RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Player security hole

2008-05-28 Thread Francis Cheng
PCWorld has updated its report: Symantec Backtracks on Adobe Flash Warning http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146396 Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flashcoders] RE: [Flash_Tiger] Actionscript Exploit very bad news

2008-04-18 Thread Francis Cheng
Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Flash Coders List Subject: [Flash_Tiger

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: [Flash_Tiger] Actionscript Exploit very bad news

2008-04-18 Thread Francis Cheng
Yes, I'm sure we do test it on Mac OS X. Sorry you're having problems with it. I'll pass this information along to the Flash Player team. Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-14 Thread Francis Cheng
report describes the same problem that you experience, please register on the site and vote for the bug. If it doesn't describe what you are experiencing, please help us out and file a new bug report that describes your problem and upload test files if at all possible. Francis Cheng | Senior

RE: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-14 Thread Francis Cheng
was filed in late November 2007. Another side note--someone mentioned Grant's blog post on Flexcoders last week, and Alex Harui, who is an order of magnitude smarter than I am, responded: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/109455 Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Player Public Bugbase now live

2008-04-09 Thread Francis Cheng
I don't know, but I think it's a great idea. I'll pass your comment on to the AIR team, although I see you've already asked about it on the Apollocoders list. Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Player Public Bugbase now live

2008-04-09 Thread Francis Cheng
Okay, I'll let them know. Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:29 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re

[Flashcoders] Flash Player Public Bugbase now live

2008-04-08 Thread Francis Cheng
to the announcement: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/tmccauley_fplayer_bugbase.html Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusingiteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Francis Cheng
Ian, help is on the way, the ECMAScript 4th edition draft specification contains a new keyword, let, that can be used in place of var to provide block-level scoping. Details for the curious: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:block_expressions Francis Cheng | Senior Technical

RE: [Flashcoders] Classes added

2008-01-14 Thread Francis Cheng
construct method of the value computed by the expression that follows the new keyword. Arguments, if specified, are passed to the construct method. If no arguments are specified, the parentheses may be omitted. Francis Cheng | Senior Technical Writer | Adobe Systems Incorporated -Original Message

RE: [Flashcoders] Arabic

2007-12-18 Thread Francis Cheng
blog for details (Astro is the code name for the next version of Flash Player): http://justin.everett-church.com/index.php/2007/10/02/astro-at-max-2007/ Francis Cheng | Sr. Technical Writer | Adobe Systems Incorporated -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Flashcoders] Arabic

2007-12-18 Thread Francis Cheng
links to examples of SWFs that use Arabic text. Francis Cheng | Sr. Technical Writer | Adobe Systems Incorporated ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] [Sort of OT] Flex Usage - IDE

2007-12-17 Thread Francis Cheng
Speaking of Flex Builder, if you are a current student or faculty member at an educational institution, you can get it for free for educational purposes: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/productinfo/faq/#flex_faculty Francis Cheng | Sr. Technical Writer | Adobe Systems Incorporated

RE: [Flashcoders] as3 + non english input charCode ?

2007-12-14 Thread Francis Cheng
charCodeAt() on the value you grab from your custom textfield. When I switch my input mode to Russian for the sample swf on that page, I get charcode 1092 for russian key ф and charcode 97 for English key a. HTH, Francis Cheng | Sr. Technical Writer | Adobe Systems Incorporated -Original Message

RE: [Flashcoders] Accessing MovieClips on a timeline from an AS3 class

2007-07-12 Thread Francis Cheng
. This means that you either have to declare the variables yourself (and they have to be public, by the way) or declare the class as dynamic so that the variables can be added at runtime (specifically, at the time the assignment statements are executed). Francis Cheng | Sr. Technical Writer | Adobe

RE: [Flashcoders] Accessing MovieClips on a timeline from an AS3 class

2007-07-12 Thread Francis Cheng
thing is one of the most annoying things that has changed between AS2 and AS3. In AS2 you can place assets on stage and declare them as private in your class. In AS3 this is not allowed/possible for some odd reason. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Francis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Flashcoders] Accessing MovieClips on a timeline from an AS3 class

2007-07-12 Thread Francis Cheng
: Francis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 2:45 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Accessing MovieClips on a timeline from an AS3 class I'm guessing that the odd reason has something to do with the behavior of the private attribute in AS2 versus

RE: [Flashcoders] Abstract classes in AS3?

2006-07-11 Thread Francis Cheng
The official rationale can be found in Chapter 9 of the latest draft specification of ECMAScript 4th edition: quote Rationale: making a constructor always public reinforces the user model of classes, like functions, as constructors. While other languages allow constructors methods to be made

[Flashcoders] Flash Player 9 Public Beta for Apple Intel-based Macintosh computers

2006-06-29 Thread Francis Cheng
The Flash Player 9 Public Beta for Apple Intel-based Macintosh computers is now available: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/public_beta/ Francis ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

RE: [Flashcoders] Date Object Problem

2006-05-03 Thread Francis Cheng
I think Bart's suggestion is a good one. I suspect the problem may be a local time zone offset issue. The Date object stores a date value as an integer representing the number of milliseconds since the Epoch (midnight Jan 1, 1970 UTC). If you don't use UTC dates rigorously, you leave yourself open

RE: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection from SWF - Visual Basic?

2006-04-26 Thread Francis Cheng
David is correct, LocalConnection does not write to a file--it uses shared memory. I'm not an expert on LocalConnection, but it doesn't surprise me that you can experience some latency if a dozen SWF files are all sharing memory with a single gateway SWF file. The beleaguered gateway SWF would

RE: [Flashcoders] System.Locale

2006-03-24 Thread Francis Cheng
Re: the long livedocs links: that was one of the first enhancement requests we received, so now at the bottom of every livedocs page you will find a more user-friendly link (look for the text Current page: http://...;). For example, the page you mention is:

RE: [Flashcoders] System.Locale

2006-03-24 Thread Francis Cheng
We changed it as of Flash Player 7 because the locale isn't really a language setting, it only deals with formatting of dates, times, etc., so it was misleading to call it System.capabilities.language. Moreover, there was no way in Flash Player 6 to get information about the actual localized OS

RE: [Flashcoders] Simple date comparison bug?

2006-03-23 Thread Francis Cheng
This is due to the ECMAScript algorithm for determining equality. You'll find that JavaScript behaves the same way. Date objects are not primitives, so they will only compare as equal if both Date variables reference the same Date object (i.e. var d2 = d1;) The ECMAScript algorithms for = and

RE: [FlashCoders] textfield swapDepths

2006-02-09 Thread Francis Cheng
A couple corrections: 1. Use instead of || in the if conditional statement 2. In the else block, change in identifier to a name that isn't a keyword (e.g. tempInst). function removeMofo(mc) { var theD = mc.getDepth(); if ( theD -1theD 1048576) { mc.removeMovieClip();

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3.0 Alpha property not working with Sprite Objects

2005-11-29 Thread Francis Cheng
the macromedia documentation a few times I did not realize this. Either it's not very clear in their documentation or I just don't know the documentation well enough. Thanks, that's the problem! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Hi-Jinks : Call to a possibly undefined method

2005-10-21 Thread Francis Cheng
We're still working on the actual text of the error messages, and yes, that one could certainly be a little less cryptic. Have you seen the Error and Warning Codes appendix in the language reference? It includes descriptions for some of the more common error codes: