For an upcoming project, I have to investigate whether to use a shared
localobject for storing user data, or exporting XML.
This is for a cd based app, not a website. A shared localobject would be my
first choice, except that we want to be able to access the saved data from a
second release of th
chris daubney wrote:
In the same way that AJAX stands for Javascript/XML, can anyone come up
with or has heard an appealing acronym for Actionscript/Flex/Flash?
As long as it doesn't turn into FAF...
Why?
Perhaps in small part due to their heritage, the Actionscript/Flex/Flash
core set of
Millie Niss wrote:
Am I the only one on this list who (still) uses the Flash IDE (Flash 8 Pro) and
hasn't migrated to AS 3.0 or any version of Flex?
I'm still using Flash 8, but am itching to get into a Flex project.
I am interested in
both but do not want to fork over any more $$ to ex-M
eadid=1088462&highlight_key=y&keyword1=intrinsic
On 23 Nov 2006, at 13:15, Ian Thomas wrote:
Have a hunt for the word 'intrinsic' - either in this list archives or
on the Adobe site.
HTH,
Ian
(Sorry, too busy to write more detail. :-) It comes up fairly often.)
On 11/23/06, Kent Hum
Hi there, I haven't been around for a while, but I'm getting to do
some fun flash stuff again - so I need some help :>
I find myself using the excellent mc_tween2.as quite abit, and on the
current project I have a parent movie that loads 2 sub movies, and
I'd like to use the methods in the
n the code that you provided "question_fmt" is not defined anywhere. I
guess it was defined in code that you didn't post?
Correct, it is defined at the top of the script.
Thanks.
Kent Humphrey wrote:
http://devqa.exnis.net/vanclarke.com/www/test.html
Can someone tell me w
and see what happens.
Thanks.
On 6/1/06, Kent Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://devqa.exnis.net/vanclarke.com/www/test.html
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
What you can't see on that test page is the questions, which are
being pulled in with identical cod
http://devqa.exnis.net/vanclarke.com/www/test.html
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
What you can't see on that test page is the questions, which are
being pulled in with identical code, but have been set to use an
embedded font. Here is my code:
q_mc = content_mc.createTextF
:11, Ramon Miguel M. Tayag wrote:
I use getNextHighest and it has always worked fine. I don't see why
it should be a problem - unless you change your depths in the middle
of the movie for some reason.
On 6/1/06, Kent Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://devqa.exnis.net/vancla
hange your depths in the middle
of the movie for some reason.
On 6/1/06, Kent Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://devqa.exnis.net/vanclarke.com/www/index.html
Go to News & PR/Fashion Shows and News & PR/Photo Gallery
The Fashion Shows page is using the FLV Playback from Flash
http://devqa.exnis.net/vanclarke.com/www/index.html
Go to News & PR/Fashion Shows and News & PR/Photo Gallery
The Fashion Shows page is using the FLV Playback from Flash 8, the
Photo Gallery is using thumbgallery from www.flashrelief.com
Perhaps foolishly, I have been developing this on a Ma
fdt?
Can it really notice the wrong case of a 3rd party class/function?
On 15 May 2006, at 13:10, Johannes Nel wrote:
then obvisouly not. sepy is not a bad editor, but it should surely
point out
things like that. fdt is the way :)
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On 11 May 2006, at 14:06, Johannes Nel wrote:
get a proper as editor i would say
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Unbelievable!
Thanks a lot Serge, you're a lifesaver :>
On 11 May 2006, at 13:50, Serge Jespers wrote:
Could it be just a plain old typo?
XPath is with capital X and capital P.
In the perm_items line you wrote Xpath
Serge
These lines of code work:
menu_root = XPath.selectNodes(this, "ro
ok, been banging my head against a wall for ages on this one.
These lines of code work:
menu_root = XPath.selectNodes(this, "root/menu/item/@name");
trace('menu_root: ' + menu_root);
These don't:
perm_items = Xpath.selectNodes(this, "root/perm/item/@name");
trace('perm_items: ' + perm_items);
Cool, thanks for that. It's strange the holes you find in your AS
knowledge sometimes...
