RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus
Kirupa forums were the place to go a few years ago and luckiky are still maintained. The community was incredible. Forums: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/ Here are some tutorials from the site: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/ Good luck Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus From: k...@designdrumm.com Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:46:06 -0500 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Well, that was unexpected. Then I would say Adobe forums are your best bet Bill. Unless there is still someone here that can help? I wish I knew more or I would. Sry. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Sep 21, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I think this question may be in the archives. Have you checked there? Not positive how to get there, just know one exists. Might post your question again as many flash devs are not paying attention to the list as much anymore, but peek in from time to time. They probably just missed it or because it's a data grid question, be hiding from it. :P The archives don't work since the last server migration, unfortunately. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software 1-202-527-9569 http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging
/09/2014 02:13, Rick wrote: AIR app installs cross a billion - April 2014 now powers almost a hundred thousand unique applications on desktops and mobile devices. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/04/air-app- installs-cross-a-billion.html It's such a great platform still - I've been using it to make ios apps with good results. The weakness is how it is perceived. But clients do smile at the reduced developer costs and its great capabilities. If only adobe would hire an a-list PR firm to change the perception to match the reality. Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 20:18:12 +0100 From: j...@easypeasy.co.uk To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging Good point. Thanks John On 05/09/2014 21:43, Henrik Andersson wrote: The problem here is developers not stating what runtime they use for their apps. What can be done is checking existing apps for obvious signs of the runtime. Shouldn't take long for someone to crawl the appstore and check all the apps for the fingerprint of the runtime. John McCormack skriver: There may have been some merit in Apple's battery argument since greater cpu activity, for Flash's vector format, might incur a greater energy cost. Although Flash is having a hard time I was thinking more of using AIR, which I think has more life left in it. The thing is, I have no idea how active developers are with app's delivered via AIR. Are there many AIR app's being produced? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders . ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders __ _ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders . ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging
AIR app installs cross a billion - April 2014 now powers almost a hundred thousand unique applications on desktops and mobile devices. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/04/air-app-installs-cross-a-billion.html It's such a great platform still - I've been using it to make ios apps with good results. The weakness is how it is perceived. But clients do smile at the reduced developer costs and its great capabilities. If only adobe would hire an a-list PR firm to change the perception to match the reality. Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 20:18:12 +0100 From: j...@easypeasy.co.uk To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging Good point. Thanks John On 05/09/2014 21:43, Henrik Andersson wrote: The problem here is developers not stating what runtime they use for their apps. What can be done is checking existing apps for obvious signs of the runtime. Shouldn't take long for someone to crawl the appstore and check all the apps for the fingerprint of the runtime. John McCormack skriver: There may have been some merit in Apple's battery argument since greater cpu activity, for Flash's vector format, might incur a greater energy cost. Although Flash is having a hard time I was thinking more of using AIR, which I think has more life left in it. The thing is, I have no idea how active developers are with app's delivered via AIR. Are there many AIR app's being produced? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders . ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Video on IOS
Yup, video plays behind the display list only, under the stage, because that is where the gpu can process it rather than the cpu. So, I think the workaround is to have the background graphic as a frame, which is in actuality above the video with a transparent center, but at least preserves the appearance of background graphic consistent with the style of your app. Take what I say here with a grain of salt as I've only really dealt with video in an AIR app in the real world for android, so perhaps someone else can weigh in with more hands on knowledge and iOS experience. I read up on it a while back for an iOS AIR app that ended up not including the video component. :: Richard Hassen:: Graphic and Interactive Designer:: rickhas...@hotmail.com:: cell 415.450.1199 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Video on IOS From: jr.swee...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:01:52 -0500 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com I hear crickets. :) Can anyone suggest a link or site to help me with playing video on a iPad from inside of a Flash AIR app? StageDirectVideo works great, but resides under the display list. I need video on top of a background graphic. Everything I've tried does not play the video. Thanks, John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:21 AM, John R. Sweeney Jr. jr.swee...@comcast.net wrote: Howdy, I have a client that wants to bring their touchscreen app over to the iPad. It has several videos that are mp4, but I don't know the compression that was used. Is H.264 the only think iPad's like when played back in a Flash app? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ...
