RE: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Rob Emenecker
> Otherwise, i'm very, VERY unreligious about operating systems, > because i frankly think they all suck in one way or another. You've got a lot of nerve being rational and objective making that statement! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chat

RE: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Rob Emenecker
Dave, When I get my next new/replacement workstation it will be a dual quad-core Intel (or whatever is newer) Mac Pro. You can run OS X, Windows, etc. The only thing I would not do it pay Apple's predatory pricing for additional memory sticks, RAID controller, additional drives, etc. Just get th

RE: [Flashcoders] Graphic design universities

2008-02-25 Thread Rob Emenecker
You might also look at Drexel University. They have an excellent design/media, information technologies, and computer science programs. Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/

RE: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search

2008-02-21 Thread Rob Emenecker
> Looking on the web, some people seemed to recommend using Director > or other "wrappers" to allow access to the file system. Anyone > know if this might be something to consider? Yes. If you go this route there are several commercial database engines that are available to you. However, the F

RE: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search

2008-02-21 Thread Rob Emenecker
Glen, You might want consider structuring the XML as a faux relational database... #1) full text #2) keyword index and frequency #3) titles, volume, number, etc. During search, you only have to trawl through #2, which would have cross-ref IDs for numbers 1 and 3. Then pull #1 for presentation pur

RE: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign

2008-02-21 Thread Rob Emenecker
Hi Alex, I'm very confused by this. A variable name in Flash is not what you would necessarily push to the database anyway. You would push a string, number, or other primative, not the internal variable name itself. ...Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] yahoo list?

2008-02-06 Thread Rob Emenecker
Flash_Tiger Mailing List Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Flash_tiger/ <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Flash_tiger/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[E

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating a Projector for the Mac on a PC, and dealing with file references

2008-02-01 Thread Rob Emenecker
> PC/Mac hybrid CDs are normally created on Mac using Toast. You do > not have two sets of identical files (such as your XML files) on > PC and Mac sectors on CD because you can share them using aliases. On important thing to keep in mind if you create custom hybrid PC/Mac CDs is that the file

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating a Projector for the Mac on a PC, and dealing with file references

2008-02-01 Thread Rob Emenecker
> 2. Is it possible to burn a CD for the Mac on a PC? Yes, but not without going through a lot of gyrations. Using Nero on the PC, you can burn *separate* Mac and PC partitions onto a CD, however to do so you need to have the Mac partition mounted on the PC. This can be done by via a SCSI interfac

RE: [Flashcoders] nested for loops stumper

2008-01-25 Thread Rob Emenecker
> yep, you need some kind of scope declaration to tell you where the > items are. a lot of people use thisRoot = this; (or something that > states the location) and then all you have to do is pass 'thisRoot' > around as a reference to where that item is. That way you never > have to say 'this

RE: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText

2008-01-15 Thread Rob Emenecker
Hi Andrew, I took a look at what we did and, unfortunately, our solution was a "pre-processing" script before the HTML was deployed to our Flash project. Since there are "real" differences between Flash HTML and standard HTML -- especially with regards to white space -- we provided our client a se

RE: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText

2008-01-13 Thread Rob Emenecker
? If not, what did you do for regex? I tried to figure out the as2lib project's implementation of regex but couldn't get a simple replaceAll to work.... Thanks! Rob Emenecker wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I don't know of a class that will help with this. Extended characters &g

RE: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText

2008-01-12 Thread Rob Emenecker
Hi Andrew, I don't know of a class that will help with this. Extended characters need to be Unicode encoded in the HTML stream for Flash to properly display them. I've had to do exactly what you probably don't want to do... that is, scrub them out. I had a project that wrapped up late summer las

RE: [Flashcoders] Software Patent Question

2008-01-04 Thread Rob Emenecker
That's not a bad idea, provided that you have patent/copyright lawyers who will also handle your case pro-bono in their free time! ;p -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mennenoh Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 1:41 PM To: Flash Coders Li