[Flashcoders] Flash mx 2004 developer Certification Info

2007-09-10 Thread Nilesh.Walkoli
Hi all, I am preparing for Flash mx 2004 developer Certification. Could anyone know the best resources site or demo questions for preparation of this exam. Currently I am browsing throgh forta.com Thnx in adv. Regards, Nilesh W This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the

[Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread sean
Hi all, I know this seems like such a newbie question, but for the life of me I can't fix it. I have a simple tween of a bitmap image from one side of the stage to the other. During this transition, it slices as it moves, going very jaggedy (I realise that's not a real word, but it's the best

Re: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread dr.ache
Maybe you scaled the image non-proportional, but you say it happened even with vectors. how does your image look like. are there fine linies at the edges? then you should prepare your image in a way that there is 1 or 2 pixel space to the edges of the borders. you should also ensure that your

[Flashcoders] AS3 TextField.defaultTextFormat only works when focus is set to the TextField

2007-09-10 Thread EECOLOR
Hello, this message is just for the archive. I have been fiddling with defaultTextFormat for a few hours now and couldnt get it to work after clicking on a button. Eventually I found out that in order for the defaultTextFormat to be active, the TextField needs to have focus. Greetz Erik

Re: [Flashcoders] state array for combo box?

2007-09-10 Thread Andy Herrman
state array? I'm not sure what you mean. -Andy On 9/9/07, Corban Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone have a simple state array for a combox i could steal? :) thanks! -- -cb ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

[Flashcoders] netStream onPlayStatus ?

2007-09-10 Thread eric e. dolecki
I don't get this to fire for me... its shown in the online docs, but it doesn't seem to do anything? http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/NetStream.html#event:onPlayStatus - eric ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash mx 2004 developer Certification Info

2007-09-10 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Nilesh, http://www.forta.com/books/0321157303/ From the Certified Macromedia Flash MX Developer Study Guide Regards, -Keith http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] protoscript

2007-09-10 Thread John Mark Hawley
I've hunted around, but no luck--anyonethought about porting protoscript (protoscript.com) to AS3? It's a simple JSON-based set of behaviors for adding interactivity to sites. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options

[Flashcoders] *** BUG or just plain weird!!!

2007-09-10 Thread Corban Baxter
ok guys I am having the most insanly weird problem. I just started programming on a mac and testing on one. recently i built a pretty basic menu that uses xml to load some thumbnails into a scrolling menu. its a great expandable reusable menu. anyway once i published it and ran it in the browser

RE: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread Hal Leonard
Sometimes the tween easing helps that kind of thing... Is this transition done via code or via the timeline? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:46 AM To:

Re: [Flashcoders] state array for combo box?

2007-09-10 Thread Corban Baxter
i was neededing something for the 50 US state. sorry i just wrote it. On 9/10/07, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: state array? I'm not sure what you mean. -Andy On 9/9/07, Corban Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone have a simple state array for a combox i could steal? :)

Re: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread sean
Thanks for the quick reply, but I should have mentioned that I ensured the scaling was 100% and all images were at pixel perfect positions. Also, the picture shear is extreme. It is clearly like a really bad refresh rate Maybe you scaled the image non-proportional, but you say it happened even

[Flashcoders] disappearing menu????

2007-09-10 Thread Corban Baxter
Sorry for the double post but i quickly realized if I comment out the code in my script for moving the menu the problem is fixed so it has something to do with all of this code moving the menu... here is what I am doing... var menuOut:Boolean = false; btnHolder.onEnterFrame = function(){

[Flashcoders] add to your calendar in flash

2007-09-10 Thread Guillermo Valdivia
Have anyone deal with having an icon on a flash page to add a meeting to your calendar in outlook? How to connect flash with outlook I supposed. Let me know. Thanks. MCKINNEY / ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Sean, If the image is internal to your library you can try setting the smoothing option on the image itself. Right click image in library and check Allow Smoothing. This might help. Dunc On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, but I should have

Re: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread sean
Hi Dunc, sorry mate, I keep forgetting ALL the things I've tried in the last 24 hours, lol. I also tried that :) But basically, it seems no-one has seen this behavior out side of bad settings, I certainly haven't seen it on any other graphic tweening site examples. Sean Hi Sean, If the

[Flashcoders] OT: Force download PDF

2007-09-10 Thread Corban Baxter
hey if I put a pdf link i flash and I saw. getURL(mypdf.pdf); it keeps trying to open it in the browser. how can i force the browser to download the pdf? -- Corban Baxter http://www.projectx4.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Force download PDF

2007-09-10 Thread Van Tuck
Could use FileReference class. Van R Tuck Director of Web Development Cause Design Group 1519 Stanford Street Suite 6 Santa Monica, CA 90404 t: 310.430.5369 www.causedesigngroup.com On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Corban Baxter wrote: hey if I put a pdf link i flash and I saw.