I think you are quite right that this is a problematic api. While I can't address your specific question, I had tons of problems with TLF in the past. It caused strange bugs that would break my movies(this was in CS5) At the time, there were a lot of complaints on the forums with TLF with the solution simply to not use it. You can google problems with TLF text to see a lot of the issues and some of the clunky, heavy workaround solutions. I noticed that Flash CC no longer supports TLF, which I found gratifying - as I had lost tons of hours dealing with it, while on deadline no less. So, good luck, as it sounds as if your application requires TLF!!! But if you weren't too far committed, I thought this bit of history might help you in your decision making to use the api at all. From: flashco...@benga.li Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:53:41 +0200 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ... So I have this complex TLFTextField vortex where I try to let user format text with … Bullet Lists for example. So … so so …. I have got this overly complex and deep question to whether some did write this API or was it thrown together by some spaghetti monster ? (ok, this is some intentional pun towards bad Adobe documenters not doing their work) Here goes my question/remark/complaint/doom: Why is it /so/ hard to remove a ListElement ? If you wish to answer, don't bother reading, just get that: How can I remove a bullet list I added with EditManager.createList ? I see EditManager.createList (which works perfectly) but why on earth no one did a 'EditManager.removeList' ??? How can I remove a bulleted list I added with code ? Why is it not available per se in the EditManager public methods ? Since when do we use a Class to createSomething, and totally fail to provide the removeSomething part ? The only almost feasible way I found was using ListElement.moveChildren … but mn: this only happens to be a success if you don't add button that let the user decide when he/she wants to format some part of some text … This TLFTextField is quite a debacle. I wonder if Adobe people know that no one can handle such bad APIs and documentation :'( Cedric, all in flames. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ...
I bet all my TLF code that Flash CC 8 will come with a simple timeline to draw things on … remember Flash 3 ? Not far :) 'splain please! I started with Director 1 then went away till CS3, so I missed a bit there, so missing the joke. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ...
At the time, I was using Director. Flash 1 came out and I wasn't into banner ads and didn't know how powerful it would eventually become. Did you know that Director is still out with new updates??? I was shocked to find this and apparently has a userbase with HD people. From: jr.swee...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ... Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:12:21 -0500 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Director?? Did you mean Flash 1? John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 On Aug 27, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Rick Hassen rickhas...@hotmail.com wrote: 'splain please! I started with Director 1 then went away till CS3, so I missed a bit there, so missing the joke. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 finally..
Thats a good question and well phrased. And I wish I could give you as good an answer, however, Collin Moocks Lost Weekend videos, which can be accessed through Safari Books, goes into why and when you'd use them, quite nicely with examples and a qa. Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:05:44 +0100 From: p...@ipauland.com To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 finally.. I have written a lot of AS3 code with classes and before that was mostly a Java developer and I have yet to have written an AS3 project that has used private classes for anything at all but singleton enforcement. I'm trying to get a handle on whether I've been missing out or people are using private classes where they weren't needed. Does it really matter that much? perhaps not. For me, private classes are some secret coding hidden from the world and segregated from the main class. If a class is important, it's probably important enough to be a public class. If it's not that important I suspect it could have it's functionality coded as a helper function for the main class. I have never really been a fan of private classes because IMHO they introduce added complication, quietly, where it's probably not needed - hence my search for an example to change my mind about this. Anyone have a concrete example where a private class suits perfectly (and doesn't involve singletons)? This is your chance to educate me. On 27/05/2013 11:47, Cor wrote: I use this for objects only needed in the scope of that particular class. I don't know if this is the best solution... I guess this depends on what you are trying to achieve. It works for me. Regards Cor On 27 May 2013 12:24, Paul A. p...@ipauland.com wrote: Out of curiosity, has anyone on the list actually used private classes for anything other than enforcing singleton creation? If you have, please tell us and say why it was the best solution. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Mailing Lists and Tools
