Re: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
found this on the greensock site - might work for you TweenMax.sequence(target:Object, tweenObjects:Array):Array - *Description:* Provides an easy way to sequence a set of tweens, one after the other, for the same target. It's essentially the same thing as making a bunch of individual Tw

[Flashcoders] working with AS3 and php/mysql to send and retrieve info from database

2008-09-10 Thread BOYD SPEER
I am just not able to send variables to a php script that inserts the data into the database. I get the error "#2007 Parameter listener must be non-null". here is the code: var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(); request.url="http://www.boyd-speer.com/autoinfo/Irish/src/php/addstudent.php";

Re: [Flashcoders] working with AS3 and php/mysql to send and retrieve info from database

2008-09-10 Thread BOYD SPEER
I now am getting the error: Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: http://boyd-speer.com/autoinfo/Irish/src/Irish.swf cannot load data from http://www.boyd-speer.com/autoinfo/Irish/src/php/addstudent.php. I tried placing this: Security.a

Re: [Flashcoders] working with AS3 and php/mysql to send and retrieve info from database

2008-09-10 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
1) You can place a crossdomain xml in the public root that allows connections from *.boyd-speer.com. 2) You can place the same crossdomain somewhere else and load it explicitly (loadDomainPolicy() if I remember right) 3) You can use the same sub-domain in both cases (www.boyd-speer.com) and it shou

[Flashcoders] Help Please

2008-09-10 Thread Eng. Omar Eltonoby
Hello, I'm trying to resize the created movie clip (via width and height) but that seems to have no effect. Is there any restrictions on that? I tried to resize it using the properties panel dimensions didn't change. thanks in advance for your help -- Eng. Omar Abouzied Eltonoby Computer Enginee

Re: [Flashcoders] Help Please

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Eng. Omar Eltonoby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:41 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Help Please Hello, I'm trying to resize the created movie clip (via width and height) but that seems to have no effect. Is there any restriction

Re: [Flashcoders] Help Please

2008-09-10 Thread eric e. dolecki
A created mc (with code) has a height and width of 0 until it's populated with something. If this is something that you created and placed on the stage, you should be able to use the property inspector to change those. Eric On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Eng. Omar Eltonoby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wr

Re: [Flashcoders] working with AS3 and php/mysql to send and retrieve info from database

2008-09-10 Thread Weyert de Boer
Or you just redirect all the www-trafic to the non-www domain ;) 1) You can place a crossdomain xml in the public root that allows connections from *.boyd-speer.com. 2) You can place the same crossdomain somewhere else and load it explicitly (loadDomainPolicy() if I remember right) 3) You can use

[Flashcoders] What kind of Movies will play directly in a Flash Page

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Abaffy
Hello, I have a client that has a .wmv movie and wants to know how you can get it to play directly in the browser window without opening a helper app such as Windows Media Player. Does the movie have to be converted to a different format or how is this done. Basically he wants t

Re: [Flashcoders] What kind of Movies will play directly in a Flash Page

2008-09-10 Thread sebastian
Batch converting to FLV's is how I've done it. You get a tool that does just that in the flash install-application folder. :) Seb. Steve Abaffy wrote: Hello, I have a client that has a .wmv movie and wants to know how you can get it to play directly in the browser window w

Re: [Flashcoders] What kind of Movies will play directly in a Flash Page

2008-09-10 Thread Nate Beck
WMV = Microsoft... therefore without converting it, the only to do what you want is to use Silverlight. Cheers, Nate On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Steve Abaffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > >I have a client that has a .wmv movie and wants to know how > you can get i

Re: [Flashcoders] working with AS3 and php/mysql to send and retrieve info from database

2008-09-10 Thread BOYD SPEER
Thanks guys! the crossdomain.xml file seemed to fix the problem! - Original Message - From: Juan Pablo Califano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:41 am Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] working with AS3 and php/mysql to send and retrieve info from database To: Flash Cod

RE: [Flashcoders] What kind of Movies will play directly in a Flash Page

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Abaffy
I have found that using a FLVPlayback component will play the movie. I have converted the moive and it will play just fine when during development, however when I publish the swf to the webserver the movie does not play. It acts like it can't find the flv file. The file is in the same directory as

