[Flashcoders] Web Services / Services in flash 9 cs3

2007-04-19 Thread Austin Kottke
Are we missing something? I can't find any support for web services, soap calls, or service objects in flash 9 cs3. How about flash remoting? How do we do this now? Anyone have any ideas? This is a bit of a shock. ___

[Flashcoders] flex/flash integration kit

2007-04-19 Thread Muzak
This was just mentioned on the osflash mailing list: http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/04/fitc-keynote-flexflash-integration-kit.php Maybe this will be the way to transform FCS3 exported timeline animations to Flex, which was discussed here recently. quote 1. Create Flex Components using Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Web Services / Services in flash 9 cs3

2007-04-19 Thread Muzak
Flash Remoting has always been a separate install (and we had to wait quite some time for the first AS2 version). Now it seems that the Data Components have been removed for AS3. They're still there if you create an AS2 document. I assume you have a pre-release version of FCS3, so maybe this

[Flashcoders] Scrollbar in IE / Resize outside player

2007-04-19 Thread Petrus Rademeyer
Hi List, I'm quite new to flash and have run into 2 problems with a project I'm working on. I've got a ScrollPane of which I set the contentPath to display a document(another swf) inside it. This works during testing and in firefox, whenever I try in IE6 and IE7 the document only displays

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:49 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote: I'd say it stands a decent chance of supporting a bunch of formats eventually. Remember this thing is built on Apollo, and you can build your Apollo app with HTML. Maybe Apollo won't support HTML pages with plugins (except for

[Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method as event handler

2007-04-19 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm trying to create a v2 component representing a deck of playing cards and I have a problem, which I believe is very common, but I can't find a solution on the net yet. My code is simple and is listed completely at the bottom. And the problem is, that when I assign an event handler to

[Flashcoders] problems loading text

2007-04-19 Thread Gustavo Duenas
Hi, I have this buttons dynamically generated, this is the ccode: stop(); var menus = new Array (); menus = [Results of using POA,Previous steps to POA, How do we apply POA, What is POA]; trace(menus.length); for (i=0; imenus.length; i++){ var newButtons = menus[i]; var buttons =

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area of a masked SWF

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Brisita
With your second explanation, the problem you are having is clearer. About a year ago, I developed an application where I had a container that loaded SWFs from other developers. I contacted all the developers with the dimensions and the FPS the SWF container is being built on and sent them

[Flashcoders] Fixed: need to send on(rollOut) to button component

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
I was having trouble with some buttons that I was un-enabling as soon as onRelease was called. The trouble was that when the buttons where later re-enabled, they were displaying their Over skin. I have fixed this by calling onRollOut() immediately after re-enabling: button.enabled = 1;

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method as event handler

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Brisita
The compiler says: **Error** Deck.as: There is no method with the name 'setDepthTo'. this.setDepthTo(DepthManager.kTop); And from your code I don't see it either: this.setDepthTo or this.filters. When you say it works do you mean it compiles ok or that onPress the card acts the way

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method as eventhandler

2007-04-19 Thread Muzak
The DepthManager adds methods to the MovieClip prototype, but they're not defined in UIComponent. Some are defined in UIObject, but setDepthTo is not one of them: var buildDepthTable:Function; var findNextAvailableDepth:Function; var createChildAtDepth:Function; var

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method as event handler

2007-04-19 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Robert, On 4/19/07, Robert Brisita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The compiler says: **Error** Deck.as: There is no method with the name 'setDepthTo'. this.setDepthTo(DepthManager.kTop); And from your code I don't see it either: this.setDepthTo or this.filters. When you say it

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method aseventhandler

2007-04-19 Thread Muzak
typo: card.onPress = raiseCard; function raiseCard() { // runs in scope of card instance and not Deck //bad // this != Card } should be card.onPress = raiseCard; function raiseCard() { // runs in scope of card instance and not Deck //bad // this != Deck }

[Flashcoders] Anything to know about Vista multimedia development?

