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

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Re: [Flashcoders] Trying Again:External Interface API and External .js Files[SOLVED]

[Christian]

I"m a complete idiot and get what I deserve for working late at night.

Always close your script tag and make sure partner developer actually 
puts the .js file on the server named as you thought and located where 
you thought.


what a tool....

Christian wrote:

Hey Everyone,

I'm usually just in the background reading all the good information, 
but now I actually have a question I can't find the answer to.


I'm trying to rewrite some tracking functionality that I have 
utilizing external .js files and I can't seem to use the external API 
unless the JavaScript function is on the page in between the script tags.


Can you do this with external .js files?  If so, is there somewhere 
you can point me?


Any help one can provide would be much appreciated...

THanks,

Christian



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[Flashcoders] testing

[Christian]

testing

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[Flashcoders] Trying Again:External Interface API and External .js Files

[Christian]

Hey Everyone,

I'm usually just in the background reading all the good information, but 
now I actually have a question I can't find the answer to.


I'm trying to rewrite some tracking functionality that I have utilizing 
external .js files and I can't seem to use the external API unless the 
JavaScript function is on the page in between the script tags.


Can you do this with external .js files?  If so, is there somewhere you 
can point me?


Any help one can provide would be much appreciated...

THanks,

Christian



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Re: [Flashcoders] overlay swf over swf

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The "which browsers support wmode?" issue is a hard one... every now and 
then a Macromedia document is rewritten describing what we've seen among 
various current browser brands, platforms and versions, along with 
varied authoring features (in DIV, with printing, etc), but I know of no 
updated third-party reference on the subject... seems like a good 
opensource/wiki type of project.


Thanks john for the reply, unfortunately I would like a 
crossbrowser/platform solution. So at this stage I think I should find 
another way.


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[Flashcoders] overlay swf over swf

[Christian Giordano]

Since the browsers render swfs in a top layer over the html, and the 
last swf updated is the one on top, the style z-index attribute is not 
enough to overlay a swf over another. Does anyone know if it is 
possible, and maybe how? Googling around I just found swf over html (so 
using z-index).


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Re: [Flashcoders] Regex in JSFL?

[Christian Giordano]

while (result != null) {
   fl.trace("found: "+c_result);
var result = re.exec(line);
}


it makes sense, thanks!

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Re: [Flashcoders] Regex in JSFL?

[Christian Giordano]

var re = new RegExp("\"[^\"]+\"","gi");
var m_arr = re.exec(line);
var m = m_arr["0"];
var c_string = m.substr(1,m.length-2);
fl.trace("found: "+c_string);


I solved in this way:

var re = new RegExp("\"[^\"]+\"","gi");
var m_arr = re.exec(line);
if(m_arr){
var m = String(m_arr);
var c_string = m.substr(1,m.length-2);
fl.trace("found: "+c_string);
}

any cleaner?


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Re: [Flashcoders] Regex in JSFL?

[Christian Giordano]

Ryan Matsikas wrote:

yes.


I couldn't find any documentation and although it works I get an error 
as alert.


var re = new RegExp("\"[^\"]+\"","gi");
var m_arr = re.exec(line);
var m = m_arr["0"];
var c_string = m.substr(1,m.length-2);
fl.trace("found: "+c_string);

the string is correctly traced but I got the alert "m_arr has no 
properties". Which one should be the way to avoid the error?



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Re: [Flashcoders] JSFLTools from bit-101

[Christian Giordano]

Christian Giordano wrote:
I'm having issues on mixing AS code and JSFL code in a Panel. A noticed 
that this project could be helpful, does anyone know what happened to it?


I found the way to mix all the things (what a mess!). But any news about 
that project will be welcome :)


Cya, chr

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[Christian Giordano]

I'm having issues on mixing AS code and JSFL code in a Panel. A noticed 
that this project could be helpful, does anyone know what happened to it?


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[Flashcoders] parsing all symbols in the timeline with JSFL

[Christian Giordano]

Hi Guys, is there a simple way to parse all the symbols (also nested) in 
the timeline without moving through all the frames (for instance like 
fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items) ? Or otherwise did anyone do a script 
that could be useful?


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[Flashcoders] Kill a PendingCall

[Christian Giordano]

If we don't need anymore the result of a PendingCall and so we need to 
make a different one, is it possible, to optimize the bandwidth, to kill 
the first one? It would be very handy with big data and also to avoid 
interferences with the new one.


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Re: [Flashcoders] image manipulation

[Christian Giordano]

  I guess I’ll send the issue to macromedia wish list today:)


Probably in As3/fp8.5 is already implemented, I suggest you to check it 
first :)


chr

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Re: [Flashcoders] 32bit gradient mask performances

[Christian Giordano]

mc1.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mc2.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mc1.setMask(mc2);


I made a test and although is much more simple, it doesn't seem you earn 
something in performances :(


here the two tests:

long method - http://nuthinking.com/f8/gradient_mask.html

simple method - http://nuthinking.com/f8/gradient_mask_2.html

but probably my method is more flexible.


any thoughts? cheers, chr


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Re: [Flashcoders] 32bit gradient mask performances

[Christian Giordano]

mc1.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mc2.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mc1.setMask(mc2);
 *Posted by:* Tinic Uro at August 9, 2005 02:12 PM

The more Bitmap data you're sending around the heavier the processor will
be. CacheAsBitmap will do just fine.


that's what I was looking for!!!

