Re: [Flashcoders] Flash fullscreen in a JavaScript app?

2011-01-29 Thread Jim Andrews
wser. For the browser to go full screen that's F11 on the keyboard. Hope I'm answering that correctly for you. - Michael M. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Jim Andrews S

[Flashcoders] Flash fullscreen in a JavaScript app?

2011-01-29 Thread Jim Andrews
Hi, I've developed a JavaScript slideshow at http://vispo.com/nio/pens/slideshow I want a fullscreen button in it. No browser chrome whatsoever. None. As you probably know, this is fully supported in Flash but not in JavaScript. Which is a real annoyance. There's the fullscreen='yes' thing as

[Flashcoders] custom flv controls

2010-06-24 Thread Jim Andrews
i've created a couple of nice flv files in premier. i tried all sorts of options, mp4, avi, and so on. flv seems to be the best option for the web. ok i've got the flv files. but the controls you can choose in flash pro are ugly. and there's no fullscreen option. yeesh. i've seen some pretty

[Flashcoders] On Pulsate by Andre Michelle

2010-06-18 Thread Jim Andrews
Here is something I wrote about an online interactive piece by Andre Michelle called Pulsate: http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=192 ja http://vispo.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/l

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex generative art???

2010-06-10 Thread Jim Andrews
I'm a bit confused as to how to proceed with Flash. I've been using Director for the last 11 years. You can see the sort of (Director Shockwave) apps I like to create at http://vispo.com/dbcinema/sw/sw.htm and http://vispo.com/jig/arteroids/exe . These apps contain menus, spin controls, drop-d

[Flashcoders] Flex generative art???

2010-06-09 Thread Jim Andrews
Can anyone point out to me any interesting art projects that are Flex projects? Particularly what I'm looking for are simple projects that combine some of the benefits of Flex with the benefits of Flash concerning generative visual art. It's looking too much like a no fun zone at the mo. Any s

[Flashcoders] on the iPad

2010-06-09 Thread Jim Andrews
"As it is built now, the iPad is the ultimate consumer device, meant primarily to consume media, not to produce it. That's why, in its first iteration, it has no native printing application, no camera, no USB ports for peripherals. But the impulse to make it into something else, a lightweight c

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with strongly typed actionscript

2010-06-08 Thread Jim Andrews
Here's my code which uses the SharedObject to implement a User Data Manager. This is my first ActionScript of any usefulness. ja http://vispo.com package { // This is for managing the user's state from session to session. // This saves their preferences and current state. import flash.net.Shar

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with strongly typed actionscript

2010-06-07 Thread Jim Andrews
Architecturally speaking, that's a bad idea. There's probably a strongly typed solution to what you're doing. Can you provide detail about what you need to accomplish so we can help you figure out a better solution? i expect public function x(y:*):void { } will do the job. the public meth

[Flashcoders] problem with strongly typed actionscript

2010-06-07 Thread Jim Andrews
i want to write a method x which takes an argument y. i cannot anticipate what type the argument is going to be until run-time. it might be a number or a string or an array or who knows what? but i am not sure how to do this in actionscript because it is strongly typed. normally what is done i

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with import mx.controls.Alert

2010-06-01 Thread Jim Andrews
Thanks, Eric. So I guess none of the mx.controls are for Flash but, rather, are all for Flex? ja Make a Flex app - Alert is for Flex. Or make your own Alert class. I'm not sure if linking the Flex SWCs would work for an Alert or not. I get an error, in Flash Builder 4, with the following

[Flashcoders] problem with import mx.controls.Alert

2010-06-01 Thread Jim Andrews
Am I on the right list for a question like this? I get an error, in Flash Builder 4, with the following line, which is part of an ActionScript project. import mx.controls.Alert; The error is "1172: Definition mx.controls:Alert could not be found." How do I fix this? ja? http://vispo.com _

[Flashcoders] prob with import mx.controls.Alert

2010-06-01 Thread Jim Andrews
I get an error, in Flash Builder 4, with the following line, which is part of an ActionScript project. import mx.controls.Alert; The error is "1172: Definition mx.controls:Alert could not be found." How do I fix this? ja? http://vispo.com ___ Fla

Re: [Flashcoders] end of program event?

2010-06-01 Thread Jim Andrews
some JavaScript to talk to Flash on the Window.unload event, but by then Flash could have gone... Hope this is some help.. Glen Jim Andrews wrote: I want to write text info to disk when the user quits the flash piece playing in the browser. Is there an event I listen to for

[Flashcoders] end of program event?

2010-05-31 Thread Jim Andrews
I want to write text info to disk when the user quits the flash piece playing in the browser. Is there an event I listen to for the end of the program? What event? ja ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.f

Re: [Flashcoders] Sound

2010-05-10 Thread Jim Andrews
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Sound.html The above URL is the main page to acquaint yourself with concerning the Sound class in ActionScript 3.0, apparently. If you scroll through it, you'll see some example code. You'll also see the 'play' met

Re: [Flashcoders] debugging Flash apps

2010-05-08 Thread Jim Andrews
I tend to use MonsterDebugger a lot. It is easy to debug stuff in almost any setting outside of mobile devices. I use that and a combo of trace statements and the IDE Debugger. http://www.demonsterdebugger.com/ Ktu I installed DeMonster debugger a while ago, and it seems great for run-time

