Re: [Flashcoders] Weird problem with encryption...

2006-07-27 Thread John McCormack
I found that typing all kinds of sequences did the trick. Typing ato z and copying it in a few times did the trick too. Then I backspaced to the '1' (Small L) and when replaced with other letters it was okay. Put the 'l' back and it reappeared. It seems to be the encoding process. Sometimes you

[Flashcoders] SWF decoding

2006-08-06 Thread John McCormack
came out Macromedia were happy to give me access to it, with files such as swfparse.cpp etc. Perhaps some of the tags can still be decoded the same way. Can anyone suggest a way forward? John McCormack ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] SWF decoding

2006-08-06 Thread John McCormack
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] SWF decoding www.buraks.com/asv maybe actionscript viewer might help? On 8/6/06, John McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I joined recently. It's been really interesting reading your posts. Thank you for that. I would like to use C/C++ to decode SWF files

Re: [Flashcoders] SWF decoding

2006-08-07 Thread John McCormack
of swfmill contributors is small, so it might be possible, too, if you ask). Oh, and there's sswf.sf.net, I don't know the license, but it should be worth checking out and has links to other projects. HTH, Mark On 8/6/06, John McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, Thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Best way to learn OO Analysis and Design with ActionScript

2006-08-20 Thread John McCormack
I am very interested in this topic since I really need to adopt OOP and UML to get a better overview of the tasks I am trying to code for.The books look very useful.This article is really good on UML... http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,31863,00.html I am trying to create a math's Fraction

Re: [Flashcoders] ClassFactory and Reflection in Actionscript

2006-08-20 Thread John McCormack
Could you send the parameters/arguments into a text file and retrieve them from there using loadVars? John - Original Message - From: Miguel Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] ClassFactory and

Re: [Flashcoders] a question of geometry

2006-09-18 Thread John McCormack
I can email an image to anyone that wants it, or you can draw it like this... I think this is what you want... Draw a point and a line vertically upwards of length R. Draw a large letter V (inverted cone) upwards from the point. Draw an arc, radius R to cut the V. Where the arc cuts the vertical

[Flashcoders] Flash package: XML.PHP,ASP,SQL

2006-09-19 Thread John McCormack
Hi, I am wanting to use Flash to deliver tutorials by subscription. I will need to allow temporary access and subsriber access. Which collection of technologies do I need to know about to handle the to and fro between SWF and database? Do I use a Flash generated XML sent via XML socket to a

[Flashcoders] Flash package: XML.PHP,ASP,SQL

2006-09-19 Thread John McCormack
Hi, I am wanting to use Flash to deliver tutorials by subscription. I will need to allow temporary access and subsriber access. Which collection of technologies do I need to know about to handle the to and fro between SWF and database? Do I use a Flash generated XML sent via XML socket to a

Re: [Flashcoders] Find item in array

2006-10-03 Thread John McCormack
OO languages are similar in many respects. Apparently, (Tip 213, Anthony Porter, The best C++ Tips Ever, McGraw Hill) when you increment 'a' and access it with ++a, you increment 'a', and use a reference to it. but with a++, you make a temporary copy of 'a' increment the original and return a

Re: [Flashcoders] Comparing HEX

2006-10-31 Thread John McCormack
Mark, That's a facinating article in wikipedia but I don't know if I can ever understand it. One will try! In a book called Bitmapped Graphics Programming in C++ by Luse, there is a colour cube model which is helpful. The colour differences you calculate below are complicated by the question If I

Re: [Flashcoders] Comparing HEX

2006-10-31 Thread John McCormack
to CIE XYZ, back and forth. Does anybody have some links? Mark On 10/31/06, John McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, That's a facinating article in wikipedia but I don't know if I can ever understand it. One will try! In a book called Bitmapped Graphics Programming in C++ by Luse

Re: [Flashcoders] ADMIN: DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE LIST

2007-03-02 Thread John McCormack
Sometimes things go wrong, but I am sure most of us are really grateful to Dave Watts, figleaf, and all the contributers for the way they enrich our lives. John - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March

Re: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-03-30 Thread John McCormack
It does feel like a rip-off. I would like to upgrade to Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, but the price puts me off. Being cheaper in the U.S. makes it even worse. For me, it costs £534.62 + 17.5% VAT + delivery +annoyance. Adobe should at least absorb the 17.5% Value Added Tax. If the new version

