[Flashcoders] Can you embed .mp4 files in timeline?

2008-09-24 Thread Matt Ganz
Hey, Just trying one more time Using Flash CS3 and publishing to flash player 9, can you import and embed .mp4 files in the flash timeline? I can't. I can link to it via an flvplayback component. Thanks, Matt ___ Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] Can you import .mp4 files into the flash ide?

2008-09-22 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i'm working on a video project that needs lots of invisible hotspots and rollover effects. so i'm forced to embed the video in the timeline to make that possible. i know it's not recommended but it will be played on a CD so i'm hoping that will minimize playback problems. the problem i'm

Re: [Flashcoders] missing method

2007-01-03 Thread Matt Ganz
a hand. very much appreciated. -- matt. On 1/2/07, Yehia Shouman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does your Polygon class has a constuctor? On 1/3/07, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: u should set the class from static to dynamic in order to get acess to that method On 1/2/07, Matt Ganz

Re: [Flashcoders] missing method

2007-01-02 Thread Matt Ganz
unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem. i can access other methods in the class and even add new trace statements (to ensure that the IDE is looking at the right version of the class and not some old CVS'd version). bizarre, really. On 1/2/07, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: u

[Flashcoders] calculating dates based on a starting date.

2006-04-27 Thread matt ganz
hi. i'm building a scheduler app for people who need infusions over a 1 year period. a user selects the following info to begin: 1. a starting date for first infusion - day, month, and year 2. number of infusions - 1-4 3. frequency of infusions - every 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks. i have to come up

Re: [Flashcoders] calculating dates based on a starting date.

2006-04-27 Thread matt ganz
need exact hours, just add them to the method. See docs for creating a Date object. Anyone - let me know if you want the AgeCounter component itself, I'll post it on the blog. Cheers, Karina -Original Message- From: matt ganz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 April 2006 18:18

Re: [Flashcoders] calculating dates based on a starting date.

2006-04-27 Thread matt ganz
very nice. thank you very much. - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:27 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] calculating dates based on a starting date. Here is a SuperDate

[Flashcoders] best way to correlate dates with DateChooser

2006-04-26 Thread matt ganz
hi. - i'm building a scheduler app where a user picks a starting day, month, and year for an infusion. - then they can choose how frequently they want an infusion, i.e. every week, every two weeks, etc.. - then i calculate every day for an infusion for the next year and throw all these

[Flashcoders] creating a schedule based on starting date

2006-04-25 Thread matt ganz
hi. i'm building a scheduler application. a user chooses the first date of their infusion and then how many they want and how frequently. a user can choose between 1-3 infusions every 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks. these values are stored in comboboxes where the user makes their selection. what i

[Flashcoders] DateChooser selected date.

2006-04-24 Thread matt ganz
hey. don't know if the DateChooser component for flash 8 was updated or not but i'm trying to highlight a few days in each month. i can see the 'selectedDate' property does this but it doesn't appear to be able to for more than one date in each month. anyone know of a workaround? thanks. --

Re: [Flashcoders] Sound.stop(linkage) problem

2006-03-02 Thread Matt Ganz
have you created a sound object for every sound in your file? i believe the minute you want to manipulate sounds independent from one another you have to create a sound object for each sound in your movie. otherwise, it'll affect all sounds...as that 'sounds' what is happening to you. On 3/2/06,

Re: [Flashcoders] working with multiple sound objects.

2006-02-27 Thread Matt Ganz
no. i thought you could just pass in a reference to the sound constructor with the instance name of the movie clip that houses the mp3 file. On 2/27/06, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you forgot your attachSound code in your email? On 2/27/06, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] working with multiple sound objects.

2006-02-27 Thread Matt Ganz
help. matt. On 2/27/06, Helen Triolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Ganz wrote: the reference is named room1Music but the actualy movie clip instance name is _level0.room1_mc. i've been using the reference before the sound methods, i.e. room1Music.start(), etc... That's not what I see

[Flashcoders] using MCL to keep track of total bytes loaded.

2006-02-04 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i have a question on using the MovieClipLoader class to load an array of swf files. i just want to add the loadedBytes of each swf to another variable so i can constantly compare the loaded to the total of all swf files. in the end, i need to figure out the percentage of the total swfs

Re: [Flashcoders] is delegate the answer?

2006-01-08 Thread matt ganz
, handler):Void As for using Delegate, I don't think that's the issue here, but then again, I might be missing your question. hth, John On 1/7/06, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. i'm having problems referencing a listener that is attached to my media display component. i believe

[Flashcoders] is delegate the answer?

