SV: [Flashcoders] flash and iso-8859-1

2005-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lantz
Ok, so the problem has to be solved in the asp file. The urlencode methos in asp, does it convert between different characther sets? //F -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För rishi Skickat: den 13 december 2005 08:53 Till: Flashcoders mailing

Re: [Flashcoders] Asbroadcaster and setinterval

2005-12-13 Thread eskil janson
Not shure if I got your problem right, but if you are using an object where the function exists which you want to execute with your interval, the syntax should be something like : intervalId = setInterval(this, sendMessage, intervalSpeed); where this is a reference to the object where the

Re: [Flashcoders] Asbroadcaster and setinterval

2005-12-13 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
both are correct, that isn't the problem. the interval get's called properly function fireInterval(){ trace(A); this.broadcastMessage(onInterval,this.event); } ^^ this traces A infinitely But the message never gets broadcasted, so it enters the function, but it doesn't

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash is a single-threaded app? Maybe it's just the AVM? or...

2005-12-13 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
sounds interesting, would like to have a peek at the code. Do you have it online somewhere to share? thx, Meinte On 12/12/05, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is some truth to this, but parf of good architecture is about tailoring what you have to what you need. In my current

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and iso-8859-1

2005-12-13 Thread rishi
It does the same as escape /unescape command in flash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fredrik Lantz Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:31 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: SV: [Flashcoders] flash and iso-8859-1 Ok, so the problem

RE: [Flashcoders] debug tool?

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Mountain
I use Xray all the time - can only praise it, it saves me no end of time. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Grden Sent: 13 December 2005 04:33 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] debug tool? Hey Mike,

RE: [Flashcoders] Success Stories with Flash Friendly CVS Systems?

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Tann
I use eclipse svn. Gives me a nice workflow as there are good plugins for SVN Actionscript for eclipse. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Sandie Sent: 12 December 2005 19:15 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders]

RE: [Flashcoders] debug tool?

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Tann
LuminicBox Logger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Boutin Sent: 13 December 2005 03:41 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] debug tool? I am creating a project in flash/php/xml output, It is a pain to debug

RE: [Flashcoders] Linkage nightmares

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Tann
Are there any alternatives / workarounds for this issue? I am open to anyone's ideas / suggestions. I want to house the assets externally have a pre loader show progress. This is a sample of what I am trying to achieve http://www.codesortium.com/demo/swfloader/ each of the swf's loaded in is a

Re: [Flashcoders] Asbroadcaster and setinterval

2005-12-13 Thread eskil janson
Well, I dont really get the problem, but you can check out my motionfeeder Class if you want to It does what you look for, and has some additional features as well... CLASS BELOW-

RE: [Flashcoders] Asbroadcaster and setinterval

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Tann
Is is because your this statement no longer referes to the original class. Try to use intervalId = setInterval(mx.utils.Delegate.create(this, fireInterval), intervalSpeed); that should work. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meinte

Re: [Flashcoders] Linkage nightmares

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Thomas
We use a vaguely similar method for theming our applications. These are very simple apps which have (as standard) navigation buttons, minimize buttons, settings, help dialogs, exit dialogs etc. All the dialog items, happily, are _above_ (in display depth) the functionality of the main app. So all

[Flashcoders] help! class in external swf retains its interval even after close

2005-12-13 Thread Ramon Tayag
Hey everone, I have a movie that uses loadClip to load an external swf to, let's say, mcBlank. That external swf uses a class that furthermore uses several other classes. One of those classes has intervals that continually dispatch an event. Now, to close that popped up window, I 1) unloadClip

Re: [Flashcoders] Class SimpleDateFormat

2005-12-13 Thread Martin Wood
theres one here http://osflash.org/openclasslibrary Scott Hyndman wrote: Macromedia did. I just can't remember where to get it or find any reference to it on their website. Can anyone remember or find information? Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Wade

[Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread iestyn lloyd
Hi list, Can anyone recommend some decent version control software? A lot of our projects use hundreds of swf files, and it can be a nightmare making sure people are working on the latest files. Any recommendations anyone? cheers iestyn ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Thomas
Iestyn, If you look back over the last couple of days of posts, lots of people have been talking about this already (see under 'Workflow')... The general consensus seems to be to use Subversion (also called SVN). I myself use it all the time; it solves many of the problems CVS used to have.

