Re: [Flashcoders] SoundChannel.position bug on SOUND_COMPLETE

2008-10-24 Thread John McCormack
Flash_Tiger's have talked about this quite a bit. A recent comment was... [Flash_Tiger] BUG: channel.position doesn't work with mp3s below 128kbps] John Patrick Matte | BLITZ wrote: I'm experimenting with the SoundChannel in Flash CS3. On SOUND_COMPLETE, the position of the channel is always

Re: [Flashcoders] open word document from flash

2008-10-24 Thread Bassam M
Hi Mendelson I download Buddy API but I'm not able to open word file from director I can open txt file by baOpenFile() can you tyell me to open word file or excel from director using Buddy API. thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] Type Coercion errors when loading remote Interfaces

2008-10-24 Thread Henry Cooke
Hi all, I'm working on an API to allow developers to write apps which connect to an AMFPHP service. For security reasons, we're placing all the code that actually deals directly with the service in a connector SWF which sits on our server and is loaded in the developer's app by a loader class

[Flashcoders] Printing filters from the Flash Player

2008-10-24 Thread Gert-Jan van der Wel
Hi there, We use filters (shadows and glows) to make the scene look better. At some point a user can print what they've created, but the print shows no filters. Is there an easy way to get the filters on the print? Gert-Jan ___ Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] open word document from flash

2008-10-24 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi Bassam, I don't have my Director documentation in front of me at the moment, but I believe it's this: Result = baOpenFile(fullPathToFile, Normal) -- returns a numeric value of whether or not it worked. That line of code needs the *full* path to the file name, and it opens the app based on

RE: [Flashcoders] open word document from flash

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Steven
Another option is to use MDM Zinc to wrap your flash movie in. This is really simple and offers a cross-platform solution. It is fairly expensive though if that is the only reason you need to use the third party wrapper. I have also used a bat file from a bloke called Northcode - do a search on

Re: [Flashcoders] attachMovie() with non-library-symbols

2008-10-24 Thread Matthias Dittgen
Have your received my email with the Test SWF? What's an RSL ? Remote Shared Library. Imagine Main.swf loading Sub.swf. Sub.swf consists of Library Symbol exported for AS and for runtime sharing! Then in Main.swf Symbols from Sub.swf can be attached as if they were directly in Main.swf.

Re: [Flashcoders] Printing filters from the Flash Player

2008-10-24 Thread Jim McIntyre
Gert-Jan van der Wel wrote: Hi there, We use filters (shadows and glows) to make the scene look better. At some point a user can print what they've created, but the print shows no filters. Is there an easy way to get the filters on the print? Have you tried printAsBitmap? I found that was

Re: [Flashcoders] Printing filters from the Flash Player

2008-10-24 Thread Gert-Jan van der Wel
Hi Jim, Yeah we tried the printAsBitmap option, but it didn't make much of a difference. We're now looking at creating a BitmapData and printing that. Maybe that works. Gert-Jan Op 24 okt 2008, om 15:17 heeft Jim McIntyre het volgende geschreven: Gert-Jan van der Wel wrote: Hi there,

[Flashcoders] Flash / Flex Wiki Framework / API

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Muller
Hi, I am looking for a actionscript framework or api which will help build a wiki for a Flex application. Typical Wiki functionality (integration with Wiki application or support for Wiki within Flex) (Freedom to construct pages and mini-sites of content) Rich Text Editor functionality including

[Flashcoders] h264 video looks blurry/crappy in flash

2008-10-24 Thread Søren Christensen
Hey All Has anybody experieced h264 video being more crappy when played through flash instead of i.e. the quicktime player If you compare these two: In flash http://agentzoo.dk/temp/videotests/?file=mp4/ bancpost720_16-9.mp4w=702h=394 the file directly:

RE: [Flashcoders] open word document from flash

2008-10-24 Thread Bob Schmitt
When using Buddy to launch external files, I've always used a 3 step approach. First, find the user's doc viewer with: App = baFindApp(doc) Then, string the app path and the doc path together, converting the paths to short file names: myFile = the moviePath myworddocument.doc appFile =

Re: [Flashcoders] h264 video looks blurry/crappy in flash

2008-10-24 Thread Cedric Muller
do you, by any chance, use the video.smoothing = true ? by looking at the video, it seems this option is set to true hth, Cedric Hey All Has anybody experieced h264 video being more crappy when played through flash instead of i.e. the quicktime player If you compare these two: In flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Disabling Print Screen key

2008-10-24 Thread Jim McIntyre
If you have any Macs in your target audience, remember that the OS's screen capture routine doesn't involve the clipboard, but creates a PNG file directly on the desktop. Remember too that there is a variety of screen grab utilities out there on either platform... this might be a losing

Re: [Flashcoders] h264 video looks blurry/crappy in flash

2008-10-24 Thread Muzak
Detection script has the wrong version format: 9,1,1,5 Should be: 9,0,115,0 As for the blurryness, like Cedric said, it's probably the video.smoothing property. Without it though, the video (especially text at the end) looks very jagged. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From:

Re: [Flashcoders] Disabling Print Screen key

2008-10-24 Thread Pedro Taranto
Thanks for remember that Jim, I forgot to say that it just worked on windows in my tests it didnt work on linux nor mac, but it was OK for the project I developed but you have to remember that the user wont be able to copy anything while your flash is running, even in the background -- Pedro

Re: [Flashcoders] Disabling Print Screen key

2008-10-24 Thread sebastian
It's one of those things where 'abuse' comes to mind. Short of not allowing flash to do such a thing, if such an overwrite of the clip-board is occurring there should be a warning to the user, otherwise they might wonder why they can't use copy-paste anymore! I wonder what it is that would be

RE: [Flashcoders] Disabling Print Screen key

2008-10-24 Thread Andrew Murphy
The company I work for does online surveys (amongst other things) and they can include showing people images of proposed products/campaigns/etc. A client asked if we can keep our panelists from keeping copies. Our response has been, No. But we can make it a little more difficult. So they asked

Re: [Flashcoders] Printing filters from the Flash Player

2008-10-24 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Here is some AS2 code that I wrote to do this - the _toPrint is a MovieClip containing lots of stuff with filters on. There is scaling too - depending on whether the user has chosen portrait or landscape - for later AS3 code, I worked out the orientation and rotated the printed image

Re: [Flashcoders] Type Coercion errors when loading remote Interfaces

2008-10-24 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, There is a bug in Jira which looks like your problem: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3529 I had strange behaviour the other day with loaded classes, but it was different to yours - I just remembered finding this on the way... Glen -- Glen Pike 01326 218440

[Flashcoders] NetStream.Play.FileStructureInvalid

2008-10-24 Thread Latcho
Hello, I met the -NetStream.Play.FileStructureInvalid- The documentation is poor: Flash Player detects an invalid file structure and will not try to play this type of file. Supported by Flash Player 9 Update 3 and later. My problem is that the mp4 file (created with ffmpeg) plays well 9 out