Re: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-04-02 Thread John McCormack
If I buy an upgrade from a US store, for delivery to the UK FOR (Acrobat+Photoshop+Studio 8) TO Creative Suite 3 Web Premium Will the upgrade USA licence keys work with my UK licence keys? J ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

[Flashcoders] Render order

2007-05-13 Thread John McCormack
Does anyone know of a specification for the render order of items on a frame? For example if on some frame on a parent timeline a variable is set and it's children set the same variable, how does the interpreter decide which value to go with? Or if a variable is logically dependent upon the

Re: [Flashcoders] Interactive Whiteboards And Flash

2007-06-11 Thread John McCormack
Not all whiteboards behave the same. Using C++ (same in Flash ?) I had an issue with Smartboard that wasn't there with Promethian boards. With Smartboards (finger operated), when the finger is lifted contact is lost and the mouse stays where it last was x0,y0. When the finger was placed elsewhere

[Flashcoders] Flash Debugger's not up to it.

2007-06-30 Thread John McCormack
I am getting increasingly frustrated trying to debug in the Flash IDE. I see some, but not all of the variables I expect to see as I step through code. Also, when I step to the next line I step to some unexpected line. A google search throws up: trace(), step over/into/outof and our wonderful

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Debugger's not up to it.

2007-07-27 Thread John McCormack
whether you have find the cs3 as3 debugger of any use? p John McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting increasingly frustrated trying to debug in the Flash IDE. I see some, but not all of the variables I expect to see as I step through code. Also, when I step to the next line

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Debugger's not up to it.

2007-07-28 Thread John McCormack
variables A and B. How is the debugger going to populate a tree view of the parent object if it does NOT call that getter? Got it. However, to display a variable I would have expected the debugger to just read the memory. In my view, it's a self-evidently poor programming practice to write a

Re: [Flashcoders] Intro to OOP using ActionScript

2007-08-20 Thread John McCormack
I came at software from the electronics upwards, and maybe because of that I sometimes don't see the woods for the trees. If these kids get to handle objects in a more natural way without being concerned about what they are made of they might get a better feel for OOP. Also, in today's world it's

Re: [Flashcoders] Save MC as JPG

2008-02-03 Thread John McCormack
Has the frame definitely loaded when you read the pixel? Have you some code to give us a clue? John - Original Message - From: Dave Mennenoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders]

Re: [Flashcoders] Save MC as JPG

2008-02-03 Thread John McCormack
Might it be this... public checkPolicyFile : Boolean Specifies whether Flash Player should attempt to download a cross-domain policy file from the loaded object's server before beginning to load the object itself. Set this flag to true when you are loading an image (JPG, GIF, or PNG) from

Re: [Flashcoders] re: Looking for Expanding menu along a curved path

2008-02-23 Thread John McCormack
When I try to look at test.swf I get the message Where is the debugger or host application running? I have Flash Pro CS3, Flash 9 player, Norton Internet Security on Vista x64 Ultimate. Searches at Symantec and Adobe do not help, neither does the Windows Control Panel. Any advice would be

Re: [Flashcoders] Moock TileMap/TileSet/TileMapRenderer

2008-04-12 Thread John McCormack
Hi, There's a double error here. On this line ** numRows (15) should be numCols (10) as we work across the row of 10. However this is only workable if the number of tiles is numRows X numCols (10x15=150). public function generate(numTiles:int):void { var numRows:int = getNumRows();

Re: [Flashcoders] byteArray x/y

2008-04-17 Thread John McCormack
Terry, // in randomize( ) in TileMap.as we have // a value sometimes more than 12... setTile(j, i, (i * numCols) + j); // here ^ // But the original has a value never more than 12 setTile(j, i, Math.floor(Math.random()*numTiles)); // here ^^^ //

Re: [Flashcoders] byteArray x/y

2008-04-18 Thread John McCormack
Terry, I think I know what might be going wrong for you. You might be expecting something different. Try this... Instead of setTile(j, i, (i * numCols) + j); Let's use tile 1 or tile 9... Change that line to setTile(j, i, 1) or setTile(j, i, 9) You see a 16x16 pattern repeated. The 12 tiles

