[Flashcoders] flash changing size on mouseover

2007-04-26 Thread Darren Cook
seen is this: http://www.flashdesignerzone.com/tutorials/t1020.php But (in firefox with linux flash 9 plugin) that simply does not work - I see a big white rectangle for the expanded size, and it is covering up the text in the web page! Thanks in advance, Darren -- Darren Cook http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese

Re: [Flashcoders] Drawing pie charts?? (using Flash MX)

2006-12-22 Thread Darren Cook
A month ago, Boyd asked: > Anyone know where to find algorythms or code scraps that would let me > draw pie graphs using dynamic data? I am using the older Flash 6. And, also a month ago, Eric Dolecki asked: > Q: Has anyone seen a dynamic pie chart component that allows one to add > slices with co

[Flashcoders] Re: [osflash] OpenSource Data Charting framework wanted ?

2006-10-17 Thread Darren Cook
> I'm currently search for an OpenSource Data charting framework,... I've been working on such a library for a long time, with the intention to release as open source. I've a sourceforge page set up ( http://dcflash.sf.net/ ) and some demos (links and screenshots on the SF page), and am in the pro

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 ready for kiosk use?

2006-08-11 Thread Darren Cook
> he was able to publish as 7, so he's having some other issue and I'm > willing to bank that he is experiencing memory waste (a leak is > different) ... No: the flash player is able to correctly delete the memory when I minimize then maximize the window. If I was still somehow holding on to a poi

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 ready for kiosk use?

2006-08-10 Thread Darren Cook
> I've just downloaded the Adobe Flash 9 Public alpha and used it to compile > one of my old kiosk > projects. As far as I can see it has none of memory leak issues which > affected Flash 8 and stopped > it being suitable for kiosks. This is great This is very interesting. Is it just a matter of

Re: [Flashcoders] server-side FLV encoder ?

2006-05-01 Thread Darren Cook
> are there any linux tools that can use a PHP or command-line interface to > batch > convert incoming files to flash video? ffmpeg is probably what you want: http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ Note that it can only convert from/to the older flash video format (i.e. the Flash 7 format). > what is

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-04-03 Thread Darren Cook
> I always had this feeling Flash is not meant to be run for a long period > of time - no one will interact with your Flash movie on browser for 24 > hours continuously, so that's absolutely fine. But can anyone tell me if > you have successfully developed 24/7 app using Flash wrapped in > Zinc/SWF

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-04-03 Thread Darren Cook
Grant Cox wrote: > We just did our first application with a projector app ... Thanks for the interesting real-world comparison of the various projectors. > First I gave Screenweaver OS a go, but it has some major bugs, and > almost no development (well, not on the version 3, apparently they are >

Re: [Flashcoders] Find Nearest Color?

2006-04-03 Thread Darren Cook
Hi, A minor optimization, but you can drop the Math.sqrt(). I.e. x^2 > y^2 == x > y for all positive values of x and y. Darren > That's what I actually ended up doing, and it worked out pretty good: > > private function getClosest (red1:Number, green1:Number, > blue1:Number):Number { >

Re: [Flashcoders] Memory leak in Flash projector

2006-03-15 Thread Darren Cook
> There was also a utility that someone on the team found that would > force it to release the memory. But it was Windows only, and we had to > support Mac so we ended up taking it out. Do you have a link or a name for that utility (I only need to support windows in the current project so that may

Re: [Flashcoders] Memory leak in Flash projector

2006-03-14 Thread Darren Cook
On Feb 25th 2006 Andreas Rønning wrote: > This is very serious. The majority of my work is kiosk apps. > Any more details on this, official Macromedia stance on it? Future fixes? Does anyone have more information on this? For instance what kind of features or media types or actionscript are causin