[Flashcoders] Work in London

2006-02-09 Thread James Deakin
project. I and my business *Definition www.justdefine.com need some really good London UK based coders to help us out. Is anyone in London and in need of some (really prestigious) work. James Deakin Definition T: +44 (0)7977 006 887 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.justdefine.com

Re: [Flashcoders] dynamic text field whoas

2006-02-23 Thread James Deakin
,; txtMain.htmlText += 23:48 GMT iE-mail/i this to a friend Printable version US attacks Iraq abuse images leak; // set another text format txtMain.setTextFormat(0, 6, theBold); txtMain.setTextFormat(6, 15, theItalic); James Deakin On 7 Feb 2006, at 22:56, Nathan Derksen wrote: Damn, I always

[Flashcoders] Text formatting problems

2006-02-24 Thread James Deakin
February 2006/b,; txtMain.htmlText += 23:48 GMT iE-mail/i this to a friend Printable version US attacks Iraq abuse images leak; // set another text format txtMain.setTextFormat(0, 6, theBold); txtMain.setTextFormat(6, 15, theItalic); James Deakin

Re: [Flashcoders] Images in textFields..

2006-02-28 Thread James Deakin
Odd i'm having the same problem On 28 Feb 2006, at 12:48, Karim Beyrouti wrote: I am working with HTML and images in textField's, and am wondering how one would keep images ( img src=myimg.jpg ) inline with the text? I am trying to have text on one line then the image on another line.

[Flashcoders] Bold and italic charater options with html text

2006-03-01 Thread James Deakin
leak; // set another text format txtMain.setTextFormat(0, 6, theBold); txtMain.setTextFormat(6, 15, theItalic); James Deakin ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Add tracking to dynamic text

2006-03-01 Thread James Deakin
*These should all prove interesting:* http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=2811.html ** * *http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/1133.html *TextFormat.kerning* *Property* Lets you turn kerning on or off for

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Add tracking to dynamic text

2006-03-01 Thread James Deakin
SWF files *can* be played in non-Windows versions of Flash Player, and the kerning will still apply. On 3/1/06, James Deakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *These should all prove interesting:* http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context

[Flashcoders] Can anyone see my posts?

2006-03-01 Thread James Deakin
Hi All my posts get ignored was it something i said? James ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software

Re: [Flashcoders] {Business/Workflow} The use of mock prototypes

2006-03-01 Thread James Deakin
I do get my designers (i run a company) to mock things up first. But what i find difficult is being able to say how long a job should take. Thats what i develope prototypes for. if anyone know abetter way please tell me. On 3/1/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm, opposite for me:

Re: [Flashcoders] Can anyone see my posts?

2006-03-02 Thread James Deakin
for the self esteem. M On 3/1/06, James Deakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All my posts get ignored was it something i said? James ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

Re: [Flashcoders] Branden's Article on Shared Fonts

2006-03-02 Thread James Deakin
Id love to see that too On 3/2/06, erixtekila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if somebody could point me to a backup of those posts. This is for posterity : http://web.archive.org/web/20020802165312/www.waxpraxis.org/archives/ 62.html Enjoy. --- erixtekila

Re: [Flashcoders] Load external bitmap into bitmapdata?

2006-03-07 Thread James Deakin
Wow thats great On 3/7/06, Adrian Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome! Thanks Jesse/JesterXL. I love finding out I'm wrong when there is a better way :) On 3/6/06, Marcelo Volmaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, it works!, Also, trying this i´ve found a method to attach loaded

Re: [Flashcoders] Active X and Microsoft IE ...

2006-04-09 Thread James Deakin
i second that. Shame most clients wont go for it as a solution. On 4/9/06, Hairy Dog Digital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally what I would *like* to do is include a download link to Firefox in the NOSCRIPT tags! -Original Message- From: Stephen Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?

2006-07-16 Thread James Deakin
I would sudgest the following. 1. you can simply define variables by creating an AS file the complier parses. you can declare the vars in there 2. There is an existing open source complier called MTASC (osflash.org has lots of info on this) hope that helps On 7/16/06, Jeff Stearns [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] ActionScript Application Framework

2006-07-18 Thread James Deakin
to create a whole aplication in the space of a few hours. Cant we follow the example and create a framework to make our lives easier as these guys have for Ruby programmers. I would be willing to contribute. What do you reckon would it work. Could we as a comunity of developers do this? James Deakin

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript Application Framework

2006-07-19 Thread James Deakin
as much time as switchig from PHP to Ruby on rails I will be a very happy guy indeed. Kind regards James Deakin On 7/19/06, Aaron Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my fav's On 7/18/06 1:26 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Pragmatic Programmer http

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript Application Framework

2006-07-19 Thread James Deakin
...Flex? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Deakin Sent: dinsdag 18 juli 2006 18:49 To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com; flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Flashcoders] ActionScript Application Framework Dear List (I should say lists

