Re: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex

2005-10-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 27, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Mike Britton wrote: That makes sense Robert. In the same line of thinking, as the Flex stuff evolves, I see the Flash IDE turning into a sort of Photoshop for Flash where graphical assets are designed/maintained, and FlexBuilder 2 (eclipse) becoming the

[Flashcoders] Another random number generator

2005-10-27 Thread Jon Bradley
I saw a post on a forum recently about random number generators and the ability to create on that could be seeded. So, I took up the challenge and converted the Mersenne Twister algorithm to AS2 (probably one of the best, and fastest, pseudo-random number generators out there). Code is

Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie AS3 question

2005-10-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Shaw, Matt wrote: Assuming the Game class is your root/stage class: Public class Game extends MovieClip { public function Game(){ var gameworld:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); //new GameWorld()? this.addChild( gameworld ); var

[Flashcoders] Player 8.5 standalone on OSX?

2005-10-28 Thread Jon Bradley
No answer from MM on their labs forums, or anywhere else for that matter. Anyone locate the standalone player for OS X yet? It aint in the FlexBuilder2 installer or in the plug-in installer. Only the PC exe files are standalone. ?? thanks... Jon

Re: [Flashcoders] bidimensional array in as

2005-10-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 31, 2005, at 7:22 AM, cornel wrote: hi maybe a silly question, but here i go anyway: how would you write something like this in actionscript: int matrix[3][3]; for(i=0;i3;i++) for(j=0;j3;j++) matrix[i][j]=0; i've done something like this in my code, mtasc doesnt complained, but

Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie AS3 question

2005-10-31 Thread Jon Bradley
Ok. Since I was the 'ass' that started this junk by asking why this was needed, maybe I can be the 'ass' that will end it. This thread started with Andreas asking about addChild. Fair enough. I asked about a specific example that used this on a method which was a member of the same class

Re: [Flashcoders] bidimensional array in as

2005-10-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 31, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Gregory wrote: You must create empty arrays first, like this: // bidimensional array in AS var matrix2:Array = []; for(i=0;i3;i++){ matrix2[i] = []; for(j=0;j3;j++){ matrix2[i][j]=0; } } trace(matrix2); Yea, I'm a dufus. I

Re: [Flashcoders] Math.random()

2005-11-17 Thread Jon Bradley
is fairly easy to implement. Aside to this thread - never use Math.random() because it's inherently insecure. http://magicsnacks.com/shiftedpixels/?p=8 Jon Bradley Visual Effects / Interactive / Animation Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flashcoders] Qauternions for avoiding gimbal-lock in 3D?

2005-11-28 Thread Jon Bradley
to do a lot of spherical linear interpolation (unlikely). Jon Bradley Visual Effects / Interactive / Animation Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: 3D in Flash

2005-12-14 Thread Jon Bradley
in some 3d package. good luck! Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. 170 Linden Oaks, Suite B Rochester, NY 14625 585.385.1530 x273 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Elastic ribbon

2005-12-20 Thread Jon Bradley
is better for cloth simulation than verlet integration. Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http

Re: [Flashcoders] flash.geom.* and drawing API

2006-01-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 14, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Benjamin Dobler wrote: So my question is anything like that out there already? What would bet he best way to do it (e.g. moveTo2(p:Point)). Do i have to expect performance decrease? I'm not aware of anything currently.. and don't know if this is implemented yet

Re: [Flashcoders] Doh! Converting a floating point string to numberloses precision

2006-03-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 8, 2006, at 12:13 AM, JesterXL wrote: Something about how certain numbers are only so big in Flash Player, and there was talk of porting BigInt from Java. Far as I know, number accuracy in Flash is +/- 1e16 and no better. I believe that's 32-bit precision. On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:10

[Flashcoders] Flash targeting Quicktime to open in QT Player

2006-04-17 Thread Jon Bradley
with an FSCommand? Has anyone ever done anything like this? Many many many thanks if anyone can help out. I've got a site I need to make live today and I have everything working fine except this (major) part. thanks, Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash targeting Quicktime to open in QT Player

2006-04-17 Thread Jon Bradley
, because the Player is opened through the target tag in the embed object. So, it's as if the quicktime movie is there, just not used inside the page. Argh. Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com On Apr 17, 2006, at 10