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Force download PDF

2007-09-10 Thread Muzak
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=Force+download+PDFmeta= - Original Message - From: Corban Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 6:32 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] OT: Force download PDF hey if I put a

Re: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread Ian Thomas
Can you show an example? Because it sounds to me like fairly ordinary page tearing - an effect that happens when the write-to-screen isn't synched up to the refresh rate of the monitor, which is often an issue when moving large chunks of the screen around. AFAIK Flash isn't synched to the monitor

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Force download PDF

2007-09-10 Thread R�kos Attila
In the HTTP response send headers similar to this: Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=mypdf.pdf Attila =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From:Corban Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing

RE: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread sean
both :( Sometimes the tween easing helps that kind of thing... Is this transition done via code or via the timeline? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:46 AM To:

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Force download PDF

2007-09-10 Thread Jesse Graupmann
SOURCE http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm ?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=2210.html NOTES - Max 100 MB for download - Only 1 download at a time // // // // import flash.net.FileReference; var listener:Object =

[Flashcoders] XML confusion

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Steven
I am trying to convert a string to xml but for some reason when I convert to xml it only displays the encoded string. See below the code snippet for what is traced. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Here is my test file var encodedString:String = encoded string; var XMLString:String;

[Flashcoders] Flash and 3D example

2007-09-10 Thread Norman Cousineau
There doesn't seem to be too much Flash / 3D stuff out there. I've posted an example of Flash and 3D working together. I've been doing a fair amount of research into using 3D objects in training scenarios, and this is one example that uses Flash. http://www.datasfaction.com/3D/ Cheers, Norm

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash mx 2004 developer Certification Info

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Andrews
I think you mean: http://www.forta.com/books/0321256026/ Any particular reason you are looking for certification for MX2004 and not Flash Professional 8? Eventually the MX2004 certification will be phased out. Paul - Original Message - From: Keith Reinfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Flashcoders] XML confusion

2007-09-10 Thread Ron Wheeler
You do not want to send an XML object, you just want to send the string. It is the server that needs to convert the string to an XML Object. Just send it the characters. You may have to encode the string since HTTP has no idea about CDATA. The browser and server will look at every character

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and 3D example

2007-09-10 Thread Ron Wheeler
A few 3D pacakages. Google Sandy 3d http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/ Norman Cousineau wrote: There doesn't seem to be too much Flash / 3D stuff out there. I've posted an example of Flash and 3D working together. I've been doing a fair amount of research into using 3D objects in training

Re: [Flashcoders] XML confusion

2007-09-10 Thread ben gomez farrell
I don't think you're doing anything wrong, its just that the trace function only accepts strings as parameters. So when you pass in your XML variable it would throw an error if you were using a more strict language like Actionscript 3 (at least I assume it throws an error in AS3, maybe it

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash and 3D example

2007-09-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
There doesn't seem to be too much Flash / 3D stuff out there. Cool. Have you heard about Papervision3D or Sandy 3D? http://osflash.org/papervision3d http://osflash.org/sandy Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team

Fwd: [Flashcoders] Flex - How to get button ID name?

2007-09-10 Thread macromedia flash
Thanks guys, it works great!!! awesome! However, it doesn't work to get x and y postion for textinput component. do you have any ideas of this? I may need to fix this as soon as possible, I am appreciate if you guys have any suggestions. Cheers THANKS

[Flashcoders] How to Create a FLASH CS3 Component?

2007-09-10 Thread Enrique Chávez
Hi there, i made a lot of as2 based components in the past. Now i need to create a new one in AS3, I cant find anything in the flash's docs i only find a few sites talking about AS3 componentes. I understand, are 2 components type, a FLA based and the old SWC. i try to create a new SWC

[Flashcoders] Question with substring and type conversion.