2006-01-07 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i'm having problems referencing a listener that is attached to my media display component. i believe the answer lies in my using delegate. when my video plays thru, i can successfully remove my listener a la: var completeListener = new Object(); completeListener.complete = function(

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Remoting and CF

2005-12-21 Thread Matt Ganz
it's what i did. within flash, i'd create either a generic object or an associative array and i'd pass that entire object in my remoting call. the method in my cfc is set up to accept this arg and the first thing that it does is loop over it and passes those values along to my database. and

Re: [Flashcoders] JM Events Calendar v1.2.0

2005-12-09 Thread Matt Ganz
hi ryan. i have an events calendar component i built in as2 that is xml-driven. i haven't done any fancy skinning or the like but i definitely can hook you up with the script. email me offlist. matt. On 12/9/05, Ryan Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just double checking if anyone knows of a

Re: [Flashcoders] the bitmap shift bug

2005-12-02 Thread Matt Ganz
for your help. -- matt. On 12/1/05, Eric E. Dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pixelshift has been fixed in fp8, but you are publishing to fp7 right? edolecki On Dec 1, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Matt Ganz wrote: point taken. i'll trace out the x and y of my media display to ensure it's ending up where

Re: [Flashcoders] the bitmap shift bug

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Ganz
recompressing with a higher data rate but that hasn't been a consistent fix. thanks for your help. -- matt. On 12/1/05, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/05, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just wondering if the known bug that shifts bitmaps 1px (http://www.misuseit.com/bitmapbug

[Flashcoders] problem positioning media display

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i have a media display component that i'm constantly moving around the stage and loading new flvs into. i do this via: function setMediaDisplayPos( x:Number, y:Number ):Void { _level0..mediaDisplay.move( x, y ); } on my machine, FLV4 is off by a pixel. but on other machines, FLV4

[Flashcoders] external flv stuttering even though completely loaded.

2005-11-29 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i'm loading an external flv into a media display component behind the scenes. the dimensions are 360x386 and the flv weighs 908kb. the problem is that the when i tell it to play, it still stutters for the first frame (on a high-speed connection). before the user even gets to this part, the

[Flashcoders] Re: external flv stuttering even though completely loaded.

2005-11-29 Thread Matt Ganz
that be my problem? and why might that happen with my very first flv? thanks. -- matt. On 11/29/05, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. i'm loading an external flv into a media display component behind the scenes. the dimensions are 360x386 and the flv weighs 908kb. the problem is that the when i

Re: [Flashcoders] reading 'loadedBytes' from MovieClipLoader onLoadProgress

2005-11-22 Thread Matt Ganz
, target1); mcl.loadClip(url2, target2); mcl.loadClip(url3, target3); -David R On 11/21/05, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi dave. thanks for your response. i understand the problem. but i am now resetting currentWeight to 0 directly after i test what percentage i'm at and i'm still

Re: [Flashcoders] reading 'loadedBytes' from MovieClipLoader onLoadProgress

2005-11-21 Thread Matt Ganz
. is there a better way i can approach this? thanks again for your help. -- matt. On 11/18/05, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/18/05, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. i'm using the MovieClipLoader class to load a few swfs that are defined in an array a la: var totalWeight

[Flashcoders] reading 'loadedBytes' from MovieClipLoader onLoadProgress

2005-11-18 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i'm using the MovieClipLoader class to load a few swfs that are defined in an array a la: var totalWeight = 41079759; // total weight in bytes (3.9MB) var currentWeight = 0; var mainArray:Array = new Array( { path: movie1.swf, id: movie1_mc, depth: 1 },

Re: [Flashcoders] sorensen squeeze shaving off 1 pixel

2005-11-15 Thread Matt Ganz
+of+pixelshl=enclient=safari On 11/15/05, Kris Hadlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had the issue, but what if you try publishing it as 166 x 370? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Ganz Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:07 PM

[Flashcoders] casting to a boolean

2005-10-31 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i had a similar problem casting a string to a boolean last week but someone showed me the correct way to do it. unfortunately, it's not working in my latest exercise. when i trace out the value i always get false even when i change it to true. what happened to my conditional? ( i'm publishing

[Flashcoders] Fwd: casting to a boolean -- SOLVED.

2005-10-31 Thread Matt Ganz
apparently the problem was with the encoding of the text file. it was originally encoded as Western Roman and as soon as i encoded it as utf-8 it worked just fine. -- Forwarded message -- From: Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 31, 2005 4:23 PM Subject: casting to a boolean

Re: [Flashcoders] cast string to a boolean value

2005-10-28 Thread Matt Ganz
both methods work nicely. thank you. On 10/28/05, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with the following? var my_bool:Boolean=(flashvar_bool==true); Ian On 10/28/05, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try: var my_bool:Boolean = flashvar_bool==false?false:true;

[Flashcoders] am i approaching this problem correctly?

2005-10-27 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i want to ask people's opinions about an issue and see if my solution is on target. i have a navigation.swf that sits in a frame on an html page. on click of nav button, a getURL loads another swf into the frame below. ugly, i know. but i don't have the option to recode the piece at this

[Flashcoders] Re: am i approaching this problem correctly?

2005-10-27 Thread Matt Ganz
onMouseMove when the focus is on the flash movie? thanks. -- matt. On 10/27/05, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. i want to ask people's opinions about an issue and see if my solution is on target. i have a navigation.swf that sits in a frame on an html page. on click of nav button, a getURL

[Flashcoders] listening for all button events

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. is there any way to have one listener listen for all button events. you know, like you can have with Key. or do i have to give all my buttons instance names and use addListener on each instance? thanks. matt. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] listening for all button events

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Ganz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mouse.onMouseDown/onMouseUp already does this. If you are using the v2 component framework, or if you are not, you can see how they are doing it via mx.events.LowLevelEvents. - Original Message - From: Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] tracking inactivity

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Ganz
Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are setting a value here rather than comparing if (this.time=this.stillFor) { change to if (this.time =this.stillFor) { Ali -Original Message- From: Matt Ganz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 October 2005 16:44 To: Flashcoders mailing list