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash targeting Quicktime to open in QT Player

2006-04-17 Thread Jon Bradley
- as the script for the button is replaced with the embed tag. Not so with Flash. Delivering the video as Flash is not really an option, because it's no where near as good a the H.264 encoded QT video that I want to provide. I just wish there were an easier solution. cheers, jon Jon Bradley Animation

[Flashcoders] Shared font questions

2006-05-01 Thread Jon Bradley
I've seen sharedfonts.com and checked it out. I've also checked out some archived pages on shared fonts, how they load, etc. and a few other thoughts. What's the difference between the SFM component and the methods described in the archives to share fonts with a library and a movie clip

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Shared font questions

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Bradley
Brody - Thanks for that bit. Very good info to have. I decided to bite the bullet and write my own approach, which has all of the functionality as shared fonts manager and the added ability to load in a set of configuration files - and doesn't cost anything. I was actually surprised how

Re: [Flashcoders] Shared font questions

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 2, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Brody Welch wrote: Glad to hear you worked it out. Would you be willing to share your solution? Once finished, I'm definitely considering it. There's only one downside - it might not be good news for sharedfonts.com. Although everything their extension does is

Re: [Flashcoders] Shared font questions

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 2, 2006, at 6:38 PM, erixtekila wrote: Hep, there is no magic at all. Zarate also found a solution. Of course - that's the solution Brody pointed out. The problem is that solution has problems that the shared fonts manager and a few other solutions do not. I published also a

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Convolution filter and Zoom blur effect

2006-05-03 Thread Jon Bradley
// // Temporal Anti-aliasing (motion blur) // jon bradley, 2005 // // Create a movie clip on your stage named src. // Copy the following code in the first frame. // Set the frame rate of your file high, like 120

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Convolution filter and Zoom blur effect

2006-05-03 Thread Jon Bradley
Since I didn't post a solution for zoom or spin blur, here's a method you can try out. A way to account for zoom or spin blur is to do the following: Perform a polar transform on the bitmap. Horizontal blur (or vertical blur) the transformed image Reverse polar transform Result is a spin blur

Re: [Flashcoders] Anti-aliasing distorted bitmapData?

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 7, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Sander wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to do some 3Dish distortions on bitmapData instances, using loops to copy colons or rows of pixels. It's fast enough for real-time. But the result is an aliased picture. I thought I could use the Convolution filter to

Re: [Flashcoders] MPG1 video compression: Best settings? CD playback?

2006-05-15 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 15, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: Hi all, Anyone ever encode their video files with MPG1 for use on an interactive CD? If so, what kind of settings do you use? It depends on what you term as a good quality. What's the dimensions, how will it be played (Quicktime, Windows

Re: [Flashcoders] Encryption Packages

2006-06-01 Thread Jon Bradley
http://actioncrypt.sourceforge.net/ Beware though. Even using the same keys, mcrypt and actioncrypt end up returning differing results. There's something wonkey with the algorithm. Also... http://www.meychi.com/archive/31.php This one has the Rijndael algorithm implemented apparently. I

Re: [Flashcoders] Whats the deal with AS3 Math.random?

2006-11-27 Thread Jon Bradley
for your needs. cheers, jon Jon Bradley VFX Artist / Animator Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com /** BEGIN LCG.as */ /** * Class com.jbradley.math.LCG * AuthorJon Bradley * Version 1.0 * Description Implementation of 48-bit Linear

[Flashcoders] Loading SWF and FLV in sync?

2006-11-27 Thread Jon Bradley
Haven't really done much work with cue points and FLV files lately, and I did some serious searching of the archives but came up blank. Any help is appreciated. I've got a 7 min. FLV file (one single file) which may or may not get broken up into separate FLVs for better interaction with

Re: [Flashcoders] How to send Audio objects as MP3 via XML-RPC?

