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Josh Santangelo
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 1:17 PM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] commercial flash multi-touch projects?
Hello list -- this may be OT or rule-breaking, but please don't
kill me over it. I did a bit of work
Hello list -- this may be OT or rule-breaking, but please don't kill
me over it. I did a bit of work on the MS Surface project on a
temporary basis and had a great time with it (see endquote.com for
some info). Unfortunately due to some technology decisions in the
group, Flash devs are not
I wanted the same thing at once time, and asked the xfactorstudio
gent about it. He said that he'd looked into it at once point but
found that it was very difficult to implement XSLT in AS2 at any
reasonable level of performance.
AS3 + E4X would likely be another matter.
-josh
On Apr 11,
...just use global styles to set the font on the components to an
embedded font in your swf. The components aren't anti-aliased because
they use device fonts.
-josh
On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Randy Tinfow wrote:
I'm trying to make the text inside all macromedia components to be
Anti-alias
Ah, yes, thanks!
On Apr 1, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Muzak wrote:
you mean richfx? (no 't')
http://www.richfx.com/
regards,
Muzak
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From: "Josh Santangelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list"
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007
A couple of years ago, there was a company called ritchfx which did a
lot of conversion of print catalogs to the web using Flash. Their
site seems to be gone now though. Did they vanish? Does anyone
provide a similar service? I have a client looking for such a thing
and would like to refer
As far as I know, there is not a way around it other than including
HTML links on the outside of your widget.
http://";>get a widget
That sort of thing.
-josh
On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:49 PM, dc wrote:
hi list -
was wondering if people are doing myspace widgets, what are the
options and limi
My suggestion would be to create the file with dummy data, and run
some processing tests on it on machines of various speeds.
My guess is that you'll find it to be pretty slow unless your
processing code is very clever. I have a project with a 250KB
external XML file as content and certain
Has anyone seen examples of Flash running within a browser and being
layer over top of Quicktime and/or Windows Media plugins? I can get
it to work with Flash over Windows Media in IE/Win, but no other
plugin/browser/os combinations seem to work.
I'm not actually surprised by this, but I'm
Longest. Subject line. Ever.
I have a project which requires a Flash UI to control either a
Quicktime or Windows Media Player plugin instance (based on a user
preference). I'm guessing the way to do this is using
externalinterface, javascript, and each player's respective UI. I can
figure
Is there a way for a SWF to know if it's running in the "test movie"
environment vs the browser or standalone players? I often have a need
to compile in different settings in test-movie than I do for
deployment, and have to manually remember to take them out before
shipping a build. Or is t
This page says that no, the iPhone does not run Flash or Java.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/the-ultimate-iphone-
frequently-asked-questions/
There's six months to change things, though.
-josh
On Jan 9, 2007, at 11:59 AM, hank williams wrote:
It would be interesting, but I cant
I'd think this would be easy to find, but I'm having trouble finding
a class which handles conversion between RGB, HSB, and HSL color
formats. This one works very well but doesn't do HSL:
http://www.flashguru.co.uk/downloads/ColorConversion.as
Such a thing has to exist somewhere yeah?
thank
be into hearing them,
but at this point it looks like you can't do anything particularly
cool with Flash on Wii.
-josh
On Dec 22, 2006, at 9:37a, Josh Santangelo wrote:
The Wii's "Internet Channel" launched today, which is basically a
downloadable version of Opera. Of co
Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to set up a good Xcode dev
environment? Everything I've tried has never actually worked too well.
-josh
On Dec 21, 2006, at 10:05a, Randy Troppmann wrote:
I happily use xcode. Auto completion. Apple script "shift-enter" will
compile and run in Flash. Quick
The Wii's "Internet Channel" launched today, which is basically a
downloadable version of Opera. Of course the first thing I did after
getting it was check out what version of Flash was included.
getVersion() returns "WII 7.0.70.0".
Kind of lame that it's only Flash 7. It looks like wiicade
One would think that Adobe would have or is working on a product to
meet just this sort of need -- if not, they probably should be.