On 27 Apr 2006, at 15:29, Zeh Fernando wrote:
That is exactly what it does, eg 0x73 becomes 7558485, but
that's not what I need. I need it to stay hexadecimal, but to be
recognised as a number ty
Just did it, and yes, it doesn't have to be a hex - sweet!
Thanks for the help guys.
On 27 Apr 2006, at 15:14, Kent Humphrey wrote:
The docs only have hex numbers used in the colorTo() function, so I
assumed that's what I needed - can I use a norm
On 27 Apr 2006, at 15:00, Zeh Fernando wrote:
trace(bgColour[0]) returns the correct value, but
trace(Number(bgColour[0])) returns NaN - so how do I make it a
real number?
The help docs say that a string that starts with 0x will be
treated as hexadecimal.
Use parseInt() to convert a str
will be treated
as hexadecimal.
On 27 Apr 2006, at 13:11, Kerem Gülensoy wrote:
Number
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Is a colour stated as 0xFF00FF an object?
I am getting a colour from an xml attribute with XPath
(colour="0xFF00FF"), and then trying to use that colour with the mc
tween class - my_mc.colorTo(bgColour, 1). But it always changes to
black.
If I trace() the bgColour, it has the correct valu
Michael Bedar wrote:
Just for the record, there is no autoplay on OSX, if you are supporting
mac.
It's also worth noting that Autoplay on Windows is able to be turned off - and
many people do, therefore you cannot rely on it being on.
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On 6 Mar 2006, at 13:33, Nick Weekes wrote:
The point is Flex is a completely separate technology Adobe are
actively
pushing forward, and they're trying to get me in on it by teasing
me with a
preview of AS3 ;P Conspiracy! Aiee!! But seriously. It smacks of a
form of
early brand imprinting
n one of them, hence you get the object.
HTH,
Alias
On 2/3/06, Kent Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Continuing my further adventures in xpath land:
clientList = XPath.selectNodes(this, "root/clients/client/@name");
trace(typeof(clientList[0]));
That trace statement returns
Continuing my further adventures in xpath land:
clientList = XPath.selectNodes(this, "root/clients/client/@name");
trace(typeof(clientList[0]));
That trace statement returns "object", so my array is an array of
objects, not the strings I was after.
WIll I have to String(clientList[0]) every
Merrill, Jason wrote:
Xpath is quick enough to read it directly each time. It's what I like
about it.
Fantastic. Thanks for all the info.
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Merrill, Jason wrote:
It's well formed, sure, but I would do it like this instead - make heavy
use of attributes - as much as possible for speed, relationships, and
readability, something like this:
Preferrably if you could find a way to work this, you could also maybe
just do this to reduce r
On 2 Feb 2006, at 15:48, Merrill, Jason wrote:
However, not a good idea to have a child node be the same name as the
parent node (though it's OK in the sense it that won't screw up
Xpath).
Would you believe my problem was I had product/products instead of
product/products ?!
Sheesh...
I'm trying to figure out how to use xfactorstudios xpath4as2 class,
but I can't seem to get over the first hurdle! Can anyone tell me why
this isn't working?
import com.xfactorstudio.xml.xpath.*;
myDoc = new XML();
myDoc.onLoad = function(){
var products = XPath.selectNodes(this,"/pr
Nathan Derksen wrote:
Sorry for the delayed response, it's been a busy day.
Not a problem at all.
I hope this helps.
That looks great, an improvement over what I've already done, but it wont
require a full rewrite. Thanks a lot.
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On 30 Jan 2006, at 17:13, Nathan Derksen wrote:
Well, regardless of whether or not you use listeners, you still
need to create the data relationship. I don't think encoding the
relationships into 25 listeners is necessarily a good idea, either.
An associative array, indexed by ID, could st
On 30 Jan 2006, at 17:12, Alan MacDougall wrote:
Close. Let's assume you're using mx.events.EventDispatcher. Your
event broadcaster class starts like this:
Wow. Thanks for all that. I'm not using classes so that's another
thing I'll have to study up on...
