Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Internet Explorer 8

2009-02-03 Thread John Dowdell
, then that could make things stickier... it sounds like they accepted the project, then wanted to make changes after the project was finished. Tricky problem! :( jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

RE: [Flashcoders] motif ad kit not working

2009-01-22 Thread John Dowdell
Another path: Get the text from the error dialog, and do a quoted phrase search on unique text within it. (Assuming you see a similar error text in more than one browser, one way it can be produced is if calls for external JavaScript libraries cannot be successfully resolved.) jd/adobe

RE: [Flashcoders] a historical question

2008-12-29 Thread John Dowdell
Several years ago (in Flash 8, I'm almost positive) someone (Colin Moock??) came up with a/several algorithms that grew vines on the stage, discreetly, wildly, minimally, extravagantly. I've been looking for it/them for weeks and can't find them. If anybody remembers what I'm talking about

RE: [Flashcoders] Whatever happened to C++ conversion?

2008-08-31 Thread John Dowdell
These search terms don't seem to turn up much: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22scott+peterson%22+adobe+compile+actionscriptas_qdr=m3 http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alabs.adobe.com+quake (etc) I know some of the subsequent talk may have played it up, but that was definitely more a

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Player security hole

2008-05-28 Thread John Dowdell
, and would need first-hand confirmation to be sure. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public

Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

2007-09-06 Thread John Dowdell
to break through all the noise and gaming of the search engines today, but targeting the plausible search terms on which you can realistically compete is the very first step. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd

Re: [Flashcoders] Real Player 11 messing up Flash application UI

2007-08-20 Thread John Dowdell
are the best current resources I know of: http://rws-blog.rhapsody.com/realplayer/ http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1051 http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2007/8/1/real-bug http://blog.jaycharles.net/?p=9 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Player and IT Security Policies

2007-08-15 Thread John Dowdell
[Hey! You crossposted to multiple groups! Now all the volunteer listmasters will have to deal with busywork when someone hits reply all! :( ] Chris Velevitch wrote: A large corporate/government organisation's IT department has refused to update the flash player due IT security policy. Any

RE: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-26 Thread John Dowdell
I don't have the full thread here at the moment, but if no one has mentioned Gregg Wygonik's BlazePDF work, for creation of PDF files from within SWF, then here's the link: http://www.blazepdf.com/faq.html jd/adobe ___

RE: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-25 Thread John Dowdell
Curious, does anyone know anything about the capabilities of fscommand in AIR applications? FSCommand was originally for the plugin to communicate with its host browser. Then later it was extended a bit to control properties of Projectors. The current externalInterface communicates with the

RE: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-25 Thread John Dowdell
ah, so is this Does anyone know how I can produce PDF files locally with the Adobe Integrated Runtime? If so, then no, I don't... the current pre-releases can invoke an installed Adobe Reader to display a PDF, but I don't recall anyone seeing a way to produce PDFs locally. If you can handle a

Re: [Flashcoders] Hebrew input

2007-07-23 Thread John Dowdell
to background information) o Work has been proceeding on Flaraby, but I haven't investigated its implementation myself: http://www.arabicode.com/flaraby/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

Re: [Flashcoders] WebServices support in AS3/FLCS3

2007-07-06 Thread John Dowdell
Update: Getting info from Flash Authoring was difficult because much of the team was travelling to Tokyo for customer visits. I'll expand the request list tonight. The forums links and technote statements were useful, thanks. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco

Re: [Flashcoders] copying text to clipboard?

2007-06-25 Thread John Dowdell
Runtime, we're clearly working at a higher permission level (compared to just visiting the world's websites in a document browser), and so there's full clipboard support, drag'n'drop with desktop applications, and other standard application communication mechanisms. jd -- John Dowdell

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 over 400 MB! and 25 minutes to install!

2007-06-19 Thread John Dowdell
in a meeting right now where we're talking about improving the installation experience for the next generation... the installation *is* pretty big right now, and we're looking for ways to provide similar capabilities at lower cost in the future. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support

RE: [Flashcoders] wmode performance headache

2007-06-18 Thread John Dowdell
I don't have full details about changes in each browser version. There are two performance hits described here: (a) running things in a browser (Projectors (and presumably Apollo) are fastest; different browsers have different strategies in allocating processor cycles to plugins); (b)

RE: [Flashcoders] Input field bug in firefox when embedding swf withWMODE as transparent og opaque

2007-06-18 Thread John Dowdell
Re: Some version of Firefox apparently stops ALT-key characters entered in SWF textfields when WMODE is used. That might be true. First step would be the Firefox documentation -- check OS browser version against known issues, and either ask your audience to upgrade or just stopping trying to

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 slow animation online, but not local??