There is a Lexus website which does something similar to what you're
describing:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/xd/archives/2005/11/envisioning_con.cfm
At the
Seems to me like you could do the same thing without PHP at all. Just
use the username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax in your AS when making the web
service call. The host browser should send along the login with the
request.
-josh
On Dec 18, 2006, at 11:10a, Merrill, Jason wrote:
Also, I looke
How do you make TextMate do autocompletion? I use it as well, but
haven't had it do anything special with AS other than syntax coloring.
-josh
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
TextMate is the best script editor for the Mac, period, hands down.
Integrates with MTASC, auto-completion, macros, actions
I've had similar problems and struggled for weeks to solve them. I
found that in general, FLVPlayback is much more reliable with RTMP
streams than HTTP.
Another thing to mess with is the visiblePlayerIndex and
activePlayerIndex properties. Instead of playing one file right after
the other
WPF/E is Microsoft's forthcoming cross-platform runtime for web
applications requiring richer UIs than HTML can provide -- it will be a
competitor to Flash Player. Something to keep an eye on, and there's a
version that you can install today.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/04/a
bed mathematical and chemical symbols
in an
HTML textfield along with a more standard multi-style font.
Save you some time and money? ;)
Scott
On 03/12/06, Josh Santangelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One of my projects requires the use of some specific dingbat symbols
in the middle of text
One of my projects requires the use of some specific dingbat symbols
in the middle of text. These symbols are custom artwork which I have
in a vector format. I can't just put them in as tags in an HTML
text field, because you can't do inline images in HTML in Flash.
The site uses one font,
...and has the most unusable UI/workflow of any bug-tracking software
I've ever used. Got no love for Mantis.
TestTrack Pro is great if you're Windows-centric and willing to spend
some money.
http://www.seapine.com/ttpro.html
In addition to web access, there's a Windows desktop client, and
Is it possible to pass arguments to a projector and get at them via
actionscript? Like "projector.exe -foo=bar" comes out at _root.foo?
If so, how would you pass the args on a Mac?
Sure I could do it with Zinc or something but I'm going for super
simple here...
-josh
_
I would love to get at some of the old Devnet components as well.
-josh
On Nov 21, 2006, at 8:12a, Chris Bare wrote:
Does anyone know if you can still get the Flash UI Component Set 5?
I saw it mentioned here:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2003/04/
macromedia_flas_10.html
and I
I'm working on a digital photo booth. The idea is that with a webcam and
a touch screen, I can save a still image from the camera back to a
server and then do other fun things with it from there.
I thought FMS2 could save images from webcams, but now I'm finding that
it's only video. Great. I
Try this:
http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/12/dynamically-loading-bitmaps-with.html
-josh
On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:08p, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Anyone have any tricks up their sleeves to improve/maintain the
quality of gifs that are dynamically scaled after being loaded into
your movie??
I've run into something similar where events fire differently in
different circumstances. In my case it was the sound.load event, and
the problem was I was calling .load just before adding the listener.
Switching it to add the listener before calling load (which is the
more sensible way of
I'm usually a Mac guy and have lots of fun with SnapzProX, but I need
something similar for recording on-screen interactions to video files in
Windows. Preferably I'd like to be able to get big, uncompressed video
files out of it for later editing. Does anyone have a favorite for this
sort of t
you're kind of stuck with MP3.
¯
Mike Keesey
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To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] playing audio filetypes othe
I'm wondering if anyone's managed to play filetypes other than MP3 in
Flash. Obviously you can't just load them up, but I'm envisioning
loading them into a hidden instance of the QuickTime plugin, and then
using JavaScript to bridge the two so that you can control the playback
from Flash.
Any
I've got the plugin version up and running here, builds my Windows
projects just fine. Be sure to check the release notes for a couple
of gotchas, though.
-josh
On Oct 25, 2006, at 8:34a, Michael Bedar wrote:
You can download the beta now.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flexbuilder2/
I'm working on a little component which is sort of like the fill-in
bubbles on standardized tests. The user will use the mouse to
scribble within a region. I'll draw into a clip which is on top of
the region to fill it up. This is pretty easy.
