Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Hide props?

2006-07-10 Thread eka
Hello :) It's easy ;) You can use myObject.setPropertyIsEnumerable(myProperty, false) EKA+ :) 2006/7/9, Weyert de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, hiding properties of inherited classes would be nice. Yours, Weyert ___

Re: [Flashcoders] private constructors in AS3.0?

2006-07-10 Thread eka
Hello :) use internal keyword it's more easy : http://groups.google.com/group/FCNG/browse_thread/thread/b16a38f8389803a0/8ff037af609e7b94#8ff037af609e7b94 text\Singleton.as -- package test { public const Singleton:_Singleton = new _Singleton(); } internal class

RE: [Flashcoders] BitmapData manipulation. Mirror effect.

2006-07-10 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Claudia, Give this a try: (watch the wrap) import flash.display.BitmapData; import flash.geom.Matrix; import flash.geom.Rectangle; import flash.geom.Point; //set a reference to your original MovieClip var source_mc:MovieClip = originalMovieClip; this.createEmptyMovieClip(mirror_mc,

[Flashcoders] video.google.com API

2006-07-10 Thread franto
Hi list, is there API for video.google.com. Till now I didnt find any, but maybe there is anything i dont know I jsut want to make Flex2 app.. search for videos on video.google.com till now i dont know way...URLLoader returns some strange error, i will try URLStream, but maybe there is nicer

[Flashcoders] parsing XML / xpath

2006-07-10 Thread keitai guy
hi list - are there any popular AS libs out there for walking thru XML? eg something like xpath - to find a named node... tx! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] parsing XML / xpath

2006-07-10 Thread eka
Hello :) Use XPATH library in http://www.xfactorstudio.com/ EKA+ :) 2006/7/10, keitai guy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi list - are there any popular AS libs out there for walking thru XML? eg something like xpath - to find a named node... tx! ___

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Hide props?

2006-07-10 Thread stacey
Nice! I was looking at the object class for that - coolio. One thing I noticed is that the exact same code in Flash 8 works fine and doesn't pass the length of the array where in as3 it slipped it in. Hello :) It's easy ;) You can use myObject.setPropertyIsEnumerable(myProperty, false)

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Hide props/AMFPHP oddity?

2006-07-10 Thread stacey
Okay tried the setEnumberable out and in Flex it traces back false but the php is still seeing the length property, and Service capture still shows the length property being available in the array I sent to the php service according to service capture. This is using the extending net connection

Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData GlowFilter zebra effect?

2006-07-10 Thread Yotam Laufer
Seems like you are applying the filter many times. That would be my guess. Using the filters array makes sure that you apply it only once. Best, Yotam. On 09/07/06, Dan Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the reply. I tested it using your suggestion, and it seems to behave properly

Re: [Flashcoders] parsing XML / xpath

2006-07-10 Thread Arul
Hi, You may also try the light-weight alternative called 'XMLShortcuts' from http://www.shockwave-india.com/blog/?search=XMLShortcuts Now it is available for MTASC as well :) Regards, Arul - Original Message - From: eka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] transitioneffects over a 2d array of movieclips

2006-07-10 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi list, i was trying to find some info about transitions, tweens etc and i looked into the TransitionManager class, Tween classes and Fuse. I couldn't find what I was looking for, so please bear with me as Im trying to explain what I would like: - i have a configuration of movieclips on my

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Rønning
I did an l-system implementation in AS2 recently. In FP8 i could only do simple systems with a couple of recursions before the player choked, and playback was slow as well (i animated the growth with perlin noise for a wind effect). Porting to AS3 let me quadruple the l-system complexity,

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Mike Cobb
- Has anyone seen any comparisons with the Shockwave player? I'd love to know if AS3 can out-perform Lingo. Thanks, Mike Nick Weekes wrote: Andreas, you got any links to your benchmarking? Id be interested to see them (Im not planning on migrating to AS3 just yet). -Original

[Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance

2006-07-10 Thread André Goliath
Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs gets instanciated from the library and then filled with some data via AS. The loaded MC contains some HTML textfields and another movieclip which loads a JPEG using loadMovie directly off-disk

Re: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance

2006-07-10 Thread eric dolecki
.cacheAsBitmap = true on a main clip holding all your 400mcs. It will eat RAM but increase scrolling performance, etc. At least it should. On 7/10/06, André Goliath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Tom Jackson
hey andreas you say AS3 isn't a difficult language to learn for as2'ers, is there any comprehensive books or courses out yet I could dive into? On 10/07/06, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardly benchmarks, but you can get a quick comparison in flashplayer 9:

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Cédric Néhémie
Hi, Here some benchs I've made during the Beta 2, comparison between AS2's and AS3's basics operations. All have been mades on 10 iterations. AS2: addition (5+12) : 370 ms subtract (5-12) : 365 ms multiply (5x12) : 351 ms divide

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Tyler Wright
ActionScript 3.0 overview http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html Programming ActionScript 3.0 http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?href=Part5_ProgAS.html ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Robert Gordon
I tried running these tests in Director for comparison. All tests took more-or-less the following form: on speedTest ms = the milliseconds repeat with i = 1 to 10 a = 5 + 12 end repeat t = the milliseconds - ms end My machine specs: - 1.33 GHz G4 Powerbook with 768MB RAM - OSX

Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData GlowFilter zebra effect?

2006-07-10 Thread Dan Rogers
I can assure you I was only applying the filter once. I think there is a bug in the way that the knockout functionality is handled through the applyFilter method, when used in combination with the inner=false setting. Whenever I switched the parameters to inner=true and knockout=true,

[Flashcoders] Text arching

2006-07-10 Thread Umesh Patel
Hello, I have following question. I saw nike's unifrm builder, Nike Uniform Builder(http://www.niketeam.com/v2/new/Sport...T=BBMCAT=UNI), they built uniform generator using Flash, the only thing wondering me is, how did they manage to arch the text, if anybody has any clue then I would be

[Flashcoders] Text Arching...

2006-07-10 Thread Umesh Patel
Hello, I have following question. I saw nike's unifrm builder, Nike Uniform Builder(http://www.niketeam.com/v2/new/Sport...T=BBMCAT=UNI), they built uniform generator using Flash, the only thing wondering me is, how did they manage to arch the text, if anybody has any clue then I would be very

Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData manipulation. Mirror effect.

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel Cascais
What I need to do is to make a mirror image of the BitmapData and leave is as one single BitmabData. Hi Claudia, I did something similar in AS3, but I'm quite sure you can use it for your needs too. In your case, it would look something like this: //--- var

Re: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance

2006-07-10 Thread janosch
Before you start implementing pages, try out to load all the content into a simple masked MovieClip and check the performance. Janosch André Goliath schrieb: Andy and Eric, thanks for your responses :) Unfortunatly you confirmed what I was afraid of ;) cacheAsBitmap reveales the

RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance

2006-07-10 Thread André Goliath
Would be an idea, but how would I attach scroll bars/simulate scrolling to the holder mc? have a dragabble button and make it move the mc behind the mask? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of janosch Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:24 PM To:

RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance

2006-07-10 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
How about doing the MM method they use in their list box? Make a single clip for each visible element. Then, when you scroll, what you're doing is swapping out the content in the movieclips... 0 1 2 3 4 You have those 5 clips right, so when you scroll down, 0 becomes what 1 was, 1 becomes

Re: [Flashcoders] Text Arching...

2006-07-10 Thread Bernard Poulin
- Your example nike url does not work - I do not see any arching just by visiting their site -- where is that? - I do not see any attachments to this email - you must have a problem sending emails to this list since it appears you sent your email twice When you are saying text arching

[Flashcoders] Help anyone?