Re: [Flashcoders] byteArray x/y

2008-04-19 Thread John McCormack
Terry, I had spacetiles.gif in line 26 of SpaceMap.as but have now changed it to tiles.gif // change spacetiles.gif to tiles.gif. This code gives each row with the same tile numbers, like this 0123456700 0123456700 public function randomize (numTiles:int):void { var numRows:int

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 For loop proplem

2008-05-07 Thread John McCormack
Since you have not set x,y for the MovieClips, might the others be underneath the top one (last loaded)? John - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:54 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] AS3 For loop proplem This code

[Flashcoders] rotateAroundExternalPoint

2008-05-12 Thread John McCormack
Jobe is using Penner's flash.fl.motion package to rotate objects about points other than the registration point, as shown here: http://jobemakar.blogspot.com/2007/06/rotating-around-point.html As I rotate my objects around a corner point I am expecting the corner point to stay still but it

Re: [Flashcoders] rotateAroundExternalPoint -SOLVED

2008-05-12 Thread John McCormack
Problem: After a rotation matrix was applied to an object, the corner about which is was supposed to rotate wandered away from position. Solution: I kept a record of the position of the corner within the clip. I applied the matrix to a copy of that corner point to find where it would

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 : Flash IDE Base Class question ...

2008-05-19 Thread John McCormack
Hi Stephen, On the Export for Actionscript dialog there is a pencil which brings up your class if you click it. But if you haven't written a class yet then the dialog says it will create one for you (when compiled), based on MovieClip. If you have written a class then you get what you want

Re: [Flashcoders] Blank flash problem...

2008-05-22 Thread John McCormack
Works fine for me. Vista x64; Firefox 2.0.0.14 Good message. John - Original Message - From: Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:51 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Blank flash problem... Hi, I have a

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 events, events, events ...

2008-07-11 Thread John McCormack
This works... A method in Main.as sets up my objects: for (n=0;ndisks.length;n++) { disks[n].startListening(); disks[n].addEventListener(SystemEvent.CHECK_ANSWERS,OptionArray.answerListener); } A static (or class) method in OptionArray.as ready to receive: public static function

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Design Patterns Book

2008-07-11 Thread John McCormack
In Flex Builder, choose Project and properties. On the compiler tab you can pass in the runtime size and colour... -default-size 480 360 -default-background-color 0xFF John Terry Riney wrote: Good Morning, I am getting deep into ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns. Have been using Flex

Re: [Flashcoders] SOT: (Rant) Why is Adobe.com such a bad website?

2008-09-05 Thread John McCormack
It _is_ difficult to find things. I would like to see them put dates on thing so that know if it's the latest version. John Sunil Jolly wrote: Great post! I've spent many hours searching through the Adobe site trying to find things. For a company trying to spearhead web development it's a

Re: [Flashcoders] A Question that I've been asking for years!!

2008-09-11 Thread John McCormack
I have most of these books and for me the ones that help the most are... http://www.amazon.com/Essential-ActionScript-3-0/dp/0596526946 http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-ActionScript-3-Design-Patterns/dp/0321426568

Re: [Flashcoders] SoundChannel.position bug on SOUND_COMPLETE

2008-10-24 Thread John McCormack
Flash_Tiger's have talked about this quite a bit. A recent comment was... [Flash_Tiger] BUG: channel.position doesn't work with mp3s below 128kbps] John Patrick Matte | BLITZ wrote: I'm experimenting with the SoundChannel in Flash CS3. On SOUND_COMPLETE, the position of the channel is always

[Flashcoders] Congratulations America.

2008-11-05 Thread John McCormack
It's off topic, but it is a very special day. You give us hope. Hope that we can help each other. This forum is also proof of that. John ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread John McCormack
I find Flex far, far better than Flash for writing code. Code hinting, the debugger, refactoring and the general environment are very good. My current programs are all Flex ActionScript projects which have no mxml. As Ian says, Flash is great for building vector based assets for use with Flex.

Re: [Flashcoders] What design pattern would this be?

2008-12-07 Thread John McCormack
And these ones: http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx John Jiri Heitlager wrote: Maybe this one: http://www.as3dp.com/2008/12/06/actionscript-30-visitor-design-pattern-a-tale-of-traverser-and-the-double-dispatch-kid/ or check out the articles there I am sure there is a pattern

Re: [Flashcoders] What design pattern would this be?

2008-12-08 Thread John McCormack
I would also like to use patterns more than I do. It looks as thought the observer pattern might be the one in this case... As your objects appear and disappear from your program they can register themselves. They pass a function to call when an update happens and this is added to the list.

