[Flashcoders] Building ActionScript-Only State-of-the-Art Video Players -- An In-Depth How-To Code Walkthrough (Using Codebase of Open Source Strobe Media Playback)

2010-11-15 Thread greg h
Flash Player 10.1 introduced vital new video delivery options: - HTTP Dynamic Streaming (Live and VoD) - RTMFP Groups for Peer Assisted Multicasting (Live) - Flash Access DRM Support (Live and VoD) Each of these 3 new delivery options requires significant logic client-side in the video

[Flashcoders] AS2.0 - Parsing special HTML characters in CDATA - onLoad vs onData

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Ligierko
conversion... Thanks, Greg ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Objective-C

2010-03-20 Thread Greg Ligierko
I am learning ObjC for about a month. The purpose is porting and existing AS2 application to iphone/ipad. Having very poor C experence I can say, that knowing C is not something essential to familiarize and then working fore real with apple frameworks. Before I started XCode for good, I bought

Re: [Flashcoders] Registration Point Issue

2010-02-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
All display objects have registration points (their internal 0,0 coordinates). Also bitmaps. By default a loaded image (png) has its registration point in the top-left corner. If you like to get rid of the improperly set registration point then you may place the loaded image into a parent

Re: [Flashcoders] Registration Point Issue

2010-02-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
PM) beno - wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Greg Ligierko gre...@l-d5.com wrote: All display objects have registration points (their internal 0,0 coordinates). Also bitmaps. By default a loaded image (png) has its registration point in the top-left corner. If you like to get rid

Re: [Flashcoders] Registration Point Issue

2010-02-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
Thanks. g Tuesday, February 09, 2010 (3:36:30 PM) Henrik Andersson wrote: Allow me to explain why it is bad. It is due to the object only being created once. Not once per instance of the class, but once total. This is clearly going to cause issues for any class that is used more than once.

Re: [Flashcoders] Registration Point Issue

2010-02-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
I tested this: package { public class MyClass { private static var instNum:Number = 0; public var someObj:Object = new Object(); public function MyClass() { someObj.name = Sun + MyClass.instNum++; } } } and tracing later gives: var mc1:MyClass =

Re: [Flashcoders] MouseMove - performance issues

2010-02-01 Thread Greg Ligierko
If the code must be really called for each mouse move, then I have no solutions . However if it is not crucial to execute all code for each event, then perhaps you could add an incremental flag and execute code for some of the events only, eg: events_count = 0 MOUSE MOVE

Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

2010-01-29 Thread Greg Ligierko
So, what about iPhone and CS5 ? Isn't going to be the same path with iPad and just matter of time ? g Friday, January 29, 2010 (2:53:24 PM) artur wrote: i have an agency client who i get a lot of flash work from. however they are not technically saavy and they're EASILY swayed when they

Re: [Flashcoders] Rotation

2010-01-26 Thread Greg Ligierko
Another resource about teewning and Flash animation basics: http://animation.about.com/od/flashbasicstweening/Flash_Basics_Tweening.htm g Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (3:04:21 PM) - beno wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Geografiek geograf...@geografiek.nlwrote: Hi Beno, This might help:

[Flashcoders] **TODAY** Developers: Flash Platform -- Building State of the Art Video and Media Players ** Online-only, Public User Group Meeting -- TODAY Wednesday January 20 @ 12:00 NOON PST

2010-01-19 Thread greg h
The online-only OSMF User Group http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7af970e6e4is pleased to have a live presentation **TODAY** on OSMF's new features by a developer from the OSMF Team, Edwin van Rijkomhttp://nl.linkedin.com/in/vanrijkom, Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe. This meeting is open to all who

Re: [Flashcoders] Design pattern?

2010-01-18 Thread Greg Ligierko
I do not have the feeling how user interacts with the buttons. I am just guessing that each button will be clicked many times in one sequence and after reaching the desired state (a,b,c,...c,d,a,B) user will move the cursor to a next button (or close the window). If this is the scenario, then

Re: [Flashcoders] Design pattern?