What I want to do is every time I draw into the
This class works for me:
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm
-josh
On Oct 22, 2006, at 2:39p, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Does anyone know if its possible to change the center registration
(rotation) point for a dynamically created MovieClip?
I have one parent movieclip
Josh Davis demonstrated how to do this at an old Flash Forward
conference. I don't remember the exact details, but it involved
printing the SWF as it was running to a Postscript printer driver,
but having the output save to a PS file rather than actually
printing. I'm sure the exact process
First thought: Could you store the user's custom settings in an LSO,
then send them a screensaver exe (same exe for everyone), and then
that screensaver reads the LSO and downloads whatever customizations
are needed to render it as they specified in the "create screensaver"
app?
Generatin
I've never gotten ObjectCopy to work properly. I've tried using it in
a bunch of different projects and never get anything back but
undefined. I'm not sure why though -- looking at the class, the code
seems sound.
-josh
On Oct 10, 2006, at 7:41p, grimmwerks wrote:
I've done the dstObj[i]
My focus in Flash development is more about apps than games, so I've
managed to work around the fact that don't really have the background
in math and science (yay art school) to produce realistic effects
that lend "physicality" to objects, such as realistic physics,
simulated 3d, etc. Howe
If there are 100 SWFs being loaded, the first thing I would check is
that you aren't issuing 100 loadMovies all at once. Limit it to
something like 4 at a time and wait for one to complete before
issuing the 5th.
-josh
On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:12 AM, SBJ Consult wrote:
Peter wrote:
HTTP 206
e and another by placing
tags
one behind the other. It would be cool to see any example about it.
Jorge
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Santangelo
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:28 PM
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Subject: [Fl
I'm wondering if it's possible to alter the value which is used as a
timeout for the XML.load method -- that is, the amount of time before
which the onLoad event fires when no response is returned. I'm
dealing with a server which does not always return data very quickly,
but does return it
Could you use MovieClip.onSetFocus instead of MovieClip.onPress or
does that only fire when a clip is tabbed to? Just a thought, haven't
tried it.
-josh
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:12a, Andreas Rønning wrote:
...which is, i gather, somewhat of a general consensus.
I'm working on a tablet pc appl
I know that while you can use the tag in html text fields to
load images or symbols, that the image must be left- or right-aligned
with the text, and the text wraps around it. I have a need to have
small images *inline* with the text, however. I'm wondering if
anyone's worked out a hack to
Yes, sort of, if you don't mind hacking .flp files.
Create a project containing the FLA you want to publish, and
publishing profile for each target to publish to (using the set of
controls at the top of the publish settings dialog that you'd barely
use otherwise).
Then open your FLP file
You might check out Beaterator as an example.
http://beaterator.com/
All of the actual audio transformations are being performed on the
server, though.
-josh
On Sep 27, 2006, at 11:25a, Wolfgang Borgon wrote:
I've been searching for a flash-based audio editor, enabling simple
editing
of
FLVPlayback only supports a subset of SMIL, which bits I'm not sure.
I've asked on the wishlist for a proper SMIL renderer, but who knows
if that will ever happen.
The release notes for the FLVPlayback updater include some info about
fixes to SMIL bugs, though.
http://www.adobe.com/suppor
There is a bug which you could potentially exploit for this.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?
catid=184&threadid=1000550&enterthread=y
Note the last post. If MIDI is not set to 44.1, Flash can't output
any audio.
-josh
On Sep 22, 2006, at 10:27a, aaron smith w
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A workaround I've used is to keep the links to external websites
outside of the Flash widget itself. See the embed code on
welovewidgets.com for an example. As far as I know, there's no way
within Flash to get around it, which is... sort of the point.
-josh
On Sep 14, 2006, at 6:22p, Visha
I'm having the same problem as this fellow:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2003-January/
058866.html
Is it not possible to mask a clip into which you draw things using
the drawing API?
-josh
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textfield.maxscroll - [the number of lines it's displaying]
-josh
On Sep 11, 2006, at 8:28a, grimmwerks wrote:
I've got textFields using html text that I need to get an accurate way
of finding the line count...I got it working when I knew the size of
the font attributed to that textField, but
Is your FLV extremely large, or named with a very weird filename?
