I've been annoyed that there is no RSS feed (that I can find?) for
the Adobe Site of the Day awards, so I made one myself. It's here:
http://feed43.com/2786211776444037.xml
Powered by the great feed43.com service.
-josh (who may or may not have been the developer on today's award-
winner)
That's good man :)
Regards,
Bjorn Schultheiss
Senior Flash Developer
QDC Technologies
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Hi list,
Iam trying to add a new help book to the standard help through MXI but I am not
able to find the exact way to do it, I googled a lot and found nothing much
useful. Can some one please help me in this ...thanks in advance
Ravi Marella
Surely this is just a matter of using a fully featured IDE to develop
your code in - if you use Flashdevelop for instance you can block
comment/uncomment any lines/lines using // syntax from the edit menu
with comment line, or with keyboard shortcuts - this will not conflict
with block comments
Hi,
I have a clip with a hierarchy of nested clips inside. Some of the
clips have mouse events and I would like to disable them all at once
(not disable each one manually)
I thought I could somehow just tell the containing clip to ignore all
events - something like container.mouseEnabled =
Okay, weirder and weirder:
On my local machine loading from a local file, loading .swf v6 gives
instanceof MovieClip=false and v7 and v8 give instanceof
MovieClip=true.
On a remote machine loading from that same remote machine, loading
.swf v6 gives instanceof MovieClip=false and v7 and v8 give
Oh, I should add - I get the same results when I throw the Fling code
out completely and write a simple loader from scratch.
Cheers,
Ian
On 8/24/06, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm certainly running out of ideas for a simple fix, here - and it's
definitely not the loading code, it's
Found it.
container.mouseChildren = false;
Isn't this just the best ActionScript ever :)
Samúel Jónasson wrote:
Hi,
I have a clip with a hierarchy of nested clips inside. Some of the
clips have mouse events and I would like to disable them all at once
(not disable each one manually)
I
Maybe I'm not explaining my self clear.
What I want to know is what is the best approach to make a site with a menu
with some buttons with rollOvers, rollOuts... When you click a button it
stays selected until you click another one.
Clicking any button will load content on a specific place on
Does the useWeakReference parameter of
EventDispatcher.addEventListener() method in ActionScript 3.0 work? I
referred the following documents:
ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/as3preview/langref/flash/events/EventDispatcher.html#addEventListener()
AS3:
For the system you are describing I use one from this book (chapter 3)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590595947
It is a nice system formenus, doing exactly what you want and it is easy to
customize
Wouter
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Sorry, one typo:
Fumio Nonaka wrote:
// frame action
import flash.events.Event;
// addEventListener(EVENT.ENTER_FRAME,
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,
function (eventObject:Event):void {
trace(eventObject);;
},
false, 0, true); // sets useWeakReference to true
--
Fumio
Thanks for the feedback Mike. I was vainly hoping it wasn't due to the crap
factor. I will add movieClipLoader to the list of Flash components that
can't quite deliver .
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Is your XML object set to ignoreWhite?
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004file=1896.html
Scott
On 24/08/06, Wouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
I got an MS Acces database with data, which I converted to
Hey everyone,
I am just posting this to see if anyone on the list is interested in working
in Ottawa. We have 2 Flash Development positions to fill.
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We are looking for an experienced Macromedia Flash developer to join our
team. This position
Careful with circular references. Pretty easy to get that one in to
exceed the 256 recursion limit.
Scott
On 23/08/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
static function clone(obj:Object):Object {
var o = (null != obj.length) ? [] : {};
for (var i in obj) {
Thanx! But ignoreWhite = true
So that`s not it...any other ideas?
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Is your
Anyone have an algorithm to space dynamically created movieClips centered on
the stage? I'm using attachMovie in a for loop to create the clips based on
an unknown number of itemsusually 3-5 items that are about 150px wide
each.
Thanks..
