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From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:48 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Compound interest formula
I'm ok with math, but it's not my strong suite.
Does somebody have the compound interest
I find this fast and reliable...
var lines:Array = str.split
(\r\n).join(\n).split(\r).join(\n).split(\n);
That's pretty much exactly what I ended up doing, thanks.
Danny
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I am reading all the replies and trying to see if I am
understand them correctly.
Basically I have two options. Give every movable object the
depth of the screen _y value and make sure that objects can
never be on the same _y position.
Second option. If the movable objects only move one
Hallo,
The text editor app is up and running now, thanks to those
folks that offered suggestions. I've got everything working
apart from the pasting of text. Does anyone know how it is
possible to do this? Any cool tricks to access the clipboard
from ActionScript (I've had a look
Every object gets a z-depth assigned. For the players the
zdpeth need to be set based on the tile they are at. This way
the players can walk 'around' the enviorment objects. For the
z-depth calculation I use the tile grid x and y plus the
width of the row, this generates an unique z-depth
Andy,
I see what you are saying, I think. That the .toString()
has to be used as a method directly being addressed by the
object. Like I said that what I think you are saying. How
ever it seems I still can not get the string myMCinArray1
or myMCinArray2 or myMCinArray3 etc when I
What is a golden spiral?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral
In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor b
is related to φ, the golden ratio. Specifically, a golden spiral gets wider
(or further from its origin) by a factor of φ for every quarter-turn it
I have BitmapData A and BitmapData B;
Is there a fast routine that from every pixel in A will
subtract the color of the coresponding pixel in B?
I'm looking for a solution using the built-in BitmapData
functions, since a manual looop on every pixel will be
somewhat intensive (even if I
This is pretty easy making to layers.
fl.getDocumentDOM().getTimeline().addNewLayer(My Outer
Folder, folder, false);
fl.getDocumentDOM().getTimeline().addNewLayer(My Inner
Folder, folder, false);
However, I want to next the inner into the outer. For the
life of me, I can't figure
Hi
Do anybody know how to solve one problem.I need to show in
string variables division operand as the horizontal line
with the dot above and below.
So instead of 10 / 2= I need 10 ÷ 2 =
So put it in :)
Just add the character and it should display fine (you may need to embed it,
I have this
operand=÷;
item.text=operand+ +String(i);
trace(item.text) /// ÷ 1
but I don't see that operand in text area.
text area: not html, Arial, all embedded text area HTML: the
same I see operand in trace but I don't see on the screen
It sounds like you just haven't embedded the
Don't rant me for using _root, cause this was only for
testing. I count the doubles out, which works fine for
keyDown. The following code traces:
enter down
enter up
enter up
If this is only happening with Enter, I wonder if it's because Enter is
actually putting two characters into the
The only method I can think of that might do what you're looking for is to
have some of the actual code work on the server. So for example you'd do
something that has a fundamental effect in the game, but you make its code
run on your server instead of on the client and just return the result
You're hacking it either way. This one function is not going to cause
coder confusion. You're leaving the type off so you can pass any type.
Considering you type everything else, it's pretty obvious to anyone who
looks at it what's going on.
Adding extra lines of code that put a parameter
Hi,
I'm building an application that requires users to be abe to type in
almost
any language.
It has basically two types of fields: 1 input and 2 dynamic fields.
I was able to get things working in the Flash IDE where I could type in
hebrew and any other language and got correct output in
That's a fair point. It's more the principle of the thing - it was
frustrating not to be *able* to make it strict. But yes, leaving off
the :Object would be a better solution.
Well, you can't do argument overloading in AS2 (nor AS3, I believe), so
you can't have pure polymorphism in Flash
I'm trying to do something like this:
if (a instanceof Array) {
doMyArrayFunction(a)
}
the doMyArrayFunction expects an Array object, so this throws an error. What
I would normally do in this case is cast the object to the class I'm
expecting, but unfortunately Array(a) doesn't leave a
As it's AS2, you might think about making it so
doMyArrayFunction will not expect an array, but will take anything:
class ArrayTest {
public function ArrayTest(a) {
trace(a[0]);
}
}
new ArrayTest([1,2,3,4]);
works fine.
Yes, but I'm
I'm currently re-entering the nightmare world of SCORM packaging (honestly,
how can something so simple have been made so damn complicated?). I'm
wondering if anyone knows of some good resources on SCORM 2004 - in
particular, does anyone by any chance have a simple tool that can convert an
This is weird:
trace(tProps.nformat.nalignment)
for (var i in tProps.nformat) {
trace (i + : + tProps.nformat[i])
}
Result:
left
That is: tProps.nformat.nalignment is equal to left, but the for..in loop
is failing to mention it (or any of the other properties in the object).