2006-11-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Leo Burd wrote: Hello there, I am new to Flash and I am wondering what is the best way to send Audio objects via XML-RPC. More specifically, I wonder if anyone could send me suggestions on: a) How to convert a Sound object to MP3 programatically? You need

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Performance of AS3 vs Java

2006-12-05 Thread Jon Bradley
Java is still faster than the Flash AVM2. If you really want to get into doing 3d viz work, use Java and OpenGL - and skip Processing unless you just want to jump right in and be able to see your results faster. That said, it really depends on what you want to do with it and how far you

Re: [Flashcoders] syntax highlighting

2007-02-07 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Jason Boyd wrote: I think what I'm getting at is that to really be useful, it ought to scan the document for code elements, then parse the text of these nodes, applying styles (or adding classed span tags or whatever) to the words based on a look-up of keywords,

Re: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] syntax highlighting

2007-02-07 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Iv wrote: For example in our field Adobe declaration of AS code html-formatting standard is enougth for start support this standard by big number of developers. Problem 1 is that the tool is re-writing the HTML content of the page, which I don't particularly

Re: [Flashcoders] Anyone hate flash 9 already?

2007-02-13 Thread Jon Bradley
Isn't there a flash newbie list? On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Arseniy Shklyaev wrote: Ah Craig List. that u mean about I have no money yet :D lol Yeah. Really. It fits. The only thing could make u think I m not trying to catcha that u can look into a games I made myself. And I will take

Re: [Flashcoders] ru.bezier geom package beta

2007-02-27 Thread Jon Bradley
Not bad Ivan. I created a general polygon clipping library (Weiler-Atherton) a couple years ago that I'm converting to AS3 and adding bezier support for. It's been pretty fun to work on - especially the curve support. Is this a pretext to something larger, or just a demo of bezier

Re: [Flashcoders] OT:How was this done?

2007-03-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 28, 2007, at 10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find most of my inspiration from the world of 3d and broadcast graphics, and, increasingly I think we are going to see more and more 'hybrid' work that is a marriage of broadcast and web based media /techniques.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Announced

2007-03-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 28, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Omar Fouad wrote: but when the Flash CS3 Full version (not update) will be available?? End of April is when it ships I believe, the 20th rings a bell. The Master Collection isn't slated until June I think ... which is quite a while (ugh). - jon

Re: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-03-30 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote: I'm surprised that any of the CS3 bundles are available via download. I would think they are only available via physical shipment due to sheer size. Back to the subject at hand, I know that UK and EU pricing typically runs higher on

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Announced

2007-03-30 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think it's a pretty bogus feature, one of those things that look nice on paper but when you stop to look at it it's far from useful except on extremely specific cases and still far from the magic that will save lives

[Flashcoders] Question: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files

2007-04-03 Thread Jon Bradley
I've got a bit of a question that I'm trying to wrap my head around. Can Flash Media Server 2 take dynamic paths to FLV content? We're working within the constraints of a pretty high end post production solution that will end up storing many hours of video content, probably in MXF format in

Re: [Flashcoders] simple code- should work but is not.

2007-04-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Thomas Collins wrote: might anyone know why my wineback_btn is not registering the onPress? i know for sure that my playhead reaches frame 21 where the code is. instance names are specified Are you disabling trace during publishing? That's what I'd check first

Re: [Flashcoders] Question: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files

2007-04-04 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2007, at 10:34 PM, john robinson wrote: On Apr 3, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: I've got a bit of a question that I'm trying to wrap my head around. Can Flash Media Server 2 take dynamic paths to FLV content? As long as the path exists, then yeah it should be fine. I'm

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and video optimisation ....

2007-04-04 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Kerem İşeri wrote: I couldnt find any software directly converts avi to flv better then flash. I am open for other ideas : ) FFmpeg is free and it also will do it just as well as Flash. It's just tricky to use and get running, more so if you're on a windows

Re: [Flashcoders] Question: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files

2007-04-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 4, 2007, at 2:54 PM, john robinson wrote: So the Flash front-end gets this path from the CMS, correct? If that's the case, then in your Java application, you you then copy the actual flv somewhere like so: FMS/applications/myApplication/streams/347/filename.flv That's one problem

Re: [Flashcoders] Editors in use by Actionscript Programmers

2007-04-09 Thread Jon Bradley
Another: Subethaedit for mac Just the fact that it's collaborative editing makes it worthwhile. I've yet to get into all the code-hinting/folding, etc. jazz offered by many of these editors. Though, now I'm getting into more Flex 2 work, I have a feeling I might be making a switch (but