2007-06-18 Thread John Dowdell
might be affecting you here...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3.0 and C++

2007-06-04 Thread John Dowdell
between processes, but I think we need to sit and wait a bit, to see the options the final 1.0 delivery enables. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http

RE: [Flashcoders] IE7/Flash Player Problem

2007-05-29 Thread John Dowdell
After reading the description, and the intermittent problems, 50 messages fine, 1 message wonky part, I wondered if these might be rapidfire messages in this implementation. (Browsers have varied in their latency in the past.) jd/adobe ___

RE: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-17 Thread John Dowdell
Nimrod Huberman wrote: I don't know your specific goal Neither do I. My email is a little disrupted right now, and I came in at Dave Watt's reply. I saw questions about whether anyone else is doing things with SWF in PDF, but got confused at the objection to using Adobe Reader. I'm not

RE: [Flashcoders] jpeg 2000 compression

2007-05-03 Thread John Dowdell
Hi, sorry I'm coming in the middle of the thread, but there's a little bit on the JPEG 2000 format in the docs, in a video connection, but I don't see other references there: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.adobe.com+inurl%3Aflash+%22jpeg+2000%22 For the JPEG 2000 method itself, the

RE: [Flashcoders] Javascript SetVariable -- when does Flash see thechange?

2007-04-24 Thread John Dowdell
The browser is a big variable in latency of message-passing. You can confirm that many SWF will run at different rates in different browsers. The NPRuntime API is now implemented pretty well in today's popular browsers, but the size and timing of permissible messages may vary among

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 Trial

2007-04-17 Thread John Dowdell
Adrian Lynch wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I can't find any Flash trials on adobe.com. Are any available? My apologies... it looks like many of the older trial versions were removed from the main listing when the CS3 announcements arrived, but new trials of individual tools won't be on the

Re: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-03-30 Thread John Dowdell
show such similar disparities across regions. Such a mystery does no-one any good. The ZDNet/CNET articles today likely caught org-wide attention, so I've got some more ammo this week ;-) cu, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-03-29 Thread John Dowdell
is not viewable to non-subscribers, so I'm snipping threads to give a flavor of the whole.) So... my apologies for the confusion. I think it's definitely a legitimate question, and one that I'm working to get addressed. tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog

Re: [Flashcoders] flash / ajax

2007-03-16 Thread John Dowdell
is another utility that seems like it would have high demand. Dojo already uses invisible SWF for local storage, so there's a model people have already been taught to accept. I don't have a lead on an implementation, but if one is developed, I suspect it may be advantageous to many. jd -- John

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

2007-03-16 Thread John Dowdell
doesn't change the renderer itself... same code. But the potential performance does vary with the browser and with the rest of the current environment, depending on what that configuration allows the Player to do. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player and pop-up blockers

2007-03-14 Thread John Dowdell
a localConnection test from the original SWF to the popup SWF, after waiting a suitable interval... if the second SWF never opened, then the first SWF can advise that there may be a window-blocker in the visitor's browser. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV issue within IE7?

2007-02-23 Thread John Dowdell
using ExternalInterface() to get the URL of the page. Hav eyou tested whether the browser returns the expected result for the path request? (Script/browser intercommunication has definitely varied by the browser in the past.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco

Re: [Flashcoders] IE 7 and ExternalInterface.call()

2007-02-19 Thread John Dowdell
themselves include the OBJECT/EMBED tags...? http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed

Re: [Flashcoders] layering Flash over QT/WM

2007-02-14 Thread John Dowdell
for this type of work... from what you describe, it sounds like WMP in IE can layer like Flash, but I'm not sure if QuickTime ever implemented WMODE-style redirects. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection Issue - Flash 8 + IE

2007-02-08 Thread John Dowdell
do a basic testing SWF, with basic in-page OBJECT/EMBED and a simple in-line piece of JavaScript to catch the messages, then does the symptom change? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 Public Alpha stability issues

2007-01-30 Thread John Dowdell
with a much smaller one, then does your mean time between failures suddenly decrease...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Laszlo

2007-01-30 Thread John Dowdell
twice that of the year-ago levels. How people talk about something doesn't mean everything about a technology, but it's one indicator of how people regard things... take it for what it's worth. Pretty startling changes, though. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: NetStream and Flash Player 9

