[Flashcoders] Accessing SVN from JSFL

2008-02-28 Thread Jake Prime
Hi List I am hoping to create a custom Flash panel which can interface with Subversion. Is it possible to execute external apps, or command line access from JSFL? Thanks Jake ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfi

Re: [Flashcoders] MultiLanguage

2008-01-29 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Dave I've done quite a few muiltilanguage sites, including Chinese and Korean. The way I've tackled this in the past is to load the fonts from an external SWF at run-time, using shared runtime libraries. It's a bit of a roundabout method, and if a single part of the process is not done correctl

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread Jake Prime
I'm not sure about the actual code to instantiate, however make sure that the class you are creating is actually compiled in the first place. If it is not explicitly mentioned in your code somewhere it will not be compiled and will not be able to be created at run-time. jake On 26/07/07, Matt Mu

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing text

2007-07-20 Thread Jake Prime
map a specific triangle from a bitmap to a specific triangle area on screen. I have calculated the points for both. Thanks Jake On 20/07/07, Jake Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Returning to this now as it seems simple distortion is not satisfactory and I do need to have real perspect

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing text

2007-07-20 Thread Jake Prime
ke On 03/07/07, Jake Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi JC Yes as Zeh has illustrated the Sandy distortImage class distorts, and does not create perspective. For my purposes this is fine as the perspective is not too pronounced (certainly not disappearing off into the horizon). Jake. On 0

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing text

2007-07-03 Thread Jake Prime
Hi JC Yes as Zeh has illustrated the Sandy distortImage class distorts, and does not create perspective. For my purposes this is fine as the perspective is not too pronounced (certainly not disappearing off into the horizon). Jake. On 03/07/07, Zeh Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing text

2007-07-03 Thread Jake Prime
Thanks for the replies, I found the Sandy distortImage class to be the easiest to implement. http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/distortimage-20-the-fastest-way-to-freely-distort-image-with-flash-in-actionscript.html Jake On 02/07/07, Hans Wichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I put together a v

[Flashcoders] Skewing text

2007-07-02 Thread Jake Prime
Hi List I need to skew some text to give the impression it is going off into the distance (think opening text on Star Wars, though without movement). I know this effect can be done using the triangular method as used in Papervision. However I'm not creating a 3D scene here, I just want the skewin

Re: [Flashcoders] Identifying a unique Flash plugin

2007-05-15 Thread Jake Prime
--- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >>Of Jake Prime >>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:53 AM >>To: Flashcoders mailing list >>Subject: [Flashcoders] Identifying a unique Flash plugin >> >>Hi >> >>Is there any way to

[Flashcoders] Identifying a unique Flash plugin

2007-05-15 Thread Jake Prime
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 but we don't wa

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.sendAndLoad with POST

2007-04-11 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Jer I just tried your page in IE / Windows and using Fiddler saw the following result: 4 POST a Array ( 35 [helpme] => this must work somehow ) GET Array ( ) 0 Seems like it's working? Hope that's of some help (or at least doesn't add to your woes!) Jake On 11/04/07, Jer Brand <[EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Entities are Hell!

2007-04-04 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Steven Try: theClip.txt.text = xmlNode.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue; Jake On 04/04/07, Steven Loe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm loading xml with special characters. These display as their entity codes i.e. "&" as "&". If I put enitity codes in the xml, I still get entity codes display

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 textfields in a Flash 7 SWF

2007-03-21 Thread Jake Prime
Hi I have a SWF which is published as Flash 8 purely to take advantage of the filter effects that can be applied to dynamic text fields. The problem is that I am now forced to deploy the project to Flash 7. I was hoping that I could do a detect within the SWF and serve up the nice Flash 8 text f

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Differences in Mozilla vs IE player...why?

2007-03-16 Thread Jake Prime
Hi From your email address I would have guessed that you use Mac and were talking about the Mac plugins, but then again I'm guessing you wouldn't be running IE on the Mac these days, so you must be talking PC. Personally I can't say I've experienced any differences on the PC plugins, other tha

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash IDE thinks standard #include ".as" file is aclass file

2007-02-16 Thread Jake Prime
I seem to recall that I had this issue a while back. Turned out that when the .as file started with a capital letter, it treated it as a class, but when it started with a lower case letter it was fine. I just did a simple test and this doesn't appear to always be the case, so there must have been

[Flashcoders] Obfuscator

2007-01-19 Thread Jake Prime
Hi all At this point in time is there any obfuscator that will prevent a SWF from being decompiled with ASV (or whatever the current best decompiler is)? I know this has been asked before and the answer was no, but as both obfuscators and decompilers are improved over time I was wondering if the

Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)

2007-01-15 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Adam Make sure you are clearing your intervals when you unload each slideshow: clearInterval( ID ); If you do not, the interval will keep pinging, even if you have removed the object containing the method it calls. Jake On 15/01/07, Adam Raft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use setInterval

[Flashcoders] [JOB] Actionscript games developer - Central London

2007-01-09 Thread Jake Prime
l structured OO Flash project, fancy making games and want to do it in the middle of London, get in contact! Jake Prime Actionscript Developer Skive ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search th

Re: [Flashcoders] Area of a triangle using perimiter values only

2006-12-14 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Jason If the number is coming out negative the most likely reason is that the numbers you are supplying do not make a triangle. (e.g. two sides are length 1 each and the third is 2 or more). I've tested your code and it does produce positive numbers for all valid triangles I've tried. Jake O

Re: [Flashcoders] Why does this work in Flash 6 Actionscript 2 but not Flash 7 Actionscript 2 ...