I'm
If you switched to AS3, teh for in loop does not work on
'sealed' classes, only on the legacy AS2 style prototype
based objects - like
myObj:Object = { prop: 1 , prop: 2, prop: 3 ...};
For sealed classes like iterating thru the, say, props of a
ByteArray or NetStream class, use the
might the properties be hidden from enumeration?
http://objectpainters.com/blog/?p=33
Nothing like that - it's really a bog-standard object (not even from a
special class, just a plain {} )
Danny
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I feel really stupid right now. No, not that stupid. I mean
really stupid.
Take the highest level of stupid you can imagine and double
that. Yes, now you've got it!
I have a class named Game.
Game.start() calls setInterval(this, update, 1000).
Game.update() calls
Hi,
well in the end everything is an object, so you are not
really mixing datatypes.
It all depends on the scope of your project I think, but
seeing the code below doesn't make me wanna be the maintainer
of that project when its author goes on vacation or sickleave :).
I think
On 11/07/07, Adrian Parr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I am building an app that allows the user to personalise as
screensaver online.
1) User chooses some settings and these are saved to a
shared object.
2) User downloads Flash screensaver (made with Screentime
for
Hi Danny,
I'll definitely look into that, if not for this project,
it'll come in very handy for later ones. So far I heard of
SCORM, but never looked into it really in depth. Isn't it for
web based learning only?
No, it's a method for packaging course data which is used by most (not
Hi!
I would like to get all the coordinates from a shape made
with the Bezier tool in Flash or Illustrator into Flash so I
can use them to create a dynamic shape in Flash with the
curveTo syntax. Does anyone know if there is a tool or script
outthere doing this?
There's no way to do
Hi Ron,
That seems very re-assuring. The problem I am having really
is that I find it very difficult to find out more about using
XML in Flash on a more advanced but still small scale level.
I can parse attributes, and nodes, but most examples deal
with 1-2 attributes, that can be
This is not a *major* issue but it's really annoying. I have
two buttons that navigate back and forth through a series of
images. (Flash 8, AS2).
They work fine when I first open the SWF. But on the same
screen is an input textfield with which a user can add or
change a title. The
I am trying to create a Select All button for a textArea
component and I cant seem to get the selected text to stay
selected. It gains focus, selects the text and then then
unselects itself immediately.
Am I missing something here?
btnSelectAll.onPress = function() {
Never mind - I had the problem exactly right - I forgot Flash always assumes
UTF-8. That's okay, I can do it a different way.
I'm having trouble reading and writing some characters to
XML. I've got a file with . characters and I'm trying to
read them and swap them for arrows (u2192). But
I'm having trouble reading and writing some characters to XML. I've got a
file with . characters and I'm trying to read them and swap them for
arrows (u2192). But for some reason it's not managing to see them
(nodeValue.indexOf(.) is giving -1)
I think the problem may be something to do with
you might have to go nodeValue.toString() first..
No, nodeValue is already a string. I fixed the problem by reading the file
in Director and passing it to Flash as a string - one case where Director's
lack of Unicode support turned out to be a virtue...
Danny
Ha! That is the best case of It's not a bug, it's a
feature! I've ever seen.
Danny Kodicek wrote:
you might have to go nodeValue.toString() first..
No, nodeValue is already a string. I fixed the problem by
reading the
file in Director and passing it to Flash as a string
I've got a text field that is listening for onChanged events. For some
reason, it's not getting some of these events when they're carriage returns:
a : get the event
return : no event
a: another event
return : no event
return : get the event
a : get the event
return : no event
That is: it misses
Are you testing this within the IDE? Just a guess, but
perhaps you need to ControlDisable Keyboard Shortcuts
It's a good idea, but I don't think that's it - the key press is getting
through fine, it's just that the onChanged isn't happening.
I've hacked a solution by setting a flag in the
I'll take it ;)
thanks for everybody's help.
Just catching up on this, you might want to try looking up floodFill
algorithms - that's pretty much what you're doing.
Danny
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Hi,
Will I have a problem when I´ll try to read online content
from a flash exe file on a cdrom through the xml object? I
remember the security restrictions of the flashplayer..
If there is a problem, what can I do to avoid it ?
If it's offline content accessing offline files, you
Indeed its online content that I want to read from a CDROM.
Sorry, didn't read properly :)
I
guess the solution is to use System.security.allowDomain() to
the url where the xml is hosted. Right ?