I've filed your post away for fu
On 30 Jan 2006, at 16:30, Alan MacDougall wrote:
I've made a single item work with my initial solution, which was
to have a list for each item that lists which items in the other
lists should highlight. But by the time I've made 25 lists for my
25 (current) items, that seems like a lot
Here's more of a higher-level problem for you helpful people :>
Imagine 3 lists, someListA, anotherListB, and lastListC. When I
rollover something in someListA, I want the items in anotherListB and
lastListC to highlight. And the same for rolling over something in
anotherListB or lastListC.
Well, yeah, these list items need to be client names and that kinda
thing, so might be a single word, might be 3 or 4 words.
String wrangling to the rescue.
On 30 Jan 2006, at 15:10, Adrian Lynch wrote:
Ah, so you had a ["mc 1", "mc 2"] type thing going on?
Ade
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ok, found the problem, my actual list has strings with spaces in
them, which is what is making it not work.
So I guess I'll fill them with "_" and then replace them with " "
when I need the string with spaces.
Thanks for the help guys.
On 30 Jan 2006, at 14:00, Adrian Lynch wrote:
Are you
Thanks, but that doesn't work either. It looks like it should, but
I'm still getting undefined.
On 30 Jan 2006, at 13:31, Adrian Lynch wrote:
Try:
parent_mc[listWhatever[0]];
Ade
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Humphre
I have a list:
(code is example only)
listWhatever = ["mc1", "mc2"];
This list is cycled through to generate some mcs inside parent_mc.
I now want to target one of those mcs again. Lets say I want to
target the first one in my list. I thought I could use eval() to
generate the statement, lik
Sander wrote:
> http://www.actionscriptcheatsheet.com
What a nice reference card!
It's much faster to glimpse at the wall to lookup code than to use
autocomplete! Oh wait, it's not.
I don't know about others, but sometimes I get lazy and don't use :Array or
whatever_mc, which means autoco
That's cool, would be great to print onto A3 and stick on the wall
next to my desk. Any chance of a printable PDF version or something?
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On 26 Jan 2006, at 11:38, Roman Blöth wrote:
- well, in my case I switched to a onEnterFrame-method checking
the _mousex and _mousey relative to the mc itself (i.e. the
background-mc) and only when the mouse is outside the mc's
coordinates I let Flash do what else would be in a onMouseLea
On 26 Jan 2006, at 11:01, Roman Blöth wrote:
Yes, that unfortunately is the only way to go - Director btw does
this much better: With Lingo you can pass every event, so it
reaches all objects that want to receive them...
I'm a Lingo refugee, feel my pain...
But one more comment on the m
On 26 Jan 2006, at 10:48, Martin Wood wrote:
So you have something like this :
MC_A --¬(uses mouse handlers)
MC_B(also uses mouse handlers)
Where A is B's parent but A has some handlers defined and none of
the handlers in B will work.
That is correct.
The way aroun
This is a problem that has always plagued me, and I usually end up
just using the timeline to get around it, but this time I want to do
it properly!
The situation is, I have a partially masked MC that on (rollOver)
tweens to be fully revealed. on (rollOut) does the opposite, hiding
it aga
On 16 Nov 2005, at 13:50, Philip Isaacs wrote:
What is "Look into CR/LF" suppose to mean? Could you please clarify.
Thanks.
I think he means Carriage Return or Line Feed
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Weyert de Boer wrote:
Hi!
I just ordered a new Powerbook G4 15" for the design work. My experience
is that the Apple PowerPC are way faster in
graphics then a pc. 10-15secs for gradient fills. Hopefully the
Powerbook G4 1.67ghz is fast enough for the PhotoShop and Flash work.
My experience
Eric E. Dolecki wrote:
use setTimeout now and you dont need to worry about interval ids.
e.dolecki
Have you found any documentation about setTimeout - because I haven't :<
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Frédéric v. Bochmann wrote:
Happy to hear you solved your problems, including the height of your slider
was essential too :) Happy you spotted that one yourself! :D
Now the arrow, what you're saying is the simplest way.
Something that might be interesting for you to try to implement is to hav
Frédéric v. Bochmann wrote:
I forgot something...true.
Change it to something like:
var scrollRatio = scrollBar.slider._y / scrollBar.scrollTrack._height;
var heightToScroll = currentChild._height -
currentChildContainerMask._height;
if(heightToScroll < 0) {
heightToScroll = 0;
}
currentChild.
