Re: [Flashcoders] Browser back button, is it necessary?

2006-02-13 Thread Anggie Bratadinata
Daniel Freeman wrote: Is it even possible to disable it? How do you do that? (Unless, you open a new window with no controls). Or is there some technique I don't know? (JavaScript?) What I mean is an swf that can respond to browser's back button i.e. jumping back to a previous frame/state

Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic Video Conversion

2006-02-13 Thread Jeff Earhart
oh, sorry, i am new to the list. i didnt mean to repost something that has been up here a bunch. thanks for the advice! On 2/12/06, Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, You might check out the archives of this list to learn more - it's been discussed a good deal. The two most common

Re: [Flashcoders] drawing uploading

2006-02-13 Thread syam s
sir .. i draw an image in flash using action script( using create emplty movieclip).but i want to save this image as jpeg on a button click(server side). give proper advise. syam s konni - Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC

Re: [Flashcoders] drawing

2006-02-13 Thread syam s
sir .. i draw an image in flash using action script( using create emplty movieclip).but i want to save this image as jpeg on a button click(server side). give proper advise. syam s konni - Yahoo! Cars NEW - sell your car and browse

[Flashcoders] soft keyboard

2006-02-13 Thread Andreas Rønning
i'm under a tremendous amount of time pressure right now, so pardon this request for assistance :) Has anyone here written a soft-keyboard component they're willing to share? Thanks - Andreas ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

RE: [Flashcoders] image saving

2006-02-13 Thread David Mendels
Hello, http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/10/more-fun-with-image-formats-in-as3.htm l -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of syam s Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:25 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] image

Re: [Flashcoders] soft keyboard

2006-02-13 Thread Sam Shrefler
Andreas: I have not, but I wonder what the application you are attempting? If a kiosk, I've used SiteKiosk it's built in keyboard with success. http://www.sitekiosk.com/ Sorry I can't be more help Sam On 2/13/06, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm under a tremendous amount of

Re: [Flashcoders] Jabber - XIFF Dreamhost

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Allen
Hey Jesse, I don't know about the XMPP implementation that Dreamhost uses, but some of these servers don't like to return a null byte to terminate the stanza which Flash XMLSocket requires. Sometimes you need to give the Jabber server a special initiator to let it know that you are a Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] vardump an object in ActionScript?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Allen
Man, I feel like a broken record. :-) Didn't this just come up recently. Anyway, I suggest that you try Xray: http://osflash.org/xray as it has this ability (Xray.trace(myObject);) and tons more. It will indeed save you time in debugging your Flash application. -Chris On 2/13/06, Josh McDonald

Re: [Flashcoders] Stage.width not working in IE

2006-02-13 Thread Lanny McNie
I have had instances where it took 2 frames to initialize. And to critique your code, you should delete the onEnterFrame BEFORE calling init, in case the init function creates an onEnterFrame of its own, it would be deleted immediately. On 2/12/06, Stan Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if

[Flashcoders] Ensuring commercial is played before the video while keeping .FLV external

2006-02-13 Thread Jamay Liu
Hi all, One of the services of my website will be providing flash videos to distributors. We have developed a player swf that takes in an introductory swf (mostly likely an ad/commercial) and the .flv video file as FlashVars parameters. Is there a way to provide access to these files to clients

RE: [Flashcoders] Ensuring commercial is played before the video whilekeeping .FLV external

2006-02-13 Thread Adrian Lynch
Maybe not the best solution, but if they get the file name from the flashVars, then pass it in another way, LoadVars, XML, Remoting... Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jamay Liu Sent: 13 February 2006 16:15 To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Browser back button, is it necessary?