On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:20p, Kent Haynes wrote:
Found out some more on this maybe. It appears that the issue might be
related to the usb drive being formatted FAT32 instead of NTFS. We
tried a local partition formatted in FAT32 an
Is anyone using MTASC on Mac in a workflow that doesn't require tons
of jumping through hoops? Everything I've read seems incredibly
complicated and brittle. I use TextMate but wouldn't be opposed to
Eclipse or something instead. I generally work with FLAs that have
all my assets in them as
Also:
http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/
Charles is great too.
-josh
On Aug 30, 2006, at 7:27a, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
Hi list...
My swf (currently on my hard drive) loads external flv files, but when
testing at a simulated download at 56k, these flvs are brought in
instantly from the hard
Anyone used it and have a review?
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/support/
I'm not in need at the moment, but I'm wondering what the quality is
like.
-josh
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I've been annoyed that there is no RSS feed (that I can find?) for
the Adobe Site of the Day awards, so I made one myself. It's here:
http://feed43.com/2786211776444037.xml
Powered by the great feed43.com service.
-josh (who may or may not have been the developer on today's award-
winner)
_
I often develop projects in which the assets are changeable via
properties in an external XML file. Usually my clients are savvy
enough to open up a text editor and work with these files, but
occasionally they're not and would rather have a more user-friendly
CMS. In most of those cases tho
Reading Tom Jackson's thread, I was directed to the etiquette page here:
http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/etiquette
It mentions a Flasher-L mailing list, but that link is dead.
Does that actually exist? Just curious.
-josh
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I'm running into an odd bug which I'm not sure I can do anything
about. I'm using the FLVPlayback component with custom controls, but
otherwise as-is, to stream video over RTMP from thePlatform
(theplatform.com). It all works just fine.
However, when I hit my pause button, wait a while, and
Check out the WebServiceConnector.status event.
-josh
On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:12a, PR Durand wrote:
Hi List
Has anyone any way to receive the exceptions thrown by a webservice
server please?
as it's asynchronous, the classical try...catch can't work on the
service method call.
but, as soon
MySpace.com is now requiring Flash Player 9 in order to view the site.
http://www.tiara.org/blog/?p=222
Awesome. Watch that adoption rate shoot right up.
-josh
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It seems to be new for AS3.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/
wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=1590.html
-josh
On Jul 12, 2006, at 6:30p, Rajat Paharia wrote:
MySpace has recently started writing this into all Flash embeds:
allownetworking="int
The WebServiceConnector component is used for connecting to SOAP-
based web services. Make sure you are connecting to a service which
is implemented in SOAP, and that you are using the URL to the WSDL
version of the service. You can tell if the URL is correct because if
you view it in a brow
You're getting this because there is no file at http://
my.abcnews.go.com/crossdomain.xml which specifies "localhost" as a
valid host for connecting to its resources. If you work for Disney,
perhaps you can ask them to sit this up for you (not likely I think,
even if you do work for them). O
I'm using the FLVPlayback component for the first time and am running
into a couple of things. I am also using the skinnable components
provided for use as player controls.
The capability of using multiple VideoPlayback controls within the
component is interesting, and has me thinking about
It inherits from list, which has a rowHeight property, so that might
work.
-josh
On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:09a, Jose Maria Barros wrote:
Hello,
Its possible to control the separation(height) of each row/node of
the tree
component menu? i looked for setStyle attributes but there is only the
in
Does anyone know what changed between Flash players 8,0,22,0 and
8,0,24,0? I'm running into a bug which only appears in the former,
and am wondering what other differences there are. After I tear my
hair out (this is funny cuz I'm bald) trying to work around it for a
while, I'm sure you'll
Files aren't automatically added to the project when they're created.
You have to add them manually.
Honestly, aside from the ability to publish lots of files in a batch,
the project panel is pretty useless. I use the project features of my
text editor to work with my FLA/AS files instead.