2006-12-11 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Stephen, You are incrementing nCounter without ever initializing it. In Flash 6 and earlier if you incremented an undefined value it treated it as 0, but in Flash 7 and later it remains undefined. Set nCounter to 0 first and all should be well. Jake On 11/12/06, Stephen Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Flashcoders] Old Flash Problem - Clips stop receiving clicks

2006-11-29 Thread Jake Prime
On 29/11/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like general Flash wonkiness and who knows why. Still interested if somebody knows. I've seen this happen before when using the MM Combo Box component and changing it's state in code. We fixed the issue by setting focus on any

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic url for shared movie clips

2006-11-27 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Sönke, I had this problem on a project a while back. Unless I am missing something this solution does not appear to be making the path dynamic, but instead setting the path using swfmill rather than the Flash IDE. What I needed to do, and I think what Ellen needs here, is to be able to change

Re: [Flashcoders] >> Undefined value

2006-11-14 Thread Jake Prime
On 14/11/06, Laurent CUCHET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: var reliure_var; if (_global.pie_glo !== "" || _global.pie_glo !== "undefined") { reliure_var = "&reliure="+_global.pie_glo; var_glo.text = reliure_var; } else { reliure_var = ³²; var_glo.text = reliure_var; } I can see two

Re: [Flashcoders] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..?

2006-11-14 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Seb Seconded. If you find the time I'd love to read that blog. Jake On 14/11/06, Ben Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oe, I'm liking this one very much. More background would be greatly appreciated :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

[Flashcoders] Music visualisation in Flash 9

2006-11-02 Thread Jake Prime
Hi I have just been asked about the possibility of making an app which will play MP3s, and display visual effect to match it. Does this sound like something that is possible in AS3? As I see it the issues are: - being able to load and play an MP3 from the users harddrive - converting the MP3 to

Re: [Flashcoders] trying to make htmlText more w3c valid

2006-10-31 Thread Jake Prime
On 31/10/06, Adrian Ionut Beschea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to at least make the tags lower case ? I'm looking for an actionscript or php solution. Hi Adrian This will make tags lower case: function toLowerCaseTags ( htmlTxt:String ) : String { var a:Array = htmlTxt.

Re: [Flashcoders] Center align multiline textfield?

2006-10-10 Thread Jake Prime
Autosize doesn't work in multiline textfields. If you think about it, when you set autosize to true (or "right" or "center") you are asking Flash to shrink the textfield to the smallest size possible to fit the text. This is fine in a single line textfield, but with a mulitline field Flash won't k

Re: [Flashcoders] Weak bounce easing equation

2006-10-05 Thread Jake Prime
On 05/10/06, Mendelsohn, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Take a look at the Tween class and its various easing methods documented under the components language reference in the help. Unless I'm missing something, you don't get any control over the quantity of bounce there. The only thing it

[Flashcoders] Weak bounce easing equation

2006-10-05 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Is there anywhere I can find a greater range of Penner type easing equations than are normally around? Specifically I want a much weaker bounce than the usual "easeOutBounce". All my searches come up with the same basic equations. I have tried editing the bounce function resulting in somethin

Re: [Flashcoders] Disabling Nested MCs?

2006-10-03 Thread Jake Prime
gt; > > Ahh, I so that's how you do it. I think the current way I have tweens > > working won't allow be to easily do that, but when I start using Fuse > > Kit it should be a doddle. > > > > Thanks, > > > > - Kevin > > > > On 02/10/06,

Re: [Flashcoders] Disabling Nested MCs?

2006-10-02 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Kevin Try: map._visible = false; This will disable all buttons in map, and if the whole map is 0 alpha anyway will make no visible difference. Jake On 02/10/06, Kevin Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have an interactive map with various clickable countries on it. At certain times

[Flashcoders] Querystring prevents FLV playback

2006-09-26 Thread Jake Prime
Hi I have been working on a Flash website which is going through several series of updates. To prevent caching, whenever the site is updated I push the new date into the main flash file, and this is passed on to all other files loaded via the querystring. e.g: home.swf?id=26-09-2006 data.xml?id=

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-25 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Aaron Detour provides individual sound control for each app running on Mac OS. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20128 I'm not a Mac user, so I can't vouch for it. Good luck. Jake On 22/09/06, aaron smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of an application that

Re: [Flashcoders] Working on Flash 6 player but not on Flash 8

2006-09-21 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Berkay Have you set counter to a value before incrementing it? If you fail to initialise a variable in F6, it will assume it is 0 and increment to 1. If you do this in F8 it treats it as undefined, and will stay undefined no matter how many times you increment it. Jake On 21/09/06, Berkay Un

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV size

2006-09-15 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Dennis When you choose your compression rate in Flash Video Encoder, and probably other compression tools, you are choosing it in kilobits per second (kbps). Therefore the filesize is dependent on how long the video is, and not how large the dimesions are. You should notice however that the s

[Flashcoders] Returning a value from file upload

2006-08-31 Thread Jake Prime
Hi I am uploading a file in Flash 8 and I would like to get a return value from the server. Now I know I'm not the first person to want to do this, and I have searched around. From everywhere I've looked the answer seems to be it's not possible and I need to make a second call to the server. I w

[Flashcoders] Dynamically loading a Shared Library symbol

2006-07-28 Thread Jake Prime
Hi all Is there any way to dynamically set the path for loading a shared library object? I am using a shared library system to have a central store for all fonts in a mulitlanguage site. Unfortunately I'm not permitted to use relative links in the site. I am being given an absolute root path as