2010-01-18 Thread Greg Ligierko
://pro-thoughts.blogspot.com/2006/03/onbeforeunload-event.html g Monday, January 18, 2010 (6:29:08 PM) Paul Andrews wrote: Greg Ligierko wrote: I do not have the feeling how user interacts with the buttons. I am just guessing that each button will be clicked many times in one sequence and after

Re: [Flashcoders] What is your policy on loading files?

2010-01-15 Thread Greg Ligierko
I agree with Glenn... it depends on size, particular example and is often a speculation before the project starts running. If this is going to be a micro-engine, why not add a set of modes and use one depending on site. However this would mean a lot of work and testing. Perhaps a more elastic

[Flashcoders] Declaring Function Variables

2010-01-08 Thread Greg Ligierko
...Or if you like to perform a recursion (particular case of nesting). I do not belive there is a good way to re-declare a variable inside the scope of one function. (?) You could comment out vars, copy/paste them with active code and uncomment when needed; it is more a text editor issue: //var

Re: [Flashcoders] A utility to extract Actionscript from an FLA, and create .as files

2010-01-06 Thread Greg Ligierko
reformat all trace() sentences you find around. hth Greg Wednesday, January 06, 2010 (9:11:18 PM) Matt Stuehler wrote: All, I'm inheriting a rather large Flash application in which all of the Actionscript is stored in the FLA. Specifically, the FLA has dozens of movie clips, and each clip

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading and resizing images despite wrong crossdomain.xml

2009-12-28 Thread Greg Ligierko
Alexander, I don't know if your question is still up-to-date. I do not have much experience in AS3 external content loading, but this should be similar to AS2.0 You can load any images without any security grants from any domain you like. The restriction is added to objects that are related

Re: [Flashcoders] Bizarre Issue

2009-12-15 Thread Greg Ligierko
It's hard to say... A few questions: - do you see all contents when you remove fading completely, i.e. when you set 100% alpha at the beginning ? - did you try starting fade with alpha 50% ? - what kind of event do you use for fading, enter frame or a timer/interval ? - are images loaded into

[Flashcoders] What IDE on Mac ?

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Ligierko
badly code snippets and syntax check. Runtime debugging is not crucial for me. Tia, Greg ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] What IDE on Mac ?

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Ligierko
wrote: FDT is pretty much your best choice. On 12/14/2009 3:53 AM, Greg Ligierko wrote: I grown up with PC, Windows and in work I am completely happy with FlashDevelop + CS3. For some time I am also a happy MacBook user, but it is hard for me to swap with AS2/AS3 coding to Mac. So far I could

Re: [Flashcoders] What IDE on Mac ?

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Ligierko
Thanks a lot. FDT looks impressive. I am testing the trial and seems to be very powerful. Auto creation of props and methods is cool. What is also important, very easy to install and set up. g Monday, December 14, 2009 (3:14:28 PM) Steven Sacks wrote: If you want to see an example of FDT in

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
) or when this part of code sets a group of new variables (separate method returns only one value, unless it returns an array or object - again performance issue), this may have sense. Still, I prefer adding a commented bar or a short limerick instead or braces. Greg Wednesday, December 09

Re: [Flashcoders] Re:Trying to set multiple images to 'export for AS' with JSFL

2009-12-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
If you haven't seen this already: http://code.google.com/p/fueljsfl/ There is a set of interesting JSFL scripts for various purposes. Also manipulation of bitmap items. But I cannot bet there is the exact case. g Wednesday, December 09, 2009 (12:48:52 AM) napisano: Thanks guys. I found a

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
Paul, You are perfectly right. The case of Beno's piece: if (e.target.currentFrame == 40) TweenMax.to(mcHandInstance2, 2, {x:200, startAt:{totalProgress:1}}).reverse(); ...is clearly a proof of what you say, because it already produced confusion. Greg Wednesday, December 09, 2009 (1:30:22

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
Using just a set of functions is not oop. It's rather procedural programming. However it works, it is difficult to reuse or make something really large scale or cooperate with other programmers basing on procedural code. You can write procedural-AS3, but there is not point of doing that. And you