Re: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener

2008-12-19 Thread John McCormack
Re: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener thread is an interesting topic but it has attached itself to the Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel precise thread In Mozilla's Thunderbird I sort on topic and so I miss these fascinating discussions because the threads are mangled. Does it mess up the archives when

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flash AS3 debugging

2008-12-23 Thread John McCormack
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Thanks, that's a great article...but this is a really weird issue. It might be some sort of Windows bug. I hit a break point, things are rendered on the stage. As soon as I click stepIn in the debug console, the swf window crashes (not responding). - MM

Re: [Flashcoders] Join me on Bebo

2008-12-31 Thread John McCormack
Matthew, I am sure there is some merit in this site but I followed your link and it attempts to sign me up using the email address flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com and so it would take only one person here to sign up for the list to be signed up. It would be best removed/disabled. John

[Flashcoders] How to use SWC assets?

2009-01-02 Thread John McCormack
I have exported a symbol as a SWC from Flash. It's called Motion3D in my library and has a Motion3D.as to go with it. It has graphics, buttons and textboxes. In Flex I have: // ActionScript file package { import flash.display.MovieClip; public class RunMotion3D extends Motion3D {

Re: [Flashcoders] How to use SWC assets? SOLVED

2009-01-03 Thread John McCormack
and RunMotion3D's this gave proper (non null) references to the buttons and textFields. John John McCormack wrote: I have exported a symbol as a SWC from Flash. It's called Motion3D in my library and has a Motion3D.as to go with it. It has graphics, buttons and textboxes. In Flex I have

Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-08 Thread John McCormack
It's a good book. Although I go back and forth between books I own the following books and they have benefited me in this order: 1. ActionScript3 with Design Patterns - isbn: 0-321-42656-8 - Adobe Press Joey Lott and Danny Patterson Joint 2. Head First Design Patterns - O'Reilly - isbn:

[Flashcoders] FlexBuilder is free for the unemployed.

2009-04-16 Thread John McCormack
Old news? https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/ Well done Adobe. John ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder is free for the unemployed.

2009-04-16 Thread John McCormack
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of John McCormack Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:26 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder is free for the unemployed. Old news? https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/ Well done Adobe. John

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex sdk set up question

2009-04-28 Thread John McCormack
Dave, I use Flex Builder for AS projects all the time and it's great - especially the debugger. I am using Flex 3.02 (latest?) as an eclipse plug-in with the Flex 3.2 SDK - as it came in the Flex Builder update. I just had a look at Flex preferences and my project properties. It seems that

[Flashcoders] What is the space relationship between a SWF and its surrounding html?

2009-06-27 Thread John McCormack
Hi List, I have some SWFs that will be launched from someone else's GUI based on IE6 which uses exactly this code... In Multiplication.htm is a link... a href=javascript:void(0) onclick=window.open('Multiplication2.htm', 'welcome','width=335,height=265')strongobjects/strong/a The

Re: [Flashcoders] What is the space relationship between a SWF and its surrounding html?

2009-06-28 Thread John McCormack
Matt and Jonathan, body style=padding:0px;margin:0px That certainly helped. I think you would get a similar experience if you had an image of size 320 x 250 I tried this and can confirm that it's true. The vertical edge of the image (250)fits exactly, when the zoom is at 97%. Unfortunately

Re: [Flashcoders] What is the space relationship between a SWF and its surrounding html?

2009-06-28 Thread John McCormack
Matt and Jonathan, body style=padding:0px;margin:0px Provided most of the fix. Because the html page was coming from a pen drive via a local connection, there was an extra bar, needing extra height, at the bottom of the window telling of the intranet connection. TWO CHANGED MADE THE SCROLL

Re: [Flashcoders] PHP Socket Question

2009-07-22 Thread John McCormack
http://www.tufat.com/s_flash_chat_chatroom.htm Thanks for that Glen, That looks really interesting. John Glen Pike wrote: You can use a database to store data in for a chat server, but you will need to have some kind of server side maintenance script to weed out the database. With a

Re: [Flashcoders] OT - bizarre Adobe pricing

2009-08-10 Thread John McCormack
Glen Pike wrote: Paul Andrews wrote: I thought I'd see what Adobe UK are charging for upgrading CS3 Web Design Premium to CS4 - to see if it's been reduced from an arm and a leg. Much to my surprise, Adobe is charging ?30 MORE for download delivery versus physical box shipment - seems the