2007-04-19 Thread ben gomez farrell
Hey everyone, We might have a project coming up that needs to run in Vista. We'll do the development in Flash, and I'm assuming that making a Flash projector should be no problem (right? even if we're using Flash 8?) What I'm worried about is if the client needs to set the desktop

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method as event handler

2007-04-19 Thread Alexander Farber
Found my error - was missing _parent.evt_obj in the last line below: On 4/19/07, Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Below is my almost working code (the card event doesn't dispatch yet for some reason, but the rest works - card can be dragged etc.): function

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method aseventhandler

2007-04-19 Thread Muzak
Bah, and another.. sorry.. function raiseCard() { // runs in scope of Deck //good // this == Card // but which card was clicked?? } should be function raiseCard() { // runs in scope of Deck //good // this == Deck // but which card was clicked?? }

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method as eventhandler

2007-04-19 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Muzak, On 4/19/07, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because each card instance now uses the EventDispatcher class you can easily determine which card instance was pressed/released through the argument passed to the event handler. your suggestion is excellent as always - I'll try that!

[Flashcoders] On2VP6 hardware acceleration

2007-04-19 Thread Randy Tinfow
We have not had much luck deploying video that is more demanding than the following: 720x540 pixels, at 15fps, 1.2mbps. If we do larger than that, we get stuttering video. Even jacking up the frame rate to 29.97 causes hesitation problems. Are there ways to hook into video board acceleration to

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

2007-04-19 Thread thotskee
@ben: excellent point! i hadnt thought about the HTML embed route, that's def. something to think about. i want to try it actually just to see what happens. @jon: i'm not familiar with libavec but that is def something to think about and look into as well. it seems like apollo is going to

RE: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area ofamasked SWF

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Hood
Why not place a movie clip, behind the bottom-most background layer (or, make it invisible) that is the same size as the desired size(or visible height width) you wish the swf to be read as, by the main stage (assuming that is what you are trying to do)? That way, if your swf is really 800 X

Re: [Flashcoders] On2VP6 hardware acceleration

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Randy Tinfow wrote: We have not had much luck deploying video that is more demanding than the following: 720x540 pixels, at 15fps, 1.2mbps. If we do larger than that, we get stuttering video. Even jacking up the frame rate to 29.97 causes hesitation problems.

RE: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Mudge
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Weyert de Boer Genuine Dongles? What about dumping dongle data and then use a dongle emulator? I'm glad you asked! =) Making a totally un-copyable dongle is actually pretty trivial. There are

[Flashcoders] * Paid Project * - FLV Player Skin, enhancements

2007-04-19 Thread Brian Weil
I'm looking for an actionscript developer to customize the flv player here: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=flash_video_player All of the graphics are complete and I have a prototype of the skin working with an older version of the source code, but need further enhancements within a tight

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area ofamasked SWF

2007-04-19 Thread matt stuehler
All, I've come up with a solution - it's not perfect, but it's pretty robust and reliable. If anyone is following this thread and would like more detail, send me an email. Cheers, Matt Stuehler On 4/19/07, Michael Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not place a movie clip, behind the

RE: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-19 Thread Laurie Jensen
Can you give me some guidance about vendors for low cost dongles please? Thanks. Laurie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Mudge Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject:

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area ofamasked SWF

2007-04-19 Thread Ian Thomas
You could probably do it by blitting the contents of the clip to a BitmapData and then using getColorBoundsRect(). Ian On 4/19/07, matt stuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I've come up with a solution - it's not perfect, but it's pretty robust and reliable. If anyone is following this

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-19 Thread nik crosina
And me ;) ! How would I connect such a dongle with the app I am trying to preotect when I am using Director and / or Flash! Nik On 4/19/07, Laurie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give me some guidance about vendors for low cost dongles please? Thanks. Laurie -Original

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a class method aseventhandler

2007-04-19 Thread Muzak
Have you tried using setDepthAbove(instance) DepthManager.setDepthAbove() regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Compiler chokes when using a

[Flashcoders] Flash Media Player

2007-04-19 Thread Aaron Roberson
I may be stupid for asking but could someone tell me where I can get the media player used here: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/events/nab2007/webcast/ I went to the Multicast website and saw that they had something called Interactive Media Player. Just to be clear, I am