2007-01-29 Thread John Dowdell
stop all my network requests in ActionScript? If so, then have you isolated the browsers yet, and tested known-to-be-good apps from others in that browser? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

Re: [Flashcoders] NetStream and Flash Player 9

2007-01-26 Thread John Dowdell
search I see a couple of different businesses called netstream. If you're asking whether others can view the Flash work at http://netstreams.com/ in Adobe Flash Player 9, then I can. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Demystify the Flash player installation updating for me

2007-01-24 Thread John Dowdell
on this part...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Adobe download site slow

2007-01-03 Thread John Dowdell
do know that there's ongoing work in this area, and that people involved do want to get public status info up soon. I hope this (weak) context helps in your own daily contacts a bit...? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe: December 2006 Flash Player Penetration Numbers

2007-01-02 Thread John Dowdell
than three weeks' worth of normal Player distribution), but adoption has also generally been faster as well. Are you the decisionmaker on this one, or are you having to persuade others too? If the latter, then are there specific arguments you're running up against? tx, jd -- John Dowdell

Re: [Flashcoders] Mark Anders source files from FOTB

2006-12-20 Thread John Dowdell
the new year. But keep an eye on Mark's weblog, too, because he may decide to self-publish. http://www.andersblog.com/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Procedure for Reporting/Confirming Flash bugs to Adobe?

2006-12-19 Thread John Dowdell
... assures that the issue isn't misidentified. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public

Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML menu rolling over on top of flash possible?

2006-12-12 Thread John Dowdell
The answer is WMODE. (Different browsers support it to different degrees, although they've come to pretty close convergence the past few years. adobe.com has a special sniffer for Safari, from what I've been told.) jd ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-27 Thread John Dowdell
, runs in the Adobe Flash Player. People argue more about nominalizations than they do about verb phrases. If we actually needed an acronym I'd go for something like MXYZPTLK, but maybe that's just me ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player penetration

2006-11-15 Thread John Dowdell
), then audiences with old capabilities are getting smaller and smaller, as the overall adoption rate continues to rocket forward. Does this give you the info needed to bring this project forward...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [Flashcoders] launching an exe?

2006-11-13 Thread John Dowdell
) and use the browser's regular installation mechanism to download and activate. I wouldn't accept EXEs from strangers myself, but that's one way to do it with current technology. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: exact match of flash background hex color and background color of html page

2006-11-06 Thread John Dowdell
displays you'll see undisplayable colors handled in different ways be different rendering engines. HTML colors look different than SWF colors http://www.adobe.com/go/14819 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-02 Thread John Dowdell
among their own audience.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: wmode=transparent and buttons behavior woes (Merrill, Jason)

2006-10-31 Thread John Dowdell
must negotiate. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Firefox 2 on a Mac

2006-10-31 Thread John Dowdell
be to feed her a much simpler SWF of your own... possibly replace that SWF into your existing HTML... possibly run your existing SWF in a basic HTML page... just changing one part of the problem at a time until you can zoom in on the problem area. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support

Re: [Flashcoders] How-To access Flash Player from C++ on OSX ?

2006-10-30 Thread John Dowdell
local directory (or do it during installation, etc). I haven't studied how XCode handles this, and how easy it makes it to host Netscape Plugins, but that would be the path on anything other than a straight Microsoft system. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Builder 2 for Mac - 6 things you need to know

2006-10-27 Thread John Dowdell
changes ot prohibit local files, difficulty finding a browser... anything like this seem like it might be happening here...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Filters - Progressive enhancement for those with the 8+ player?

2006-10-20 Thread John Dowdell
become even more radically pronounced. ... but maybe you have an audience which is partially locked down, where they don't have permission to change what's on their machines...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash transparent on top of Windows Media Player

2006-10-12 Thread John Dowdell
could make sure that accurate info on costs was included in all documentation which mentioned WMODE, then do you think this would reduce the problem you're seeing...? http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aadobe.com+wmode tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA

Re: [Flashcoders] C++ flash host supporting transparency

2006-10-12 Thread John Dowdell
the different browser APIs you'd need to handle to have the Player pipe its rendering to your own compositing app.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: sold laptop, need to release Studio 8?