Re: [Flashcoders] Minimizing Code: Logic Issue

2009-12-08 Thread Greg Ligierko
What kind of method do you use in findValue() to compare the movieclips ? If you are using _name then it might be to short string: var mc = createEmptyMovieClip(aaa,0); trace(mc: +mc); trace(mc: +mc._name); trace(mc: +String(mc)); outputs: mc: _level0.aaa mc: aaa mc: _level0.aaa Maybe you

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Greg Ligierko
I don't think, because braces are not required when the there is only one statement ended with semicolor: //code if(something) doSomething(); // semicolon ends the scope here... //code ... the second brace was ending the myLeftHand() method. I think that that the problem with this line was

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Greg Ligierko
of braces for later :) Greg Tuesday, December 08, 2009 (11:36:17 PM): Greg, I see your point. I am more familiar with AS2, so oops. I will be migrating soon. I promise. Karl On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Greg Ligierko wrote: I don't think, because braces are not required when the there is only

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-07 Thread Greg Ligierko
really powerful option to get into Flash in general and AS3 in particular. Greg Monday, December 07, 2009 (5:43:37 PM) Jason Merrill wrote: Well gee after that intro, let me jump all over helping you. You should know people here are volunteering their free time and that's the price you

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Still Infinitely Looping

2009-11-26 Thread Greg Ligierko
at some point. But it is a shortcut that should be used (often) when somebody is more familiar with the area. Greg November 25, 2009 (10:20:45 PM) Karl DeSaulniers wrote: You could do the stop frame in script. If(mc._currentfame == 20) { this.mc.stop(); } But listen to them about

Re: [Flashcoders] A variable nodemapid= makes embed gone (IE and FF)

2009-11-24 Thread Greg Ligierko
objects, controls etc. I would suggest checking virus scanners and related software (nothing new in this, but it is easy to forget this direction). Best, Greg Monday, November 23, 2009 (10:24:37 PM): Continuing... I tested my two links with Mac version of FF. Both work fine - no stripping

Re: [Flashcoders] addChild and Array problem

2009-11-24 Thread Greg Ligierko
I have no answer to the problem, but maybe recreating the shuffled array manually could help. I mean creating a new array and filling its items with a for loop + one extra item. This is not directly related but I experienced onece wrong sorting when using sortOn() method. I do not trust

Re: [Flashcoders] Still Infinitely Looping

2009-11-24 Thread Greg Ligierko
I am not much into this topic, but ... you do not have to drag Library instance to the stage to get into its timeline. If you mark the item (e.g. mcHand) in the library and press right mouse button, there is Edit (the same if you doubleclick the item). As soon as you are in the edit mode of the

Re: [Flashcoders] Still Infinitely Looping

2009-11-24 Thread Greg Ligierko
wrote: Greg Ligierko wrote: I am not much into this topic, but ... you do not have to drag Library instance to the stage to get into its timeline. If you mark the item (e.g. mcHand) in the library and press right mouse button, there is Edit (the same if you doubleclick the item). As soon

Re: [Flashcoders] Mailing List Idea: Teddy Bear

2009-11-23 Thread Greg Ligierko
Exactly. Asking a question requires first formulating the problem. I fight code or related problem very often, like it was a strong bad guy that deserves a punch. Asking myself or the list simply why, why, why... or I can't... may explain my frustration and bad feelings, but not the problem

[Flashcoders] A variable nodemapid= makes embed gone (IE and FF)

2009-11-23 Thread Greg Ligierko
Safari shows full code for both files. Can you see this too ? Or perhaps this is some local issue of my PC ? Thanks, Greg ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] A variable nodemapid= makes embed gone (IE and FF)

2009-11-23 Thread Greg Ligierko
the nodemapid variable, which is driving me crazy. And possibly this is only my local computer behavior. I did not found anything related on google. In fact nodemapid gives less than 300 results ;) Greg Monday, November 23, 2009 (8:44:57 PM) Nathan Mynarcik wrote: Hopefully I am understanding what

Re: [Flashcoders] A variable nodemapid= makes embed gone (IE and FF)

