Re: [Flashcoders] Open PPT/WMV files from SWF?

2008-11-04 Thread Ali Drongo
Thanks for your replies Kevin and John. Unfortunately it seems that neither of your solutions will work for me. Director I don't have Director and would rather try and use a current technology if it is available and compile my application from Flash or using the Flex command-line compiler.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Builder: AS Application files outside of /src root?

2008-11-04 Thread Jon Bradley
Hmm I haven't had the time to check this one. But, content in the src folder doesn't need to be 'added' as an individual source path to your application. So, for other application files (AS) you may want to add explicitly the source path of it's parent folder to the project properties

[Flashcoders] grey line around ComboBox?

2008-11-04 Thread Preston Parris
Firstly I would like to thank everyone who has replied to my previous questions, if your answers have not solved my problem they have definitely led me in the right direction. I have a ComboBox that is completely styled with _global.styles.ComboBox.etc. and I have a custom RectBorder class

[Flashcoders] Force include of unreferenced classes in swf when compiled with mxmlc

2008-11-04 Thread Eamonn Faherty
I have a set of classes that are used at runtime and not referenced at compile time. I am using mxmlc.exe to compile from an mxml doc. I want to able to specify a set of classes to include into the swf for use only at runtime. Mxml.exe is excluding these classes as they are not being

[Flashcoders] MP4

2008-11-04 Thread Karim Beyrouti
Hello ! - just wondering what is the lowest version of flash that plays MP4?... Kind regards Karim ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] MP4

2008-11-04 Thread Merrill, Jason
I don't think any version of Flash can play MP4. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology Media · GCIB Staff Support LLD Interested in Flash Platform technologies?  Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? 

Re: [Flashcoders] MP4

2008-11-04 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
H.264 playback capability was added in Flash Player 9 Update 3, Version 9.0.115.0 - a.k.a. MovieStar Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Karim Beyrouti wrote: Hello ! - just wondering what is the lowest version of flash that plays MP4?... Kind regards Karim

[Flashcoders] Error playing flash

2008-11-04 Thread Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS
Hello, I have a client who is having difficulty playing all of our courses that contain flash 8. She is running flash 9. When she accesses the course, the source code for the page displays. This happens for both SCORM and non-SCORM courses. Have any of you seen anything like this happen? If

RE: [Flashcoders] Force include of unreferenced classes in swf whencompiled with mxmlc

2008-11-04 Thread Eamonn Faherty
Thanks for your response but that doesn't seem to work. I get unknown configuration variable 'Includes' I am using sdk 3. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 04 November 2008 16:53 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re:

RE: [Flashcoders] Force include of unreferenced classes in swfwhencompiled with mxmlc

2008-11-04 Thread Eamonn Faherty
Sweet, that worked a charm. I had tried lowercase i already but there was an error in my ant script too! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 04 November 2008 17:54 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Force

RE: [Flashcoders] MP4

2008-11-04 Thread Karim Beyrouti
Thanks... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Kawamoto Sent: 04 November 2008 17:33 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] MP4 H.264 playback capability was added in Flash Player 9 Update 3, Version 9.0.115.0 - a.k.a.

[Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Cor
/*My goal: I want to start my apps fullscreen whitout giving a user the possibility to scale or to encounter the app within a browser. When I CLICK it goes to FULL_SCREEN, but it doesn't work when I try to do this with other events. Back to NORMAL does work on

Re: [Flashcoders] Open PPT/WMV files from SWF?

2008-11-04 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
Hi Ali, Director is a current technology Director 11 is being sold today. WMV files open natively in Window Media Player and Mac's with OSX usually have Flip4Mac to read WMV through Quicktime. You are correct, fscommand exec want to call into a specific folder, hence why I suggested Director.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-04 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, If I create my AppScreens dynamically and add them - the added to stage event handler for the AppScreen sub-class is called. I am not calling addChild() for the components in the AppScreen sub-class because they are placed at authortime inside the clip - I should not have to call

Re: [Flashcoders] MP4

2008-11-04 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
I've done 4 projects, using tons of H.264 videos and they work great and look beautiful. ;) on 11/4/08 11:33 AM, Kenneth Kawamoto at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H.264 playback capability was added in Flash Player 9 Update 3, Version 9.0.115.0 - a.k.a. MovieStar

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-04 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Using automatically declare stage instances rather than instance variables / programmatic naming. Flash moaned about the latter - said I could not set the .name variable on something that had been added to the stage at authortime, which is why I assumed (maybe wrongly) that I

Re: [Flashcoders] MP4

2008-11-04 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
You ARE the Movie Star, John. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: I've done 4 projects, using tons of H.264 videos and they work great and look beautiful. ;) on 11/4/08 11:33 AM, Kenneth Kawamoto at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H.264 playback capability

Re: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I don't think you can go fullscreen automatically in the browser - it has to be in response to a Click event / user interaction - this is definitely the case for FP10 as it's one of the new Security Issues - not the one that Wordpress and others AJAXians are throwing their toys out of