Actually, I've never encountered a problem accessing online content from a
CD-ROM either. I
Hi, one more small comment:
On 6/18/07, Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've solved my problem of the loadClip('Main.swf', ...)
delivering the
same old version of the Main.swf by the standard trick of
appending a
random string.
I've realized, that an external
I've set up this kind of preloader:
Frame 1: Preloader (when loaded, gotoAndStop frame 30) Frame
10: Classes export (set in File-Publish
Settings-AS2-Settings) Frame 20: Components/MovieClips
placed on stage to force export Frame 30: The movie (calls
attachMovie, createClassObject,
Hi All
I have a loop that creates pages, creates textfields then
adds text. Some of this text has font tags and some doesn't.
I want to use a default textFormat so that an embedded font
is used when no font is specified in the text:
currentPage.createTextField(my_txt, 1,
no danny. setNewTextFormat means that all NEW text in the
textfield will be formed. setTextFormat is only once and not
for new text. and if you do some new text via AS
setNexTextFormat will work fine..
Not for me, no. I always have to run setTextFormat after setting with AS,
whatever I
this.cli_mc.hu_btn.onPress = function() {
buttonfunction();
};
Function buttonfunction(){
cli_mc._visible = 0;
_root.mtit_txt.text = Cliniques;
_root.categ_var = CLINIQUE;
_level41.mar = cli;
_root.liste();
}
-- Move your onPress code into another function,
I have a simple class and I can't access a private var after
using setTimeout... I typed this up to show whats happening:
class foo extends MovieClip
{
private var nTime:Number = 0.75;
private var delay:Number;
function foo()
{
// stuff
};
public function doSomething():Void
{
I want to allow users to enter anything except carriage returns in my input
field (but only sometimes). Is there no way to do this using
textField.restrict? I tried ^\r, ^\n, ^\u000d, none of which made any
difference. I know I can do it by setting multiline = false, but it's a bit
irritating for
HI guys,
an easy one - I can't get a dynamic text filed to wrapp text
around that I am asigning to it with:
' messBox_txt.text = display this really looong sentence ...; '
Have you set the wrap property of the field?
Danny
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stop();
btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop(start); // start label is in the middle of
the mov about frame 150.
this._alpha = 0;
// I turn off the buttons vis. I will probably load it and
unload it in the final copy. Not sure on the edicate for
this. less code this
Hi there
A client has asked me to create a mortgage calculator for
their site and I was thinking of doing it in Flash. However
the client is concerned that not everyone has Flash plugin.
Therefore I need to consider the alternatives, one of which
is to do it in javascript. However I
Hi
Is there any way to uniquely identify a single Flash plug-in?
Perhaps there is an indentity code, or is there anyway to get
something unique from a user's computer through Flash
(something like the MAC address)?
Basically we need to know whether a user has played a game
before
Hi there, I am sure I remember coming across a way of reading
an XML file before it is fully loaded though I can't find it.
What I would like to do is load all the information from an
XML file but only if an attribute in the first node has
changed (this is like an ID that the Flash app
I am looking for a kind of layout manager (easy to use
fairly lightweight). I have done a little digging, and
haven't found too much.
This is for an AS2 project.
I have a viewing port, and will fill it with Objects of
random size. I only want to make sure that I don't end up
I highly suggest you get FLASC
http://www.osflash.org/flasc
1) Your code will be cleaner. MTASC forces you to write
clean code in order to compile. It is more strict than the
Flash IDE compiler.
2) MTASC helps identify bugs before they happen. For
instance, I had an issue I
I wonder if I can use something like Keith Peter's Particle
Class and have the clips repel a bit on their own and have
that take care of the layout - if done with some care.
Good thinking, yes, that ought to work if your content is of a sensible kind
of shape - of course, there's no
But generally, I'd rather have FlashCoders split up into
/more/ lists rather than combining it with FlashNewbies. A
list each for AS2, AS3, FMS, architecture, components and so
on. We could then choose which ones to subscribe to, and
those of us gifted with the seemingly rare ability to
Hi Danny, it would be multi line text and I don't know if it
will be center aligned. Maybe some parts will be. I didn't
really get the technique you described. Can you please try
and describe it again? Or is it possible that you share the
code that you have? I can even compensate it
Hi list, any tips on how to create a text highlighter? The
perfect solution will be that I use the text cursor inside
the textfield. Now, I was thinking of using drawing API on
the invisible mc below the textfiled and when I would click
in the textfield I would start drawing a rectangle
On 5/10/07, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've done it in the past (although in the end I didn't use it) by
creating a function that homes in on the exact coordinates of the
insertion point by adding text into a hidden field and
using textWidth
/ textHeight (the tricky part
...I am wanting to run a color of instance test. I am
wondering if I can do this?
attachMovie(shapes,shapes,num);
if( shapes /*color*/ == 0x33){
// action(s)
}
// this is sudo code but basically I want to know if I can
test for color.