2009-11-23 Thread Greg Ligierko
Continuing... I tested my two links with Mac version of FF. Both work fine - no stripping embed, so the issue is probably only PC IE/FF related (assuming it is not my PC and only my PC). g Monday, November 23, 2009 (8:59:58 PM) Greg Ligierko wrote: Thanks, Yes I am aware of the swfObject

[Flashcoders] Intersecting (or ovelapping) b and i in html text fields

2009-11-17 Thread Greg Ligierko
I noticed a difference in how Flash CS3 and simple HTML page parses b and i tags. For example: var test2 = A B C D B E F G I H I J K /B L M N O /I P Q R S T; txt.htmlText = test2; Flash produces: A B C D - regular font E F G - bold H I J K - bold+italic

[Flashcoders] Flash Video and Media Player Developer User Group Launching (Online-only) | Thur 11/19 @ 10:00 AM PST

2009-11-17 Thread greg h
Build State of the Art Flash Video and Media Players. Targeting worldwide specialists who develop and deploy Flash Video and Media Players, a new online-only, public user group is launching this Thursday 11/19 @ 10:00 AM PST. All are welcome. Please forward notice about this meeting to all who

Re: [Flashcoders] Intersecting (or ovelapping) b and i in htmltext fields

2009-11-17 Thread Greg Ligierko
this but obviously I should not. Thanks, Greg Tuesday, November 17, 2009 (2:42:17 PM) Nathan Mynarcik wrote: Yeah, intersecting if you will, is improper HTML coding. I can't even think of a reason why you would want to do that... --Original Message-- From: Karl DeSaulniers Sender

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 to iphone app

2009-10-09 Thread Greg Ligierko
to the limited access of iPhone native controls from Flash (I'm guessing). Best, Greg Friday, October 09, 2009 (2:20:37 PM): On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: The following native device APIs and functionality are supported: MultiTouch Screen

Re: [Flashcoders] Using LocalConnection to talk from AS3 file to AS2 in different domain

2009-09-18 Thread Greg Ligierko
LocalConnection is more secure at the same time... What is your opinion ? Thanks, Greg Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (8:54:30 PM): Hi All, Not a question here, but I wanted to share something that was fairly obscure in the help docs. If you are using LocalConnection to talk to an as2 swf

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Fonts dynamically

2009-08-04 Thread Greg Starr
Would swfmill do what you are lookong for? Or are you trying to generate a font from the swf app itself? Please clarify On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Sumeet Kumar sume...@sebiz.net wrote: Thanks for the reply, I forgot to mention, i need this for ActionScript 2.0 and for a standalone

Re: [Flashcoders] Integrating Flash SWFs with Flex

2007-08-03 Thread greg h
Hi Matt, First, Flex 2 is AS3 only. So if you intend your interactive charting widget to integrate with Flex create it in Flash CS3 using AS3. (The background is ... In Flash Player, AS3 runs in its own AVM2 (ActionScript Virtual Machine 2). AVM2 exists only in Flash Player 9 and higher. In

Re: [Flashcoders] How to use media server alongwith webserver for video streaming

2007-07-24 Thread greg h
Hi Abhishek, Bob's summary is 100% correct. For more detail, you might want to check out the heading About streaming video here on the Delivery options for Flash video page of the Flash video learning guide: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_guide_02.html Also this page may help

[Flashcoders] Flash Media Server Component Usage Survey

2007-07-12 Thread greg h
Do you work with the Flash Media Server? If so, the FMS product team would like feedback on how you use the FMS componentshttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/components.html. Or, if you do not use them, why not. The product team has opened up a survey at the following link.

[Flashcoders] Alternate ActionScript-centric Support Mailing Lists

2007-07-01 Thread greg h
Just curious, other than FlashCoders, are there any active ActionScript-centric support mailing lists? Recommendations of any good ones would be appreciated ;-) g ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

[Flashcoders] fyi ... Adobe's Marketing Of Flash and Apollo Should Be Copied By Others

2007-06-26 Thread greg h
Following is a link for a blog post that is a nice, feel good piece for the teams at Adobe and for the Adobe community: Adobe's Marketing Of Flash and Apollo Should Be Copied By Others http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2007/06/adobes-marketin.html I just hope competitors

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.