RE: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Cor
Thanks Glen! I have to launch my apps from Moodle (LMS). So it opens the apps in the browser. Is it possible to start the app from a startpage.html and then fullscreen without any browser things? Kind regards Cor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Anthony Pace
Hi, Make a call from javascript; it has worked fine in past. I seem to remember being able to do it without user interaction in FP10; while in beta; yet, if things have changed like you said, (been under a rock..see my postings on job hell) then that code probably no longer works. Thanks,

Re: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Zeh Fernando
Fullscreen can only be activated on certain events, so you cannot hijack the user browser to set the fullscreen mode. Full-screen mode is initiated in response to a mouse click or key press by the user; the movie cannot change Stage.displayState without user input

RE: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Cor
Thanks Zeh. I noticed the displayState description, but it didn't do the trick for me. Is it possible to attach a fullscreen function to the ESC message, so when a user pushes ESC the app will stay in fullscreen? Kind regards Cor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Merrill, Jason
Is it possible to attach a fullscreen function to the ESC message, so when a user pushes ESC the app will stay in fullscreen? Why? That's evil! :) Unless it's a kiosk or something? Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology Media · GCIB Staff Support LLD Interested in

Re: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Anthony Pace
Now you have me wanting to experiment with this again... I have done this before for trapping keys for use in fullscreen for FP9... again not sure about FP10 ... Create a container and capture all events all events |

Re: [Flashcoders] Open PPT/WMV files from SWF?

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Thomas
Adobe AIR? Or one of the Flash2EXE projector technologies: SWFStudio: http://www.northcode.com/swfstudio.php SWHX: http://screenweaver.org/doku.php or its wrapper, HippoHX: http://hippohx.com/ (For completeness, Zinc also exists, but I'd never recommend it to anyone.) Additionally, I thought -

Re: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Carolina Avila Coral
Hi: I use two html pages to do that, the main page only has the information to open the fullscreen, the second page has the swf link. I hope it be useful for you. main page: script language=JavaScript type=text/JavaScript !-- function MachakFull(Ie,other){ //Copyright © 1999

[Flashcoders] Flex Builder: AS Application files outside of /src root?

2008-11-04 Thread Henry Cooke
Hello all, Something that's been bugging me for a while: why can only AS files in the root of a Flex Builder project's source folder be nominated as an application? Like, I've got a bunch of classes all neatly packaged up in packages inside /src, but in the Project / Properties / Actionscript

RE: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN problem Flash CS3 and AS3

2008-11-04 Thread Cor
Thank you. I am not familiair with Javascript, but I will try this. Kind regards. Cor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carolina Avila Coral Sent: dinsdag 4 november 2008 20:38 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FULL_SCREEN

[Flashcoders] Masks when Zooming in I.E. 7

2008-11-04 Thread Marc Hoffman
I created a swf that has several layers of translucent clouds moving beneath masks. The masks are set with ActionScript 2.0 and the cloud motion is also AS2. When this movie is zoomed larger than 100% in I.E. 7, the clouds become nearly opaque. Anyone know what it is about zooming in I.E. 7

Re: [Flashcoders] Force include of unreferenced classes in swf when compiled with mxmlc

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Thomas
Use the -Includes option on the command line to mxmlc. e.g. mxmlc MyApp.as -Includes com.mycompany.Class1 com.mycompany.Class2 -output MyApp.swf HTH, Ian On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Eamonn Faherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a set of classes that are used at runtime and not

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-04 Thread jonathan howe
Hi, Glen, It would be interesting to know for triage: How are you referring to the components in your main class, i.e. - are your contributors using the automatically declare stage instances or - you are creating matching variables in the main class or - not even giving them instance names and

Re: [Flashcoders] Force include of unreferenced classes in swf whencompiled with mxmlc

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Thomas
Sorry, shouldn't have been a capital 'i'. -includes Class1 Class2 is correct. The manual page is here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/compilers_14.html Definitely works with SDK3, that's what we're using. HTH, Ian On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Eamonn Faherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-04 Thread sebastian
If you don't do addChild() it won't actually be on the stage - even if you add it to an array or a variable inside of the clip. Consider: public class Tree blabla () { private var apple:Apple;//where 'Apple' is some item you want to attach to this class public function Tree () { apple

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-04 Thread jonathan howe
I don't think this is really Glen's problem. You should not have to addChild() an object placed on the stage via the authoring environment. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:27 PM, sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't do addChild() it won't actually be on the stage - even if you add it to an

[Flashcoders] Masks when Zooming in I.E. 7

2008-11-04 Thread Marc Hoffman
[Please excuse if this comes through twice -- it's been over 8 hours since I sent, but did not see posted, my original message.] I created a swf that has several layers of translucent clouds moving beneath masks. The masks are set with ActionScript 2.0 and the cloud motion is also AS2. When