if you really like Webstorm, some understand it to be a stripped down version of phpStorm (both by JetBrains): http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ From: kennethkawam...@gmail.com To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Mailing Lists and Tools Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:23:53 +0100 CC: Webstorm doesn't support PHP :( Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 23 May 2013, at 17:35, Jon Bradley wrote: There are many better alternatives for professional coding that include automated building, unit testing, support for SCSS and LESS, grunt, etc. I wouldn't consider Dreamweaver a serious platform for building web applications. Useful for some, certainly, but there are many better options out there. Probably the best for those that aren't vested in the Visual Studio platform: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ Second best (by the same company): http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ For just text editor usage, for the most part: http://www.sublimetext.com/ http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ I'd personally stay way away from Dreamweaver. It keeps you bound to a low quality workflow that's not scalable or efficient. -j On May 23, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto kennethkawam...@gmail.com wrote: I know it's a long tradition to laugh at Dreamweaver as substandard tool, but I actually use it daily, for two reasons: 1. Comprehensive jQuery auto-completion/code-hint as well as PHP 2. Built-in FTP SVN client Obviously never touch the WYSIWYG editor. Please let me know if there are alternative with above equipped. I don't like to be laughed at. But I know none. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 23 May 2013, at 16:17, James Merrill wrote: I've been moving to StackOverflow for questions, and Reddit's coding subreddits for general programming discussion Here's a URL that bundles a bunch of good programming subreddits: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev+web_design+html+css+programming+learnprogramming+design+ProgrammerHumor+html5 As for an IDE, I would highly discourage you from using Dreamweaver. There are much better tools that are cheap/free. I am currently using Aptana, which is Eclipse based and contains tons of helpful features. I am moving towards using SublimeText as my primary IDE. It's extremely streamlined and elegant, and I highly suggest checking it out. Adobe has been working on an IDE called Brackets that looks pretty cool too. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Kerry Thompson al...@cyberiantiger.biz wrote: I've found Dreamweaver to be a good tool for HTML5. when you get JavaScript under your belt, take a look at JQuery. it will save you a lot of development time. Mailing lists are pretty quiet these days. I don't know where the programmers congregate, but my colleagues in the French Horn world have moved to a Facebook group. Cordially, Kerry Thompson On May 23, 2013 9:52 AM, Bryan Thompson br...@swfmagic.com wrote: I know many developers are migrating towards HTML5/CSS/ JavaScript. Google reveals a multitude of results for mailing lists. I hope to take advantage of the experience on this list to get some advice on good quality lists like this one. I also would like recommendations for (Windows) IDE's for JavaScript, or general HTML5 development including all the supporting languages. I have Dreamweaver, but that seems a bit of overkill for a developer. Thanks in advance guys! Bryan Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- James Merrill ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 finally..
Hi Karl, One: AS3 does allow private classes. Just not as the constructor class of the main file. ( I am not sure if subclasses can have private constructors but everything else can be private )Two: Private classes are a best practice, Internal is also good, public only when necessary to create an api. Hope that helps. I don't know where you are getting your information, but you may want to consider getting a good AS3 book. Rick Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 finally.. From: k...@designdrumm.com Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 20:58:41 -0500 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Quick two part question. One: why doesn't ActionScript 3 allow private classes? Two: why is writing public class a best practice if private class does not exist? I could not find an explination in the books I am studying so I thought I'd ask here. TIA. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On May 19, 2013, at 6:01 AM, mike g wrote: Just wondering, has Colin Moock put forward any thoughts re. Flash/Actionscript's future direction? On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Paul A. p...@ipauland.com wrote: On 19/05/2013 09:18, Hans Wichman wrote: Karl, no harm intended, but do yourself and us a favor and get something like Essential Actionscript 3 from Moock, it will save you lots and lots of unnecessary self inflicted punishment :). Excellent advice. Don't try and get to grips with the language via the forum. This is a gentler introduction: http://shop.oreilly.com/**product/0636920010401.dohttp://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920010401.do Also http://www.adobe.com/devnet/**actionscript/learning.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/learning.html Good luck __**_ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.**com Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/**mailman/listinfo/flashcodershttp://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: SWF Decompiler Recommendations