Re: [Flashcoders] OT - bizarre Adobe pricing

2009-08-10 Thread John McCormack
Glen Pike wrote: product. A real incentive to reduce carbon emissions by saving on transport and production, isn't it? :-D From what I have seen of Vista's random high CPU usage, it might be more carbon-efficient to post the CD... ___ Not to

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime assets

2009-08-12 Thread John McCormack
Glen, Have you seen this: http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/11/runtime-flash-cs3flex-integration-via.php and a link further down the page: http://onflex.org/flexapps/applications/RuntimeCS3Flex/srcview/ John Glen Pike wrote: Hi, I am doing some experiments with CS3 runtime assets.

Re: [Flashcoders] flashdevelop

2009-08-13 Thread John McCormack
Latcho, you deserve credit for doing the honourable thing here. I am puzzled as to why free carries so much weight. Do we expect Adobe employees to work for free, so that we can make money using their products? Do many coders here work for free? Probably not, so why not pay for the tools we

Re: [Flashcoders] debugging events

2009-09-04 Thread John McCormack
Joel, With the Flex Builder debugger, when you trace into the dispatch of the event it then traces into the receiving listeners. Have you tried that? John Joel Stransky wrote: I have some custom event classes for my project but one of them is just failing outright. I can verify that the

Re: [Flashcoders] Security.showSettings() freak-out

2009-09-04 Thread John McCormack
Alan, I get: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at Podaroo() John Alan Watts wrote: Hi all, I'm building an audio recording app and the Security settings window is acting totally bizarre. http://podaroo.org/record/ This swf is a

Re: [Flashcoders] bitwise question

2009-09-15 Thread John McCormack
Jiri, I haven't done much bit twiddling yet in AS3 but I think you were fast already, but your i was being incremented and shifted. Also i8 would only get you bits 2,1,0 In binary that would be i1000 How about: function getBit(var numb:int):int { var bit:int=1; var count:int=0; if

Re: [Flashcoders] bitwise question

2009-09-15 Thread John McCormack
i shifted= 30 binary 0001 1110 John Glen Pike wrote: I think his i 8 was valid as the i is used for the shift, not the value... The only thing that might be faster is using i-- rather than i++ - for some reason decrementing through a loop is suppsoed to be faster. Glen :) John

Re: [Flashcoders] panels / workspace CS4 bug

2009-09-18 Thread John McCormack
In Flex Builder 3 the project properties panels do something similar. On the left pane are the options and on the right are a details pane. The details pane often has it's boxes and tabs misplaced (off screen). By dragging the separating edge between left and right panes you can fix some of it.

Re: [Flashcoders] panels / workspace CS4 bug

2009-09-21 Thread John McCormack
I never use Flash Prof. CS4 for coding because the Actions panel is not good enough, I just use it to produce graphics exported as swc's for use in Flex Builder. Apart from the problems mentioned, Flex Builder 3 is great. I have heard so many good reports of Flash Develop that I must try it

[Flashcoders] Shared local file.

2009-09-23 Thread John McCormack
Hi. I have an application that saves user scores remotely, across the web, by sending the data to a php script. That script receives the scores and updates the list in an xml file. The scores are sorted and returned. That works fine. When the user runs the SWF locally, on a school network,

Re: [Flashcoders] monitor outgoing http requests

2009-10-09 Thread John McCormack
I like Charles too. It's easy to use, it saved me time and it's worth every penny. John Chris Foster wrote: I like using 'Charles' - an HTTP sniffer from http://xk72.com/ C: -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with First Flash Movie

2009-11-17 Thread John McCormack
Beno, It's difficult knowing exactly what you have done. I don't know any AS2, just AS3. To help sort out the scenario let's say: You have a program called program.fla You have clicked the stage and in 'properties' you have named the class as Main - without the as. So the code that drives

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with First Flash Movie

2009-11-17 Thread John McCormack
Well done Cedric! beno, Later on, have a look at: Using the Document Class on: http://www.gotoandlearn.com/ John Cedric Muller wrote: :) Now, the best is to try out different ways to launch your application and truely understand the differences between Classes, methods, properties,

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-07 Thread John McCormack
Beno, First, a bit of a rant. These people have given you so much, and they have to make progress too. We know it's a struggle but you really must help yourself. Please advise. When I started I read Colin Mook's book from start to finish:

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-07 Thread John McCormack
Beno, Persuade a library to buy the books. Without the grounding you will grow into the subject with all sorts of misunderstanding that will bite you later. I really didn't feel ready to code until I had fully digested Mook's book. John ___

Re: [Flashcoders] hen's teeth...

