[Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Steven
Been a long time since I have had to make a cross platform CDROM, or even a CDROM at all to be honest. Anyway I have developed a series of educational games with Flash CS3, with the main packaged file packaged with MDM Zinc (to enable me to have a coloured background outside the stage area). I

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Ian Thomas
We use James Walker's Hybrid CD Construction Kit on the Mac: http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/hybrid-cd.html HTH, Ian On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Paul Steven paul_ste...@btinternet.com wrote: Been a long time since I have had to make a cross platform CDROM, or even a CDROM at all to be

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Ian Thomas
I may have misunderstood Paul's requirements. Paul - if you want to make all files on the disk visible to both platforms, just normally burning a disk on Windows or Mac should be fine (as Karl suggests). If you want _different_ files to appear to each platform, look at something like the Hybrid

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
What are you using to burn your CD if your not using Toast? Are you on a PC or can you use a MAC? If your on a MAC using 10 or greater, you can just put in a CD and it should ask you what to do. Choose Open Finder (I believe is the option) it will load your cd to the desktop and you can open

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Ian Thomas
Not that I've found yet... But to be honest, however much of the build/disk creation process I've managed to automate on the PC (and on Ubuntu), I've always found it's necessary to go to the Mac for some of the process (notably DMG creation - can't find a decent tool for that on PC - and

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Cor
Is there an Hybrid CD Construction Kit version for the PC? Regards Cor -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: donderdag 22 oktober 2009 9:29 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Glen Pike
Paul Steven wrote: Been a long time since I have had to make a cross platform CDROM, or even a CDROM at all to be honest. Anyway I have developed a series of educational games with Flash CS3, with the main packaged file packaged with MDM Zinc (to enable me to have a coloured background outside

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Cor
Thank you Glen! -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: donderdag 22 oktober 2009 9:48 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM Paul Steven

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Cor
Thanks Ian. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: donderdag 22 oktober 2009 9:45 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM Not that I've

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I am not sure if it is for pc, but dragon burn is a great app for creating all kinds of CDs Karl Sent from losPhone On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.uk wrote: Paul Steven wrote: Been a long time since I have had to make a cross platform CDROM, or even a

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Steven
Thanks for all the swift replies. I have a Mac Mini so burning on the Mac is an option. I was under the impression there would be a different executable file for each platform, the only other files are swf files that are loaded into this main container movie executable. Sounds like it may be

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Steven
Ian, assuming there is a different executable file for both mac and pc, does this mean that both would be visible on both platforms? Will look at the hybrid kit in the meantime. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Sorry to interject, but you have to export an EXE for PC and a Projector for MAC and then you can burn those to a CD and both platforms will be able to run from the cd. I thought you were just talking about having the disk read. Karl On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Paul Steven wrote: Ian,

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Ian Thomas
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Paul Steven paul_ste...@btinternet.com wrote: Ian, assuming there is a different executable file for both mac and pc, does this mean that both would be visible on both platforms? Just using standard burning options, yes. Which isn't necessarily a problem, as

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Glen Pike
http://www.s-j-t.co.uk/flashkit/HybridCDv1.1.pdf ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Steven
Thanks Ian - sounds like Hybrid is what I need then. Still haven't had a chance to look at Air - but it would probably have done the job that Zinc does. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Ian

[Flashcoders] Flashplayer install on IE8 / Vista

2009-10-22 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Has anyone else had the unfortunate experience of installing Flashplayer for IE8 on Vista?? Seems like instead of a single Install ActiveX Control, I now have to suffer Adobe's bloated Download Manager craplication to install my Flashplayer (which triggers several of Vista's

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Ian Thomas
Karl - but what I'm saying is that both will be _visible_ on both platforms. If that's acceptable to Paul/his client, then great! If not, he needs to look at the hybrid CD option. Ian On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Sorry to interject, but you have

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Steven
Doing a test, I see that Zinc allows me to create both pc and mac packaged files on the PC. The PC file is just a standard exe file and the Mac file appears to be a folder with the extension .app -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashplayer install on IE8 / Vista