Re: [Flashcoders] help! class in external swf retains its interval even after close

2005-12-13 Thread eugen pflüger
you have to delete the interval explicit: intervalName = setInterval(); clearInterval(intervalName); Am 13.12.2005 um 10:58 schrieb Ramon Tayag: Hey everone, I have a movie that uses loadClip to load an external swf to, let's say, mcBlank. That external swf uses a class that

[Flashcoders] OT: Please ignore, testing new id.

2005-12-13 Thread Abdul Qabiz
Testing.. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] help! class in external swf retains its interval even after close

2005-12-13 Thread Ramon Tayag
I see, so intervals are located, in some sense, in the root clip? On 12/13/05, eugen pflüger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to delete the interval explicit: intervalName = setInterval(); clearInterval(intervalName); Am 13.12.2005 um 10:58 schrieb Ramon Tayag: Hey everone,

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Please ignore, testing new id.

2005-12-13 Thread Cedric Muller
how could we ignore @adobe.com ?? :-)) Cedric Testing.. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing

[Flashcoders] Unicode, Russian, Japanese, simplified Chinese and other horrific creatures

2005-12-13 Thread o . doell
Hi List, i have a flash application already in different languages (german, french, english, spain, italian). I pull in the different languages through utf-8 xml files. Now there is the need for also russian, japanese and simplified chinese. Has anyone already gathered some experiences in using

RE: [Flashcoders] Linkage nightmares

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Tann
So are you using loadMovieNum(resource.swf, intDepth);? Can you give me some example code please? This sounds useful. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 13 December 2005 09:58 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re:

RE: [Flashcoders] help! class in external swf retains its interval evenafter close

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Tann
clearInterval -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Tayag Sent: 13 December 2005 09:59 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] help! class in external swf retains its interval evenafter close Hey everone, I have a movie that

RE: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Tann
I use SVN, its not perfect but it is the best free one I have found. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of iestyn lloyd Sent: 13 December 2005 10:17 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Version control software? Hi

Re: [Flashcoders] help! class in external swf retains its interval even after close

2005-12-13 Thread eugen pflüger
yeah, they are pretty nasty sometimes. they even stay active when you load a new swf in root. sometime ago i got this link from jim: http://www.kennybunch.com/index.php?p=16 Am 13.12.2005 um 11:33 schrieb Ramon Tayag: I see, so intervals are located, in some sense, in the root clip? On

Re: [Flashcoders] help! class in external swf retains its interval even after close

2005-12-13 Thread Ramon Tayag
great thanks everyone! I will read up on that interval manager. it should help. I didn't like the solution (sometimes i get anal as a programmer) but I just put a manual clearInterval when the button close is pressed. It shouldn't be the case, but, oh well. On 12/13/05, eugen pflüger [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Linkage nightmares

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Jim, No, not loadMovieNum - just loadMovie. This is horribly simplified - but let's just say that our 'container' movie takes care of loading, and has two layers: _appLayer=createEmptyMovieClip(app,getNextHighestDepth());

AW: [Flashcoders] Unicode, Russian, Japanese, simplified Chinese and other horrific creatures

2005-12-13 Thread Kerem Gülensoy
there shouldn´t be any problems as long as the xmls are utf-8 and the required fonts are embedded cheers kerem -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 11:40 An: 'Flashcoders mailing

[Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread lieven.cardoen
Dear colleagues, Apparently it isn't possible to have a textfield with embedded fonts and html. Is this correct and why is this. Don't just tell me it is possible, because I've tested it, and when I embed the font, the html doesn't come true. For instance iblablabla/i doesn't appear.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash is a single-threaded app? Maybe it's just the AVM? or...