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I've written a singleton that should load in videos on demand, but it
plays the video twice, once only audio, and the second, a couple of
milliseconds later, both audio and video. Components on the stage call
loadVideo, and through debugging, I know that call is only fired once,
The new flashloaded pageflip component works great: http://
flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/pageflipper
On 8/23/06, Matthias Dittgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I dislike those questions asking for ready-to-use code,
but
this time I have such a question by myself:
Does someone
Hi list,
Iam trying to add a new help book to the standard help through MXI but I am not
able to find the exact way to do it, I googled a lot and found nothing much
useful. Can some one please help me in this ...thanks in advance
Ravi Marella
For a textfield with multiple lines of text and wordWrap set to true,
I want to select the whole line of the current caretIndex.
Is there a script or a tutorial?
How could I do this?
--Keith H--
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I read the following post and have the same exact problem. How did you
construct the .net web service to allow the web service to grab the
value of the complex array from Flash:
This is an old thread I started back in May which I am following up on
with a question. Muzak had replied to me
You could remove the line breaks from your XML file. \r is a carriage
return. In Windows, it accompanies a newline character when someone
presses enter.
Scott
On 24/08/06, Wouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanx! But ignoreWhite = true
So that`s not it...any other ideas?
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Thanks for your help on this Ian.
I'm not sure I understand all of what you found here, so let me
summarize with some questions to see if I got it right.
Flash 6 SWFs fail every time when loaded remotely? - This hasn't been
my experience. I've been able to load some small ones (20K) without
the
Mmm, some hints,
It is OOP and it consists of 2 main classes that are extended by two other
classes . The 2 main classes define all the methods necessarye to let the
system function (stuff like selected state, attaching the buttons (which
reside in your library)). Then the 2 classes that extend
Are you just looking for what to put in your MXI or are you looking for
how to setup your Help book?
Here's an example of a file node in the MXI:
file name=help_toc.xml destination=$flash/HelpPanel/Help/MyBook /
The MyBook folder will be a folder where all of your docs are kept. The
My current system is to create a Main class, which is the only thing on the
timeline. Then instantiate, passing in _root:
var main:Main = new Main( this );
Where my class now has an internal reference to _root, but no headaches with
embedding movies, forcing _lockroot, or anything.
eg:
import
Hey Scott,
Thanx again! You happen to know a smart way to delete those white lines?
Wouter
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Hyndman
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Did you try condenseWhite on your textfield?
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/w
whelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=2740.html
From the help files:
var my_str:String = Hello\tWorld\nHow are you?\t\t\tEnd;
this.createTextField(first_txt,
I am no expert in object or application design so I would like to ask for
some advice on a particular idea that I am throwing out there.
Orthogonality, as I have learned, is that between any n-number of objects,
if a change happens in one, it will not adversely affect the others. In
other words,
Hey Ryan,
thanx, but this doesn't seem to solve it.
But I found out I can do a find and replace on the empty lines in
Dreamwever so I`m gonna play with that!
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Okay,
I have fixed the problem. I would say that this is certainly bug with
Flash, but there is a work around. Thanks to Keith Peters for
mentioning this to me last night.
So here's the deal... Back in the day before MovieClipLoader when you
wanted to load and external SWF, you had to check a
ha, how old school. when in doubt wait a frame or 15...
On 8/24/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay,
I have fixed the problem. I would say that this is certainly bug with
Flash, but there is a work around. Thanks to Keith Peters for
mentioning this to me last night.
So here's the
Someone know the better way to extract *just* audio from flv files?
I have try this way:
- import flv into Flash
- export .wav file
But the final result is a big file... without any sound!
Tips or software suggestions will be appreciate...
* Enrico Tomaselli
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Hmm google through back some pretty nice results with extract audio from
FLV
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=FLV_Extract
This one looked like the easiest... although not tried it
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Hi list...
How do you get an external FLV's total time property? It seems the
elapsed time is netsream.time, but I want to create a progress bar.