Re: [Flashcoders] What kind of Movies will play directly in a Flash Page

2008-09-10 Thread Nate Beck
Make sure your source is relative to your website and not a path like: DO: movie.flv DON'T: C:\foo\bar\movie.flv On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Steve Abaffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found that using a FLVPlayback component will play the movie. I have > converted the moive and it wil

RE: [Flashcoders] What kind of Movies will play directly in a Flash Page

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Abaffy
Yes I did this. However I also found the if I go to the webserver and try to play the flv movie directly using the flash8 player nothing happens, the player opens up and remains blank. It appears as if the file is empty, however the file is 46KB in size. Not sure what is going on here. Like I said

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Thanks for that, I will look into it. Glen allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: found this on the greensock site - might work for you TweenMax.sequence(target:Object, tweenObjects:Array):Array - *Description:* Provides an easy way to sequence a set of tweens, one af

Re: [Flashcoders] getURL and ExternalInterface

2008-09-10 Thread Hans Wichman
thanks! On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:17 AM, sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in AS2 externalinterface is your friend and it works PERFECT with swfaddress > and swfobject. There are some strange issues with IE though, so make sure > you test well on that platform. > > read this for more informat

Re: [Flashcoders] What kind of Movies will play directly in a Flash Page

2008-09-10 Thread Margo Powell
I believe the Flash 8 player requires the full pathnames to flv files in order to play correctly. Regard Margo Powell On 9/10/2008 1:17 PM, Steve Abaffy wrote: Yes I did this. However I also found the if I go to the webserver and try to play the flv movie directly using the flash8 player nothi

[Flashcoders] converting TextArea's scroll and bottomScroll to substring

2008-09-10 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... Is it possible somehow to get a substring of all the visible text in a textArea? If I know there are 35 lines in the TextArea, and it's only 30 lines tall, how can I have lines 31-35 show up at the very top? (AS2) Thanks! - MM ___ Flashc

Re: [Flashcoders] converting TextArea's scroll and bottomScroll to substring

2008-09-10 Thread sebastian
HI Michael, A quick check of the class in the help file: TextField Class Shows me that no such method or property exists, even though I suppose it might be a useful one - however in all my years of using flash I've never found this to be an obstacle you can't circumvent. The way I would go

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread sebastian
If you are using AS2, check our FUSE as an alternative animation engine; I swear by it, learn it once and it will forever animate your work on all projects with kind simple powerful beautiy... ;) On AS3 there isn't as good a package as fuse around [yet?]; I'm using Tweener on AS3 which is near

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I have tried Fuse before in AS2 and whilst it was pretty good, I have been trying out TweenLite and found this to have a slight edge for what I need. Glen sebastian wrote: If you are using AS2, check our FUSE as an alternative animation engine; I swear by it, learn it once and it

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread Matt S.
Maybe I'm missing something about whats being attempted, but I know in Tweener (As3), you can just put in a value like 1440, and it will rotate 4 times, using a single tween. This code: Tweener.addTween(mc,{rotation:1440,time:2,transition:"linear"}); Does just that, no need to string multiple twe

RE: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Doyle
If you want to rotate it 3 full rotations, you could just use a relative value by putting quotes around the value, like this: TweenLite.to(my_mc, 1, {rotation:"1080"}); Or if your amount is in a variable, just cast it as a String, like this: TweenLite.to(my_mc, 1, {rotation:String(myRotationVari

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hmm, let us play... ...you beauty. Thanks very much, that worked a treat. Glen Jack Doyle wrote: If you want to rotate it 3 full rotations, you could just use a relative value by putting quotes around the value, like this: TweenLite.to(my_mc, 1, {rotation:"1080"}); Or if your amoun

RE: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> On AS3 there isn't as good a package as fuse around [yet?]; What does FUSE have over TweenLite and TweenMax? FUSE always bloated my projects and had problems in high stress situations. Jason Merrill Bank of America  Instructional Technology & Media Join the Bank of America Flash Platform

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread sebastian
Ooops on the simple solution for a relative rotation [my bad]! Much better than my suggestion... :P Why Fuse? -> Sequencing, passing & writing animation objects. It is true for small applications, like banners; it's overkill when kbs are in dire need. But for web 2.0 application development, a

RE: [Flashcoders] Tween multiple rotations

2008-09-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
Your generalizations are interesting to say the least. "Web 2.0 application development" has nothing to do with the demands on a tween engine, I'm building a social networking app and the way the interface renders, a lightweight tween engine is essential. But if my interface was not as demandi