2005-12-13 Thread hank williams
I cant share the full actual code because it is dependent on too many things. I have tried to pull a snippet out and edit it to make it understandable. The idea here is that I have a block of data called m_in_videoStorage_generic.items which needs to be processed. The processing is too slow and I

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Danny, SVN and CVS work happily for remote access, too... Cheers, Ian P.S. Bought the book, by the way - just haven't had time to read it. :-) On 12/13/05, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've been quite happy with FTPVC, which is a system based on your FTP site. It's very

Re: [Flashcoders] Asbroadcaster and setinterval

2005-12-13 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
allright, thx for the help. The delegate thing might help, allthough I'm not sure the problem was ever with the interval thingy. Eskil, I'll look into your code, it does seem to do what I'm trying to implement. On 12/13/05, Jim Tann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is is because your this statement no

[Flashcoders] Image Color

2005-12-13 Thread Sumeet Kumar
Hi All I have a jpg image and it is multicolored. I want to change the particular color of the image(means if a person is wearing a blue shirt and red jeans Then I should be able to change the color of the shirt only) but without using getPixel and setPixel. I would be very happy for any

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread Martin Wood
I do all of my work remotely and have setup SVN access for all the people involved in the project. After a 10 minute guide to tortoise svn all the non-programmers were happy, and they have now got out of the habit of having mutiple copies of files with incremental names like schedule_rev23

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread lieven.cardoen
Ok, here's what I do : The textField is Dynamic, Font Verdana, Anti-alias for readability + embedded. This is done on the Stage. In Code : txt_Instruction.html = true; txt_Instruction.htmlText = P align='center' + unescape(_global.exData.meta.studentInstruction1) + p; In the example I try

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread lieven.cardoen
P align='center' -- this is done by the textField but Italic doesn't show. Could it be that the font Verdana doesn't support Italic? Vriendelijke groeten, Ann Soens PointX Multimedia Engelse Wandeling 2 K18 8500 Kortrijk Tel. 056 35 23 89 Fax 056 35 26 48 www.pointx.be -Original

Re: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Thomas
No - it's just that as far as Flash embedding is concerned Verdana Italic is _different_ from Verdana. What you need to do is embed both versions of the font - Verdana Italic and Verdana. The easiest way to do that is to stick a dynamic textfield offstage, and put two lines of text in it. Set it

[Flashcoders] asfunction to destination anchor?

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Napier
Not sure what protocol is for posting to the list so I apologize if I am going about it the wrong way... And I¹m new to this but I would think there would be a way to go from either a button or use the asfunction within a dynamic textfield to go to a destination anchor in a textfield in the

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread lieven.cardoen
Thx, but this doesn't work neither. If I make one line Italic, both lines come Italic... Vriendelijke groeten, Lieven Cardoen PointX Multimedia Engelse Wandeling 2 K18 8500 Kortrijk Tel. 056 35 23 89 Fax 056 35 26 48 www.pointx.be -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AW: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread Kerem Gülensoy
you can create a fontsymbol in the library...but i´ve encountered problems with multilanguage applications in embedding special characters with fontsymbols..i wouldnt recommend it... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread andar
Is there any version control software that we can work directly from Flash IDE other than Ms. VSS ? - andar - - Original Message - From: Martin Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:42 PM Subject: Re:

[Flashcoders] JSFL textfield recognition issue

2005-12-13 Thread Karthik
Hi, I just ran into an issue with a JSFL script where static/dynamic textfields that are used in motions tweens on the stage aren't recognised correctly. I've uploaded a test fla and test JSFL script here: http://rapidshare.de/files/909/test.rar.html Essentially, the script acknowledges

Re: [Flashcoders] Lightweight List Component

2005-12-13 Thread John Giotta
Ah I see now, thanks again ;-) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

AW: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread Kerem Gülensoy
it still works fine for me...what exactly doesnt work? for me the biggest con about fontsymbols is that you have to embed almost the whole font and can not choose which characters to embed...also embedding of special characters like polish and turkish doesnt work...or did i overlook something?

