Re: [Flashcoders] Using an accessor for a singleton instance

2009-01-21 Thread Alan Shaw
I actually prefer your usage. The reason not to use it would be that 'everybody' expects to use getInstance(). -A On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) < alla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know of any reason not to use an accessor in my singleton > inst

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 examples of amoeba or microbes

2009-03-23 Thread Alan Shaw
Check this out: http://www.nicoptere.net/blog/index.php/2008/10/13/51-bacteria-generator-actionscript-flash On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: > I am looking for some really good examples of amoeba or microbe simulations > done in as3 > > I know that it is probably just done us

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Player 10 code in SWC

2009-05-08 Thread Alan Shaw
Thanks, Gerry! I've been wanting to know how to do that! -A On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gerry Beauregard wrote: > Just want to share some things I've learned while using Flex Builder 3 to > create Flash Player 10 dependent code... > > If you're using Flex Builder 3, and you want to use a Fl

Re: [Flashcoders] Multilingual apps for Flash with as2

2013-01-25 Thread Alan Shaw
As2 lol On Jan 24, 2013 8:42 PM, "Sumeet Kumar" wrote: > Hi All, > > I am creating a multilingual as2 app and the data for this app will come > from XML. I need to target almost 17 language(including Arabic and urdu). I > have heard that Arabic and urdu are very difficult to implement in flash. >

Re: [Flashcoders] calling functions in extended movie clip class

2005-10-19 Thread Alan Shaw
I'm giving a link to my ToolTip class which may be of interest to you: http://nodename.com/blog/2005/09/12/tooltip/ Not that you have to do it all my way, but it may shed light. Also note that you almost certainly need only a single tooltip in your application; you can instantiate it the first ti

Re: [Flashcoders] calling functions in extended movie clip class

2005-10-19 Thread Alan Shaw
On 10/19/05, Jason C Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks... I may end up doing it that way if I run out of time here. The > only > problem with using a generic tooltip like that is it will overwrite any > rollOver/rollOut code that is already attached to the movieclips. To address the

Re: [Flashcoders] Job Offer :: employee search

2005-10-26 Thread Alan Shaw
I'm sorry I'm not addressing your question, but I have one of my own. On the t8design web site there is an article entitled "Flash Player 7" dated 5.12.05 that says: For years Macromedia's Flash has been the only other industry standard in website development next to HTML. With over 98% of the wor

Re: [Flashcoders] Singleton and Listeners is a bad combination

2005-10-27 Thread Alan Shaw
On 10/27/05, Martin Klasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got a class which I thought would be improved by using the Singleton > pattern. And it does, until I am adding in the EventDispatcher. > > The problem is that my application will using the FontLoader.getInstance() > at several places in

Re: 网易邮箱自动回复: [Flashcoders] FLV's crashing the browser on Cuepoints

2005-11-12 Thread Alan Shaw
On 11/11/05, Matt Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > its all in japanese matey > > > > 您发给我的信件已经收到。 Yeah, I'll bet. It's Chinese, and it says "I have received the mail you sent me." The subject line says it's an auto reply. -A ___ Flashcoders mail

[Flashcoders] Any way to detect attempted MC Load wider than 2880 pixels?

2005-12-02 Thread Alan Shaw
MovieClipLoader's onLoadProgress shows the entire file loaded; onLoadInit shows the width silently truncated to 2880. Any ideas? -A ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Running Locally vs on a Server - Testing

2005-12-19 Thread Alan Shaw
On 12/19/05, Kevin Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the best way to check if your flash file is running locally/ in the > Flash IDE compared to when it's running online. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00

Re: [Flashcoders] Running Locally vs on a Server - Testing

2005-12-19 Thread Alan Shaw
On 12/19/05, John Grden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Problem with capabilities.playerType is that you can't tell that you're > online - just that you're not in the IDE ;) Ah yes... ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://

Re: [Flashcoders] Math question: find coordinates of a point

2005-12-26 Thread Alan Shaw
On 12/26/05, Toon Van de Putte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got a math question: > > How can i find the x,y coordinates of a point at a known equal distance > from > two other, known, points? Well if it is strictly a math question the most straightforward way might be analytic: sol