2007-06-07 Thread greg h
Ian, thank you for the link on Robert Taylor's FlashInterface. Regarding Scott's intuitive response, the responses by Austin, Muzak and Ian pretty much tell the story. When I used the word stupefying the other day this is what I meant. Just to recap: AS2 to AS3 - At runtime can only integrate

[Flashcoders] Flash Remoting for Flash CS3 AS3

2007-06-06 Thread greg h
As yet Adobe has not updated Flash Remoting for Flash CS3 AS3. Following are links to 3 sources documenting how to make remoting calls in AS3 using NetConnection.call(...)http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/NetConnection.html#call%28%29 . NOTE: I have not

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.

2007-06-06 Thread greg h
Jason, Regarding How about calling a WSDL - Webservice? Not possible in CS3? First I just want to rephrase that as Flash CS3 AS3 because for the AS2 components (aka V2 components) nothing has changed from Flash MX 2004 to Flash 8 to Flash CS3 (except FLVPlayback being introduced with Flash 8).

Re: [Flashcoders] Exporting a swf to an FLV

2007-06-06 Thread greg h
Patrick, I know of no way to export swf directly to FLV. Flash CS3 has introduced a new option on export to Quicktime. Once an MOV has been rendered, you can use the Flash Video Encoder (or encoder of your choice) to transcode into FLV. Animators who use Flash for broadcast have long

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.

2007-06-05 Thread greg h
Yes, who would have believed that Flash CS3 would yield AS3 components that are: - a reduced set of UI components from AS2 - no data components - elimination of databinding And as Randy points out, all this in the run up to Microsoft's Silverlight release. Based on my decades of

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.

2007-06-05 Thread greg h
Yes, Flex has AS3 versions of all of the components that Flash 8 had and then some. That is the point. The message is pretty clear: If you want a comprehensive, state of the art component set use Flex. You can preview the full set of Flex UI components here:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.

2007-06-05 Thread greg h
Regarding Jason's question, NO. As yet Flash CS3 has no AS3 classes/components for WebService or Remoting. And no where have I seen any promised. (I would like to see them, so if anyone from Adobe is on this list and might like to tell us that there one day will be Flash CS3 AS3 Data

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.

2007-06-05 Thread greg h
Spot on Austin. Yup. You then get the new software ... and try to port an application and You then cannot ... because you ... have ... components ... missing. Yes sirree, that is how I figured it out. Regarding It would be good if Adobe could make an official statement on this. Like maybe a

[Flashcoders] Error 2152 when selecting Fullscreen Button on Flash CS3 AS3 FLVPlayback component

2007-05-29 Thread greg h
I am wondering if anyone has encountered the following (and if so if you offer any solutions). Flash CS3 includes an AS3 FLVPlayback component which has several skins that support fullscreen. When running the resulting SWF in a browser that has the debug player, when the fullscreen button is

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: should be simple: MovieClip drawing API

2007-04-27 Thread greg h
fyi ... For AS3 examples of Drawing API this link is the bomb: http://www.3gcomm.fr/Flex/PrimitiveExplorer/Flex2PrimitiveExplorer.html Each primative class includes Class Call Sample code. Right-click for View Source. On source page, bottom right has Download source option. Explanation by the

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 CS3 - Key questions

2007-04-26 Thread greg h
Regarding Flash / Flex integration ... As a Flash developer I have felt that Adobe was doing a pretty crappy job explaining Flash / Flex integration. Now I understand that they were just waiting to release Flash CS3. After all, Flex 2 is exclusively AS3 based. So in retrospect it seems fair

[Flashcoders] Adobe to Open Source Flex!!!

