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2007-02-06 Thread syam s
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[Flashcoders] Lead Developer - Central London

2007-02-06 Thread neil clements
Hi I am looking for a talented/experience developer for one of my clients in central London. If you looking to move to work for a leading digital agency and up for a challenge e-mail me with your details. Neil Clements - Digital Direct 020 7845 7213 73-75 Endell Street London WC2H 9AJ

[Flashcoders] Stop Flash caching classes (Pedr)

2007-02-06 Thread pedr browne
Thank you all for your replies. Will try and get it working a little later. Very much appreciated .p. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-06 Thread PR Durand
hi joshua thw for answer, but as I told Jah: yes, this is the reason why I have 651 instead of 502 in the 1st case. but I search the difference between 651 and 762, after passing trough an xml and a localConnection. I don't know wich one causes trouble I know this html tags add, but I find a

[Flashcoders] Extending List v2 component

2007-02-06 Thread Tomas Lehuta
Hello Flashers, I'd like to have some advice on customizing List v2 component since I have no deeper knowledge of v2 components set architecture. I need to extend the List component in some custom List class that would physically render all items of its data provider and not just use virtual

[Flashcoders] checking microphone

2007-02-06 Thread learner
Hi All, I am working on some voice recording application in flash. Before recording a audio, I want to give user a chance to check if his microphone is working or not. Please guid me in proper direction. Regards, Mayur ___

[Flashcoders] Flash Lite 2.1

2007-02-06 Thread Martin Klasson
Hi Flashcoders, Do you have tips on where to find the best sources of information about Flash Lite development outside the adobe.com domain? Or is there a mailing-list, or is Flashcoders the place to talk and discuss Flash Lite problems and practices on? / martin

Re: [Flashcoders] swf2jpg conversion

2007-02-06 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
is there any chance you could put it somewhere publicly accessible? im sure there are quite a few people who would like to use it (myself included) thanks, Martin Firstpixel wrote: There is some PHP that does it. email me and I will send you the php Classes. Gil Beyruth Criação e Desenv.

Re: [Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-06 Thread PR Durand
Hi Danny, My scroller is a home-made scroller, based on a content movieclip and a mask movieclip. It seems that the extra html added by flash to the text make the textfield becoming higher... I manually add a FONT tag to my text for the format, and flash gets to add the LETTERSPACING=0

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrolling text with dragger??

2007-02-06 Thread Tolis Christomanos
I did a google search too but the majority of the tutorials are using the uiscrollbar component. I want to learn how to make my own scrollbar for text. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Lite 2.1

2007-02-06 Thread Alias™
This book is worth checking out: http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590595580 HTH Alias On 06/02/07, Martin Klasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Flashcoders, Do you have tips on where to find the best sources of information about Flash Lite development outside the adobe.com domain?

Re: [Flashcoders] Extending List v2 component

2007-02-06 Thread R�kos Attila
Look into the CellRenderer API: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/3127.html Attila TL Hello Flashers, TL TL I'd like to have some advice on customizing List v2 component since I have TL no deeper knowledge of v2 components set architecture. TL TL I need to extend the List

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrolling text with dragger??

2007-02-06 Thread Helen Triolo
http://flash-creations.com/notes/actionscript_scrolltext.php Helen Tolis Christomanos wrote: I did a google search too but the majority of the tutorials are using the uiscrollbar component. I want to learn how to make my own scrollbar for text.

RE: [Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-06 Thread Danny Kodicek
Hi Danny, My scroller is a home-made scroller, based on a content movieclip and a mask movieclip. But doesn't the same principle apply? It seems that the extra html added by flash to the text make the textfield becoming higher... Right - now I see the real issue at hand: you're

Re: [Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-06 Thread PR Durand
I found where it came from... Thanx for your help : while you asked for the ignoreWhite param, I was quite sure that I had it to true, but I looked for the empty lines. And the xml tag content finished with a new line, wich became 2 newlines in flash, then a new P tag in the xml, and so a new

[Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o onRollOver

2007-02-06 Thread Holth, Daniel C.
It seems like in many of the projects I'm doing I need to have simultaneous onRollOver events. For example, a small movie clip with additional buttons needs to enlarge when the mouse is over it so the user can clearly click the buttons. However, when the user mouses over a button, flash no

RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o onRollOver

2007-02-06 Thread Danny Kodicek
It seems like in many of the projects I'm doing I need to have simultaneous onRollOver events. For example, a small movie clip with additional buttons needs to enlarge when the mouse is over it so the user can clearly click the buttons. However, when the user mouses over a button,

Re: [Flashcoders] Extending List v2 component

2007-02-06 Thread Tomas Lehuta
Hi, well, this will not help because my problem is not related to custom cellrenderer which I'm aready using.. I need a different logic for building and displaying all rows of the list when beeing scrolled.. -tom- On 2/6/07, Rákos Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look into the CellRenderer

Re: [Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o onRollOver

2007-02-06 Thread JOR
One solution I've used in the past was to use collapse() and cancelCollapse() methods. The parent rollover would use setInterval() to call collapse() on a delay of a few milliseconds giving the child onRollOver events the ability to be handled first. The child buttons would call