I used Trillix a few years ago with AS3 and was impressed with it. Everything was there just like a normal flash file. http://www.flash-decompiler.com/ From: ross.sclaf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: SWF Decompiler Recommendations Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 17:20:23 -0400 To: j...@duber.com; flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com CC: sothink swfdecompiler i do not envy you. Ross P. Sclafani design / technology / creative http://ross.sclafani.net http://www.twitter.com/rosssclafani http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosssclafani [347] 204.5714 let go of even your longest held beliefs, the only truth is in observation. On May 17, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Jim Duber j...@duber.com wrote: Greetings all, I'm writing to ask for recommendations with regard to SWF decompilers. I had several large projects on my stolen laptop that were not backed up. These are AS2 projects authored in Flash CS4, with lots of timeline scripts all over the place, including several Flash Media Server calls for recording audio data. Media assets are backed up, so I'm not so worried as much about that as I am in recovering all the code bits in somewhat of a logical manner. I've never had an occasion to use a swf decompiler (and hope never to HAVE TO again!). In the meantime, I'm hoping to get some solid advice from the list. Thanks very much, Jim ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 68, Issue 2
We've used flash to develop apps for both ipad and android and it was a much better experience than using phonegap with html5 or cordova. wondering what you people think about flash cc being rebuilt from the ground up with 64 bit architecture. To me, it seems that adobe sees a future here as this is quite an investment.. http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html I think what is important here is that nothing has the same content creation ability as flash and its intuitive gui. Yet. Or if there is something that compares, I'd like to know... Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 18:18:01 +0200 From: unknownflas...@gmail.com To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 68, Issue 2 Flash is great! Stage3D(GPU drivers starting from 2006), DirectX11 support, workers, FlasCC, PlayScript. DEAD? is it a joke right? 3 billion devices, 10 top games in facebook are on the flash technology. we develop project http://realaxy.com/start. Yes, I don't deny JS and Unity3D are great, but at first, please try to catch multiple keyboard press in JS in all browsers and then we can talk about flash is dead. Unity3d? NO, Unity3D hasn't linux support, and 2% installs on Mac(see their official statistics) Today, only flash is great for AAA-projects, of course, if you want to make money. 2013/5/8 flashcoders-requ...@chattyfig.figleaf.com Send Flashcoders mailing list submissions to flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to flashcoders-requ...@chattyfig.figleaf.com You can reach the person managing the list at flashcoders-ow...@chattyfig.figleaf.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Flashcoders digest... Today's Topics: 1. Adobe Flash future (natalia Vikhtinskaya) 2. Re: Adobe Flash future (C?dric Muller) 3. Re: Adobe Flash future (Kevin Newman) 4. RE: Adobe Flash future (Liu, Peter) 5. Re: Adobe Flash future (Matt S.) 6. Re: Adobe Flash future (Henrik Andersson) 7. Re: Adobe Flash future (John R. Sweeney Jr.) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 17:40:58 +0300 From: natalia Vikhtinskaya natavi.m...@gmail.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Message-ID: can6sgrh1g_k00ovumzv0gmyc5y06maswmr_agaara+gswpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi What do you think about Flash technology in the near future? It is a pity but it seems that almost all clients have no interest in Flash projects. Do you think Adobe Flash has no future? Where to move from Flash? Thanks -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 16:53:32 +0200 From: C?dric Muller flashco...@benga.li Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Message-ID: 3c6e5d1b-dd54-45b3-8315-104b5f2ee...@benga.li Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Flash will be here for the years to come. Gladly, it isn't the sexy thing where trendy buzzers are. So, there are less projects, but projects are still flowing here, at least on the top high client part. I have no future, but Flash has one. Just look at all those HTML5 bad designs ;) Le 8 mai 2013 à 16:40, natalia Vikhtinskaya a écrit : Hi What do you think about Flash technology in the near future? It is a pity but it seems that almost all clients have no interest in Flash projects. Do you think Adobe Flash has no future? Where to move from Flash? Thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 11:24:13 -0400 From: Kevin Newman capta...@unfocus.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Message-ID: 518a6e1d.8060...@unfocus.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I think of Flash the way I think of Shockwave. There is still work out there, but not much, and less every minute. Kevin N. On 5/8/13 10:40 AM, natalia Vikhtinskaya wrote: Hi What do you think about Flash technology in the near future? It is a pity but it seems that almost all clients have no interest in Flash projects. Do you think Adobe Flash has no future? Where to move from Flash? Thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Flash 8 accessibility, need some help