2007-09-10 Thread paul
Hey, I need to extract the last digit from a loaded section of MovieClips. Named sequentially mc1 mc2 mc3...mc125. I so I want to convert the mc Names to Strings and then use something like this myVar = McStringName.substr(-1); It is all being done within a setInterval(func, 10); - running

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and 3D example

2007-09-10 Thread Ian Thomas
Norm, Take a look at Papervision3D. http://osflash.org/papervision3d Ian On 9/10/07, Norman Cousineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There doesn't seem to be too much Flash / 3D stuff out there. I've posted an example of Flash and 3D working together. I've been doing a fair amount of research

[Flashcoders] Golden Ratio Spiral points

2007-09-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
\I'm no math whiz, does anyone know how I can draw a golden spiral and position and move sprites/movieClips along a golden spiral path? What is a golden spiral? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor b is related to

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Force download PDF

2007-09-10 Thread Corban Baxter
thanks for the help guys. i wasn't familiar with the file reference class. i had seen it in the past but never used it so thanks! On 9/10/07, Jesse Graupmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SOURCE http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm

[Flashcoders] AS3 - Serial?

2007-09-10 Thread eric e. dolecki
I am curious if anyone has seen an AS3 class or knows how to go about having AS3 talk to a serial port (like Zinc). Is this possible without a Zinc-like wrapper? - eric ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

Re: [Flashcoders] Golden Ratio Spiral points

2007-09-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I think you need to do Rectangular to Polar conversion after working out your r value based on your angle. Assuming c is calculated by c = \varphi ^ \frac{2}{\pi} = 1.358456 Then here is some psuedocode. for(angle = 0;angle revolutions;angle += step) { c =

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Serial?

2007-09-10 Thread Johannes Nel
i doubt it. you can get around this with a simple app and apolo, but directly from an adobe product On 9/10/07, eric e. dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious if anyone has seen an AS3 class or knows how to go about having AS3 talk to a serial port (like Zinc). Is this possible

Re: [Flashcoders] Golden Ratio Spiral points

2007-09-10 Thread Danny Kodicek
What is a golden spiral? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor b is related to φ, the golden ratio. Specifically, a golden spiral gets wider (or further from its origin) by a factor of φ for every quarter-turn it

Re: [Flashcoders] Question with substring and type conversion.

2007-09-10 Thread Omar Fouad
use toString(mc1).substr(-1); On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I need to extract the last digit from a loaded section of MovieClips. Named sequentially mc1 mc2 mc3...mc125. I so I want to convert the mc Names to Strings and then use something like this myVar =

[Flashcoders] Loader component weirdness

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using the AS2 Loader component to view jpgs. I'm experiencing the strangest results. Certain images show up just fine, others don't show up at all, although they do appear to get completely loaded. I've taken these same images and resized them, changed the amount of jpeg compression,

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Serial?

2007-09-10 Thread Ricky Bacon
eric e. dolecki wrote: I am curious if anyone has seen an AS3 class or knows how to go about having AS3 talk to a serial port (like Zinc). Is this possible without a Zinc-like wrapper? http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/h.barragan/flashserialinterface.html -Ricky

[Flashcoders] Loaded file is an unknown type ??

2007-09-10 Thread Martin Tremblay
In AS3, using the Loader Class, I get this error. Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2124: Loaded file is an unknown type. Here's a description of the problem: 1)I load multiple file and once. 2)Only some of them don't load and not always the same one.(Sometime a.swf load and not

Re: [Flashcoders] Golden Ratio Spiral points

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Winterhalder
var radius = Math.pow( a * c, angle ); Ooops, should be: var radius = a * Math.pow( c, angle ); And angle is in radians, so Math.PI * 2 is a full circle. It's what Math.atan2() gives you (not so incidentally), so if you want to tie it to a mouse pos... Mark On 9/11/07, Mark Winterhalder

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Serial?

2007-09-10 Thread eric e. dolecki
Ricky - that looks sweet. Have you tried it? Will it work with a USB interface? - eric On 9/10/07, Ricky Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eric e. dolecki wrote: I am curious if anyone has seen an AS3 class or knows how to go about having AS3 talk to a serial port (like Zinc). Is this