Thanks,
- MM
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So you're saying I need to use a third party tool to overcome an issue
created by another third party tool? Where does it end?
WHERE...DOES...IT...END? :)
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N70 I think runs FL2.
bit more slimline than the truck that is the 6680. Also has a 2mb
Carl Zeis camera.
Or you could wait a good few months (prob. christmas time) for Nokia to
start shipping the latest FL2 phones
Cheers
Nick
Johannes Nel wrote:
i saw an awsome app on a nokia
Here's one way:
myString.split(\r).join();
myString.split(\n).join();
And if you use my XString class (search the archives):
myString.squeeze( ); might do the trick, too.
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It ends when you make your own damn third-party tools! ;)
Seriously, though, I don't find that I have to comment out huge swaths
of class functions at a time very often. Even if I did have to comment
out several functions, they might not be next to each other, anyway.
And, as I said before,
Careful with circular references. Pretty easy to get that one in to
exceed the 256 recursion limit.
Feel free to post an alternative. :)
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I guess it depends on how much you know about C# and .NET and creating
the Webservice in .NET. I asked my .NET developer and he sent me this
simple example of creating an object in .NET and how to call the method
via Webservices. As for setting up the webservice, there is a menu
option in .NET
Thanks guys, yeah the N80 was one I was just looking at and there are
features that I hadnt even considered (like wireless internet connectivity).
I'm assuming there's info on FL2 at Nokia's site, but do you have any
specific links I can check out?
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The totalTime is part of the metadata. Catch the onMetaData-Event and you
got it.
Cheers,
Sönke
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Ahh, thanks very much Sönke!
The totalTime is part of the metadata. Catch the onMetaData-Event and you
got it.
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I would mark each object (by actually assigning the cloned object as a
property of the original) as I go through each individual clone
operation, and keep a running array of what is being marked. If I hit
something that is already marked, I will use the clone instead of
copying the same object
But I found out I can do a find and replace on the empty lines in
Dreamwever so I`m gonna play with that!
If you have access to any decent text editor you should be able to get
rid of them. I use UltraEdit for this, because it supports RegExp in the
replace dialog. Basically, you just want
Here's one way:
myString.split(\r).join();
myString.split(\n).join();
It sounds to me like he's trying to take a database and turn it into
something that can be loaded directly by Flash, maybe for a distributed
standalone app (CD, web download, etc). Depending on the size of the data,
it
Hogwash, for previous projects we stored huge blobs
in both MySQL and MSSQL Server and these were replicated
globally and accessed frequently from both the web and
intranets.
If it is designed right it works just fine.
Try replicating a few million files to 200 sites using a file system.
~neo
Here is an example that seems to work for me. Inside an .asmx file:
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
[WebService(Namespace = http://domain.com/;)]
from the Flash 8 Reference Manual
Example:
The following example creates a progress bar using the Drawing API and the
bytesLoaded and bytesTotal properties that displays the loading progress of
video1.flv into the video object instance called my_video.
A text field called loaded_txt is
Hi list,
I now this is a coding list, but I bet there are many design-oriented
programmers around... and we know that the flash world is unique in which
the line between design/logic seems to blur!
I´m mostly a programmer but now I´m looking into interface design and
overall design material.
On 8/24/06 1:04 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the line between design/logic seems to blur!
LOL...so design and logic don't mix? ;-)
I wonder what other books or even online
tutorials/articles do you more experienced flash designers recommend?
From a mostly
That's funny. Comm Arts and How are the only subscriptions I get. Two
great suggestions.
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Wow, and I thought KP was only good with random()!
yeah yeah, I know, I owe you a beer for that one.
On 8/24/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ha, how old school. when in doubt wait a frame or 15...
On 8/24/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay,
I have fixed the problem.
RegEx performs greedy searches, so it would find
a first and move past it, which would break the second
pattern as it would just be b. In general you want to
order your expressions from longer matching to shorter
if one contains the other.