Re: [Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o onRollOver

2007-02-06 Thread Cay Garrido H.
I usually delete the rollOver handler while I'm over it, detecting the rollOut event through hitTest instead of onRollOut... its something like this: myFunction clip.onRollOver delete clip.onRollOver clip.onMouseMove if(!clip.hitTest(_xmouse,_ymouse)) delete

Re: [Flashcoders] Doxygen support for Actionscript

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
I like the idea of using an industry standard open source tool for this but Doxygen does need an ActionScript preprocessor to fix up these little problems caused by the slight but important differences in syntax between ActionScript and JAVA and C. When I first started using Doxygen for

Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a given point

2007-02-06 Thread Vishal Kapur
I don't understand what you're suggesting. The user is not dragging the movieclip. The idea is to write a function with a signature like: function getObjectAtPoint(xmouse:Number, ymouse:Number):Object On 2/5/07, Erik Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been a while but I believe the solution

Re: [Flashcoders] checking microphone

2007-02-06 Thread Andy Makely
There are a lot of ways that the microphone input could be invalid. You check Microphone.names.length to see if they even have a microphone installed, and check the current microphone's muted property to see if they are denying you access to it. If it's denied, System.showSettings(0) will help

RE: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Mountain
What he's saying is that _droptarget will tell you exactly what is at the top under the users mouse - but in order to use it you have to use startDrag to fool it in to working. Maybe you could drag an invisible clip around or something. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flashcoders] Sound changes in AS 3

2007-02-06 Thread Jason Boyd
I was just perusing the Flex/Flash API docs online, and noticed some changes in AS 3 to the Sound class which alarm me. An application I am working on now has essentially a simple wavetable synth, which has a lot of assets named by note (e.g. c#4), and at runtime instantiates a bunch of Sound

[Flashcoders] Tracking User progress through a presentation.

2007-02-06 Thread Mike
Can anyone point me towards a tutorial on tracking and providing feedback to a user on where they are in the current tutorial/presentation. For instance if a tutorial has 5 sections and they have only completed 3 I want to be able to show their overall progress in relation to the entire

Re: [Flashcoders] Doxygen support for Actionscript

2007-02-06 Thread Forums @ Existanze
Thank you Ron, I will try that On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:46 -0500, Ron Wheeler wrote: I like the idea of using an industry standard open source tool for this but Doxygen does need an ActionScript preprocessor to fix up these little problems caused by the slight but important differences in

Re: [Flashcoders] Tracking User progress through a presentation.

2007-02-06 Thread R�kos Attila
If you are already using Flash, then SharedObject seems to better than cookies. But it can depend on your actual project structure, of course. Attila M Can anyone point me towards a tutorial on tracking and providing feedback to M a user on where they are in the current tutorial/presentation.

RE: [Flashcoders] Tracking User progress through a presentation.

2007-02-06 Thread Alain Rousseau
SharedObjects would be much better than cookies as they are native to flash. or you can keep the progress on your server through a database. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Herrman Sent: 6 février 2007 12:39 To: Flashcoders mailing

[Flashcoders] Extending List v2 component

2007-02-06 Thread skrichten
I put together some code for that same reason. Rather than subclassing the list component, I'm wrapping the scrollpane component. Any scroll implementation can be swapped if desired http://www.sleekdigital.com/News/5.aspx

RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o onRollOver

2007-02-06 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
You can use hitTest, you can use mouse position, or you can set an interval to fire a function in 10 ms when you rollout that checks to see if a flag is true that the other button will set true onRollOver. function checkFlag() { clearInterval(checkInterval); delete checkInterval;

RE: [Flashcoders] Extending List v2 component

2007-02-06 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Why use a component at all? All you're talking about doing is scrolling a bunch of movieclips behind a mask. I posted some code here awhile back that covered doing that. Search the archives and you'll find it. It's pretty straightforward to do. The MM components are heavy, take too long to

[Flashcoders] Selection Box

2007-02-06 Thread Brandon Barkley
Hey guys, I am setting the onPress callback of an mc to call Selection.setFocus(this.mc); This works correctly, but I notice that briefly when the setFocus call is executed that a yellow outline flashes around the mc. I have seen this box before when I have tabbed through selections as well. Is

[Flashcoders] RE: Selection Box

2007-02-06 Thread Brandon Barkley
I figured it out. For the curious, it involves the use of _focusrect. See this in the archives for more info. http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-August/145629.html Hey guys, I am setting the onPress callback of an mc to call Selection.setFocus(this.mc); This works

[Flashcoders] [JOB] Flash Developer/Consultant, Washington, D.C. | Relo OK

2007-02-06 Thread Beau Gould
Flash Developer/Consultant, Washington, D.C. | Relo OK My client is looking for a Flash Developer to work near Washington, DC. The position is long term and will require very strong ActionScript skills and OOP experience (no specific language, just methodology). Good documentation skills are a

[Flashcoders] Pretty impressive Flash website

2007-02-06 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
http://www.rr.com/flash/ I think it's a very good example of a full-blown flash website. An AJAX-killer maybe? (Don't get me wrong, I do like Ajax, I'm not fanatic kind of person :) Does anyone know who made this website (which company or person)? And could someone guess which technology was

Re: [Flashcoders] bitmap RLE example

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Newman
Zeh Fernando wrote: I have a project that creates comic strips, and the owner would like me to make it so that users can download an image of the comics they create. I have looked around, and found that this is possible to do in Flash 8, but there are some performance considerations. I've seen

Re: [Flashcoders] brain is dead: Syntax Error, why?