So, I cant for the life of me, figure out how to setup tab indexing accessibility with Flash 8. Problem is, we have some movie clips that have onpress/release functions to act like a button and (do a bunch of animation bells and whistles on rollover etc) I need to figure out how I can tab to those buttons Say we just had a simple login form, with a fancy animated button. username field, tab, password field now some people will just hit enter right then and submit the form. while others try to tab to the submit button and hit enter. Here is my simple example file http://rs218.rapidshare.com/files/51022299/tabindex.fla Now I have given an tab index number to the 2 text fields and the movie clip. I set the movie clip to be tabindex 2 so I know if skips the clip or not (since i really dont have a visual indicaor showing that you are tabbed on the movie clip) I've also set the following btn.tabEnabled=true; btn.focusEnabled=true; btn.tabChildren=true; and the flash docs said you need to have an onpress or release function as well but despite all of that, it just tabs right past the movie clip. So I think I'm leaving something out that will be glaringly obvious after someone else sees what I missed Any help much appreciated! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Re: Flash 8 accessibility, need some help
ARGH! lol I forgot to actually set the tab index its working fine, please ignore me making a fool of myself :) What law states that just as you have given up all hope and have to plead for help that only then you find your solution? On 8/24/07, Rick Schmitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I cant for the life of me, figure out how to setup tab indexing accessibility with Flash 8. Problem is, we have some movie clips that have onpress/release functions to act like a button and (do a bunch of animation bells and whistles on rollover etc) I need to figure out how I can tab to those buttons Say we just had a simple login form, with a fancy animated button. username field, tab, password field now some people will just hit enter right then and submit the form. while others try to tab to the submit button and hit enter. Here is my simple example file http://rs218.rapidshare.com/files/51022299/tabindex.fla Now I have given an tab index number to the 2 text fields and the movie clip. I set the movie clip to be tabindex 2 so I know if skips the clip or not (since i really dont have a visual indicaor showing that you are tabbed on the movie clip) I've also set the following btn.tabEnabled=true; btn.focusEnabled=true; btn.tabChildren=true; and the flash docs said you need to have an onpress or release function as well but despite all of that, it just tabs right past the movie clip. So I think I'm leaving something out that will be glaringly obvious after someone else sees what I missed Any help much appreciated! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Version control and Flash
We are starting to add our flash projects to SVN but by large every project has all of the AS code inside the actual movie leaving us with just fla's in the repo We are working on getting everyone to develop with .as files they include in the fla, but is there a limit as to how far that should go? Should there be any code in the flas besides the #includes? How do you go about organizing your folders when you are making an AS1/AS2 project? Do you mimic the folders in the fla with the appropriate as file locations? I'd like to make it easier for everyone to use SVN while still getting the benefit of having plain text code in the repo Thanks for any guidance ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Q: Including class at compile w/o explicitly instantiating it
Hi everyone, it's my first time posting to the board.
I'm trying to figure something out, or if it's even possible. I would like
to dynamically instantiate a class (via getDefinitionByName) but without
explicitly instantiating the object prior in the class.
An example (this is what I would like to be able to do):
package
{
import com.sweet.*;
import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;
public class Foo
{
public function Foo()
{
classRef = getDefinitionByName(com.sweet.SomeSweetClass) as
Class;
var mySweetness:Object = new classRef();
}
}
}
I figured that the import would take care of it, but it doesn't. I have to
do at least one 'var ssc:SomeSweetClass = new SomeSweetClass();' and then it
will work. If not, then I get a reference error like:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable SomeSweetClass is not defined.
Is there any way to do this with Run-Time libraries, or some directive or
metadata or something? Or is there something really obvious that I'm
missing?
t.i.a!
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[Flashcoders] How can you measure performance of your movie?
I've been tasked with optimizing/tuning a flash movie to try and get it to run better on low end machines (100% cpu spikes, large memory, etc) I see many areas that I can improve the swf, but how do I quantify what I have improved to my boss? Is there any standard practice for measuring how fast your swf is running? Look at the FPS? Is there a program that records cpu/memory use as you run through a flash movie? Any help appreciated ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Any experience getting print materials to SWF files?
Has anyone done anything with print designs (inDesign, Quark, PDF) being exported to SWF? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Transform tool help - without the matrix
Is there a tool that lets you strectch and rotate movie clip objects? (not skew, I believe that requires the transform matrix math) Similar to this guy, but only using width height and rotation modifications http://senocular.com/flash/actionscript.php?file=ActionScript_3.0/com/senocular/display/TransformTool.as Reason I ask (and perhaps theres another solution) using the transform matrix with anything in text will actually transform the text to be larger (probably as expected for most) but I'd like for when a user expands an object the text area inside it grows keeping the original font size. Any ideas? TIA ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Swf to image java library?