Just think of it as gobbling up patterns before other
Thanks... I have Google access too..
So, I hope in suggestion about (tested) software; however, I'm trying some
other software solutions.
Thank you anyway.
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Regex supports lazy matching as well using the '?' option on pretty
much any quantifier.
Scott
On 24/08/06, neo binedell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RegEx performs greedy searches, so it would find
a first and move past it, which would break the second
pattern as it would just be b. In general
I'll tell you a little secret about OOP.
Don't sweat it.
Sometimes the model jumps out at you but other times you
have to find it. How to find it? Write something that does
what you want. Then refactor it once you have a better idea
of how it works. The more you do that the more certain
the line between design/logic seems to blur!
LOL...so design and logic don't mix? ;-)
Yeah, they can perfectly mix! But usually there is a huge void between 'em.
Maybe I haven´t expressed myself right, maybe a more adequate sentence would
be: programmers and designers usually don´t mix as
OOP and Flash is indeed tricky to fully grasp. It has become easier and more
natural to implement OOP techniques on AS3 though.
@Neo: Completely agree with you.
On 8/24/06, neo binedell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll tell you a little secret about OOP.
Don't sweat it.
Sometimes the model
Ian, did you set System.security.allowDomain() from both side to the other?
In some case, for example to MovieClip.setMask() to a MovieClip loaded
from other domain, System.security.allowDomain() should be set not only
from other domain to the domain to which the swf is loaded but also from
Here I was helping someone today with complex objects in .NET
webservices and didn't notice a big problem on my end.
I thought I had this figured out, but Arrays are coming across weird in
a .NET webservice as generic objects not arrays that Flash can
understand. I never noticed it before
do you have precompiled classes in the SWF you're using? you might have to
recompile with the IDE then test with mtasc. If you do have classes
precompiled in the SWF with the IDE, use the -keep tag. If you're using mx
components, use the -mx tag
make sense?
On 8/24/06, aaron smith [EMAIL
Hi Mike,
What do you mean I can query their setting?
Thanks,
Dimitrios
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You should read the documentation for localSharedObject - you'll find many
interesting things. You'll be able to see what the viewer's setting
currently is, etc.
A user may get that dialog the 1st time data is saved for the domain - and
then won't be seen again. I think that is the point of your
I need to a script way to find the start index and end index in a
multiline textfield.
This would be a peice of cake if multiple lines where not involved.
Currently i'm selecting the index for \n to the next \n.This
technique is useless for wrapping text though.
Hello,
I have this very very urgent issue!
Users of an application I made with Flash 8 Zinc get this warning screen:
http://www.zefxis.gr/files/warning.jpg
when they first run the executable.
I know this is because my app saves some files on the hard drive.
The question is, is there any way
Yes,
He is trying to do that exactly :) I got a db and have to use the data in
Flash on a CD.
:)
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Thx for this Ryan!
The thing is that in the file I dpnt see the /r or /n...i just see this as
an example:
postIntroGeachte minister,
Lorem ipsum sig dagelet mi cando si nado.
vriendelijke groeten,
/postIntro
And in Flash I get all the \r in it an it looks really weird with a lot of
space
I'm tired...
NetStream.seek(x).
I think I'm looking for the equivalent of FLVPlayback.seek()
but without that component. I'm using a video object.
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My main motivation for this stuff in Flash is so that my code actually gets
checked by the compiler, vs. Flash's crappy built-in code-checking for the
stage. That is, it will tell me if I've mis-spelled something, created
duplicate variables, the list goes on...
In addition, I write my classes
you can store up to i think 100k without popping a warning on the
default config.. more than that you have to ask permission.. you can
query their setting to make it a little more user friendly.
mike
On Aug 24, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Dimitrios Bendilas wrote:
Hello,
I have this very very
Thanks eric,
Yes, they only see it for the first time.