Nevermind, found it myself. As it turns out, the bitrate doesn't
matter so much as the sample rate. Flash only supports 11, 22, and
44khz, and seems to freak out otherwise.
http://www.sonify.org/home/feature/remixology/004_prepareloops/
page2.html
-josh
On Jun 24, 2006, at 7:26p,
I've got a presentation engine built which loads up audio/video/text
from external files as defined in a presentation XML file. Works
fine, of course until the client tries to start changing content.
The MP3s they're using are voice-overs encoded at 16kbps mono which
play fine in QuickTime
vBulletin's current version has many AJAXy features which enable
interactions similar to what you describe. It's not free, but it's
not expensive either.
http://vbulletin.com/
-josh
On Jun 24, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Weldon MacDonald wrote:
I've never liked forums, mostly because the I find navi
This is in the initial setup of a video player I've made:
__video = __videoHolder.__video;
__nc = new NetConnection();
__nc.connect(null);
__ns = new NetStream(__nc);
__video.attachVideo(__ns);
__video
When running the Debug Movie command, the Debug panel will appear,
reading "the movie is paused so you can add breakpoints." Use the
dropdown at the top of the panel to select your external class file
and insert the breakpoints you need.
-josh
On Jun 20, 2006, at 7:26a, D_C wrote:
hiya -
Tried the integration kit yet?
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/
-josh
On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:55p, Rick Root wrote:
I posted this to cf-talk but decided this was probably a better
place to post it...
I'm trying to "play" a flash movie with javascript. This *SHOULD*
work but i
I've done something like this in the past:
if(_root._url.indexOf('file://') != -1 || _root._url.indexOf
('yourdomain.com') == -1) {
_visible = false;
}
Sure you can still decompile it, but depending on what's in the SWF,
that's proba
Do you mean Flash Lite 1.1? Flash Lite 2.0? The Player for Windows
Mobile (which is pretty much FP6?). They vary tremendously.
As far as animation and Flash Lite 1 goes, this is a good article:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/optimizing_anim.html
Also:
http://www.flashmobileforum.
On Jun 1, 2006, at 6:25a, erixtekila wrote:
Le 31 mai 06, à 01:48, Josh Santangelo a écrit :
I'm working on a site which uses shared font symbols in both
static and dynamic text fields. In FP8, both work great. In FP7,
only static text fields work. I'm wondering if anyone
evelopment.
Usability services.
Josh Santangelo wrote:
Instead of using , just use the entity for a bullet character,
ù or something.
-josh
On May 31, 2006, at 10:10a, GregoryN wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to remove indent for elements in html textfield (MX
2004). Client wants this.
In
If you want to make your own DataGrid header row and still retain
sorting functionality, make each header a button with code which
calls something like:
dg.content_mc.header_mc.hO1.onRelease();
"dg" is your datagrid, and the "1" is the index of the column. Note
that's a letter-o before it,
Assuming you're supporting Flash Player 7 and up on a site, when
doing Flash detection on your sites, do people just check for any
version of FP7? Or did one of the minor versions fix some important
bug that's worth checking for?
Or: Is there a document anywhere that lists what changed in t
Interesting. Is there an iBiz vs TimeNet comparison up anywhere?
-josh
On May 31, 2006, at 5:27p, Rich Rodecker wrote:
yup im on mac. i've been reading both good and bad reviews on iBiz,
most of the recommending TimeNet.
i was thinking of going with basecamp, but it doesnt look like it
handl
Instead of using , just use the entity for a bullet character,
ù or something.
-josh
On May 31, 2006, at 10:10a, GregoryN wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to remove indent for elements in html textfield (MX
2004). Client wants this.
In "normal" HTML/CSS we can just write:
li {margin-left:
There's a multiline CellRenderer in the Flash 8 documentation.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/
html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=3131.html
(Or just search "CellRenderer" in the Help panel.)
I made one based on this code and it worked fine, the
I'm working on a site which uses shared font symbols in both static and
dynamic text fields. In FP8, both work great. In FP7, only static text
fields work. I'm wondering if anyone knows the secret trick to get
dynamic ones to work as well.
Things I've tried:
- The SWF with the symbol exported
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