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Mountain
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerem Gülensoy Sent: 13 December 2005 14:24 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: AW: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me it still works fine for me...what

AW: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread Kerem Gülensoy
hmm...works fine here in flash8...i couldnt notice a change in behavior yet... i´m embedding the chars i need in a textfield, putting it on the stage, creating a new one, setting embedfonts to true, applying a textformat and a text - and it works fine :) cheers, k. -Ursprüngliche

RE: [Flashcoders] The Amazing infinite call stack

2005-12-13 Thread Chris Wilson
You're looking for infinite recursion. Generally speaking, your application might be better served with a for() loop to iterate through the command queue within a single function call. There are times when recursive functions (i.e., functions that call themselves) are more elegant, though.

RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded fonts vs. Html : Can anybody enlighten me

2005-12-13 Thread lieven.cardoen
I've tried putting a textField with embed font + html. I made one line plain text, one line italic and one line bold. This works fine for all other textfields that use this embed font + html. Maybe you need to put the textField on the root of application? Vriendelijke groeten, Lieven Cardoen

Re: [Flashcoders] debug tool?

2005-12-13 Thread John Grden
Yeah i agree, if you're just into logging, LuminicBox/Flashinspector is a great tool John On 12/13/05, Jim Tann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LuminicBox Logger ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading Xml from Flash over Http

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Mountain
Strange that this should come up, the other day my colleague was working on a file that used relative refferences loaded in from XML, it worked fine, the next day when he open it up it had stopped working - the fix we found was instead of: mydir/myfile.xml Was to use /mydir/myfile.xml The odd

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading Xml from Flash over Http

2005-12-13 Thread Adrian Lynch
Is the path correct from the HTML page including the swf? I'm not up to scratch on crossdomain.xml file but I thought that it had to be in the root of the site. Can anyone confirm that? Ade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brent Gore Sent:

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread Joeri van Oostveen
Not that I know from the Flash IDE, but when you're used to Eclipse as editor, you can use CVS or SVN (I switched to SVN recently). I find it a bad thing the Flash IDE hasn't got more support for version control :( -- Joeri On 12/13/05, andar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any version

RE: [Flashcoders] Sandbox violation on local file (was AS3:Sandboxviolation on BitmapData.draw())

2005-12-13 Thread Shaw, Matt (MTVN)
yes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:23 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Sandbox violation on local file (was AS3:Sandboxviolation on BitmapData.draw()) Is the Flash 7

Re: [Flashcoders] Sandbox violation on local file (was AS3: Sandbox violation on BitmapData.draw())

2005-12-13 Thread Derek Vadneau
Are you publishing from Flash 8? Are you publishing the SWF with Local Playback Security set to Access local files only or Access network files only? I think by default Flash 8 will deny local file access on files less than version 7. You either need to re-publish the file from Flash 8 to

Re: [Flashcoders] debug tool?

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Boutin
Does LuminicBox.Log also work in flash 8? i cant seem to get it to log a message though it doesnt get any errors... John Grden wrote: Yeah i agree, if you're just into logging, LuminicBox/Flashinspector is a great tool John On 12/13/05, Jim Tann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LuminicBox

[Flashcoders] ComboBox change event

2005-12-13 Thread Chris Bare
The V2 component ComboBox does not send a change event if you select the value that is already select. I am using a combo box to set the font size in a textField. In my case, the user may have selected several characters of different font sizes. I can't select multiple sizes in the combo box, so I

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET (ryanm)

2005-12-13 Thread ryanm
Interesting approach, Ryan. So, the big advantage here is cost (free!) with the big disadvantage being that we're limited to string data types on the return. Thanks for sharing. The other way is to use the XML object. You can put all of your return data in XML and compress it. XML is

