[Flashcoders] Get Cursor x y position within textarea?

2006-09-22 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
Has anyone had to do this previously. I want to display a tooltip balloon where the cursor is within a textArea component. I'm restrcited to Flash8 for this. I've looked into it and it's looks nasty, So far I can see only a vague possiblity of achieving this although it involves estimates.

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime Skinning of a flash app.

2006-09-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
We skin by using an XML file to hold the parameters that control the appearance of the GUI. This is read by the application and it draws the on-screen elements using the information in the XML file. The information can set fonts, colors, sizes, indicate images, tell the GUI which movie clips

Re: [Flashcoders] Get Cursor x y position within textarea?

2006-09-22 Thread Adrian Ionut Beschea
You may want to look at this thread : http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-September/173034.html Instead of looking of the x,y position you could modify your link to handle html and make links to your own actionscript functions with asfunctions. Also, a cool tooltip manager

Re: [Flashcoders] Get Cursor x y position within textarea?

2006-09-22 Thread Adrian Ionut Beschea
I noticed a typo :) I meant modify your textarea to handle internal links - Original Message From: Adrian Ionut Beschea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:32:49 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Get Cursor x y

RE: [Flashcoders] Algorithm to find center of an irregular shape

2006-09-22 Thread Danny Kodicek
In this particular application, the shapes are the areas between the lines created when graphing several time series on a chart (e.g., the price of several stocks, graphed over time) It sounds to me like what you need is actually some kind of line of best fit rather than a centre. The usual

Re: [Flashcoders] Beta testers and comments needed

2006-09-22 Thread Magnus Askenbäck
Nice one, but you might want to add a progress bar of some sort as well. .m Berkay Unal wrote: Hi Luchy, Yes i am using ffmeg for the video convert. But thinging of switching it to mplayer to support more options . Thanks for your comments and opinion Best On 9/22/06, l u c h y x

Re: [Flashcoders] Using transform.matrix on loaded movie problem

2006-09-22 Thread Ray Chuan
Hi, try this: trace(System.security.sandboxType); You should get localTrusted. If you don't use Adobe Settings Manager to add the swf as a trusted swf. http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html On 9/21/06, Robert Sköld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [Flashcoders] FileReference browse() window

2006-09-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
Thanks Michael, that's too bad. Not a big deal for this project, just somewhat annoying. I guess nothing has changed with AS 3.0 /FP9 either? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader Class and Simulate Download

2006-09-22 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
I have just encountered to an interesting issue. If I terminate the MovieClipLoader's loadClip process within the Simulate Download environment, the Flash IDE crashes without exception. If you do the same in Test Movie, SA Player, or browser plug-in, it works fine as expected. The boiled down

RE: [Flashcoders] Runtime Skinning of a flash app.

2006-09-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
Rudi, I have taken the same approach as Ron and it works great. You can have liquid layouts that change based on an XML schema (or a webservice object, whatever data source you choose).You can then easily modify the layout dimensions, behaviors, themes, whatever by changing elements of the

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 video encoder queues

2006-09-22 Thread Andreas Rønning
Anyone know if there's a way i can save multiple queues from Flash 8 video encoder? I'm prepared to be copying xml files around or whatever :( - A ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] locality

2006-09-22 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... I'm doing a multilingual project for the 7 player. I need to set a language + locality variable to en-us instead of just en. It seems that System.capabilities.language was demoted going from player 6 (returns lang + locale) to 7 (just lang). Am I right? I can talk to javascript in

Re: [Flashcoders] locality

2006-09-22 Thread l u c h y x
From where you want to retrieve the locale code.? Language, is the OS language. but locale is the country of the user machine. I must create this script to detect the correct user location http://www.riaevolution.com/rialocalization.php. because flash dont provide it. Best On 9/22/06,

[Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Bedar
Is there a reliable way to detect a r-mouse click, and at the same time suppress the context menu? I could swear that there was a simple way to do it, but I amy be having a DIrector flashback..no pun intended. Thanks, Mike ___