2010-01-05 Thread John McCormack
Taka Kojima wrote: it's not necessarily the language that makes a developer, it's the conceptual understanding of everything else, design patterns, syntax, best practices, I would agree with that. What 2nd language to choose depends upon what you aim to do... I program in C++ for my own

Re: [Flashcoders] hen's teeth...

2010-01-05 Thread John McCormack
Glen Pike wrote: You do something wrong in C / C++ you could end up with a BSOD, or a broken CD Writer (ahem). Sorry, the (ahem) made me laugh! I got into Flash ActionScript because it was the fastest and easiest way of getting something to show on the screen Yep. I hated Visual Studio I

Re: [Flashcoders] hen's teeth...

2010-01-06 Thread John McCormack
Meinte van't Kruis wrote: Seeing the whole apparat project of Joa Ebert or the stuff Nicolas Cannasse Are their projects available to see? implementing some alchemy to speed things up. As far as I understand it, the C++ code is still converted into Flash's byte codes, so any performance

Re: [Flashcoders] hen's teeth...

2010-01-07 Thread John McCormack
(don't ask me why). Anyway, I'm no expert, but a bit of it is explained here: http://ncannasse.fr/blog/adobe_alchemy On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:19 PM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.ukwrote: Meinte van't Kruis wrote: Seeing the whole apparat project of Joa Ebert or the stuff Nicolas

Re: [Flashcoders] hen's teeth...

2010-01-07 Thread John McCormack
Pike wrote: sandbox? Am guessing direct memory access maybe disallowed because people could try to exploit buffer overflows... John McCormack wrote: Thank you for that, it was very interesting. It was certainly faster for those operations. opcodes which aren't available in AS3 It doesn't seem

Re: [Flashcoders] hen's teeth...

2010-01-07 Thread John McCormack
So the performance gains will end up in AS3, sometime: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Alchemy:FAQ Why can't the ActionScript compiler generate byte code that executes as quickly as Alchemy? Compiling with LLVM tools (included as part of Alchemy) allows compile and link time

Re: [Flashcoders] Screencast software

2010-01-12 Thread John McCormack
Pedro Kostelec wrote: Probably the best piece of software or this purpose, under WIndows, is camtasia studio. I has recording and editing capabilities. But it is not free. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp There are some great ones for Mac users, but I can't remember their name.

[Flashcoders] Screencast software

2010-01-12 Thread John McCormack
I wish to provide some help files in SWF format for users of my software. I would need to edit the captured file. What screencast software would you recommend? John ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Screencast software

2010-01-12 Thread John McCormack
Thank you for those VLC from: http://www.videolan.org/ Screenr: from http://screenr.com/ John David Hunter wrote: i've just discovered that VLC does screen capture if you already have that. Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:41:37 + From: j...@easypeasy.co.uk To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Crossdomain.xml, shared hosting, https, oh my!

2010-01-15 Thread John McCormack
Instead of: Policy file 2 is here: http://stage.example.com/game/crossdomain.xml: Try: Policy file 2 here: http://stage.example.com/crossdomain.xml: and specify /game/ as an okay directory. John Steven Loe wrote: I'm still getting a security sandbox error when the swf tries to get data via

Re: [Flashcoders] Design pattern?

2010-01-18 Thread John McCormack
The user may go for another button click as the timer ends. How about saving state when a non-button click occurs? John Nathan Mynarcik wrote: Gotcha. That makes sense. --Original Message-- From: Paul Andrews Sender: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com To: Flash Coders List

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-19 Thread John McCormack
Merrill, Jason wrote: The view can hold an array of other views, Any new views can request to be added to the listener/notify list using the observer pattern, as in please inform me too, if things change. John when the main view is told to build by the controller, it iterates through the

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-19 Thread John McCormack
Cor, I am only familiar with a part of it but the book ActionScript 3 Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson from Adobe Press has a nice example using an analogue and digital clock but only one set of data. You can imagine a wrist watch view asking to get informed when the time

