Re: [Flashcoders] ustream on flash

2011-07-27 Thread jared stanley
Not sure about Ustream. The API for livestream is very straightforward; as I recall they're both equally robust. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Gustavo Duenas < gdue...@leftandrightsolutions.com> wrote: > Hi does anyone know where is a tutorial to use ustream on flash.? > > gustavo D. > __

Re: [Flashcoders] flash.filesystem not in Flash?

2011-02-23 Thread jared stanley
i think AIR has negated the need for these windowless flash wrappers - are these still in production? On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Merrill, Jason < jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com> wrote: > Or if you switch to a Flash wrapper tool like mProjector or Zinc. > > Jason Merrill > Instructional T

Re: [Flashcoders] NOOBed - wtf basic procedural tween skipping

2010-09-29 Thread jared stanley
0:02 AM, Bob Wohl wrote: > > > > > Up the frame rate and lower the x position update or use a tweening > > > class. For the most part I don't really see any skipping/chugging. > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:45

[Flashcoders] NOOBed - wtf basic procedural tween skipping

2010-09-29 Thread jared stanley
hey gang i have no idea what's going on here - http://lab.freestyleinteractive.com/jared/wtf/ this is a basic tween, clip.x+=20 or whatever. It's totally skipping/chugging? what is up with that? doing a motion tween looks fine, it's just when it's procedural that it's funky. We started noticing

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-22 Thread jared stanley
wow 60 fps sounds impressive! i have not been impressed with the flash>iphone demos adobe has been showcasing; they showcased the same blox game when they first announced it and again 6 months later just before release...i would love to see your example as it would be the first smooth-running demo

Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

2010-09-22 Thread jared stanley
; server you control. But that of course negates the benefits of using > facebook's CDN infrastructure and for your server traffic and load it would > be worse that just hosting the video yourself in the first place. > > I'm sorry this isn't of much help, but I can think of a

Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

2010-09-21 Thread jared stanley
; > If I recall correctly, this custom channel url workaround is necessary only > if your app isn't loaded within FB, as opposed to an external site that > just > uses Facebook Connect. (Or was it the other way around?) > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers > Juan Pablo Cali

[Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

2010-09-20 Thread jared stanley
hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks! ___

[Flashcoders] Trigonometry Problem

2010-08-11 Thread jared stanley
hey all, working on getting a grid to expand into a circle. I would like to: - place items in a grid - calculate angle from centerpoint(or any desired point) - have the items align into a circle at the nearest point, *keeping the same angle* here's my progress: http://lab.freestyle

Re: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread jared stanley
g AGGIES! :) On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Matt Perkins wrote: > You can also learn as you go, but it's not as complete. I'm one of Jason's > coworkers - and while my instructional background isn't nearly as good as > Jason's I manage to muddle through :) > My degree is in graphic desi

Re: [Flashcoders] security notice: upgrade your flash player

2010-06-10 Thread jared stanley
hmm - tried installing, it had the mac version link buried in an 'other systems' section not on the main page. jeez. also had the mcaffe opt-out which sucks. downloaded it (windows XP, safari) and it failed and uninstalled my flash player. never had an issue before with installation. restarted and

Re: [Flashcoders] The Real Story Behind Adobe’s Fa iled Mobile Strategy

2010-04-23 Thread jared stanley
interesting perspective, thanks for sharing On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:17 AM, John McCormack wrote: > > http://www.businessinsider.com/the-underlying-story-behind-adobes-failed-mobile-strategy-2010-4 > > John > > ___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flas

Re: [Flashcoders] flash for Android: resources?

2010-04-22 Thread jared stanley
it's not available yet outside of the beta but you can go through the documentation here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/package-summary.html and take a look at the accelerometer, etc And as far as I understand it: flash player 10.1 is available on android,

Re: [Flashcoders] Hello Everyone!!

2010-04-19 Thread jared stanley
look through the archives, this is a very active list. http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/private/flashcoders/ before you ask make sure you've thought it through and tried to solve it. be clear on your problem, and teh steps you've taken to try to solve it. when someone gives you an answer tr

[Flashcoders] Re: is it ever ideal to NOT use weak references?

2010-02-05 Thread jared stanley
sorry i'm an idiot it's all over google my apologies http://onflash.org/ted/2008/09/useweakreferencesboolean-false.php On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:33 PM, jared stanley wrote: > wondering why it defaults to false, seems like it really only affects GC, > so you'd want it set t

[Flashcoders] is it ever ideal to NOT use weak references?