[Flashcoders] cloning movieclips and adding them to ScrollPane

2006-09-22 Thread Adrian Ionut Beschea
Hello, I have a bunch of movieclips on stage and I want to display them in a scrollpane as well. So I need to come up with a way of cloning each one of them and add to the scrollpane's content. duplicateMovieClip doesn't seem to work since the clones are linked to the root and are not

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
you cant suppress the context menu in flash, you can add items to it tho.Might be what you're looking for. -Meinte On 9/22/06, Michael Bedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reliable way to detect a r-mouse click, and at the same time suppress the context menu? I could swear that there was

[Flashcoders] SWF or MovieClip in an Email

2006-09-22 Thread jktieman
Is it possible to include a SWF or MovieClip in an Email (not as an attachment). I've created a signature I would like to use. Jamie -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Dimitrios Bendilas
Hi Mike, Key.isDown(2) -- right mouse button Key.isDown(4) -- middle mouse button Setting wmode as transparent makes the context menu not show up in a browser. Dimitrios - Original Message - From: Meinte van't Kruis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] SWF or MovieClip in an Email

2006-09-22 Thread Helmut Granda
you need to upload the SWF to a server and then link the SWF to your signature. Now, remember that not everyone will allow images or animated content to show in their email software (outlook and so forth). On 9/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to include a SWF

RE: [Flashcoders] SWF or MovieClip in an Email

2006-09-22 Thread Nick Weekes
In fact on most systems (Windows anyway) ActiveX content in emails Is disabled by default. So its generally a bad idea. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helmut Granda Sent: 22 September 2006 15:54 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread slangeberg
Setting wmode as transparent makes the context menu not show up in a browser. Are you sure about that? Sounds more like bug than feature! Scott On 9/22/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Key.isDown(2) -- right mouse button Key.isDown(4) -- middle mouse button

RE: [Flashcoders] SWF or MovieClip in an Email

2006-09-22 Thread jktieman
Is there a way to check for the ability and display a normal signature if ActiveX is off? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Weekes Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:58 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] SWF or

[Flashcoders] Help debug a webservice issue

2006-09-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
I've got a webservice which is acting up and I'm trying to figure out if it's a .NET server issue, a c# script issue, a Flash Webservice component issue, or something else. The problem is the onResult listener gets fired sometimes, sometimes not. It had been working fine until yesterday. My

RE: [Flashcoders] SWF or MovieClip in an Email

2006-09-22 Thread Nick Weekes
Why not use a DIV and show a default image, then attempt to load a swf into the existing DIV. If it succeeds, the content will be replaced, if it fails, you are left with the image. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [Flashcoders] locality

2006-09-22 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Thanks for responding. Do you think there might be any way to do this with js or ideally all within the Actionscript? I don't know php. When I do this with Director projects, I read the locality from the Windows registry. From where you want to retrieve the locale code.? Language, is the OS

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Dimitrios Bendilas
Ok sorry, that's what happens on FireFox, at least the ver. 1.5.0.7 that I'm running here. So I guess it is a bug indeed. It's not the case on IE and Opera. Dimitrios - Original Message - From: slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread JOR
I'm using FireFox 1.5.0.7 and get the context menu on my site which uses wmode=transparent. James O'Reilly http://www.jamesor.com Dimitrios Bendilas wrote: Ok sorry, that's what happens on FireFox, at least the ver. 1.5.0.7 that I'm running here. So I guess it is a bug indeed. It's not

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Dimitrios Bendilas
It doesn't show up for me. I forgot to mention I have Flash Player 9. Dimitrios - Original Message - From: JOR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick I'm

Re: [Flashcoders] locality

2006-09-22 Thread l u c h y x
I can publish the php object. I think that can't do it with AS. Best On 9/22/06, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for responding. Do you think there might be any way to do this with js or ideally all within the Actionscript? I don't know php. When I do this with Director

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread John VanHorn
http://www.flashextensions.com/index.php?page=labs im not exactly sure how he does it, but robert taylor has a custom right click menu component. On 9/22/06, Michael Bedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reliable way to detect a r-mouse click, and at the same time suppress the context