[Flashcoders] Phantoming in List Component

2005-12-13 Thread John Giotta
I created a custom cell renderer for the List component to allow icons to be external thumbnails. However, I'm getting some strange phantoming. Basically, an image will appear at the bottom of the List that I didn't add from the dataprovider. private var iconLoader:MovieClipLoader;

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 IDE crashes

2005-12-13 Thread John Giotta
I can't say that I have, but I get what you describe from allot of applications not just Flash 8. :-p ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 IDE crashes

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Kremens
I've observed the same with the 8 IDE. I hesitated to say anything, as it varies from one machine to another. It rarely crashes on my laptop, but hangs ALL the time on my machine at work. It's annoying that you can't kill the process... Jim Kremens On 12/13/05, John Giotta [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flashcoders] The Amazing infinite call stack, part 2

2005-12-13 Thread John Mark Hawley
A for loop wouldn't give we any way to pause for input, or to wait and let the UI animate to reflect the last command's doings, though. I need a way to avoid recursion, not use it. Ideally: 1. advance to next command. 2. execute command. 3. Wait for command to finish. 4. repeat 1-3 in some way

[Flashcoders] Independent contractors and unemployment-

2005-12-13 Thread Manuel Saint-Victor
This is OT and I apologize in advnce but I think this is the population that would have had the most experience about this type of situation. I had been working as a Flash developer for an elearning company for about a year and a half and after they stopped doing business and I went to the

RE: [Flashcoders] Independent contractors and unemployment-

2005-12-13 Thread Merrill, Jason
That sucks - do you have any recollection or documentation of the supposed contract you signed with them? Contractors usually sign contracts - if you have any $, you may consider hiring an attorney. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for

RE: [Flashcoders] The Amazing infinite call stack, part 2

2005-12-13 Thread Chris Wilson
Since Flash is event-driven, how about setting it up in such a way that whatever part of your script adds the command to the queue dispatches an event to a listener that then executes that command? That way you avoid recursion, and you also avoid a for() loop that's outside the internal Flash

[Flashcoders] custom trace

2005-12-13 Thread Boon Chew
Pardon me if this has been asked before, is there a way to override the trace( ) function? I have inherited a body of code, short of doing global and replace to make it call my custom trace, I would like to reroute the trace( ) call to my own implementation. But I am not sure if trace

Re: [Flashcoders] Independent contractors and unemployment-

2005-12-13 Thread Farid Shahlavi
It basically boils down to whether you were a 1099 or a W2 employee, if they gave you a W2 at the end of the year and you worked full-time hours, then you are entitled to unemployment benefits unless you were fired for whatever reason that they can dispute your filing. If you received a 1099,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 IDE crashes

2005-12-13 Thread Karthik
You can usually kill dumprep.exe to move things along.. Basically just sort the task list based on CPU usage and kill the bugger that's hogging all the limelight :P hth -K On 14/12/05, Jim Kremens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've observed the same with the 8 IDE. I hesitated to say anything, as

Re: [Flashcoders] The Amazing infinite call stack, part 2

2005-12-13 Thread JesterXL
There are a few. From the enterprise level Cairngorm, a framework for Flex, to ARP, the framework for Flash Flex. Both use the Command pattern. Their goal is to make the controller easier to maintain, and break out significant chunks of controller code into portable classes. Additionally, I

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 IDE crashes

2005-12-13 Thread John Grden
Yeah, I know about killing dumprep.exe, but that doesn't help, it just sits there ;( Sorry for the rant earlier ;) I'm calm now. On 12/13/05, Karthik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can usually kill dumprep.exe to move things along.. Basically just sort the task list based on CPU usage and kill

RE: [Flashcoders] Independent contractors and unemployment-

2005-12-13 Thread Ryan Potter
That is the case if they filed correctly. There are rules for when an employer has to give you a w2 and not a 1099. check out www.irs.gov. Here is a quote from the irs: The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if you, the employer, have the right to control or direct

Re: [Flashcoders] Independent contractors and unemployment-

2005-12-13 Thread Miles Thompson
Mani, That ruling depends on where you are working and what govt. dept you are dealing with. Given your situation, the Workers Compensation Board in Nova Scotia would probably rule that although you were technically and independent, you were not in fact, and if injured on the job you could

Re: [Flashcoders] ComboBox change event

2005-12-13 Thread andrew . lucking
I've looked at the itemRollOver event, but that only gets sent if the user releases the mouse between opening the comboBox and making the selection. I also tried unsetting the list selection, but it won't let you do this. The close event won't work for you? A.

