RE: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac
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 the best processor, min memory, min hard drive, etc., then upgrade with aftermarket. ...Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac
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@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Graphic design universities
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/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
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 Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
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 purposes and possible search term highlighting. ...Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:25 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search The system can use AS3 - as it is a CDROM. I asked about the data size - at the moment, a sample XML file, generated by an automatic tool is about 500k, gulp. That means, 6MB per year, 60MB per decade at the moment. I have asked to see the file, because there may be a lot of rubbish that can be eliminated - I hope so.. Glen Merrill, Jason wrote: First questions to get out of the way is which version of Actionscript and potentially how much data (in k)? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search Hi, I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM project. The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a decade per CD and wants a simple search engine. The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data containing page text content. Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is pretty easy in principle, but I am guessing I may run into performance issues as the amount of data is scaled up. Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much experience of this and have any recommendations. Thanks Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ 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 -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ 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] CDROM XML search
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 Flash Xtra for Director is not current with the web Flash Player. Specifically it does not currently support AS3 or certain components, and Flex is WAY OUT OF THE QUESTION. If you are coding in AS2, then Director coupled with a database Xtra (Valentina, Vizion, Arca, ADO, Datagrip, etc.) is what I would recommend. ...Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] yahoo list?
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RE: [Flashcoders] Creating a Projector for the Mac on a PC, and dealing with file references
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 interface (does anyone really run these anymore), or by using a third-party tool such as MacDrive. It's kludgy at best! As Kenneth mentioned, using Toast on a Mac with a disc type of Custom Hybrid is the easier, softer way. A MUCH EASIER WAY! 3. If the answer to 2 is yes, is it possible to make the projector auto-run? Nope. OS X brought with it the demise of autoplay on the Mac. You can create a temporary disk partition/image and visually tailor it to your liking, but you cannot specify an app package to automatically launch. You might want to check out FileStorm at www.mindvision.com. Most everything you can do with the basic version you can do with the Finder and Toast, but it makes the process easier. ...Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Creating a Projector for the Mac on a PC, and dealing with file references
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 name length is limited to 32 characters, inclusive of extensions. ...Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] nested for loops stumper
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' when it's not actualy 'this'. Thumps himself in the head! Doh! What a great idea. Never thought of doing that! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText
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 set of
guidelines so that they could use any WYSIWYG HTML editor. We then parsed
the files subbing out character entities for Flash Unicode notation
(\u), collapsing whitespace, etc.
Sorry I did not get back to you yesterday.
...Rob
P.S. FWIW, using split/join, is probably the easiest way to do it.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sinning
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 10:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText
Thanks Helmut. With your lead I was able to come up with the following.
(There's probably a better way to do a replaceAll, but using slit.join is
least amount of code that I know of.)
function htmlAmpCharsToFlashHtmlAmpChars(str:String):String {
str = str.split(emsp;).join(#8195;);
str = str.split(thinsp;).join(#8201;);
str = str.split(ndash;).join(#8211;);
str = str.split(mdash;).join(#8212;);
str = str.split(mdash;).join(#8212;);
str = str.split(lsquo;).join(#8216;);
str = str.split(rsquo;).join(#8217;);
str = str.split(ldquo;).join(#8220;);
str = str.split(frasl;).join(#8260;);
str = str.split(euro;).join(#8364;);
str = str.split(trade;).join(#8482;);
str = str.split(larr;).join(#8592;);
str = str.split(rarr;).join(#8594;);
str = str.split(larr;).join(#8592;);
str = str.split(rarr;).join(#8594;);
str = str.split(harr;).join(#8596;);
str = str.split(lArr;).join(#8656;);
str = str.split(rArr;).join(#8658;);
return str;
}
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RE: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText
It was AS2 in Flash 8. I honestly can't recall whether it was a true regexp or some mash-up. Will need to check with the guys back at the ranch on Monday. I do remember having a crapload of HTML text that was peppered with those characters and they were a problem. Will check it out tomorrow and post a follow-up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:58 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText It would be fantastic if you could share. Were you using AS3? 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 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 last year, where I had to contend with a fairly simple set of characters: single and double opening/closing quotes, em-dash, en-dash, copyright, registered trademark, etc. When I get back to the office on Monday, I'll check to see what we did for handling them in HTML text. IIRC, we ran regular expressions on the HTML text swapping mnemonic style character entities for Flash Unicode, e.g., \u000a. ...Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:39 PM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText I'm running CS3 with AS2. I'm loading in some html text into a TextField with html set to true. It looks like nbsp; is working correctly, but other chars such as mdash; are just being rendered literally, as mdash;. This is even with the entire character set embedded. Do I have to scrub all this stuff out? Is there a class to do this? Thanks. ___ 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] mdash in htmlText
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 last year, where I had to contend with a fairly simple set of characters: single and double opening/closing quotes, em-dash, en-dash, copyright, registered trademark, etc. When I get back to the office on Monday, I'll check to see what we did for handling them in HTML text. IIRC, we ran regular expressions on the HTML text swapping mnemonic style character entities for Flash Unicode, e.g., \u000a. ...Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:39 PM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] mdash in htmlText I'm running CS3 with AS2. I'm loading in some html text into a TextField with html set to true. It looks like nbsp; is working correctly, but other chars such as mdash; are just being rendered literally, as mdash;. This is even with the entire character set embedded. Do I have to scrub all this stuff out? Is there a class to do this? Thanks. ___ 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] Software Patent Question
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 List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Patent Question Thanks, for the opinions. I have to agree with Charles on this - the patent is bunk. I just wanted to hear it from someone else. Makes me want to make an open-source makeover engine. It might be something to do in all my free-time. Heh ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