2006-10-09 Thread John Dowdell
can just choose the Transfer this License item from the Help menu, which will tell the server that you've removed the old installation. Should be okay either way, but it's better to hit that menu item if you can. Good...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA

Re: [Flashcoders] flv not playing in IE with Flash 9

2006-10-05 Thread John Dowdell
/EMBED markup, then do you see that content in that browser? That's the quickest way to start finding where the difference is. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes

Re: [Flashcoders] flv not playing in IE with Flash 9

2006-10-05 Thread John Dowdell
Ammon Lauritzen wrote: On 10/5/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're using a JavaScript routine to write the tags. When you do a test file with straight OBJECT/EMBED markup, then do you see that content in that browser? That's the quickest way to start finding where the difference

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player standalone universal binary or alternative

2006-09-27 Thread John Dowdell
Serge Jespers wrote: any word on a Universal Binary standalone Flash player? I don't recall seeing announcements, although I might have missed something in the crush. New OS/hardware requirements are usually met in the next major version. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread John Dowdell
than not using sound in your SWF, or offering an on-screen button for volume control, etc. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support

Re: [Flashcoders] Decompiling some sketchy flash code

2006-09-20 Thread John Dowdell
of events? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Decompiling some sketchy flash code

2006-09-20 Thread John Dowdell
content they don't create -- they have to be able to trust the stuff they serve, and it's hard to accept ads from strangers, people without reputations to maintain.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Player 9 textfield problem

2006-09-18 Thread John Dowdell
is frequently Does this happen with some-or-all SWF, in some-or-all browsers, on some-or-all machines and so on... fast way of identifying any special content differences, such as asking the browser to include plugin content in its own rendering pipeline. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Player 9 Issues?

2006-09-15 Thread John Dowdell
Thanks for including the error text. When I did a web search on phrase The following add-on was running when this problem occurred, I pulled up a Microsoft technote which referred to IE7 beta: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920082/en-us But I see in the search results that lots of people have

Re: [Flashcoders] Slow performance of Flash 7 content in Flash Player 9

2006-09-05 Thread John Dowdell
. There are some particular features which may not follow this rule (security requirements are one prominent exception), but the public Developer Releases are for identifying and addressing any such degradations. I'd still like to learn what you're seeing, thanks. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash cross-platform

2006-09-01 Thread John Dowdell
of that, though... it'll play content the same in Paris as it would in Kyoto or Guilin. Good...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support

Re: [Flashcoders] flash player

2006-08-18 Thread John Dowdell
browser which uses this is Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows and its offspring (Maxthon (sp?), etc). Other browsers use Netscape Plugins. If none of the above addressed your needs then please advise, thanks. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread John Dowdell
they measured up to FP8. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface, embed tag and IE

2006-08-08 Thread John Dowdell
of issue at this time. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Lite - what's happening

2006-08-07 Thread John Dowdell
Inquisition and the days before indoor plumbing by now, those were hard times, but there's still a long way to go ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Player 8 Corporate Penetration

2006-07-26 Thread John Dowdell
issue to generally assess...? I've seen this question asked before in a number of places and it always goes un-answered. I try, honest I do, but ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash plugin preinstalled starting with what browser versions?

2006-07-26 Thread John Dowdell
a school or intranet without installation privileges then you'll need to contact the IT staff to see what they permit... the specific audience you're targeting is a big influence on what clientside capability to require. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3, BitmapData and domain security

2006-07-24 Thread John Dowdell
Paul Neave wrote: On 22/07/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the foreign data acknowledges you (via a policy declaration on their server), or if your own server proxies that data yourself, then the ability to get inside that bitmap data is available. I don't see the point

Re: [Flashcoders] Back from html to specific point in flash

2006-07-21 Thread John Dowdell
part, but many have blocked all window requests from plugins, because of abuses from spammers. I don't know of a current listing of which window-blockers, and their audience sizes, will block a getURL with _blank from SWF.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Reference Library PDF?

2006-07-19 Thread John Dowdell
won't be able to get face-to-face with the owners until next week, though. :( jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Reference Library PDF?

2006-07-03 Thread John Dowdell
suspect a PDF version is on the schedule, but let me try nailing down detail later on in this week, when people who took the short holiday are back on duty. Deal? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Progressivelly download (and show) a jpg image

2006-07-03 Thread John Dowdell
an animated mask to give an illusion of finer-grained progressive display. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my

Re: [Flashcoders] [Ann] Tonight: World's Largest Flex Application

2006-07-03 Thread John Dowdell
of view...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] minor version differences

2006-06-29 Thread John Dowdell
/documentation/en/flashplayer/8/releasenotes.html#24 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/security/security_zone/apsb06-03.html http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=4da116d3 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Communication Problem

2006-06-28 Thread John Dowdell
ActiveX Scripting, for instance. I'm not sure whether this is the case there, though. Changing one part of the problem at a time may be the fastest way to zoom in on the area of difference...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Issue running local swfs in IE in Windows XP SP2