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
You are missing the package level com.3Sixty.BIARegionMap.model.App but that is not the problem What is your classpath? Jon Bennett wrote: Have you defined: class core.Folder1.Folder2.App { // } At that location to import? I would suggest the Java style:

Re: [Flashcoders] brain is dead: Syntax Error, why?

2007-02-06 Thread slangeberg
You probably need to tell flash where to find your classes. If this is flash 8, open your .fla and select - Edit - Preferences - ActionScript - Language: Actionscript 2.0 Settings... (button) - Classpath: [+] (plus button) - type in: ./as (to open field) This will let flash look in that

Re: [Flashcoders] brain is dead: Syntax Error, why?

2007-02-06 Thread Jon Bennett
Good luck! If all else fails, post your code in a zip and we'll take a look. ahh, got ya. Think I'm going to go a quicker route, because I've only got till morning to sort this job (and it's only small!). I'll be back though soon for help getting this all correct. Thanks all! Jon

[Flashcoders] RMTP port issue

2007-02-06 Thread laurent untereiner
I'm trying to connect a video player to a FMServer. Wich port can I use securely ( that connect every time ) I try : rtmp: 1935 ( connect only on some config due to firewall setting ) rtmp: 443 idem rtmpt: 80 ( idem and sometime when the connection succeeded the con. can closed very fast) and

Re: [Flashcoders] Tracking User progress through a presentation.

2007-02-06 Thread Mike
Right now it is 1 swf with multiple flvs but I will be doing another one that will involve multiple swfs. Should I adapt a loader bar to my tracking needs? I could use a database for tracking but I just need a little nudge on getting the tracking part started. Thanks, Mike

Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Vishal Kapur
Ok, got it. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this but it doesn't work with the third-party flash movie I am looking at. They have an movie clip with _alpha set to 0 that covers the stage at a depth higher than all other visible elements. As a result _droptarget is always set to that object.

Re: [Flashcoders] Weird white box - help

2007-02-06 Thread Liz Hincks
Great!! that worked well... however, now my drop down menus fall behind the flash animation on the PC everything seems to work fine on the mac. Is there a trick to getting the menus to drop down over the animation while using SWFObject ??? view the problem here:

Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Alain Rousseau
You have your answer in your question ! :) the _alpha is set to 0, thus invisible but still with a _visible = true property. So check for also the _alpha value, not only the _visible value Vishal Kapur wrote: Ok, got it. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this but it doesn't work with the

Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Vishal Kapur
I should have clarified: in the original problem with 2 conflicting objects, _alpha is also set to 100 for both objects. On 2/6/07, Alain Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have your answer in your question ! :) the _alpha is set to 0, thus invisible but still with a _visible = true

[Flashcoders] [ANN] AS3 Effects Framework

2007-02-06 Thread William Smith
Guys I am creating an effects framework, something similar to scriptaculous. It is gonna be simple easy to use. What I am looking for is suggestions of what effects you guys would like included in it. Here's what I got so far: Blind In Blind Out Slide Left In Slide Left Out Slide Right In Slide

Re: [Flashcoders] Weird white box - help

2007-02-06 Thread Liz Hincks
Thanks everyone, I got it to work by adding a few extra parameters. so.addParam(quality, low); so.addParam(wmode, transparent); thanks again, Liz On Feb 6, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Liz Hincks wrote: Great!! that worked well... however, now my drop down menus fall behind the flash animation on

[Flashcoders] var (eventHandler)

2007-02-06 Thread eric cash
Okay, I'm guessing it's a stupid question, so I'll get over it asap. I've never written a custom class before, and have recently started to code things in Flash which are much more complex, approaching application status, so I'm trying to wwrap my head around all of this OOP stuff. I keep

Re: [Flashcoders] var (eventHandler)

2007-02-06 Thread Jason Boyd
It's possible you are getting confused in further details about event handling. There is some invisible stuff happening here that goes beyond just understanding classes and objects. Buttons and MovieClips are registered listeners of mouse events automatically. What this means is that an event

RE: [Flashcoders] var (eventHandler)

2007-02-06 Thread Hairy Dog Digital
Eric, The example you're referring to comes up when the authors of that text are explaining the concept of encapsulation. It's a way of creating an onEnterFrame event on the same timeline as the code. It doesn't actually have anything to do with classes. If you have a class that extends the

RE: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at agivenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Erik Bianchi
I'm not sure how your app is structured but if you can't put your movieclips above this 3rd party movieclip you wont be able to use _droptarget (as you've already discovered) unless you can set that interfering movieclips visibility to false. I'm not sure how / why you want to check what mc the