2007-04-25 Thread greg h
Oh, my God. Who would ever have thunk it! ADOBE HAS PUT UP AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THEY WILL BE OPEN SOURCING FLEX. THE WHOLE KIT AND KABOODLE!!! http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source It will take time, but likely by this time next year it will all be out there! TRULY, NOW,

Re: [Flashcoders] Controlling flv

2007-03-13 Thread greg h
Adrian, Have you gotten this resolved yet? I am a little rusty on the FLVPlayback component. It wraps the VideoPlayer class. If you look on the docs there are a number of properties on VideoPlayer that you might be able to use to construct the logic you describe. Docs here:

Re: [Flashcoders] gotoandlearn.com (what is he using to capture his input)

2007-02-02 Thread greg h
Back in May 2005, I had asked Lee. At that time he graciously replied. I am confident that Lee won't object to my sharing with you his reply from that time: I have been using Camtasia to record the screen into AVI files. From there I bring them into Premiere and edit them together if there are

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Laszlo

2007-01-30 Thread greg h
Cort, Thank you very much for your very thoughtful and informed post. This is a great time to be a Flash developer. It is great watching the Flash/SWF ecosystem expanding. I have my hands full with Flash and Flex. But I appreciate having an understanding of how others generate swfs. Your

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Laszlo

2007-01-29 Thread greg h
William, This came up on FlexCoders last month. Following is a link to a reply I posted there (that in turn includes links out to other sources): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/59767 I am interested in a thorough comparison of Flex 2 vs Laszlo, so if anyone can provide a

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.send() in Flash 9 Player

2007-01-19 Thread greg h
David, Per the link that follows below, the AS2 LoadVars.send() Method is changed in AS3 to flash.net.sendToURL() Source: ActionScript 2.0 Migration: The following table describes the differences between ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0.

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder/Actionscript 3 Meta Tags

2007-01-02 Thread greg h
Kalani, For code hints, I believe you are looking for the [Inspectable] metadata tag. [Inspectable] is used by both Flash and Flex components. For Flash 8, the doc page on [Inspectable] is here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/3033.html For Flex 2, the doc page on

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:AS2 AS3 and loop speed

2006-12-22 Thread greg h
Hi jbach, You ask about differences for as2, and as3. But you preface it with I know this has been discussed ad nauseam for as1. I think any performance comparisons of AS1 to AS3 would be the same for AS2 to AS3. fwiw, my understanding is that *at runtime* AS1 and AS2 are one-and-the-same.

Re: [Flashcoders] 8 sounds maximum limit

2006-12-19 Thread greg h
Patrick, I can not answer this one from experience. However, following is a link into the LiveDocs for Sound object the Flash AS3 preview:

Re: [Flashcoders] Cairngorm

2006-12-18 Thread greg h
Bram, Cairngorm has been used on Flash only projects (although not by me ;-). Following are 3 links related to 2 occasions that this question came up last month here on this list. http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-November/175801.html

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 with Flash Authoring 9

2006-12-16 Thread greg h
Daniel, AS3 requires Flash Player 9. Is that dependency ok for your application? As of the latest FP penetration stats (Sept '06), FP9 is only at around 36% (of the known universe). Some have reported successfully deploying on external facing sites with the express install very easily

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashcoders - Flashcomm

2006-12-08 Thread greg h
Dennis, The Flashcomm list has been back up since Nov 1. My guess is that you need to resubscribe. I think the corruption that brought the list down resulted in the subscriber list being lost. I am guessing that because there has been very low traffic since it came back up. The following

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

2006-12-07 Thread greg h
I am not at all knowledgeable about 3D. So I offer the following observations only as an observer looking in. Adobe already has 3D in Acrobat. Six weeks ago at MAX there was a sneak peek of an Acrobat 3D / Flash mashup. Here is the description off of

Re: [Flashcoders] Image as intro to FLV

2006-11-27 Thread greg h
Not to detract in any way from Jason's excellent solution. I very much appreciate his sharing. And I love the fotoko.com UI. Very nicely done :-) Just as an fyi ... a solution is also provided in a January 2005 Devnet article by Lisa Larson under the heading Generating Dynamic Thumbnails:

Re: [Flashcoders] migrating to Flex

2006-11-27 Thread greg h
Millie, I think Dave and Kent pretty much answered your question about Flex cost. Since you mention education licenses, one thing I can add is that academic licenses for Flex 2 w/Components are a mere $79! Of course you have to be a student, teacher, professor, etc. One source here:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash webcam sites ...

