[Flashcoders] fscommand launching of externals

2014-04-14 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hi John, Northcode made a little free tool called proxy (http://www.northcode.com/blog.php/2007/08/07/Conquering-FSCommand-EXEC-Part-1-Proxy, Download is down the page short before the comments section) that helps you with hiding the cmd window...might be useful. Regards, Thomas Mit besten G

[Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk (natalia Vikhtinskaya)

2014-02-10 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
You might look at mProjector or zinc or something in that lane. AFAIK these have the additional classes to let you write txt or xml to the filesystem without further permission by the user. But this only works as executable Projector, not via Browser. Best regards, Thomas Mit besten Grüßen au

[Flashcoders] AW: PDF files in Flash

2012-02-14 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hi Karl, May I ask if I can have your working example of displaying a HTML table in vanilla Flash? Or do you use any extra component, sort of a tableRenderer? I tried to put a simple table in both a textArea component and a textField to no avail... Regards Thomas --

[Flashcoders] Re: Mailing List vs. Shoutbox

2012-01-23 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Now it's time I'll add up to the stack, I guess. Most of you are probably right, I should have ignored the +1 and go on. I know I am not the first and definitely not the last to "bring this up on the list", so thanks for the flowers :-). Thanks also for the policy links and quotes. And if I offe

[Flashcoders] Mailing List vs. Shoutbox

2012-01-19 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Dear List, I sincerely do not want to offend anybody here but is it really neccessary to simply approve a mail witjh answers like: "finally some facts. +1" I know we all need to show our appreciation of a well designed statement once in a while and I am hopefully far from supressing discussion

[Flashcoders] AW: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 52, Issue 2

2012-01-03 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Quadrupling. Anything but JS would be a giant leap! >>> I'll settle for actionscript 3 replacing JavaScript in the browser >>> :) > > Second that! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listi

[Flashcoders] AW: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 41, Issue 2

2011-02-03 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
QUOTE: -"If the x posn isn't the right one move the movieclip, otherwise update the status" Thank's, I coded this myself so I know what this line does ;-) Initially I was doing it to practise the ternary(spelled?)operator instead of if/else and stumbled over the code exec in trace. But you're ri

[Flashcoders] 'trace' executes function

2011-02-02 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hi List, I just made a little experiment with this code... function setMovieClipX(mc,desiredCoordX):Boolean { var updated:Boolean=true; (desiredCoordX!=mc.x)?mc.x=desiredCoordX:updated=false; return updated; } trace(setMovieClipX(movieClip,286)); ...and found to my utmost

RE: [Flashcoders] [Job] Activescript 3 development

2011-02-02 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
QUOTE:"Just curious, what's Activescript?" Coding in a Hamster wheel perhaps ;-) ? Honestly I ggogled it and found it to be some php extension stuff Regards Thomas ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figle

[Flashcoders] Re: error msg

2010-12-20 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Jason, Is that considered bad practice in lieu of code readability or is there another pitfall I just don't see? I'm only asking because in my short past of writing AS3 I called Event Handlers with an argument of 'null' sometimes to save on function single-liners like doIt(); Best Thomas ---

[Flashcoders] Re:AS3 thousand child objects in a container

2010-03-11 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
is this helpful for you? protected function onMouseMove(e:MouseEvent):void { var pt:Point = new Point(mouseX, mouseY); var objects:Array = this.getObjectsUnderPoint(pt); if (objects.length > 0)

[Flashcoders] Re: I Must Be Asking This Question Wrong...

2010-02-03 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
"...about how in his country computers have hamsters on wheels for power supplies and his hamster is sick and he promised his client he would have this done in only two weeks when he didn't know how to do it in the first place." Steven made my day. But while drying my eyes from an outburst of la

[Flashcoders] [SOLVED]Erratic behaviour of TextEvent.LINK

2009-12-15 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Nevermind, I had some empty Elements in the templates that hijacked the MouseOver. Thanks if you wasted a thought on this anyway!! Thomas ** Au

[Flashcoders] Erratic behaviour of TextEvent.LINK

2009-12-14 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hi list, I'm currently building an application with FlashDevelop/FlashIDE that gets embedded into a Director standalone later on. My content gets loaded from xml files with CDATA sections containing html-formatted text like this chunk here: Marker: test oder PDF:mein pdf oder Link : mydomain.de

[Flashcoders] How to handle ScriptTimeoutError with larger PrintJobs?

2009-09-10 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Dear Flashcoders, I need to find a solution to the said problem: I have an swf with a "printAll" function that prints out the content of a multiple frames mc that loads at runtime. Since the Flash.PrintJob class has a built in 15 second Timeout between every subsequent PrintJob.start()/PrintJob.

[Flashcoders] Re:Dragging loads of sound files from library into a movie clip

2009-04-09 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
In the Flash Authoring environment you can drag them to one layer all at once, hit the layer tab to select everything on that layer and then choose 'Modify/Timeline/send to Layers' or something in the line of that (working with a german version); It will create a separate layer for every symbol ins

[Flashcoders] Strategies to cope with different encodings of XML data?

2009-03-30 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hi there, I need to find the best way to cope with different encodings of XML documents that are loaded at runtime. The documents are user-selected newsfeeds that happen to be encoded in both ISO and UTF-8, so I have to switch System.useCodepage to true or false depending on the encoding of th

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV generation from jpg sequence?

2008-09-30 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
On 30 Sep 2008, at 09:51, Wenzler, Thomas wrote: > Hi to everyone on the List, > I was asked if it was possible to (preferably serverside) > generate .flv > movies from a sequence of .jpgs. Is that possible? Any hint in the > right > direction is highly appreciated... >

[Flashcoders] FLV generation from jpg sequence?

2008-09-30 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hi to everyone on the List, I was asked if it was possible to (preferably serverside) generate .flv movies from a sequence of .jpgs. Is that possible? Any hint in the right direction is highly appreciated... Thanks in advance for all your efforts and excuse me if this is off-topic... :) Thomas __

Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] load many XML files problem

2008-08-25 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Sometimes Flash doesn't carry on loading the .xml due to bad formatting of it(missing closing tags or the like)-So here's another error source to check beforehand... ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.

AW: Subject: [Flashcoders] FLV issues on Mac & PC

2007-08-08 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hello Dan, if your swfs that are loaded to your main application load the flvs, and you use a build in FLV-playback component you might just run into a pathing issue with the components skin which causes the component to stop working. The component skin uses a relative path which you either have

[Flashcoders] Problem with mx.filters

2007-04-18 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hello Flashcoders, in a recent project i made use of the blur filter on a container clip that is used all over the project with differing content, but over the project it sometimes blurs and sometimes won't with no obvious regularity (i.e. the content of the container is varying while the filter r

RE: [Flashcoders] Question: Find out the "depth" of an xml file

2007-02-28 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Thanks a lot Danny, i'll try and get my head around this. Much appreciated! Thomas ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to

[Flashcoders] Question: Find out the "depth" of an XML-File

2007-02-28 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
Hello list, this is my first question to the list... I need to find out the depth of a given xml file to afterwards find one specific node in the whole document. Right now I stacked some loops into each other but that is bad practice since I never can be sure if I reach the deepest child in my