2006-02-13 Thread Miles Thompson
At 03:03 AM 2/13/2006, Daniel Freeman wrote: Is it even possible to disable it? How do you do that? (Unless, you open a new window with no controls). Or is there some technique I don't know? (JavaScript?) The problem with the back button is that people are very used to using it for

Re: [Flashcoders] Ensuring commercial is played before the video while keeping .FLV external

2006-02-13 Thread Miles Thompson
Way off topic in my response -- why do you want to that? Just to piss off your potential customers? You have the right to waste their valuable time? What arrogance. Splash screens are bad enough, this is WORSE!!! Miles At 12:14 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote: Hi all, One of the services of my

[Flashcoders] Select all text onSetFocus of a TextField

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Walters
This seems like it should be easily solved, but I keep running into an issue so I was hoping I could get some fresh ideas from you guys. I want to have default text in a TextField, and when a user clicks into it I want all of the text to be selected as if it was tabbed into. I currently have

[Flashcoders] regex needed

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Stuhr
i'm trying to use Joey Leott's (Pavils Jurjans') RegExp for replacing BAD-strings in (to-be-uploaded) Filenames but had no success at all. can anyone give me some hints ? i have: code import RegExp; var a:String = 'äur*?ß.png'; var goodname:RegExp = new RegExp ('/[^a-z0-9_\\-\\.]/i', 'g',

Re: [Flashcoders] Ensuring commercial is played before the video whilekeeping .FLV external

2006-02-13 Thread Josh Trout
Even doing that, a user could still find the remote file by using a tool like Fiddler (http://www.fiddlertool.com). If the user is willing to go through the trouble of bypassing your current method, it's unlikely they would be stopped by obscuring the filename. Combining the files seems the only

[Flashcoders] Using Cairngorm, good idea?

2006-02-13 Thread Weyert de Boer
I am in the need of building a flash website is mainly standard flash microsite with 6 sections which include a simple news section, and a portfolio section. The website will be used to express a specific feeling, and show some of the projects my client is proud of. For a full overview it has a

RE: [Flashcoders] Ensuring commercial is played before thevideo while keeping .FLV external

2006-02-13 Thread Adrian Lynch
Way off topic, yes, but way out of line too. From the info given you have no idea of the business or what they are trying to achieve. Your assumption is arrogant. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Miles Thompson Sent: 13 February 2006

Re: [Flashcoders] Ensuring commercial is played before the video while keeping .FLV external

2006-02-13 Thread Steve Webster
Way off topic in my response -- why do you want to that? Just to piss off your potential customers? You have the right to waste their valuable time? What arrogance. Splash screens are bad enough, this is WORSE!!! Do you create content for free? Someone has to pay for the content to be

Re: [Flashcoders] Using Cairngorm, good idea?

2006-02-13 Thread Johannes Nel
i would use ARP when building flash apps. On 2/13/06, Weyert de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the need of building a flash website is mainly standard flash microsite with 6 sections which include a simple news section, and a portfolio section. The website will be used to express a

[Flashcoders] no method with name 'createClassObject'.

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Burke
Hello, I'm trying to create a button on-the-fly within a class declaration, but am running into this error: There is no method with the name 'createClassObject'. -- Contents of Hint.as: import mx.controls.Button; class Hint extends MovieClip { var

Re: [Flashcoders] no method with name 'createClassObject'.

2006-02-13 Thread Johannes Nel
its a method of uicomponent On 2/13/06, Peter Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a button on-the-fly within a class declaration, but am running into this error: There is no method with the name 'createClassObject'. -- Contents of

Re: [Flashcoders] no method with name 'createClassObject'.

2006-02-13 Thread Steve Webster
its a method of uicomponent More specifically, createClassObject is a mix-in method that gets added to MovieClip when you have a UIComponent in your library. Peter: You should try calling... super.createClassObject( ...whataver... ); ...if you're extending a MovieClip. Cheers, Steve

Re: [Flashcoders] Using Cairngorm, good idea?