2006-07-10 Thread John Hart
Hi to all I am ready to pay anyone that can solve the following problem! Here is the dilemma: Note: for a better understanding of what I am seeking here, I am including a link to a diagram that you can download in a zip format. http://www.usedextruders.com/flashproblem.zip Ok

[Flashcoders] Helper

2006-07-10 Thread mohsin ali
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RE: [Flashcoders] Helper

2006-07-10 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Hello! Buddy your words are out of my thought.right me clearly whatever you want to tell. thnx. I am at once nonplussed and entertained. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

[Flashcoders] Dynamic access of top-level variables in AS3

2006-07-10 Thread Chris McFadyen aka Grayson Carlyle
In doing web apps, we pass a lot of variables directly to the swf files. Some of these are dynamically matched using eval() to write variable values into strings. Example: Reading settings from an XML file, with %var% in the node values; we search for for these and match up %var% to eval(var).

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Parcell
What data types did you use?? int or Number? Charles P. On 7/10/06, Cédric Néhémie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here some benchs I've made during the Beta 2, comparison between AS2's and AS3's basics operations. All have been mades on 10 iterations.

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Parcell
Could you supply the code you tested with please. Charles P. On 7/10/06, Cédric Néhémie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here some benchs I've made during the Beta 2, comparison between AS2's and AS3's basics operations. All have been mades on 10 iterations.

Re: [Flashcoders] list of files in a directory using FileReference or FileReferenceList

2006-07-10 Thread Marcos Neves
You can´t dynamic list all files, but you can popup a browser window, asking to the user select all files on the folder. This is for security reason. On 7/10/06, jordan robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a list of files in a directory using FileReference or

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 faster ??

2006-07-10 Thread Cédric Néhémie
Charles, I'm using Number, as I could read int or uint are casted internally to perform math operations. The machine : - P4 2.4Ghz - Win XP Pro sp2 - 1.5 Ghz RAM The code (sorry trace are in french) : public final function testBasics():void { var iteration:uint = 10;

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic access of top-level variables in AS3

2006-07-10 Thread eka
Hello :) in AS3 you use directly variables in global when you use a new .as ! package { static globalVariable = {} ; // your in topLevel !!! public class MainClass() { // first code in your Application // load your xml and use your global variable !!!

[Flashcoders] htmlText, CDATA and inputText fun...

2006-07-10 Thread grimmwerks
I'm having a bit of a problem both getting and setting htmlText in a textfield in Flash. I've done this previously but can't figure out what the problem is... Let's start with what I need to do: I basically need a way for a user to input text, add some basic html properties (size/bold, etc),

RE: [Flashcoders] htmlText, CDATA and inputText fun...

2006-07-10 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Did you try using _sans, not just imported Arial? Is the field masked? BLITZ | Steven Sacks - 310-551-0200 x209 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of grimmwerks Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:40 PM To: Flashcoders mailing

Re: RE: [Flashcoders] htmlText, CDATA and inputText fun...

2006-07-10 Thread grimmwerks
No - the field's not masked; turns out I have to import all the states ie bold, italic, etc, for some reason. But the bigger thing is this: I know I've seen examples of flash being used as word processors - ie ways of setting formatting on text. If I've got that, how can I save that info to be

[Flashcoders] Creating Custom Documentation MXP

2006-07-10 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
I've spent some time on google trying to find information and no luck. I'm looking for a pointer in the right direction on how to create custom documentation that would integrate into the Flash Help window installed via an MXP file. Thanks! ___

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Custom Documentation MXP

2006-07-10 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Nevermind, I found it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks | BLITZ Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:52 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Creating Custom Documentation MXP I've spent some

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Custom Documentation MXP

2006-07-10 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Steven, With such a great subject line i think it would benefit the archives to share your results... thanks, Dunc On 7/10/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevermind, I found it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] Introducing ObjectStore

2006-07-10 Thread Arul
What is ObjectStore? Object Store is a service for creating, managing and accessing objects on the server. It is a light weight alternative to keeping XML data on the server. How do we compare ObjectStore with RemoteSharedObject? ObjectStore is similar to RemoteSharedObject in terms of