[Flashcoders] import documents into flash

2010-02-15 Thread Tom Huynen
Hi! A client asked me to create a application that imports different data documents into flash. Html pages, word documents and pdf's. It's about the text only and the layout doesn't matter. Is flash the right choice for this? Regards, Tom ___

Re: [Flashcoders] import documents into flash

2010-02-15 Thread Jer Brand
My gut says that this is not the greatest idea, however, I had to do something like this for a course once and ended up creating what is basically a FlashPaper loader. Here's a link to some code for resolving the issues with loading FlashPaper documents in Flex that'll likely be useful.

[Flashcoders] Matrix Transformation Problem

2010-02-15 Thread Susan Day
Hello; I'm trying to get a matrix transformation to work. The thing about my code is that it prints to screen just fine without any exceptions...but it doesn't skew the text as I'd like it to. Here's my function. All variables defined earlier in code (again, everything works except the transform):

Re: [Flashcoders] import documents into flash

2010-02-15 Thread Joseph Masoud
On 15/02/10 15:02, Tom Huynen wrote: Hi! A client asked me to create a application that imports different data documents into flash. Html pages, word documents and pdf's. It's about the text only and the layout doesn't matter. Is flash the right choice for this? Regards, Tom

[Flashcoders] Loading content from and sending comments to Wordpress from Flash

2010-02-15 Thread dr.ache
hi list. does anyone see a big problem querying a wordpress database with php and loading the result into flash? i did some testing and everything worked as expected - so far. now to the funny part. if i want to post comments to a post in wordpress from flash there is one thing I'm curious

RE: [Flashcoders] Matrix Transformation Problem

2010-02-15 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Remove the line 'addChild(fontContainer);' Regards, Keith Reinfeld Home Page: http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Susan Day Sent: Monday, February 15,

RE: [Flashcoders] Matrix Transformation Problem

2010-02-15 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Sorry, you will also need 'coName.embedFonts = true;' Regards, Keith Reinfeld Home Page: http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Keith Reinfeld Sent: Monday,

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading content from and sending comments to Wordpress from Flash

2010-02-15 Thread Jer Brand
Not sure if it's too late for you to start this but, you might look into using xmlrpc to manage your WordPress instance. There's quite a bit of existing code out there for doing this, and you could start here http://osflash.org/xmlrpcflash with a working xmlrpc flash client. I mention this

Re: [Flashcoders] import documents into flash

2010-02-15 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Tom Huynen wrote: Hi! A client asked me to create a application that imports different data documents into flash. Html pages, word documents and pdf's. It's about the text only and the layout doesn't matter. Is flash the right choice for this? if your are talking about a standalone

[Flashcoders] Re: AS2: blank input text field when clicked

2010-02-15 Thread Alan Neilsen
Thanks to Glen Pike. The solution ended up being very simple. I blanked the text in the input field using enterPage.onSetFocus as below, then added Selection.setFocus(null); to all other controls on that screen so the text field always gets its focus set when clicked. enterPage.onSetFocus =

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: AS2: blank input text field when clicked

2010-02-15 Thread Glen Pike
Yay! Glad to have helped :) Alan Neilsen wrote: Thanks to Glen Pike. The solution ended up being very simple ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] import documents into flash

2010-02-15 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Html pages, word documents and pdf's. It's about the text only and the layout doesn't matter. Is flash the right choice for this? if your are talking about a standalone app (projector), I think the answer is: no parsing word docs and PDF files to extract the text data isn't trivial,

Re: [Flashcoders] import documents into flash

2010-02-15 Thread Peter B
just to show what a great tool director used to be... Still is! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: AS2: blank input text field when clicked

2010-02-15 Thread Muzak
if you're still in the AS2 universe, look up mx.utils.Delegate. - Original Message - From: Alan Neilsen aneil...@gotafe.vic.edu.au To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:00 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: AS2: blank input text field when clicked Thanks