Re: [Flashcoders] debugging Flash apps

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Andrews
Thanks, Steven. Does this require Eclipse? What flavour of Eclipse, if so? ja FDT. End of story. On 5/7/2010 2:46 PM, Jim Andrews wrote: I'm finding the debugger in the Flash IDE almost unusably slow. How do people debug their apps? And I've taken to using FlashDevelop for ed

[Flashcoders] debugging Flash apps

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Andrews
I'm finding the debugger in the Flash IDE almost unusably slow. How do people debug their apps? And I've taken to using FlashDevelop for editing code because the editor in the Flash IDE is equally slow. ja ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders

[Flashcoders] fl.controls.NumericStepper

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Andrews
why does one need to put fl.controls.NumericStepper in the Library, rather than just have import fl.controls.NumericStepper; in the class code? ja http://vispo.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.fig

Re: [Flashcoders] Of Meercats and Music: The Daxophonic Hans Reichelof Daxo.de

2010-05-04 Thread Jim Andrews
Jim Andrews wrote: Here is a review I wrote ( http://netpoetic.com/2010/05/the-daxophonic-hans-reichel-of-daxo-de ) of a suite of 12 interactive audio Flash works at daxo.de by Hans Reichel. Henrik Anderson wrote: It's been a while since I have experienced such an unorganized me

[Flashcoders] Of Meercats and Music: The Daxophonic Hans Reichel of Daxo.de

2010-05-04 Thread Jim Andrews
Here is a review I wrote ( http://netpoetic.com/2010/05/the-daxophonic-hans-reichel-of-daxo-de ) of a suite of 12 interactive audio Flash works at daxo.de by Hans Reichel. "Hans Reichel (1949) is a German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and type designer." So saith Wiki

Re: [Flashcoders] editing and debugging tools for ActionScript3.0 projects?

2010-05-02 Thread Jim Andrews
howitworks HTH Cor -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Jim Andrews Sent: zondag 2 mei 2010 10:10 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] editing and debugging tools for ActionScript 3.0

[Flashcoders] editing and debugging tools for ActionScript 3.0 projects?

2010-05-02 Thread Jim Andrews
I'm not sure if this is typical, but the ActionScript editor and also the debugger in Flash CS4 Professional, on my machine, are almost unusably slow. Do other people find this to be the case? On my machine, it might take ten seconds to step from one line to the next, even when there isn't muc

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Jim Andrews
i see the html quake is not actually available to play in the browser. and game sound is fairly simple programming. at least in this game. html 5 has a very very basic audio api. it is not adequate for my purposes. in an ideal situation we would use open tools built to open standards. what dev

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Jim Andrews
html 5 has an audio api. you can play sounds. you can show controls like in a video. or not. now there's an honest audio api. no irrelevant things like being able to tell how far into the sound we are. or responsiveness to cue points. or being able to tell when a sound ends. no byteArray ope

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
Does HTML 5 do anything about the basically non-existant audio API in HTML? I gather that the tag was Apple's proposal. How does it compare with the graphical abilities of Flash or Director? Microsoft has not implemented the tag. Is the tag in the W3C HTML 5 spec? And how does the tag c

Re: [Flashcoders] libraries of wav files?

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
Coming a bit late to the conversation, but I did exactly that for some music education games. We had to have seamless playback of multiple audio files, and mp3 just doesn't cut it. I put my .aiff files into one Flash file, set the linkage, and downloaded the swf at run time. When the swf download

Re: [Flashcoders] gapless looping of external mp3's

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
That's basically what Andre Michelle is doing with his code at http://blog.andre-michelle.com/2010/playback-mp3-loop-gapless/#more-590 , Andrew. ja http://vispo.com - Original Message - From: "Andrew Murphy" To: "'Flash Coders List'" Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:28 AM Subject:

Re: [Flashcoders] libraries of wav files?

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
If you create an mp3 in SoundBooth or Sound Forge and loop it, even in those environments, you see that simply creating an mp3 introduces some silence at the beginning and end of the file. Even if the mp3 was made from a perfectly gapless looping wav file, the mp3 will have a gap in it. Conseq

Re: [Flashcoders] libraries of wav files?

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
ave to set the Loader's application domain to the same as your application in order to instanciate the sounds: Search for "runtime library" in flash. Glen On 29/04/2010 12:25, Jim Andrews wrote: Sorry. I should have been more specific. What I'd like to do is create an ex

Re: [Flashcoders] libraries of wav files?

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
a.co.uk/ On 29 April 2010 10:35, Jim Andrews wrote: i know you can load external mp3 files in flash, but is it possible to load a library (if that is the right term) of wav files in flash? the app i want to make involves loops, and mp3 files are not real good for loops. ja h

[Flashcoders] libraries of wav files?

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
i know you can load external mp3 files in flash, but is it possible to load a library (if that is the right term) of wav files in flash? the app i want to make involves loops, and mp3 files are not real good for loops. ja http://vispo.com ___ Fla

[Flashcoders] gapless looping of external mp3's

2010-04-28 Thread Jim Andrews
I'm new to the list. Does anyone have experience with gapless looping of external mp3's in Flash? I'm having probs with it. I read http://www.compuphase.com/mp3/mp3loops.htm . There's even a section in there about gapless looping in Flash. But I'm not sure how old that page is and if there