Does anyone know of or how to implement a java library that can create an image from a frame in your flash movie (for thumbnails and such) http://www.bytescout.com/swftoimage.html Thanks! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Copy Paste into Firefox
Tony; Is there a chance that the pasted text is actually including a carriage return at the end? Sometimes I've copy pasted stuff into a one-line text field and thought where is it? when actually I've included a hard return in the copy and so the pasted text has been pushed up one line, out of sight. Don't know why this would be different in IE and FF though, so maybe it's not that, unless IE treats pasted carriage returns differently. It's a long shot, I agree, but a quick thing to check before delving deeper. HTH -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/7/06 at 07:20 Hi, This is really simple question but I can't seem to dig up an answer. copy paste flash firefox seems to match everything but what I need on Google. So sorry in advance for bringing up this topic which must have been covered before. WTF is the problem with pasting text into the flash player on Firefox. I have an application that requires users to copy in a string for translation. Works fine on IE, but on latest version of Firefox running on XP or 2000Pro the keyboard shortcut to paste text from the clipboard won't work. Not unless you press it twice, then you get the text twice... TextField, TextArea or TextInput component it make no difference, and I get the same thing when calling the swf from a html page or directly, eg. mydomain/test.swf. Right click paste works but I can hardly ask my users to do that now. Any leads appreciated. Links, work arounds, anything. Oh, the swf is compiled for the flash 7 player. Thanks in advance. Tony ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field
Hi, I'm trying to pass a sting variable (var teamName:String) to a dynamic text field nested inside a couple of layers of MCs. The path is correct because the text field is being changed by the variable, but the string itself is corrupted or something because the variable's contents seems to be being altered. Trying to send the string Mr Jones results in the text field showing M Joe. Trying to send the string Executive results in the text field displaying Eee. As you can see, it is not even a simple truncation of the string (such as perhaps might have been the case if the text field were not big enough to hold the string); it is as if Flash is just choosing a few letters and ignoring the rest. Can anybody shed any light on this? I'm new to Actionscript and every (probably simple) stumbling block like this throws me completely out of the ring. Many thanks. -- Rick Lecoat ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field
Chris, thanks for your speedy reply (I guess that if I was going to get a reply at 8.30 in the morning UK time it would have been from Australia!) Like I said in my initial post, I'm completely new to Actionscript (and all of Flash, really) and so your response, whilst I am sure it is the correct answer, is a bit cryptic to me. Could you maybe flesh out your reply with a bit of 'idiot guide' stuff so that I can take it and run with it? Many many thanks. -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Chris Velevitch on 5/7/06 at 08:45 Sounds like restrict is not null. Chris ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field
Ian and Adrian; You hit the nail on the head; it was indeed a lack of embedded characters and my own stupid fault because whilst I *had* embedded the characters for the intended usage (uppercase only) I neglected to stick to those when I was running my trouble shooting tests, and included lowercase as well. There also turned out to be a secondary (or maybe primary) problem -- targets not yet being instantiated at point-of-code -- that needed fixing before the font embedding issue made itself known. And of course when more than one thing is giving trouble simultaneously it's hard to figure out just what is going wrong. Now that that both are fixed it's working fine. However, I'm still slightly confused, because I thought that if the font was installed on the machine that is testing the movie then it would still show up okay whether embedded or not. The fact that it doesn't is, of course, a benefit because it gives early warning of non-embedded fonts but it does run contrary to what I thought I understood. Live and learn. Chris: Thanks for elaborating on the restrict issue. Looks like I won't need to explore it just yet, but it's good to know about. (Since I'm very new to the Flash/Actionscript thing and am learning 'on the job' with a project deadline looming I'm being pragmatic and just learning the bits of AS that I need to make the project work. I'll flesh out my knowledge afterward). Thanks to everyone for all your help. I'm sure I'll be back again with more questions *very* soon... -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Adrian Park on 5/7/06 at 09:24 This sounds to me like what happens if you embed a certain set of characters in the field but then pass it a String including characters you haven't explicitly embedded. I'm guessing you may have pasted a string into the Include these characters: field in the Character Embedding window? If so, only those characters will be embedded with the field and you'd probably be better off just selecting Basic Latin in the predefined character sets. HTH A. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field