RE: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Venton
I works with Firefox 1.5.0.7 but not when testing with IE7RC1. The latter still shows a minimal menu along with the custom one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John VanHorn Sent: 22 September 2006 18:48 To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread John Dowdell
aaron smith wrote: Does anyone know of an application that can mute flash or browsers for a mac? I generally push the sound mute button on the keyboard. Maybe you meant How can my content programmatically control each audience member's sound system?, for which I don't have an answer, other

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread aaron smith
no, like how can I mute just the sound that is in the browser. Say i want music playing but no sounds out of the browser.. keep in mind i'm not creating the flash site, so I can't jsut add this in to the site, it would be for muting the browser sound in general.. On 9/22/06, John Dowdell

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread aaron smith
flash sounds get annoying after so long, so i just want to be able to shut off the browser sounds, without having to disable my entire audio. On 9/22/06, aaron smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, like how can I mute just the sound that is in the browser. Say i want music playing but no sounds

RE: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
keep in mind i'm not creating the flash site, so I can't jsut add this in to the site, it would be for muting the browser sound in general.. This moves out of the realm of Flash questions then. If you had control of the Flash file, you can just set volume of the sound to 0. You might want to

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread aaron smith
yeah well I figured someone must have already wanted to do this. On 9/22/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: keep in mind i'm not creating the flash site, so I can't jsut add this in to the site, it would be for muting the browser sound in general.. This moves out of the realm of

RE: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread Mike Keesey
I think you can control all of the sound in a Flash movie like so: var globalSound:Sound = new Sound(_root); // Mute. globalSound.setVolume(0); // Restore. globalSound.setVolume(100); ― Mike Keesey ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread Helmut Granda
if you are running FF this mmight be your answer: http://johnbokma.com/firefox/find-in-page-sound.html On 9/22/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: keep in mind i'm not creating the flash site, so I can't jsut add this in to the site, it would be for muting the browser sound in

RE: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
I think you can control all of the sound in a Flash movie like so: He's asking to do this with the browser, not Flash - he doesn't have control of the Flash file. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message-

RE: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Setting wmode as transparent makes the context menu not show up in a browser. Setting wmode as transparent causes a major performance hit on all browsers on all computers especially Macs and Firefox. Avoid it like the plague on anything where frame rate and script performance is important.

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread aaron smith
that was close, although this is just control for the find sounds. like when you type something in the find menu, if i t can't find it you can shut the little sound off that it plays... On 9/22/06, Helmut Granda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you are running FF this mmight be your answer:

Re: [Flashcoders] masking a clip which uses the drawing api

2006-09-22 Thread Josh Santangelo
I have a clip that I'm drawing into. That clip is masked by a shape or another clip, set in the IDE or at runtime. The clip which is drawn into does not appear masked. Making a mask from a clip which you draw into does seem to work, but I couldn't make it work if the mask I drew had a hole

[Flashcoders] Flash Video : Relationship between data rate and file size doesn't work ?

2006-09-22 Thread David Bellerive
I don't know if I'm missing something here but what's the deal with Flash Video data rate and file size? Here's my understanding on Flash Video encoding: When I specify 300 kilobits/second for the video data rate and 50 kilobits/second for the audio data rate, I should get and FLV file that NEVER

RE: [Flashcoders] Help debug a webservice issue

2006-09-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
Nobody? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:17 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Help debug a webservice issue I've got a webservice which is acting up and

Re: [Flashcoders] masking a clip which uses the drawing api

2006-09-22 Thread Helen Triolo
sounds like http://flash-creations.com/notes/dynamic_drawingapi.php#cutoutmask Helen Josh Santangelo wrote: I have a clip that I'm drawing into. That clip is masked by a shape or another clip, set in the IDE or at runtime. The clip which is drawn into does not appear masked. Making a