2006-02-13 Thread Rich Rodecker
yeah...i havent checked out cairngorm, but from what i hear its mostly directed towards flex apps. ARP is generally more for flash apps...though I dont know if there's anything stopping you from switching the two if you wanted. On 2/13/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would use ARP

[Flashcoders] Rotating a mc around a custom pivotpoint

2006-02-13 Thread Bart Wttewaall
Hi list, I'm looking for a piece of math to rotate a mc around a pivotpoint, other then its original. I've seen the math before in a demo, on some blog perhaps, but can't seem to find it again. I made some attempts to write it myself, but my math is as rusty as a german submarine. Much obliged,

RE: [Flashcoders] Rotating a mc around a custom pivotpoint

2006-02-13 Thread Merrill, Jason
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Wttewaall Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 12:31 PM To:

RE: [Flashcoders] Rotating a mc around a custom pivotpoint

2006-02-13 Thread Adrian Lynch
It was on Flashcoders or Flashnewbie a few days ago. http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm Is that the link you were after? Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Wttewaall Sent: 13 February 2006 17:31 To: Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Rotating a mc around a custom pivotpoint

2006-02-13 Thread Bart Wttewaall
exactly! thanks a lot! I mustn't have used the right keywords in my search ;) 2006/2/13, Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It was on Flashcoders or Flashnewbie a few days ago. http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm Is that the link you were after? Adrian -Original

RE: [Flashcoders][OT] UML books

2006-02-13 Thread Jim Tann
Ive been playing with using UML to map out my flash projects have had some suceess see the potential. I have also realised my need for a more in depth knowledge was wondering if anyone has read a good book introducing them to UML? There are so many on my bookshops shelves I need a point in the

RE: [Flashcoders] Stage.width not working in IE

2006-02-13 Thread Josh Tynjala
In Firefox and Mozilla, you need to manually set the height of the page via CSS to get the Flash movie to resize correctly: html, body {height: 80%;} -- While trying to make a sample, the problem has changed: now it works in Opera and IE, but in Firefox and Mozilla can't see Stage.height...

RE: [Flashcoders] Flex Pricing

2006-02-13 Thread Tareq AlJaber
Check out macromedia's labs http://labs.macromedia.com/flexproductline/ Tareq -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 2:34 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex

[Flashcoders] No variables in Interfaces?

2006-02-13 Thread David Rorex
Hi, Is there NO way to use variables in an interface? Code: var obj:ICanvas = new ClassThatImplementsICanvas(); trace(obj.value); // Error: Line 342: There is no property with the name 'value'. So, then I add this line to ICanvas.as var value:Number; Recompile: Error: ICanvas.as: Line

[Flashcoders] Set volume of flash video?

2006-02-13 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... Is there a property to get/set the volume of a flash video on the stage? Thanks, - Michael M. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] Set volume of flash video?

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Bedar
You can attach a new sound object, and control the volume through that.. On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... Is there a property to get/set the volume of a flash video on the stage? Thanks, - Michael M. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Set volume of flash video?

2006-02-13 Thread Jim Armstrong
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... Is there a property to get/set the volume of a flash video on the stage? Here's a small snippet of code from a recent project -- create a Sound object to control the sound level in the video. __audioControl = __timeline.createEmptyMovieClip( audio,

Re: [Flashcoders] No variables in Interfaces?

2006-02-13 Thread Ian Thomas
No, there isn't. Is there a reason why you can't roll your own accessor functions? e.g. getValue() setValue() ? Cheers, Ian On 2/13/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there NO way to use variables in an interface? Code: var obj:ICanvas = new

Re: [Flashcoders] Browser back button, is it necessary?

2006-02-13 Thread Jose Maria Barros
There is other site with back button in the browser...its made with what they call dynamic deeplinking..but i dont know how they do that..but its possible. http://www.advanceflash.com/ On 2/13/06, Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:03 AM 2/13/2006, Daniel Freeman wrote: Is it

[Flashcoders] Change anchor / registration point

2006-02-13 Thread Lou Klepner
Hi all, This might be a silly question - but I've been searching for a while and haven't come up with a good answer yet. The question is - how do you change a movieclip's anchor point at runtime? Lets say you've got a 400x300 movieclip, with an anchor point of 0,0 (upper lefthand

Re: [Flashcoders] No variables in Interfaces?