Now for your script, I don't usually go that way of doing it so here
is how
I'd probably do it myself:
var scrollRatio = scrollBar.slider._y / scrollBar.scrollTrack._height;
currentChild._y = - scrollRatio * currentChild._height;
I'm not 100% sure but I think this should work. Notice the nega
Frédéric v. Bochmann wrote:
"As you can see I've currently got the slider clip as a child of the
scrollBar clip - should I bring it out to the same level?"
On that matter, I would say, look carefully at your line of code that
follows: (scrollBar._height - scrollBar.slider._y)
If the slider is s
Can someone help me with this code?
I'm trying to figure out how to scroll an MC up and down based on the position
of a scrollbar.
What am I doing wrong with this code?
I'm finding the ratio between how tall the content is (currentChild) and how
tall the scrollbar is:
scrollRatio = currentC
Can I have a peek at your code? :>
i don't mind sharing ... you can probably cook up more than a few ways
to streamline my code. (If so, pass it back! :) But it'll have to
wait until later tonight for me to grab the file from another machine.
That would be great, thanks. I'll be sure
On 28 Oct 2005, at 17:15, Buck Ruckman wrote:
i created one for this site:
http://www.frogtoggle.com/twistedhip
It responds to the scroll wheel, has the hold-down-the-arrow-to-
scroll functionality, a draggable thingy, etc etc.
It's imperfect. It doesn't resize the dragger based on the am
I was wondering if any of you knowledgeable and generous souls had
any pointers on how to approach building my own scroll bars for
dynamically created movieclips.
I've made a very simple one that just has buttons for scroll-up and
scroll-down, but I'd like to add a slider too, and I;m havin
On 28 Oct 2005, at 11:08, Roman Blöth wrote:
["mc_"+number].someProperty - when referencing mc's by name you
have to
put it in square brackets...
Cool, you learn something everyday on here :>
Goodbye eval()...
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On 28 Oct 2005, at 11:08, Jorge Rego wrote:
Hi list,
I have some MCs named mc1, mc2, mc3 ...
I'm trying to access them like this:
mc[number].someProperty ... but no luck!
How can this be done!?
I use eval()
eval("mc"+i).someProperty
where i is some number
perhaps a "more correct" way wou
Perfect, thanks heaps for that, that's certainly tidied up my Output Window a
bit - and now I can take my external .AS files into Flash and get it to tidy
them up for me ;>
Chris Hill wrote:
Yes, working with your AS in an external editor is much better than
having it haphazardly placed in a
James O'Reilly wrote:
It all depends on how you use the .as files. You can either INCLUDE
them or IMPORT them. You import classes and include external code. The
error you're getting like is a result of importing your script instead
of including it.
Try using include:
#include "yourscript.a
Strangely enough, I've been getting the same errors (I'm new to this
external .as thing), but when publishing from PrimalScript,
everything works fine...
On 25 Oct 2005, at 14:21, Hans Wichman wrote:
Hi,
an as file may only define a class as in:
class MyClass {
}
or an interface as in:
Is it possible to use the new IDE to produce Flash Player 8.0
compatible .swfs?
Of course, you couldn't use any of the new AS3 abilities, but can it
work like Flash 8 - as long as you don't use any new features, you
can still publish back to FP7.
I'm using PrimalScript for external coding
http://fari.kentandangela.com
This is a website I am days away from delivering, and today I'm getting a crazy
problem.
The menu structure is loaded from an xml file. When I view this on the web, or
preview from Flash, the 5th item of the main menu doesn't display.
When I do "simulate downlo
Benjamin Herholz | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you dont change the height via the height property of the scrollRect.
you just set a new rectangle with your desired values.
var rect:Rectangle = new flash.geom.Rectangle(475,41,your new width,your
new height);
mainMenu.scrollRect = rect;
gr,
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Hey guys, this is my first post, so excuse me if I misbehave ;>
I'm trying to come to grips with scrollRect.
I have applied it to a MC, no problem, using a new Rectangle. I can see
the width, height, x, and y of the scrollRect, but I can't change them.
Here is my code:
var rect:Rectangle = n
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