A library symbol doesn't have a
Hello,
Hi,
In my app I need to show a modal dialogue and blur/unblur all
on-stage clips while the dialogue is active.
So, whats the cleanest AS2 way to do this - I'm in Flash 8
but don't want any prototypes.
I need to extend all movieclips so does this mean I will need
to
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To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Syntax for dynamically calling a function
Hi there, I want to call a function but want to
Thanks a lot for all the replies. Most helpful. It's a funny
situation. I'm using a deserialised XML file to dictate the
content and layout of each page. A page might contain 1. A
heading, 2. A TextField 3. A link or it might contain 1.A
heading 2. A thumbnailMenu or various other
how can we print a variable value in our execution screen..?
'execution screen'? Do you just mean displaying a variable on screen? Try
var tField:TextField = _root.createTextField(out,
_root.getNextHighestDepth(), 100, 100, 200, 20)
tField.text = String(myVariable)
Danny
Has anyone had any experience of using the Flash RTL classes
from here:
http://www.flashrtl.com/
They seem to be good for Persian, but need porting to other
char sets, and a general clean up/re-write.
To do this I need to get a better idea of what needs to be
converted, the order of
Thanks for the help!
In your professional opinion is almost the same good enough
or will I need to tweak the char set? So you know I'm only
displaying short button labels and headings.
I don't speak Arabic or know anything about it other than what's in the
Unicode data :) I get the
Hello Flashcoders
I am trying to rotate a cube which i made in the flash
authoring environment. However it is not a real cube but I
don't want to use API to make a cube first and then rotate
it. I want that a cube which have a specific design then it
is rotate in the 3d environment
OpenOffice has a nice drawing tool with all of the
flowcharting symbols defined. www.openoffice.org You can
colour and shade them to your hearts content.
If you want to look at alternatives, I'm a fan of SmartDraw, which is good
for mocking up interfaces as well. For flow charts
Hello everybody!
I want to know that if we make a cube in flash then want to
play with it like shock boy at www.neostream.com . If any one
have idea so please tell me and one thing more is, please
give me some resources to learn physics and trignometry for flash.
For the last, you
Hello Flash coders.
:)
Could anyone help me to fix my class code? I can't find any
reference anywhere that will help me... I'm trying to load
XML via a generalized class object, but the data in postXML
never makes it to the parseXML constructor, any help is
greatly appreciated!
OK danny, your script work fine. sorry for not testing it first.
here is the script in conjunction to my prior post. on frame 1:
Before you start timing different methods, you should remove all your
'trace' lines, they add a time overhead of their own. Try it again with no
traces and I
onEnterFrame/setInterval function is just to give spreading
effect to the app.
as I mention earlier, using for loop doesnt't let any
animation play before loop ends.
the real problem is only about the SEQUENCE-PATTERN.
I got that. Check my code again and you'll see what it's
Hello leolea
I'm trying to figure out a way to have objects snap to
this curved
line. I would distribute them over the _x axis, and I need
a formula
to get their _y position on the curved line.
- you need to find an intersections between 2D Bezier curve
and vertical lines.
HG So once you create a new interval with the same name you
will lose
HG the path of the original?
An interval has no name, it has a numeric ID - what has a
name is the variable (or more variables if you want) where
you store this ID. And yes, if you doesn't care about storing
the
Is a new intervalID always one greater than the most recent
intervalID?
AFAIK, yes.
That is, will this always work to ensure you only ever have one
interval running at a time?
Again, AFAIK, yes.. but at the same time it limits your to
only ever have one interval, no matter
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To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] WhITE SNOW and Seven Dwarf - MAth Problems!
//run 7 times faster for attaching symbol in
This is a small and silly question, but:
Is there any way to persuade the AS editor's automatic indent function not
to turn something like this:
myArray = [
[1,2,3],
[4,5,6],
[7,8,9]]
into:
myArray = [1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]?
And yes, I know everyone prefers to use an
We tried the following:
(we're embedding fonts in all cases, also we don't have
require any input fields...we're just displaying Arabic)
If you don't mind poor antialiasing, you could try not embedding the font -
this fixes all the problems you mention, for dynamic text.
-Copied Arabic
Hi Nik,
I have done research for my dad a while ago, and I came to
the conclusion that it wasn't worth the effort $$$ wise.