2010-02-05 Thread jared stanley
wondering why it defaults to false, seems like it really only affects GC, so you'd want it set to true by default but maybe i'm missing something. jared ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/l

Re: [Flashcoders] Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-26 Thread jared stanley
yeah Thanks Dave. fyi here's a blog post on my findings so far with screenshots: http://www.jaredstanley.com/blog/?p=40 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Dave Mennenoh wrote: > Jared, the 1x1 trick doesn't really work that well in Flash as you may have > already found out. I was using that

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
> extracting a color palette from an image. You could possibly adapt it to > suit your needs or at least get some pointers. > > > http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/flash/actionscript-3/colourutils-bitmapdata-extract-colour-palette/ > > Cheers > Juan Pablo Califano > > 2

[Flashcoders] Re: Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
g, but it is inconsistent(look at the end frame of the heman vid as an example) thanks to anyone who can help shed some light on this. Jared On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:28 PM, jared stanley wrote: > Hey list - I have been trying to get the dominant pixel color of an image. > >

Re: [Flashcoders] Sprite alpha

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
whenever I see odd behavior with alpha I assume it has to do with a parent clip or setting it to 50 instead of .5 - and it usually happens when I'm feeling frantic on a project. hth jared On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: > Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > >> huh? Post some code.

[Flashcoders] Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
Hey list - I have been trying to get the dominant pixel color of an image. I received this solution from someone, but I'm still not exactly sure what flash is doing with this: public static function GetColor(_bmd:BitmapData):uint{ var m: Matrix = new Matrix(); m.scale( 1 / _bmd.width, 1 / _bmd.

Re: [Flashcoders] Rotation

2010-01-25 Thread jared stanley
Beno, there's a list on here called 'flash newbies' or something - despite the name there are great resources. The level of questions you're asking are definitely pointed more to that list, please start posting there I think you and everyone else will have a better experience. On Mon, Jan 25, 2

Re: [Flashcoders] Colour Matching

2009-12-15 Thread jared stanley
exporting the images out from photoshop at the same time would keep them the same, so you're saying an image displayed in flash differs from an image displayed in html - this i haven't heard of. this article http://www.viget.com/inspire/the-mysterious-save-for-web-color-shift/ talks about getting

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-07 Thread jared stanley
let me get this straight: 1. you had some talented offshore web contacts in the Ukraine 5 years ago. 2. you 'went into the jungle' and were off the grid for 5 years. 3. you get back and agree to a flash ecommerce project, not having talked to a flash outsourcer(5 years ago an ecommerce site in fla

Re: [Flashcoders] Font Inside Library

2009-11-24 Thread jared stanley
here's a tutorial http://theolagendijk.wordpress.com/2006/08/12/embedding-fonts-in-flash/ On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:17 AM, beno - wrote: > Hi; > David Hunter was nice enough to supply me with some corrected code, but it > doesn't work for me because I can't figure out how he was able to give

Re: [Flashcoders] Baby Step #2

2009-11-20 Thread jared stanley
FYI i've had luck getting most of the latest flash books on amazon used for $5-20 each. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:31 AM, beno - wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Cedric Muller wrote: > >> :) Ok, and now for something completely different: you have to, you >> absolutely have to buy a

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating And Printing String With AS3

2009-11-20 Thread jared stanley
anges - (Basic Latin is >> useful).  If you animate text, change the Aliasing to "...Animation". >> >>   When you create a text field, set embedFonts to true: > > >>   e.g. >>     atty.embedFonts = true; >> > > I did all of this. > &

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating And Printing String With AS3

2009-11-20 Thread jared stanley
you might want to check this list out: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashnewbie there are tons of archives you can go through, most all of your questions are answered in there. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:07 AM, David Hunter wrote: > > beno, > > > > is the background color

Re: [Flashcoders] JSFL dynamic textfield antialiasing question...

2009-11-17 Thread jared stanley
hmm good question - i don't know if that's accessible from jsfl. you could probably just loop through everything on the stage, and if it's a text field then select it - that dropdown will affect all selected textfields. not exactly what you're looking for though, maybe someone else has a better so

Re: [Flashcoders] Great to be part of the group

2009-10-22 Thread jared stanley
i'm here. live by alamo square park and work in SOMA. welcome the list. FYI there's also a group here called san flashcisco. the name is so terrible but they met last night and it was great; all the dudes from adobe there showcasing cs5 stuff, super sweet. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Au

[Flashcoders] Facebook examples - NON-Flex

2009-10-22 Thread jared stanley
Looking for examples of getting the FB API to work with the Flash IDE, all examples found are using mxml in flex. Any pointers? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcod

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-21 Thread jared stanley
CS4 works well, i just used this on a project (I think this was even working in CS3). On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:07 PM, jonathan howe wrote: > My experience with SWF to Video is that it's using a pretty low-tech > solution - essentially it stepped through your movie one frame at a time and > ca

Re: [Flashcoders] Best way to find a REALLY specialized flash/actionscript developer?