Back again. Well, I *thought* it was working... What do you guys make of a situation where a movie works in Test Movie but not from the web server? Here's the deal: variable1:String populates textField1 (initial value = ) variable2:String populates textField2 (initial value = ) variable3:String populates textField3 (initial value = Click on a photo to learn more about the person) Variables get changed according to button clicks. When I run Test Movie, the first two fields are blank as expected and the third one shows the instructional text as set by the variable. Publish... upload to server... clear browser cache to be sure... But now: first two fields say ee third one says undefined Clicking buttons, which should rewrite the text fields, also gives the same results. For the record, text fields one and two just have uppercase glyphs embedded, whilst the third one has upper and lower case, numerals, and punctuation. These choices are appropriate to the text that the button clicks will enter. So, why will it work in test but not online? Hlp! -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Adrian Park on 5/7/06 at 10:54 Glad to be of help Rick. On the font embedding thing v. the font being installed on your machine, I'm pretty sure that if you specify a font but don't embed any characters then Flash will use the installed font but if you embed then Flash will only look to the embedded characters for display and will ignore the installed version of the font. Hope that makes sense! Good luck with your deadline! A. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field
Call off the hounds, I've solved it. it turns out that when the a nested movie clip called the variables it called them from one nesting level up, and I'd coded that as _root.variable. Flash was fine with that in testing, but the browser plugin didn't like it. Once I'd changed the path to _parent.variable it was all working as planned again. Odd that the Test Movie behaved differently though. -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Rick Lecoat on 5/7/06 at 13:23 Back again. Well, I *thought* it was working... What do you guys make of a situation where a movie works in Test Movie but not from the web server? Here's the deal: variable1:String populates textField1 (initial value = ) variable2:String populates textField2 (initial value = ) variable3:String populates textField3 (initial value = Click on a photo to learn more about the person) Variables get changed according to button clicks. When I run Test Movie, the first two fields are blank as expected and the third one shows the instructional text as set by the variable. Publish... upload to server... clear browser cache to be sure... But now: first two fields say ee third one says undefined Clicking buttons, which should rewrite the text fields, also gives the same results. For the record, text fields one and two just have uppercase glyphs embedded, whilst the third one has upper and lower case, numerals, and punctuation. These choices are appropriate to the text that the button clicks will enter. So, why will it work in test but not online? Hlp! -- Rick Lecoat ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader vs component
Hi to all on the list from a new sign-up. I'm also new to the whole AS thing, so do please bear with me if I ask questions that seem obvious or stupid to those with more experience then I (which will be all of you). The book that I used to teach myself Flash offered two ways of loading a SWF inside another movie; one was by using a movieClipLoader, and the other was by using a Loader component. The first way seems more complicated (needs for AS code), but I'm also wondering if it offers more control than the component option. What is generally considered to be the better way? Thanks in advance; -- Rick Lecoat ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Interaction
Josh Santangelo wrote: Tried the integration kit yet? http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/ No I hadn't because I didn't think all that was necessary.. but trying it now. I don't understand part of the installation instructions ... it says to copy the libraries to my flash authoring classpath. But I don't have a clue as to where that is. W:\public_html\cfopenchat\demo\flashjs\FlashJavascriptGateway\docs\readme.html Where should I put those files? Where is my class path? Rick 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 it does not. Can anyone tell me why? http://www.opensourcecf.com/cfopenchat/demo/door.html When you go there you'll hear the sound of a door opening (if you have flash and sound enabled). When you click Play Door Sound the javascript should replay the flash movie, but it doesn't and I can't figure out why. Rick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Interaction
Oh I figured it out (I guess).. I added an import statement and it works now. http://www.opensourcecf.com/cfopenchat/demo/sounds.html Rick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Interaction
Dave Mennenoh wrote: Where should I put those files? Where is my class path? Edit Preferences Click the ActionScript 2.0 Settings... button Thanks, I'll put that somewhere for future reference =) Rick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Interaction
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 it does not. Can anyone tell me why? http://www.opensourcecf.com/cfopenchat/demo/door.html When you go there you'll hear the sound of a door opening (if you have flash and sound enabled). When you click Play Door Sound the javascript should replay the flash movie, but it doesn't and I can't figure out why. Rick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