2006-06-28 Thread John Dowdell
this material from 2004 help? http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/wanbar_sp2.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam

Re: [Flashcoders] Ajax and ActionScript 2.0

2006-06-28 Thread John Dowdell
. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] AfterEffects 6.5/FLV question

2006-06-28 Thread John Dowdell
just checked with Bob Donlon* who sits near me, and there's not a good way to automate that from AfterEffects 6.5. Moving up to version 7 makes it easy, but 6.5 is hard, agreed. * http://blogs.adobe.com/bobddv/2006/06/the_cat_unbagged.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Web Site Response (or Lack Thereof)

2006-06-27 Thread John Dowdell
[Tip: Try hitting New Message in your emailer instead of Reply, because otherwise your new subject can get buried in archives or threaded emailers.] I've seen enough individual reports of adobe site slow to suspect there's a real cause, even though most of us don't see such a thing. Good

Re: [Flashcoders] geturl:javascript is causing images to not display on IE

2006-06-05 Thread John Dowdell
in the past, if that loose and uninformative recognition is of any help in your troubleshooting. (For the question itself, the Player will still send out location requests to its hosts, same as before... I haven't seen any docs of this popular hack being negated in any way.) jd -- John

Re: [FlashCoders] Flash player NSIS installation

2006-06-05 Thread John Dowdell
distribution, use the Adobe site... no multiple points on the WWW (b) for non-web distribution, like intranets or CDs, then you need the free license for distribution anyway (so we have a list of legit requests), and this includes mass installation utilities. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer

Re: [Flashcoders] Palm OS Blazer Flash Plugin

2006-06-05 Thread John Dowdell
already typed more info than you here ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash drop down menu problem

2006-06-05 Thread John Dowdell
been, unfortunately, in error. (For more fun, try searching on the phrase the answer is wmode.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash drop down menu problem

2006-06-05 Thread John Dowdell
danya masadeh wrote: Dear Arul, it will be always over the flash, if it window,transparent or opaque ... I tested before Browser is a factor... makes the sentence complete. (Browsers do vary with their support of offscreen compositing, as the docs on the subject indicate.) jd -- John

Re: [Flashcoders] Embedding a SWF using base64 and Data: URI scheme

2006-06-02 Thread John Dowdell
no solid info, but maybe that in itself is some info...? ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email

Re: [Flashcoders] Version penetration stats not being updated?

2006-05-15 Thread John Dowdell
installations per day. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed the Flash Player in a desktop application

2006-05-09 Thread John Dowdell
support ActiveX or Plugin hosting, and then implement the communication model which hosts of that type support. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http

Re: [Flashcoders] ads inside a SWF

2006-05-08 Thread John Dowdell
they include SWF ads now, but loading this in dynamically raises cross-site issues too. (You might be looking at different situations -- a one-time include of a particular ad might be different from using a shell SWF as a client for Google SWF ads.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support

Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed the Flash Player in a desktop application

2006-05-08 Thread John Dowdell
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Newbie + New subject: Vista

2006-05-05 Thread John Dowdell
wouldn't care much either way... Flash Player 7 and 8 had far larger adoption rates than any version of Windows ever did. OS bundling is nice, but not as useful overall anymore.) Is the above the type of info you were seeking...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San

Re: [Flashcoders] MM / Adobe Central unavailable?

2006-05-04 Thread John Dowdell
The word I have is that there was some temporary downtime on some of the downloads yesterday, and that affected offerings should be back online now. I got my info through catching people in the hallway, though, and hope to see some longer-term guidance on such issues soon. jd -- John

Re: [Flashcoders] SWF, IFrame and z-order

2006-05-04 Thread John Dowdell
printing or other oddities when this ability is toggled... testing your work in the range of your audience's browsers is definitely recommended when dealing with browser-dependent features.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [FlashCoders] Build Flash8 installer

2006-05-04 Thread John Dowdell
websites which carry Adobe-branded materials may or may not install the actual Adobe bits. That's why there's a single point of web distribution, and contracts with known redistributors off the web.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http

Re: [Flashcoders] MM / Adobe Central unavailable?

2006-05-03 Thread John Dowdell
* heard internal talk about needing to pull down that project because some of the services behind it have decayed, but I don't know the implementation schedule or details... let me run around, try to get some more info, then report back here jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support

Re: [Flashcoders] Accessibility and MSAA - Is this documentedanywhere?

2006-05-02 Thread John Dowdell
to search for here. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks

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