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-19 Thread John McCormack
] On Behalf Of John McCormack Sent: dinsdag 19 januari 2010 20:48 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework Cor, I am only familiar with a part of it but the book ActionScript 3 Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson from Adobe Press has a nice example

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-19 Thread John McCormack
only) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of John McCormack Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:43 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework Merrill, Jason

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-20 Thread John McCormack
I tend to back off when there is more than I can grasp, in case I can't control it, so it was nice to see this example: http://examples.robotlegs.org/googlemaps/index.html John Steven Sacks wrote: Want to do MVC right? Use this: http://www.robotlegs.org/

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-20 Thread John McCormack
Steven, Have you found it better than pureMVC and Cairngorm? John Steven Sacks wrote: Want to do MVC right? Use this: http://www.robotlegs.org/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-20 Thread John McCormack
, and still do, but I've really enjoyed getting into RobotLegs) -10 for Cairngorm Piers On 20 Jan 2010, at 11:29, John McCormack wrote: Steven, Have you found it better than pureMVC and Cairngorm? John Steven Sacks wrote: Want to do MVC right? Use this: http

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with paths

2010-01-23 Thread John McCormack
If I understand this correctly: html is in directory1 SWF in directory2/flash SWF is trying to load the XML from directory2/flash/xml/ A SWF knows the directory it was loaded from and so can find the xml directory. For example I use this... var temp:String; temp=this.loaderInfo.url;

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with paths

2010-01-23 Thread John McCormack
Sorry, In my application the scores file would have the same name as the SWF program, and so progam.swf becomes progamscores.txt temp=this.loaderInfo.url;// Use the SWF path as a source temp=temp.replace(.swf,scores.txt); // for the scores text file John John

Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

2010-01-29 Thread John McCormack
So the iPad's priority is to be an apple store kiosk? Doesn't sound very promising. John kinda...@gmail.com wrote: If flash worked, the ipad would circunvent the apple app store... And that won't happen. Ever. ;) On 29-01-2010 13:03, artur wrote: /i was wondering what the communities

Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework

2010-01-29 Thread John McCormack
Steven Sacks wrote: Want to do MVC right? Use this: http://www.robotlegs.org/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Well that was really interesting. This too on

Re: [Flashcoders] Has everyone seen this yet?

2010-02-17 Thread John McCormack
AIR is apparently the technology behind the iPad application’s rich-text, imagery, animation and interactivity functionality. That's also very interesting. John Gregory Boudreaux wrote: Pretty cool. http://mashable.com/2010/02/16/wired-magazine-ipad-demo/ gregb

Re: [Flashcoders] removeChild Question

2010-02-24 Thread John McCormack
Susan, A class is a template - usually written with a capital letter at the start. A class doesn't exist in the memory of the program. It's something you use to define the 'type' of objects you want. Other 'types' might be: int, Number, MyClass, etc. An instance is an object based on that

Re: [Flashcoders] removeChild Question

2010-02-24 Thread John McCormack
Susan was adding to the stage at the start of her program. Can you have a main SWF without a timeline (single frame)? Can you have a program without a stage? What is more fundamental to a SWF, a stage or timeline? Maybe I am missing something. John Henrik Andersson wrote: John McCormack

Re: [Flashcoders] removeChild Question

2010-02-25 Thread John McCormack
Susan, have a look at these examples: http://www.actionscript.org/resources/categories/Tutorials/ http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm http://www.flashandmath.com/ http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/#contents John Susan Day wrote: There is

Re: [Flashcoders] Bezier curve arrows

2010-03-16 Thread John McCormack
What is the equation of the curve? John Pedro Kostelec wrote: Calculate the derivative (the gradient, slope) at the end of the curve. But i have no idea how to do it is as3. Can we even calculate derivatives in AS3? ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] flash builder 4 released

2010-03-29 Thread John McCormack
I will be buying it shortly. It's a great product. I was interested to see that you mentioned FDT on the blog. Does FDT offer significant coding enhancements as an IDE? John co...@moock.org wrote: i didn't see anyone post an announcement about fb4 to flashcoders, so i figure it's worth

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-09 Thread John McCormack
Merrill, Jason wrote: Peter Elst: http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2010/04/09/apple-versus-developers-this-time-its-personal/ apple-versus-developers-this-time-its-personal It does feel personal: 1. Apple want to lock you into their products. 2. They can't force consumers, so they force

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