RE: [Flashcoders] getURL

2005-12-13 Thread Keith DiMatteo
I found that manually creating the URL Query string was the best way to solve this, especially since some of the name-value-pairs I needed to pass were URLs with Query strings. Since you're using GET you can just: url = http://foo.com?;; nvp1 = bar=baz; getURL(url + nvp1, GET); HTH, Keith

[Flashcoders] Cancel Keypress

2005-12-13 Thread Judah Frangipane
I'm trying to restore the previous text in a text field if a user presses the Escape key. I set up a listener for the key down event. I have got it to restore the previous value but I cannot find a way to cancel the escape key from entering a  symbol. You can see this symbol by adding a

[Flashcoders] button action script

2005-12-13 Thread Ben Aqua
I have action scripts on menu buttons, some of which on release load an external FLV movie. The other buttons are simple gotoAndStop actions set to go to specific frames in the main scene to load a movieclip. The latter buttons described above, for some reason, make the other FLV loading

[Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everybody, i use tween of laco [laco.wz.cz] with delay on some instances. i want to delete a delay and the tween to on previous instance when i use a tween on other instance, but i don't manage it. can anybody help me ? thank Ps : i'm French, so sorry for my english

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Boutin
movieclip.stopAllTweens() will stop all tweening on all the instances that are currently tween. Not sure if this helps. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, i use tween of laco [laco.wz.cz] with delay on some instances. i want to delete a delay and the tween to on previous instance

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread Cinetryx
stopAllTween delete the tween event but not the delay before the tween Mike Boutin a écrit : movieclip.stopAllTweens() will stop all tweening on all the instances that are currently tween. Not sure if this helps. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, i use tween of laco

Re: [Flashcoders] Phantoming in List Component

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Evans
On 13 Dec 2005, at 18:22, John Giotta wrote: Basically, an image will appear at the bottom of the List that I didn't add from the dataprovider. it this image one of your icons or something totally unrelated? if an icon, without having traced your code... You need to deal with setValue being

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Boutin
How exactly are you delaying the tween? the tween class doesnt have a delay in it as far as I know Cinetryx wrote: stopAllTween delete the tween event but not the delay before the tween Mike Boutin a écrit : movieclip.stopAllTweens() will stop all tweening on all the instances that

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread Cinetryx
When you write this : my_mc.tween(property, pEnd, seconds, animType, delay, callback, extra1, extra2) you can set delay before the start tween function . But my problem is how to delete this delay. Mike Boutin a écrit : How exactly are you delaying the tween? the tween class doesnt

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Boutin
So you are calling the tween, but you want to delete it before the delay happens? Cinetryx wrote: When you write this : my_mc.tween(property, pEnd, seconds, animType, delay, callback, extra1, extra2) you can set delay before the start tween function . But my problem is how to delete this

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread Cinetryx
yes, i want. Mike Boutin a écrit : So you are calling the tween, but you want to delete it before the delay happens? Cinetryx wrote: When you write this : my_mc.tween(property, pEnd, seconds, animType, delay, callback, extra1, extra2) you can set delay before the start tween function .

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with delay tween on some instance...