Thanks man, chr

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Re: [Flashcoders] 32bit gradient mask performances

[Christian Giordano]

Just a small hand here, the performance actually is quite ok on my pc?  


it's a question? :) btw, since I'd like to make a more scalable as 
possible method, it would be nice having better performances.


best, chr

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Re: [Flashcoders] 32bit gradient mask performances

[Christian Giordano]

possibly then you'd need to create image_bd only once, since it's static.
So create image_bd, mask_bd , picture_bd only once and each frame only 
update mask_bd and picture_bd.


sorry, I meant image_pd in the last post, and of course it works for 
static movieclips, but not for animated :(


I could I update mask_bd and picture_bd with alphed content without 
recreate them, is there a kind of fast clear() ?


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Re: [Flashcoders] 32bit gradient mask performances

[Christian Giordano]

- draw with draw api a gradient fill in a movieclip (mask_mc), 
0x00ff to 0x
- create a new BitmapData (mask_bd) to copy the content of the gradient 
mask

- draw mask_mc in mask_bd
- create a new BitmapData (image_bd) to contain the movieclip to be masked
- draw the movieclip in image_bd
- create a new BitmapData (picture_bd) to contain the final result
- copy image_bd to picture_bd using mask_bd as mask


for instance it would be perfect if in the copyPixels I could use 
movieclip instead of bitmaps :)


for static movieclips I could avoid to create picture_bd at everyframe 
for instance. Any other suggestion?


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[Flashcoders] 32bit gradient mask performances

[Christian Giordano]

Hi guys, I recently wrote a class to handle this kind of effects in 
animation context, so applied to movieclips NOT bitmaps, but when the 
masks I handle start to be bigger the performance sucks. It's obvious 
but I'm just wondering if there is a better way that the one I'm using.


Here my procedure:

- draw with draw api a gradient fill in a movieclip (mask_mc), 
0x00ff to 0x

- create a new BitmapData (mask_bd) to copy the content of the gradient mask
- draw mask_mc in mask_bd
- create a new BitmapData (image_bd) to contain the movieclip to be masked
- draw the movieclip in image_bd
- create a new BitmapData (picture_bd) to contain the final result
- copy image_bd to picture_bd using mask_bd as mask

Of course doing this operation every frame with large images sucks, is 
there a way to skip some steps?


Here the actual result:

http://nuthinking.com/f8/gradient_mask.html


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[Flashcoders] loading external flv's - what's best way?

[Christian Pugliese]

should i use netstream or media class component? and why?
i'm just trying to figure out whats the mainly differences between both.

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[Flashcoders] what's the best way to load FLV files?

[Christian Pugliese]

What's the best way to load external FLV files?

NetStream or Media Class? and someone knows whats the main diferences
between both? as which one is fastest

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[Flashcoders] Adjust Color Bitmap by Script is possible?

[Christian Pugliese]

Anyone knows if it's possible to apply the bitmap filter 'Adjust Color' via
AS ? and how?


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Re: [Flashcoders] motion detection

[Christian Giordano]

... so I didn't go to far with research, but it seems 
that motion detection in f8 is pretty strong ... (because of BitmapData)


to be honest, from the first tests I did, the getPixel/setPixel method 
seems to have a very low performance and for this reason I wouldn't 
define computer-vision with flash that strong.


Better examples of computer-vision in general, can be found here 
http://www.setpixel.com/



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Re: [Flashcoders] swf height and width

[Christian Giordano]

Salvatore Fusto wrote:

Hi all,
how can i find, using javascript, height and width of a swf file, given 
its path?


I think you just can't. javascript is client code, in that case you 
should need of a serverside code able maybe to read the headers of the .swf.


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Re: [Flashcoders] Tabbing inside AS2 UIComponent

[Christian Giordano]

I think you might need to disable tabbing to the external component
(containing).


Actually it makes a lot sense. I'll tell that to the developer that has 
now the project in the hands.


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[Flashcoders] Tabbing inside AS2 UIComponent

[Christian Giordano]

In a project I'm supporting a form has been build inside a class that 
extends UIComponent (so in AS2, in Flash8, but I had the same problem in 
Flash7). I tried in very different ways on implementing the tabbing 
inside (using tabIndex, setFocus on killFocus, also with a delay) but 
everytime I tab the focus goes out from the textfield but there is no 
way to make it come back in another. I presume it is because the 
textfields are inside a UIComponent but since I don't usually work with 
them I can't be sure. I googled around and didn't find anything a part 
http://blog.madebyderek.com/archives/2005/10/20/no_tabbing_for_list_datagrid_and_tree/


but that doesn't help.


Does anyone have an idea on how to handle it?


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