2009-10-22 Thread Glen Pike
Glen Pike wrote: Hi, Has anyone else had the unfortunate experience of installing Flashplayer for IE8 on Vista?? Seems like instead of a single Install ActiveX Control, I now have to suffer Adobe's bloated Download Manager craplication to install my Flashplayer (which triggers

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Oh yes, you are correct, I was referring to the files exported from Flash, to be used by each platform on the CD. Not the Cd being burnt itself in that last post. If he burnt an EXE on a multi-platform CD, MAC would not be able to play his file. Sorry for any confusion. :) Karl On Oct 22,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashplayer install on IE8 / Vista

2009-10-22 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Does anyone know how I get Flashplayer 10 installed on Firefox Vista because the installation instructions do not show what's happening on my machine... The Adobe DLM is installed, but now it just pops up without downloading anything and there is no option to allow this add-on to do

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashplayer install on IE8 / Vista

2009-10-22 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Did you try right clicking and saving the installer to your desktop and run from there? Karl On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Glen Pike wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I get Flashplayer 10 installed on Firefox Vista because the installation instructions do not show what's happening on

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashplayer install on IE8 / Vista

2009-10-22 Thread Glen Pike
Karl DeSaulniers wrote: I know you can find older installers on Adobe's site that may work. Maybe a earlier release of 10 will work. Karl Hi, Found the installer thanks - all the DLM rubbish was smoke mirrors it seems... Glen ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashplayer install on IE8 / Vista

2009-10-22 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I know you can find older installers on Adobe's site that may work. Maybe a earlier release of 10 will work. Karl On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Glen Pike wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I get Flashplayer 10 installed on Firefox Vista because the installation instructions do not show

RE: [Flashcoders] Flashplayer install on IE8 / Vista

2009-10-22 Thread Andrew Murphy
This was a problem for me as well, in Firefox on WinXP. I was on Facebook and when I tried to play a TopGear video it asked me to update my player.. I had been using a debug v10 player, but the previous release. I was taken to the Adobe site, clicked on an install it now button and suddenly I

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting .swf playback to .mov

2009-10-22 Thread Jim McIntyre
This does work just fine with CS4, scripted animation and all. A couple of tips: - Export the movie at 100% size. I've found the exporter does a lousy job of scaling. If you need to scale the output, use minimal QT compression, then use a tool like MPEG Streamclip or ffmpeg to scale and

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Cross-Platform CDROM

2009-10-22 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
I never had anything but trouble when trying to make a hybrid from the PC side. Toast on the MAC is rock solid and has been for years. John on 10/22/09 2:35 AM, Cor at c...@chello.nl wrote: Is there an Hybrid CD Construction Kit version for the PC? Regards Cor John R. Sweeney Jr.

[Flashcoders] Inheritance and Static properties

2009-10-22 Thread Helmut Granda
So I understand that I can access static properties only child-parent but not if we instantiate the subclass some where else within the application but what would be the best way to go around this? -ButtonParent -contains basic rollover/rollout/click events and does dispatchEvent (new Event

[Flashcoders] Facebook examples - NON-Flex

2009-10-22 Thread jared stanley
Looking for examples of getting the FB API to work with the Flash IDE, all examples found are using mxml in flex. Any pointers? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Inheritance and Static properties

2009-10-22 Thread jonathan howe
Just double checking but in your trace statement you are looking for the NAME property on the event? trace(event.NAME)// undefined You probably mean event.target.NAME but I'm just checking the obvious. -jonathan On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Helmut Granda cont...@helmutgranda.comwrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] Inheritance and Static properties

2009-10-22 Thread Helmut Granda
Correct, i was thinking of var object = event.target object.NAME; but I was typing faster than thinking :). On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM, jonathan howe jonathangh...@gmail.comwrote: Just double checking but in your trace statement you are looking for the NAME property on the event?

[Flashcoders] getting information about other application window with adobe air?

2009-10-22 Thread Sidnei Vladisauskis
Hi, I need develop a desktop application, which needs get some information about a specific window of the other application, like name of window, size and position. I thought to use adobe air to develop it, but It doesn't has this functionality, I can get just the size of screen. Who knows some