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Boutin
I delayed a clip on stage. Using a button to stop the tween delay before it happens: If you leave it, it will play after the delay, if you click the button before the delay, the tween never happens. Hope this helps. #include lmc_tween.as clip.tween(_x, clip._x+100,2,easeout,3);

Re: [Flashcoders] The Amazing infinite call stack, part 2

2005-12-13 Thread Andy Makely
You might look into using a Finite State Machine. They are a great way to do command sequencing, and are incredibly useful in game programming for lots of things, from updating the UI to building enemy AI behaviors. There's some good Flash-based FSM info at http://www.flashsim.com . -- andy

[Flashcoders] Xpath and aphostrophes

2005-12-13 Thread Helmut Granda
Hello, I have in interactive CD with a search function on it. I am using XPath to handle all my search funcionallity since it needs to work on PC and MAC. The CD I am producing crashes everything I try to search for strings that have aphostrophes on them (exe - Helmut's Files). I have

Re: [Flashcoders] Flexbuilder 2: how can I hide subcontrols of theRichTextEditor?

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Bray
Thanks, Jesse. Now, what if I want to hide those mofos automagically when the app loads so the user never sees them? I've been trying to call the hideMofos() method like this: mx:RichTextEditor title=Input id=my_rte width=100% height=100% initialize=hideMofos()/ But I get a runtime error that

Re: [Flashcoders] Flexbuilder 2: how can I hide subcontrols oftheRichTextEditor?

2005-12-13 Thread JesterXL
Right idea, wrong event. Use creationComplete (another might work, but this is the safest): mx:RichTextEditor id=my_rte width=100% height=100% creationComplete=hideMofos()/ - Original Message - From: Tom Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Independent contractors and unemployment-

2005-12-13 Thread Helmut Granda
Could you share what happens in your case? I have couple of friends that are working as contractors yet they have to show up to an office and on a regular schedule. Thank You, Helmut Manuel Saint-Victor wrote: Just wanted to thank everyone for the feedback so far. I've been talking to a

[Flashcoders] Fast Object Property Comparison

2005-12-13 Thread clark slater
Hey Folks, I'm working on some code for a catalog style application and I need to compare objects from two different sets of data. Any object may have 10+ properties and I need to know if *some* properties have identical values. So far I have been doing this the old fashioned way but I am

[Flashcoders] Hyperlink to frame?

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Boutin
Is it possible to have a hyperlink (loaded from xml)gotoandplay a certain frame in the movie? Heather ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-13 Thread Weyert de Boer
Yeah, looks nice! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread Weyert de Boer
Ivan of Blitz wrote about this, more info at: http://www.ivantodorov.com/blog/?p=28 HTH ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Xpath and aphostrophes

2005-12-13 Thread Helmut Granda
Ok I found where the problem is, when I run this command: XPath.selectNodes (myDoc,/Node[Attribute = '+SearchTermWithAphostrophe+']); It goes into an infinite loop, does anyone has any idea why the SearchTermWithAphostrophe would trigger the infinite loop? TIA. Helmut Helmut Granda

Re: [Flashcoders] Hyperlink to frame?

2005-12-13 Thread JesterXL
sort of... you could do: a href=asfunction:_root.gotoAndPlay,label / - Original Message - From: Mike Boutin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:40 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Hyperlink to frame? Is it

Re: [Flashcoders] Hyperlink to frame?

2005-12-13 Thread JesterXL
Or: a href=asfunction:dothis,label / function dothis(str) { if(str == label) { some_mc.gotoAndPlay(3); } } - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:16 AM

Re: [Flashcoders] Hyperlink to frame?

2005-12-13 Thread Mike Boutin
Very cool, thanks very much! Heather - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Hyperlink to frame? Or: a href=asfunction:dothis,label /

[Flashcoders] image manipulation in Flash

2005-12-13 Thread rishi
Hi I want to do image manipulation in Flash. Problem Definition. I have a png image exported at 80% quality . I am using 4 colors in png image say red,blue,green,orange. But as the image is generate because of lower quality image now contains more than 4 colors, some are variations

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread andar
I work in an e-learning development company, many of our designers work in a team for a module project (we can consider a module as a flash movie or a .fla) They work at the same .fla, on a different slide or frame. Each slide contained in a movieclip symbol. So what we need is a version control