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript Application Framework

2006-07-20 Thread James Deakin
I started this thread for a simple reason, love or loath Ruby what has been developed here has enabled several of my clients to deploy excellent web applications with a significantly reduced investment of time with no aparent compromise on functionality. I think thats great. I wish the same

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript Application Framework

2006-07-20 Thread James Deakin
Have you ever built anything in haXe? If so how did you find the experience? On 7/20/06, Nicolas Cannasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at ARP and Carngorm at the moment and they are not proving easy to use and I am a highly experienced AS developer. I have also started looking at

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript Application Framework

2006-07-20 Thread James Deakin
I see. I will have a good look at haXe as well. I like the idea but am a bit worried about the amount of time I would have to invest to gain enough understanding to build an application. How long would you imagin it might take to for me to get started? On 7/20/06, Nicolas Cannasse [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Problems getting the brightness of a color returned from getPixel

2006-07-29 Thread James Deakin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to go from a 24 bit number to 3x8 bit colour components you can just shift it and mask the bits you need : var r=color 16 0xFF var g=color 8 0xFF var b=color 0xFF that should do the job. James Deakin wrote: Hi Guys, I'm having some problems with getting

Re: RE: [Flashcoders] Hebrew in Flash?

2006-07-30 Thread James Deakin
I have worked with RTL languages before. The fact that strings in actionscript respond to some array functions is helpful. We imported the strings from XML or remoting and then reversed the sequence. There were hwever loads of problems. We were trying to do arabic and we found that lots of the

Re: RE: [Flashcoders] Problems getting the brightness of a colorreturnedfrom getPixel

2006-07-30 Thread James Deakin
HI Guys, Thanks very much to you all for your help and explanations. I understood that the number represented a colour value but I now have a much better understanding of how it does so. In your opinion what is the most efficient way to retrieve the relative brightness of that colour. What I

Re: [Flashcoders] Enabling NetConnection debugger with ActionScript 2.0

2006-07-31 Thread James Deakin
Try this instead use Service Capture http://www.kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/release_notes.html On 7/31/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to do step 1 (or bypass it) using actionscript? No. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: help with linking a flash button to a file folder

2006-07-31 Thread James Deakin
google mprojector or zinc + actionscript On 7/31/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure about a CD, but should work something like this? myDynamicFilepath = this._url.slice(0, this._url.lastIndexOf(/)+1)+myfile.html; Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization

Re: RE: [Flashcoders] Problems getting the brightness of a colorreturnedfrom getPixel

2006-07-31 Thread James Deakin
, this is untested code -- but it looks like it should work). Bernard 2006/7/30, James Deakin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI Guys, Thanks very much to you all for your help and explanations. I understood that the number represented a colour value but I now have a much better understanding of how it does so

Re: [Flashcoders] flash internal bitmap to PNG format ..

2006-08-11 Thread James Deakin
the only way to do this that I know of is to use libraries like GD (for PHP) to convert that information into a physical file. If there are other solutions I would be interested in finding out. On 8/11/06, keitai guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi list - I have extracted some pixels from a

Re: [Flashcoders] jsfl - set all bitmaps in library to photo compression

2006-08-30 Thread James Deakin
This will come in very handy. Just one thing though. I have no Idea where to put this file. And how to exicute it. Could you please point me in the right direction. Kind regards James Deakin On 8/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a project recently that was originally

Re: [Flashcoders] Penner AS2 ProFMX: Complete

2006-09-08 Thread James Deakin
Wow what a service. Thanks very much On 9/8/06, Mark Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to let everyone know that I finally completed converting all of Robert Penner's AS1 classes from his book to AS2. You can view the last post here:

[Flashcoders] What do you think are the best Flash projects and RIA's

2007-02-14 Thread James Deakin
What do you think are the best Flash projects and RIA's? I'm involved in lots of project where I work and I am beings asked for examples more and more as large companies begin to see the advantages of Flash based interfaces and RIA's. I want to persuade people that Flash isn't a toy and I need

[Flashcoders] Estimating the time required for a project

2007-06-16 Thread James Deakin
area of the job which we never seem to talk about but its is one of the most important. James Deakin ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Estimating the time required for a project

2007-06-19 Thread James Deakin
just a memory game. etc etc To conclude my best advice is probably to: * start measuring, and try to understand why your estimate was wrong (or right) * read up on software development material greetz JC On 6/16/07, James Deakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to improve the accuracy

Re: [Flashcoders] Estimating the time required for a project

2007-06-27 Thread James Deakin
your current organisation, leave. Shame to let good talent rot to waste:) just my 2 cnts and really the books explain these phenomena we all encounter way better than i just tried greetz JC On 6/19/07, James Deakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for taking the time to respond Hans. I

[Flashcoders] Sorry for the off topic post but is anyone out there a really good Ajax JavaScript person we need help

2007-07-04 Thread James Deakin
Sorry for the off topic post but is anyone out there a really good Ajax JavaScript person we need help. I'm not an agent I work for http://www.avenuea-razorfish.com/. We are really stuck if anyone knows someone who wants a good job. Just let me know. Thanks guys