2006-02-13 Thread Johannes Nel
getters and setters are allowed in AS3! On 2/13/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hadn't thought of that, I guess that would work. Thanks On 2/13/06, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, there isn't. Is there a reason why you can't roll your own accessor functions?

[Flashcoders] sorting my dataset

2006-02-13 Thread Manuel Saint-Victor
Good afternoon Flashcoders. Is there a way to sort the dataset when I add an item to it. I want the set to be sorted by the first columns. I see the doSort(); and addSort() methods and have tried with no success thus far. I was considering passing the data to an array and soring that and then

Re: [Flashcoders] Browser back button, is it necessary?

2006-02-13 Thread John Dowdell
Anggie Bratadinata wrote: I need suggestion on browser back button. Do I need / have to enable it in a Flash site? An HTML browser's interface was built around navigating a web of hyperlinked documents. But applications generally have an undo stack. Some people see these as being similar,

Re: [Flashcoders] Change anchor / registration point

2006-02-13 Thread Lou Klepner
Apparently this is the question of the day - my question was answered in the thread 'Rotating a mc around a custom pivotpoint'. http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm On Feb 13, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Lou Klepner wrote: Hi all, This might be a silly question - but I've been

[Flashcoders] Virtual pet?

2006-02-13 Thread Rajat Paharia
Hi there - If anyone has any simple virtual pet code (something that moves and maybe has a little interaction with the user) and would be willing to share it, I'd be very grateful. best, - rajat -- Rajat Paharia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bunchball.com http://www.rootburn.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Set volume of flash video?

2006-02-13 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Thanks for the feedback Jim...however, my video is embedded, and it looks like netstream only works with an external video. Any idea how this can be done with an embedded video? Here's the code I've tried: vid.gotoAndStop(2); // vid is the MC containing the embedded Flash video // create audio

[Flashcoders] using AS to set the height and width of a new browser window

2006-02-13 Thread Dwayne Neckles
myButton.onPress = function () { getURL(html/myHTMLpg.htm, _blank); } along with a event handler just attached to the button instance directly: on (release) { getURL(html/myHTMLpg.htm, _blank); } do you know of a way using actionscript (setting properties) where you can

Re: [Flashcoders] Set volume of flash video?

2006-02-13 Thread Jim Armstrong
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Thanks for the feedback Jim...however, my video is embedded, and it looks like netstream only works with an external video. Any idea how this can be done with an embedded video? If memory serves, the argument to attachAudio() must be either a Microphone object or

RE: [Flashcoders] using AS to set the height and width of a new browserwindow

2006-02-13 Thread Adrian Lynch
Try using javascript: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/win_open.html getURL(javascript:window.open('html/myHTMLpg.htm', 'myNewWindow', 'width=400,height=600'), _blank); Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dwayne

Re: [Flashcoders] Background transparent ? is it possible

2006-02-13 Thread John Dowdell
Ben Smeets wrote, of WMODE in-browser compositing: For Firefox browsers too?? Flash Player 6 and above have the hooks necessary to route the Player's rendering to the browser's offscreen compositing buffer, rather than directly to screen:

Re: [Flashcoders] regex needed

2006-02-13 Thread David Rorex
On 2/13/06, Michael Stuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to use Joey Leott's (Pavils Jurjans') RegExp for replacing BAD-strings in (to-be-uploaded) Filenames but had no success at all. can anyone give me some hints ? i have: code import RegExp; var a:String = 'äur*?ß.png'; var

Re: [Flashcoders] vardump an object in ActionScript?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Allen
On 2/13/06, Aaron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xRay is bloaded. I use flashinspector for something like this http://luminicbox.com/dev/flash/log/example.htm http://www.luminicbox.com/blog/default.aspx?page=postid=2 http://www.luminicbox.com/dev/flash/log/luminicbox.log.zip those

Re: [Flashcoders] vardump an object in ActionScript?