Not sure whether that is applicable to your project, Pete, but has
anyone ever used dongle (i.e. hardware) protection for
their projects?
I am currently
Hopefully a quickie:
Am I the only person that can never get setNewTextFormat to work? When I
change the text of a field, I always seem to have to run setTextFormat, even
if I've setNewTextFormat to the format I want. Is there some foolproof
system for getting this working without having to keep
What do you want to achieve, Danny?
AFAIK setNewTextFormat is meant for user entered text, like
mentioned in the LiveDocs, which works well for me.
public setNewTextFormat(tf:TextFormat) : Void
Sets the default new text format of a text field. The default
new text format is the
HI,
It now transpires that the project I am quoting for needs
much of it done in Arabic. As it is my first multi language
project in Flash are there any issues with that in Flash (I
could write an encyclopedia full about Director and its
characater set issues)
Just got back from
Thank you very much, Danny,
Yes I thought that this post sank without a trace, lucky you saw it!
Fro the moment I jsut needed to know if there were any
issues, as I am tendering for an English course DVD that will
be sold in the Middle East.
Do I remember seeing your name on
Hi Friends,
I have developed the following script for scrolling
dynamically loaded content in the movie clip.
The script is working fine. I just wanted to know is it
consuming lot of memory? Because when I load this movie onto
another movie. The first movie become slower.
Yes:
Any examples out there?
I've got as far as resizing a user supplied image and am
about to work on the ratio remaining fixed. Just thought I'd
throw this out there as I think it may be tricky.
How are they resizing? Which bit is tricky? Maintaining an aspect ratio
isn't too hard - you're
What do you mean specifically?
I mean editing AS with JSFL. I'm getting frustrated with not being able to
do a search and replace on multiple files, so I was going to write a tool to
do it with JSFL - unfortunately, it seems only to work with FLA files, not
AS.
Danny
Is this delivered???
'ello
D
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Slightly complicated and not terribly important but annoying:
It's possible for a class to compile while self-referring:
class Clarss {
var pParent:Clarss;
function Clarss(tParent:Clarss) {
if (tParent != undefined) {
pParent = tParent;
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snip big explanation
Mark,
Is there any way to do it? (And yes, I know I'd be better off with an
external editor, but sometimes it's easiest just to work in the IDE).
Danny
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Hi,
this
class Clarss {
var
Danny Kodicek wrote:
It's a shame: My object structure has a bunch of objects in a tree
structure, all of which inherit the same base class. I'd
like them all
to have a reference to the top-level node object, but I
have to refer
to it as an Object instead of its actual class name
Might be interesting to know why you need to do this at all.
I'm using an XML document to create a file. Without going into
details, each node of the XML is to be turned into an
object, based on the kind of node.
So for example:
xmlitem type='Big' size='3' /item
The way you had your code, the Child class will never receive
the killingFocus call. Add a Delegate within the Mother Class
to put the onKillFocus event into scope with Child...
import mx.utils.Delegate;
class Mother extends MovieClip {
public var txt:TextField;
public
Anyone know if there's a way to draw the contents of a SWF to
a Bitmap/BitmapData object within Flash?
I have a SWF that involves lots of complex rendering steps
and I want to be export it as a bitmap. The export part
should be fine (using a server to actually save the file) if
I can
Just to make your life simpler.
You do not instantiate a class; you instantiate an
instance(object) of a class.
Isn't that what 'instantiate' means? By 'instantiate' I mean 'make an
instance of'.
Danny
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If I have a string, how can I make an object from the class it represents?
Eg:
I have class MyBigClass
the string className contains the text Big
I want to do something like
obj:Object = new(My + className + Class)()
And on the subject:
The docs say that when importing a package, only those
Hello Danny,
This short snippet should return you the constructor:
/** Returns the class constructor from a dotted path.
* e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] var
cons:Function=getConstructorFromPath(com.pkg.fred.Bucket); }
*/
public static function
If I have a string, how can I make an object from the class
it represents?
Eg:
I have class MyBigClass
the string className contains the text Big
I want to do something like
obj:Object = new(My + className + Class)()
Paul:
Might be interesting to know why you need to do this
A few suggestions:
I have a fill-in-the-gaps exercise and I have added a hint
button which checks to see which part of the word a student
has entered is correct and then adds the next (correct)
letter to the end of the string. My problem is that the
cursor stays just in front of the
Hi Danny,
An import statement is just a compiler-friendly shortcut.
It has no effect whatsoever on the final code.
Saying:
import com.pkg.fred.Bucket;
// later
var bucket:Bucket=new Bucket();
is identical to saying just:
var bucket:com.pkg.fred.Bucket=new
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