2006-11-15 Thread greg h
webcam component: http://parentnode.org/uncategorized/free-webcam-based-barcode-scanner-component/ Does anyone have any other Flash webcam sites they can add to the list? hth, g On 10/2/06, greg h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, Following are some sample sites. Not Community sites

[Flashcoders] ActionScript 3 API Poster (PDF download @ Flex.org)

2006-10-18 Thread greg h
ActionScript 3 API PDF at Flex.org www.flex.org/download/AS3API_01.pdf print dimensions 40x28 fyi ... Acrobat Drawing Error has been reported by some on opening the pdfs also ... Flex 2 Framework API PDF at Flex.org www.flex.org/download/FX2API_01.pdf print dimensions 48x36 For sale onsite at

[Flashcoders] Now Shipping: ActionScript 3. 0 Cookbook – Solutions for Flash Platform and F lex Application Developers

2006-10-15 Thread greg h
fyi ... O'Reilly is now shipping: ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers By Joey Lott, Darron Schall, Keith Peters http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscpt3ckbk/#top ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

Re: [Flashcoders] OT- subscribe to Flashcomm list

2006-10-04 Thread greg h
fyi ... Following was posted a week ago on the bloghttp://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2006/9/27/flashmedialistover at flashcomguru.com: September 27, 2006 Alternative Mailing List for Flashcom and Flash Videohttp://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2006/9/27/flashmedialist After I have been

Re: [Flashcoders] Rendering flash 8 to video

2006-10-03 Thread greg h
Alias, SWF2Video was also used in the cases detailed in these two Devnet articles: Migrating Flash Projects to Video by Chris Georgenes www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_to_video.html Taking Flash Animation to DVD Video (Broken Saints) by Brooke Burgess

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashcom mailing list

2006-10-02 Thread greg h
Following was posted last week on the bloghttp://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2006/9/27/flashmedialistover at flashcomguru.com: September 27, 2006 Alternative Mailing List for Flashcom and Flash Videohttp://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2006/9/27/flashmedialist After I have been receiving

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash webcam sites ...

2006-10-02 Thread greg h
Stephen, Following are some sample sites. Not Community sites or online chat. Perhaps others can post examples of those? Please post back regarding how you might use webcams in your Flash projects. hth, g Flex Barcode Reader http://renaun.com/blog/2006/05/17/33/ Grant Skinner Flash 8

Re: [Flashcoders] Video chat

2006-09-25 Thread greg h
. And the V1 Communication Components provided by Macromedia have never been updated. There are now some examples around Flex 2, but those are AS3. hth, g On 9/24/06, greg h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, I believe a server is required for video chat with Flash. Either Flash Media Server

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you manage your classes?

2006-09-25 Thread greg h
Dan, I can not answer your specifc questions, so I hope that others will jump in and add their voices along with details about how they manage the problems you described. I just want to comment generally that Subversion is the successor to CVS. You can find full documentation here:

Re: [Flashcoders] Video chat

2006-09-24 Thread greg h
Mike, I believe a server is required for video chat with Flash. Either Flash Media Server or Red5. The sample apps for Flash Media Server include a Video Conference app, which is essentially video chat. You can download the sample apps here:

Re: [Flashcoders] How to hide my flash communication server address

2006-09-24 Thread greg h
Mudit, Why is the RTMP server address in your HTML? Can you post back the relevant portion of your HTML object or embed tags (masking your RTMP address, of course :-) If you RTMP address is not likely to change, could you embed the RTMP address in your SWF? Or if it might change you could

Re: [Flashcoders] flex simple question call function

2006-09-18 Thread greg h
Missing namespace in your mx:Application tag. Try: mx:Application creationComplete=drawer() xmlns:mx= http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; Name spacing the mx: prefix of the Flex components is required in every mx:Application tag (and top level tag in all Flex components). Flex Builder 2

[Flashcoders] Breeze in Acrobat 8 and renamed Adobe Acrobat Connect

2006-09-18 Thread greg h
fyi ... The Flash/Acrobat integration begins ... sort of ... Adobe announced Acrobat 8 this morning. The announcement includes Acrobat Connect. Acrobat 8 Reader now includes menu options for Acrobat Connect which is essentially a rebranded Breeze service! Oh, and Breeze is now the Adobe

Re: [Flashcoders] bandwidth detection...