2006-02-13 Thread Aaron Smith
Yeah I shouldn't diss it.. it's a cool tool, i'll give them that!. I guess I never have problems with depths or placement so it's just to much for me. So use what's comfortable. XRay is a nice tool. I'm not trying to diss it. Aaron Smith On Feb 13, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Chris Allen wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] regex needed

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Stuhr
David Rorex schrieb: On 2/13/06, Michael Stuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to use Joey Leott's (Pavils Jurjans') RegExp for replacing BAD-strings in (to-be-uploaded) Filenames but had no success at all. can anyone give me some hints ? i have: code import RegExp; var a:String =

Re: [Flashcoders] No variables in Interfaces?

2006-02-13 Thread Ian Thomas
Excellent news... On 2/13/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: getters and setters are allowed in AS3! On 2/13/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hadn't thought of that, I guess that would work. Thanks ___

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:

[Flashcoders] Post data in frameset never makes it to new window, IE only.

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Hill
Hello all, I'm working on a site that I didn't make but have to update. They used frames in the site, and I've come across a bug that existed in MX2004 that (i guess) was never fixed. Basically the POST data sent from Flash never makes it to its destination, leaving me with a big empty page.

[Flashcoders] AS 3.0 tutorials

2006-02-13 Thread Robin Burrer
Hi there, Do you guys know of any tutorials how to set up an action script project with flex builder 2.0 beta? It all is somehow a bit confusing I think. Especially I don't really understand the concept and purpose of packages. Btw what was wrong about using class paths? Wasn't that good and

Re: [Flashcoders] Using Cairngorm, good idea?

2006-02-13 Thread Mike Britton
I think ARP http://osflash.org/arp would work well with this, too. It would make it easier to reapproach the code later. Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 3.0 tutorials

2006-02-13 Thread Scott Fanetti
Robin, I am right there with you about the migration from AS2 to AS3. Basically, as I gather it, packages are pretty much the same thing as the class path in as2 classes. com.exampleClass would become package com{ public class exampleClass{ public function exampleClass(){

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 3.0 tutorials

2006-02-13 Thread JesterXL
You're pretty much dead on. Only thing is, it has nothing to do with Flex, and everything to do with ECMA compliance and performance. Yes, business wise, Flex needs ActionScript to change so the performance can be up to par to what Enterprise customers expect, but it's all about the code,

[Flashcoders] mp3 not playing in I.E. 6

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Hoffman
I've seen some discussion of this in the archives, but nothing conclusive. My Flash 8 movie creates a sound object and uses loadSound (dynamicFilename,true) to play any of a number of mp3 files off the server. Works fine locally and in Netscape but breaks in I.E. when played via the web.

Re: [Flashcoders] mp3 not playing in I.E. 6

2006-02-13 Thread Aaron Smith
I would recommend using a mediaDisplay for mp3s. Especially if there lengthy.. say 3 min or avg song length. The media display won't actually display anything for mp3's. it just gives you access to the sound. I would reccommend it just beacuse there are more properties and methods available

Re: [Flashcoders] mp3 not playing in I.E. 6

2006-02-13 Thread Aaron Smith
Marc, Yeah i guess try adding an onLoad. It should only take a sec. Test it out and see if it helps. if not, try creating a seperate fla for testing just this one issue. see what that does. if it still a bug in IE i would like to see that test fla. Aaron Marc Hoffman wrote: Hi Aaron,

Re: [Flashcoders] mp3 not playing in I.E. 6

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Hoffman
Aaron, I tried onLoad and it didn't seem to help, but I'm losing mental focus. Time to get some sleep, but depending whatever other feedback I get from the list, I will try a test file in the morning. Thanks, Marc At 11:34 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote: Marc, Yeah i guess try adding an onLoad.

[Flashcoders] htmlText + rollover

2006-02-13 Thread Tarjinder Kumar
Hi, Currently i am using 'a href' tag to call a function on the click of text which display a popup text.and my code is here. text_txt.htmlText=a href='asfunction:_root.displayGlossary,1'uBOpen Glossary/B/u/a But now the requirement changes. Client wants to display the popup on RollOver of