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
heh that guy's right click menu is pretty smart actually. On 9/22/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting wmode as transparent makes the context menu not show up in a browser. Setting wmode as transparent causes a major performance hit on all browsers on all computers

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread Helmut Granda
Aaron is asking how to turn sounds off from pages he is browsing, no necessary SWF files he is working with. On 9/22/06, Mike Keesey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, can he load it into a holder SWF and set the global volume on that? ― Mike Keesey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread James Marsden
setting wmode = transparent for IE on windows will drastically speed up the player speed - it'll run as fast as it does in the standalone player. Just perform a browser check before setting the wmode - you can see an example in the source here: http://www.futurlab.co.uk/games/prism/ Our game

Re: [Flashcoders] masking a clip which uses the drawing api

2006-09-22 Thread Mick G
Try placing your API elements in a holder clip and masking that. Some people create new clips each time they draw an element and you may be masking only one element - not really sure what your API is doing but worth a try. On 9/22/06, Helen Triolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds like

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Video : Relationship between data rate and file size doesn't work ?

2006-09-22 Thread Eric Priou
Here's my understanding on Flash Video encoding: When I specify 300 kilobits/second for the video data rate and 50 kilobits/second for the audio data rate, I should get and FLV file that NEVER goes beyond 350 kilobits/second. So if I encode a 30 second video with those settings, I should get and

[Flashcoders] RE: Relationship between data rate and file size doesn't work ?

2006-09-22 Thread Jack Doyle
What software are you using to create your FLVs? I know Sorenson Squeeze has a setting that allows you to specify a minimum quality level which overrides any data rate settings (if/when it needs to). So if you set your bit rate really low, like 50kbps but the minimum quality is set to 95, you'll

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread aaron smith
exactly. i haven't been able to find anything.. i'm looking into writing some applescripts for it. On 9/22/06, Helmut Granda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron is asking how to turn sounds off from pages he is browsing, no necessary SWF files he is working with. On 9/22/06, Mike Keesey [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread eric dolecki
I am not aware of anything being able to hook into the FlashPlayer and affect its functionality like that. It would need to be a browser plugin of some sort. You tired of that mosquito ad too? Hehe. I just mute audio with a keypress, and then when i'm done there, unmute. Not that hard. - e. On

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread aaron smith
nah. it's actually for one of our QA people here, he QA's all of our flash projects, and one in particular has been going on forever so he get's annoyed with the sounds, but still wants to listen to music.. i found out that applescripts can't do the job either.. I bet i could write a firefox

RE: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Tell him to get a freaking iPod and some headphones. Failing that, buy him a box of tissues. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Mute Flash Application, mac.

2006-09-22 Thread aaron smith
hahahahahahah. i have to forward this to him.. I totally agree man.. i will get him some tissues.. smith On 9/22/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell him to get a freaking iPod and some headphones. Failing that, buy him a box of tissues.

Re: [Flashcoders] Beta testers and comments needed

2006-09-22 Thread Vibol Hou
Converted a 1.9GB Fraps video file to a 765k audio only flv. Would be nice to have an X to close the app; possibly a simple progress bar for the conversion. -V Berkay Unal wrote: Hi Coders, I've cretaed a drap n drog flv converter. But i need to have some beta testers and comments on it.

[Flashcoders] RE: Flash Video : Relationship between data rate and file size doesn't work ?

2006-09-22 Thread David Bellerive
Thanks for the replies. However, it still doesn't make sense to me! A 30 seconds video encoded with a total data rate (video + audio) of 700 kilobits/second should result in an FLV that weighs 2.56 MegaBytes no matter what the other settings are. But that's not the case. If I encode that 30

[Flashcoders] FLEX UPDATE URL FOR ECLIPSE installation

2006-09-22 Thread l u c h y x
Does anybody here know the UPDATE url for install the eclipse flex plug-in.? Or where can i found the plugin-files for eclipse. ? I´m using eclipse so i don't want to install the flexbuilder standalone. Thanks! a lot. -- l u c h y x r i a e v o l u t i o n (r) [EMAIL PROTECTED]