Re: [Flashcoders] > Artificial Life flash resources

2005-12-29 Thread Alan Shaw
Patrick Mineault posted a cool example just recently: http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2005/12/flash-8-experiment-the-game-of-life-and-cellular-automata-using-convolutionfilter/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://cha

[Flashcoders] Increasing DisplacementMapFilter Precision

2006-01-06 Thread Alan Shaw
It's a shame that the displacement map only allots one byte each for its x and y components when there are four bytes available. We can use images up to 2880 pixels high or wide, but applying displacement maps to big ones gives messy results. I'm wondering if there is some way to compose or chain

Re: [Flashcoders] Increasing DisplacementMapFilter Precision

2006-01-08 Thread Alan Shaw
On 1/7/06, Spencer Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Absolutely. You can add as many filters as you like... all effecting > different channels or components. > Yes, I'm sure you can, but this is not relevant to my question... ___ Flashcoders mail

Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)

2006-01-17 Thread Alan Shaw
Either of these may be helpful: DisplacementMapFilter Tutorial http://nodename.com/blog/2006/01/16/psyarks-displacementmapfilter-tutorial/ Free Transform in Flash http://dev.media-box.net/sandy/index.php/2005/11/01/7-distordimage-the-way-to-distord-bitmaps-by-code -A

Re: [Flashcoders] Sandy 0.2, a 3D API for Flash

2006-01-26 Thread Alan Shaw
Since Thomas worked his ass off for two weeks to get this 0.2 release done, he has taken off for a few days. There are several working tutorials in the forum: http://sandy.media-box.net/forum/ and more are coming. Documentation will also grow. I'd say performance is quite good except for the tex

Re: [Flashcoders] Sandy 0.2, a 3D API for Flash

2006-01-27 Thread Alan Shaw
Andreas said: If you can write the tutorials, couldn't you just add a working .swf of the tutorial in the forum as well? Sure. -A ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Sandy 0.2, a 3D API for Flash

2006-01-27 Thread Alan Shaw
I've posted a cubic panorama example in the Sandy forum: http://sandy.media-box.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=51&t=5126 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Sandy 0.2, a 3D API for Flash

2006-01-28 Thread Alan Shaw
-A On 1/28/06, Paul Neave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28/01/06, Alan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've posted a cubic panorama example in the Sandy forum: > > http://sandy.media-box.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=51&t=5126 > > Here's the ex

Re: [Flashcoders] Opening SWF in Flash via command line

2006-02-24 Thread Alan Shaw
Or on Windows, how about cmd /c start D:\logo.swf -A On 2/23/06, Ryan Matsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > flip your slashes? > > "C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Flash.exe" "D:\logo.swf" works for > me.. > > On 2/23/06, jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can you do it with flashcomma

Re: [Flashcoders] best 360VR panorama

2006-03-16 Thread Alan Shaw
No, neither of those was done with the DisplacementMapFilter, and here's why: http://nodename.com/blog/2006/01/11/prospects-for-immersive-panoramas-in-flash/ The example at media-box.net is mine, and no, it sure isn't performant. This was done as a demo of the simplicity of coding the cubic pano

Re: [Flashcoders] best 360VR panorama

2006-03-17 Thread Alan Shaw
On 3/16/06, Michael Bedar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Following one of those links, i got to this page.. > > http://nodename.com/lab/dispmapPano/ > > anyone have source to these examples? I've been playing with > distortion maps, but this effect is alluding me:( I'm sure _someone_ has source

[Flashcoders] A little Matrix.invert() mystery

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Shaw
Thomas Pfeiffer, author of the DistortImage class, notes in his blog that Matrix.invert() returns a result different from the true mathematical inverse of the matrix! He calls the invert() function on a new Matrix(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and gets back (a=-2, b=1, c=1.5, d=-0.5, *tx=1, ty=-2*) rather tha

Re: [Flashcoders] A little Matrix.invert() mystery

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Shaw
help narrow it down. I can > also confirm that the same issue shows up on non-reflective matrices > (det>0) > > Danny > > > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Flashcoders mailing list" > Sent: Thu

Re: [Flashcoders] Back button fun

2006-07-25 Thread Alan Shaw
I'm also going to work on this capability soon, and my search led to: http://chakramedia.com/deeplink-backbutton/index.html -A On 7/25/06, Radley Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found a couple of sites that seem to work: http://www.orange-project.com/ http://www.redb