2006-09-16 Thread greg h
badi, Am I correct that you are NOT using the Flash Media Server? (fyi ... bandwidth detection is a feature of FMShttp://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/productinfo/features/#f-3-1 .) Normally I would suggest your cross posting your question on the FlashCommlist, but weirdly that list

Re: [Flashcoders] Webcam color tracking

2006-09-14 Thread greg h
Serge, Though I can not provide the source code, I have seen Grant Skinner demo an application that tracks LEDs. You can see it here: http://incomplet.gskinner.com/index2.html#mister In particular, at the link above select MISTER glove video. Grant explained the details. Perhaps others on

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrubber for streamed flv

2006-09-01 Thread greg h
Sammi, You might want to repost this question over on the FlashComm list: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcomm Some members there have posted AS3/FMS2http://www.webservertalk.com/archive374-2006-5-1384149.html(though as yet, not an AS3 scrubber). The FlashComm list is

Re: [Flashcoders] vars with $

2006-08-18 Thread Greg Burch
Using $ in flash is just wierd :). There is no special meaning - I don't think it should even be valid. On 8/18/06, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used it to indicate arguments in a function to clarify the origin of the variable, like this: function myFunc($arg1,$arg2){

Re: [Flashcoders] euro symbol fight

2006-07-06 Thread Greg Fuller
Maybe you could work with the AMFPHP developers and have the sollution become part of the distribution. It sounds like a problem others may have, and the AMFPHP developers are very receptive to improvements. --Greg On 7/6/06, Ron Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want it to work

[Flashcoders] Tabbed Browsing support? htmlText, contextMenu, Javascript?

2006-07-02 Thread Greg Hamer
Has anyone here implemented tabbed browser support in Flash? i.e. links in Flash content that can be opened in a new tab? I see three possible options: 1) getURL; 2) TextField with html=true and htmlText= containing html anchors; and 3) Javascript. The problems are ... 1) With getURL(), how

[Flashcoders] Any Lists Specific to Flash Game Development?

2006-06-18 Thread Greg Hamer
Anyone know it there are any lists specifically targeted at Flash game development? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to

RE: [Flashcoders] Active X and Microsoft IE ...

2006-04-09 Thread greg
I had a friend send me this. if (document.getElementsByTagName) { var objs = document.getElementsByTagName(object); //Get all the tags of type object in the page. for (i=0; iobjs.length; i++) { objs[i].outerHTML = objs[i].outerHTML; //Get the HTML content

[Flashcoders] Flash Web Browser Component

2006-03-08 Thread Greg Conover
Does anyone know of a Flash component that allows you to call up a URL and display a Web page? Standard components don't have that capability, it seems. Thanks. Greg Conover Knightworks Consulting www.knworks.com BLOCKED::http://www.knworks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLOCKED::mailto:[EMAIL

[Flashcoders] FlashPaper and Flash 8 Issues

2006-03-07 Thread Greg Conover
Wanted to know if anyone found a workaround for the issues created by using FlashPaper 2 documents in a Flash application. Funny how Breeze doesn't seem to have any issues like this - almost like Macromedia has a version they're using but isn't available to the public. Greg Conover Committee

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript preprocessor

2006-02-13 Thread Greg Burch
Change eclipse to use JRE 1.4 and your problem with ANT will go away. -Greg On 2/9/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't used any, but asked this just yesterday on FlashLite and was directed to these links, some of which you already covered: a.. Using Jappo - Greg Burch: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Re:AS3 reference live docs missing?

2006-01-31 Thread Greg Hamer
fyi ... the link is back up: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/ My guess is that Adobe had it off-line in order to put up Flex 2 Beta 1. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

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