2009-10-12 Thread jared stanley
charles i have a guy that can do it, he's not cheap but he's fast. shoot me an email if you're interested. jared at jared stanley dotcom On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Charles "Skip" Norton wrote: > Hey everyone - this is my first post to this list (I've bee

Re: [Flashcoders] angular rotation with easing

2009-10-07 Thread jared stanley
12:24 PM, jared stanley wrote: > yeah i'm aware of the short rotation parameter in tweenmax, but trying > to roll my own, looking through that class now. thanks! > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Merrill, Jason > wrote: >> Greensock's TweenMax and TweenLite

Re: [Flashcoders] angular rotation with easing

2009-10-07 Thread jared stanley
yeah i'm aware of the short rotation parameter in tweenmax, but trying to roll my own, looking through that class now. thanks! On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: > Greensock's TweenMax and TweenLite classes have an optional parameter > that allows you to do rotation between 0

[Flashcoders] angular rotation with easing

2009-10-07 Thread jared stanley
hey all, I can't believe i haven't come across this before now, but I am having issue with the rotation of a movieclip when it hits 180 jumping to -180 and doing the 'long way around' rotation. The following code works fine: var dx:Number = arrow_mc.x - mouseX;\r\nvar dy:Number = arrow_mc.y - mo

Re: [Flashcoders] streaming video on my server

2009-09-09 Thread jared stanley
glad it worked! On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Bassam M wrote: > thank you Jared, I found the solution it was the MIME TYPE i have to add flv > MIME type to the IIS > > http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/194/tn_19439.html > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:05 AM, jared stanle

Re: [Flashcoders] streaming video on my server

2009-09-08 Thread jared stanley
I remember running into this a few years ago; it had to do with the server not recognizing the .flv filetype - i would check that first. as far as just playing it off your server, you might want to try progressive download instead of streaming; that is the most common way of serving video and soun

[Flashcoders] DSL - "Standard Consumer" K / Sec?

2009-08-27 Thread jared stanley
Hey all, Looking for stats on connection speeds; looking for a 'minimum system requirements' spec for connection...what would be an 'average' DSL connection? I have Charles proxy open and throttling the connection to test this flash site, wondering what is the lowest common denominator to test wi

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV export - size(w, h) vs data rate

2009-08-26 Thread jared stanley
cool. I've heard that scaling up works the processor more, but haven't found any substantative evidence. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Peter B wrote: > I did a lot of work around optimising videos about a year and a half > back. For my money, I'd say you get better results by encoding at a >

[Flashcoders] FLV export - size(w, h) vs data rate

2009-08-25 Thread jared stanley
Hey all, wondering if anyone can give me direction on this: I have a large video site, the vid area is 1000x600. Videos are streaming from Akamai. It's playing fine on large computers w/fast connections; Needless to say it's getting chugging on slower/older setups. I would like to enable the ran

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder 3 auto-complete vs. FlashDevelop

2009-08-13 Thread jared stanley
FDT does the auto-error check, which is so sweet - i read that FD doesn't have the ability to get that info, even with a plugin... I have built projects on all three, and if I'm on pc I like FD with the find/replace expanded extension. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steven Sacks wrote: > F

Re: [Flashcoders] bounce easing function for tweener

2009-08-13 Thread jared stanley
ot;thud" instead of the default bouncy bounce). > > Zeh > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM, jared stanley wrote: > >> go into the penner's easing classes, copy the bounce function class >> and rename it, then mess with the constants in the math in there. >> &

Re: [Flashcoders] bounce easing function for tweener

2009-08-13 Thread jared stanley
go into the penner's easing classes, copy the bounce function class and rename it, then mess with the constants in the math in there. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote: > Greensock's TweenMax and TweenLite include source code you can modify > and they include Penner's eas

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flash full screen examples

2009-08-07 Thread jared stanley
seems like a very popular trend, therefore if you look on the fwa you'll find that many if not most of the sites on there implement this. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: > Thanks Brian, I think I've seen that one before, but the swfObject isn't > writing it to my brow

Re: [Flashcoders] Image loader problem

2009-07-25 Thread jared stanley
the basic concept is this: 1. create list of images from xml in an array 2. load the first one, increment some sort of var imagesToLoad or something. 3. when that one is .COMPLETE, handle it(set dimensions or whatever you were referring to above). 4. increment a var imagesLoaded or something, basi

Re: [Flashcoders] rendering 3d model of a car for use in flash as an image sequence (360)

2009-07-02 Thread jared stanley
yeah, lower the quality between stopping points if there are any, a big filesaver is to remove every other frame, although depending on what you're doing that is too big of a quality loss. depending on the sequence try reusing images for symmetrically-flipped images; i.e. a 360-degree spin at 90

Re: [Flashcoders] cms solution for flash sites?

2009-06-29 Thread jared stanley
>>> flash into.  Drupal supports a nice way of connecting from Flash sites >>> into >>> the CMS, but for some jobs this is a sledghammer vs nut problem.  The >>> system >>> above is designed to work with Flash, does not seem to have much setting >>&g

[Flashcoders] cms solution for flash sites?

2009-06-29 Thread jared stanley
hey all, when building basic portfolio sites for clients(i.e. galleries containing image + text, showcasing photos, projects, etc) what is the best cms to use? Best meaning simple + free. Basically something enabling the client to add a new item in the gallery, change the order of the gallery, and