As this is a downloadable app, it's not about a specific domain
but rather Local.
The thing is in my case I don't deal with SharedObject at all.
I don't use SharedObjects in the whole project.
The issue arises because the app is trying to
Hi,
anyone done a scrubber in as3 for a streamed flv from FMS2?
I am not having any problems with repositioning the playhead. My
problem is that while scrubbing I want to display a still frame from the
video where the scrubber is (as it is dragged).
Wish I could find more samples for
Has anyone ever heard of ImageVue? It´s a damn cool flash app, a online
gallery to be more specific. However, if you eventually buy the sources and
try to learn from them you will be disappointed - it's damn hard to
understand even how the application is put together. And why? Simply becouse
it's
Hi All,
I'm using the BrowserStateManager class to set the state of my app using
parameters in the query string. this makes it very hard to debug however, so i
was wondering how i can still pass vars to the app even though i'm i'm not
running the app in a browser as i debug it (debugging using
You can just set your FlashVars on the first frame on the main timeline.
(And make sure you delete them when done testing.)
I don't know of a better way.
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I have an swf that is utilizing video. I also have a set of tweens
that are happening in the background of the swf. What I want to
accomplish is that when I press the pause button, the tweens pause as
well as the flv video. I am using fuse to control the tweens and have
no problem pausing
neo,
Try replicating a few million files to 200 sites using a file system.
Since this was basically a hi hello how do I make a multi-player game
in flash its got to have
lasers question, I doubt that's was what bhasker had in mind.
Never the less, thanks for your informed advice.
Tony
Just curious,
What do people on this use to create UML diagrams? Do you use a WYSIWYG
diagram-creating tool (preferrably which can output skeletal AS class
code)? Or do you use something that scans preexisting AS classes and
generates UML diagrams (or a UML-related XML format, like UXF).
I've
Hi,
I have a model class that has a bunch of getters and setters.
Example:
private var _prop:Object;
function get prop():Object {
return _prop;
}
function set prop(p:Object) {
_prop = p;
}
I have a controller class that instantiates that model.
I'm wondering if there is some
If you're not willing to code a solution, then why are you bothering to
write out an explanation? I have yet to encounter a recursion limit and
I've parsed some deep object models.
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In AS3.0 I think it can be package-private, but until then
One way is to have the Model class satisfy an interface that lacks the
property (of course, in AS2.0, all interfaces lack properties...), and
then only expose the model class as the interface elsewhere.
interface IModel {
Wait--that doesn't expose the getters. H...
Okay, substitute the interface with a superclass (say, AbstractModel)
that has the getters, but not the setters. Then expose the Model object
as AbstractModel everywhere except inside the Control class.
I've never tried that, but I think it should
If you had one circular reference, you'd hit the recursion limit.
On 24/08/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you're not willing to code a solution, then why are you bothering to
write out an explanation? I have yet to encounter a recursion limit and
I've parsed some deep
ArgoUML from www.tigris.org is free.
Eclipse has a free UML editor
If you want to generate UML from Actionscript, Doxygen will do that and
generate Javadoc style documentation from properly commented code.
Ron
Mike Keesey wrote:
Just curious,
What do people on this use to create UML
Hi,
I have a flash application that has a couple of combo box components and a
couple of text fields.
Trying to tab between my text fields doesn't work, even though they are all tab
enabled and have tab indexes.
The reason for this, I have recently found out, is due to the combo box
Loading SWFs that import shared library items using a MovieClipLoader is
also problematic. Are the SWFs that you are loading importing shared
library items?
Scott
On 8/23/06, Tony Fairfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have any insights as to why onLoadInit (the movieClipLoader
This is so simple you don't even have to ask the list... in that for
loop just increment and set the mc's x / y. There's no complex algo
behind it.
On 8/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have an algorithm to space dynamically created movieClips centered on
the stage? I'm
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