[Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi, I am working with Martin Legris's great Youtube API class and wondered what this was ( _data.gd$rating ) What does the dollar symbol do? Here is a link to the particular class- http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ca/newcommerce/youtube/data/VideoData.as This is the getter-

[Flashcoders] Re: Looping flv streams seamlessly

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen Matthews
Re: Looping flv streams seamlessly I have done it. Thanks. :) If anyone is interested in how, and what the project is - please email me with the subject line, legend_rock_band_media_mashup, and I will point you to it, because it's good. I will post how I did it here too, but at the moment i am

[Flashcoders] Looping flv streams seamlessly

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen Matthews
I am having trouble looping streaming flvs. I am using a Video Object with a Netstream Flvs flush their buffer when they fire their stop event so that any loop has to buffer when you use this even to seek(0). I just need to know the correct approach on this - although if you have any

[Flashcoders] ClassPath madness

2009-05-03 Thread Stephen Matthews
I am working out of the src directory ( which is shown in fully qualified the classpath below ) Macintosh HD:Users:gingerman:Sites:project:ACC:flash:src:com In this instance you would think that I could go relative and use com instead, seeing that my FLA is in the Macintosh

[Flashcoders] Nintedo experiencewii ( how did they do that ? )

2009-04-14 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi, I know that the whole YouTube area is a Flash movie, but... does anyone have any idea how they got to embed this Flash movie onto the YouTube site? http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii ( I see the Flash movie is served from the facebook.com server - even weirder ). Regards - and

[Flashcoders] My rights - site not paid for.

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen Matthews
What are my rights ( in the UK ) for taking down a site which has not been paid for? The owner of the company is happy with his site, but is not coughing up. I still have FTP access. He says the site took too long, and makes lots of excuses for not paying - which do not tally. He changed

[Flashcoders] Flash to Database to DWG

2008-04-29 Thread Stephen Matthews
would it be stored on the server? ( BTW - it's easy to go the other way, but I want to go Flash DataBase DWG ) Cheers Stephen Matthews I will also be looking for a way to output the Data as a DWG file directly from the server, if you have any info. I have been googleing this for a few days

[Flashcoders] Grabbing cached Bitmaps and using creating new BitmapData objects from

2007-04-23 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hello, I am trying to use the cachedBitmap data of a movieClip which has bitmaps text and graphics in it. I want to create a new bitmapData object and attach it from the cached BitmapData so that I can do things with it at a bitmap level leaving the original intact. I am having a

Re: [Flashcoders] Grabbing cached Bitmaps and using creating new BitmapData objects from

2007-04-23 Thread Stephen Matthews
Sorry for the delay - I am busy. I am using AS2. On 23 Apr 2007, at 15:12, Sherif Elshazly wrote: In other words.. you want to create a bitmapdata object of a movieclip and attach it to an empty movieclip? Are you using AS2 or AS3? Thanks, - Original Message From: Stephen

Re: [Flashcoders] Grabbing cached Bitmaps and using creating newBitmapData objects from

2007-04-23 Thread Stephen Matthews
the filters under flash.filters.* There's plenty of samples in the docs. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Stephen Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 3:24 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Grabbing

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2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Matthews
, and sometimes I struggle. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2309319562 The founder of the group is Wez Crozier of 'code computer love' I am Stephen Matthews, freelancer. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

Re: [Flashcoders] 3D Text Flythrough

2007-03-19 Thread Stephen Matthews
Have a look at Sandy Google for Flash Sandy it's quite a big class. There is a blog with examples. You could use the distort image class if you want to just distort stuff bitmaps in fake 3D So you'd need - sandy.util.DistortImage; flash.display.BitmapData; ( Flash 8 ) On 14 Mar 2007,

[Flashcoders] Passing vars to htmltext embedded swf

2007-03-19 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi flashers, I am using an html text field to display some .swf s like the example below. img src='colbars/colourbarNas.swf' hspace='0' vspace='8' However I would like to pass the .swf some variables, or a variable that I can decode some vars from. I have tried this img

[Flashcoders] TextArea and TextInput differences in creation, why?

2006-09-12 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi, If I use this code below without having a TextArea TextInput component in my library the TextArea component creation fails. import mx.controls.TextArea; import mx.controls.TextInput; clip.createClassObject( TextInput, newname, depth ); clip.createClassObject( TextArea, newname2, depth2

Re: [Flashcoders] TextArea and TextInput differences in creation, why?

2006-09-12 Thread Stephen Matthews
this is the reason. Sorry I should have looked before. Cheers Steve On 12 Sep 2006, at 16:32, Robert Chyko wrote: Gotta have the components in the library -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Matthews Sent: Tuesday, September 12

Re: [Flashcoders] Noise Cancelling in Flash

2006-02-01 Thread Stephen Matthews
You know you guys are so cool. I am thinking that it would require quite a good mic (eg better than the one on my laptop) I might look into the new 8.5 waveform stuff as I am quite interested in this kind of stuff. I might even offer a noise cancelling application in the future. Today I

[Flashcoders] Noise Cancelling in Flash

2006-01-31 Thread Stephen Matthews
Noise Cancelling = Hi, I wondered whether noise cancelling was possible in Flash using the Microphone functionality? It's just that Carl here is setting up one of those 8 drive servers here and it sounds like a jet engine - I'm going mad - sitting here scripting and I forgot

[Flashcoders] Internet Explorer crashing

2006-01-09 Thread Stephen Matthews
It's an issue which appears to be linked to Flash and IE on the PC. I have the latest version of IE on the PC. I notice that if I close my IE window down while using my Flash app IE crashes. Is there a way to debug this or work out what Flash is doing so wrong to make IE crash. Cheers

Re: [Flashcoders] DV cameras and flash

2006-01-05 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi, iMovie can be used with any usb cam that a certain bit of software allows. The software is by IOXperts. Steve On 3 Jan 2006, at 21:53, Sander wrote: Weyert, can I say that when the camera works iMovie HD it will work with Flash too? I think iMovie is more restrictive, as it works

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Lite 2.0

2006-01-05 Thread Stephen Matthews
It says it is £6 on the UK site, athough it appears as £5.99 in the cart =D It refunds the £5.99 though like in the US. On 3 Jan 2006, at 20:10, Sara Spalding wrote: Just to clarify: * fl2 is free for developers who download the flash pro update from labs. Note that this is limited time

Re: SV: [Flashcoders] get, setTextFormat(), shared fonts and dynamic text fields

2005-11-16 Thread Stephen Matthews
I managed to roughly understand it and am using it successfully - so cheers for that =D I don't really understand how it is forced to include the font. Just make sure ForceShared Library item Link value - Url is set to the .swf file of itself - the Url field will appear to disappear if

[Flashcoders] get, setTextFormat(), shared fonts and dynamic text fields

2005-11-15 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi guys, I'm trying to solve the shared library, dynamic fonts thing. I have a shared library with some fonts contained in MovieClips. Everything has instance names. Everything is set with linkage identifiers and set to export. In my other FLA I bring the shared library in and access the