Re: [Flashcoders] CrossDomain and Forms

2007-05-01 Thread Jason Rayles
You need a proxy script, which is a file on your server that will read in the data from the other server and write it out for you. As far as Flash is concerned, the data is from your server. There's an example on adobe.com somewhere. - Original Message - From: "Helmut Granda" <[EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

2007-04-18 Thread Jason Rayles
I doubt that the management structure of your global company is going to change any time soon. If you are frustrated, then it sounds like you should find another gig, especially if want a raise but are unable to communicate to your boss what it is that you do. I find that it's easier to bump up

Re: [Flashcoders] NetStream.play() - Start parameter

2007-04-04 Thread Jason Rayles
Read the docs and it will all come clear. Ah ha ha! That's hilarious. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf

Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface

2007-03-12 Thread Jason Rayles
Eeermmm.. the question was about flash 6, and someone said that using prototype is bad practice. On 3/9/07, strk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a way to attach a method to all existing button instances ? >It seems that button instances are NOT instaceof Button ... >At least NOT for SWF6

Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface

2007-03-12 Thread Jason Rayles
Prototype has been depreciated. What are you talking about? This is straight from AS 2.0 Language Reference: prototype (Object.prototype property) public static prototype : Object A reference to the superclass of a class or function object. The prototype property is automatically created and a

Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface

2007-03-12 Thread Jason Rayles
Why is using prototypes bad practice? - Original Message - From: "Janis Radins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface also you should know that using prototypes is bad practice better create seperate class

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic video buttons

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Rayles
Wendy, I think the trick is generating the xml dynamically on the server. There's not a good way for flash to know whether a file exists until it tries to load the file. Unless you want to update and upload the xml every time you update a video, then you'll want a server-side script to create

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Jason Rayles
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/transformmatrix/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Pre

[Flashcoders] triangle help

2007-01-26 Thread Jason Rayles
Given the interior angles and the length of one side (not the hypoteneuse) of a right triangle, how do I calculate (in Flash) the length of the other 2 sides? Thanks, Jason ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options o

Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

2006-09-15 Thread Jason Rayles
Hank, you don't know what you are talking about. You may be late to the party, but that doesn't mean that everyone was. There are a lot of people (not billions, but a good number) who meet/exceed YOUR requirements who were working in Flash before AS 2 was an option. Seriously, why do you think

[Flashcoders] OT: Need math help

2006-07-12 Thread Jason Rayles
I wonder if someone would be willing to help me off-list with a math problem or can refer me to a more appropriate person/list to ask this question: I have a photograph of a rectangle where the camera was slightly off-center and not parallel to the plane of the rectangle, so in the resulting

RE: [Flashcoders] can I know if I class/package has been imported in a swf?

2006-02-01 Thread Jason Rayles
No. Is there a way for my code in my class to figure out if another class that I am not writing but whose name I know is being used in a swf. From: "Steven Sacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] can I know if I class/package has been imported in aswf? To: "'Flashcod

[Flashcoders] can I know if I class/package has been imported in a swf?

2006-01-31 Thread Jason Rayles
Is it possible to know if a class is being used in a flash movie? If so, how? I was thinking about doing something like if(DepthManager != undefined) trace("this class is nowhere to be found"); The thing is, I don't want to use DepthManager, but I am pretty sure that I need to do one thing i

Re: [Flashcoders] v2 components - are you kidding me?

2006-01-31 Thread Jason Rayles
do I use V2 components? -Meinte (the first time I even tried using components was when I discovered the things it put on the highest level(of _root in that case), plus i saw my flash movie go from 5 to 60kb, I never looked at components again after that.) On 1/31/06, Jason Rayles <[EMAIL PR

[Flashcoders] v2 components - are you kidding me?

2006-01-31 Thread Jason Rayles
My main question is: why does opening a v2 combobox subsequently cause an onRollOut event to fire every time I click a button or movieclip, and is there any way to prevent that? Some other questions I have are: Is there anything that the combobox does right? Why can I not use getNextHighestDep

[Flashcoders] alpha -= 10 = wtf

2005-12-14 Thread Jason Rayles
Has this been discussed? Flash player 8 trace(this._alpha); this._alpha -= 10; trace(this._alpha); Output: 100 89.84375 Thanks, Macromedia! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: [Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root???

2005-12-14 Thread Jason Rayles
igher than a certain number (which may be caused by components on your stage) you have to swap it to a lower depth first. greetz Hans At 10:27 PM 12/14/2005, Jason Rayles wrote: Is there a reason that a movie clip attached to _root cannot be removed using removeMovieCli

[Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root???

2005-12-14 Thread Jason Rayles
Is there a reason that a movie clip attached to _root cannot be removed using removeMovieClip? if I do _root.attachMovie("square", "s", _root.getNextHighestDepth()); then _root.s.removeMovieClip(); does not remove the clip. However if I do mc.attachMovie("square", "s", mc.getNextHighestDepth()

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Loading Images

2005-11-07 Thread Jason Rayles
How do you read the files in a directory w/ flash 8? On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 11 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:18:36 +0100 From: "Tom Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Loading Images To: "Flashcoders mailing list" Message-ID: <[EM