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

2007-04-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:09 PM, thotskee wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on what the Adobe Media Player means for Youtube/Brightcove/Veoh/Google Video/etc. ? My guess is ... not too much. My take on it: It's just a glorified FLV player that talks to various video services and can be

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:49 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote: I'd say it stands a decent chance of supporting a bunch of formats eventually. Remember this thing is built on Apollo, and you can build your Apollo app with HTML. Maybe Apollo won't support HTML pages with plugins (except for

Re: [Flashcoders] On2VP6 hardware acceleration

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Bradley
have a fast enough system. H.264 is way more demanding than the OnVP6 codec. It's also quite a bit higher quality and can handle much higher data rates. I'm not sure what your system specs are but I've got HD FLV files that playback quite nicely, from 720p up to1080p. cheers, Jon Jon

Re: [Flashcoders] seek() in VideoPlayer class

2007-04-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Ash Warren wrote: Why do I feel like it's a constant 1 step forward 2 steps back with these new releases??? Well.. you are running Vista ... :) - jon ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: [Flashcoders] Matrix Building

2007-04-26 Thread Jon Bradley
it to NxM format ... if you do that, please send me the adjusted code. I'll let you figure out only using the values you want (full outer ring on matrix). cheers, Jon Jon Bradley VFX Artist / Animator Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com

Re: [Flashcoders] jpeg 2000 compression

2007-05-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 3, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Marc furman wrote: Hi can anyone tell me if there is a way to use jpeg 2000 compression in flash mx 2004 or flash 8 also if it is used in a movie can jpeg 2000 compression be viewed in flash player 7 Thank you marc The IDE does support JPG2k though I do not

Re: [Flashcoders] toronto flash developer

2007-05-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 8, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Tim Arney wrote: Dashboard is seeking a fulltime flash developer to join our growing team For details - Ah... I'd love to move to Toronto. It's quite nice this time of year. Alas, I'm stuck across the pond in Rochester ... loving the lake effect snow I get

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV CuePoints - discrepancies between CuePoint time and actual time

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Bradley
How are you inserting the cue points? If you are not embedding the cue points directly into the file, then your callback will only happen on the previous, closest key frame. Also, Sorenson has had issues in the past with mis-aligned cue points and keyframes. I stopped using it altogether a

[Flashcoders] Cairngorm without remoting?

2007-05-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone here approached Cairngorm development without remoting services? I'm developing in Flash 8 still - no case to go to Flash 9 yet since the penetration is way less than the business requirements. I've got a prototype I'm putting together and am using Delegates that return stub

Re: [Flashcoders] Cairngorm without remoting?

2007-05-24 Thread Jon Bradley
That's great, Muzak. It's right in line with what I thought needed to be done - import the remoting classes and use them only for what's necessary. It does seem like quite a lot of effort for something that should be pretty simple - since the built in XML loading already has events that

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

2007-06-13 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:51 AM, matt stuehler wrote: In other words, if you're using a device font, Flash will properly calculate the height if the font is _sans, _serif, or _typewriter (which is exactly what you suggested); but not if you use another font. This little bit of code properly

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 over 400 MB! and 25 minutes to install!

2007-06-20 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 19, 2007, at 4:31 PM, JulianG wrote: I saw this coming... Once Adobe take over Macromedia, things would start to happen. Bad things, I mean. Still searching to see what can be defined as bad in this thread. How come Flash CS3 Installer is over 400 MB, when Flash 8 was only 110

Re: [Flashcoders] Flipping Effect...

2007-07-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Nick Weekes wrote: In any case, this very useful link was put up and I think its closer to the original request: http://www.reflektions.com/miniml/template_permalink.asp?id=344 This effect would probably be much quicker by performing rectangular region

Re: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] obfuscation swf !

2007-07-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Jim Berkey wrote: Congratulations, I obviously have more holes to plug, my methods are no good. I will continue trying . . . You can't do it Jim - there aren't any holes to plug. It's just technically impossible. cheers, - Jon

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Jim Berkey wrote: I found early on that so many people can tear down a wall and condemn it easily when they see the skeleton, without ever trying to climb the wall, and that is not a good judge of the effectiveness of the wall. But if you do not see the

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400 - Jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Mark Winterhalder wrote: On 7/18/07, Douglas Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're talking about obfuscation/encryption does anyone know of a tool that works for AS3

[Flashcoders] drag and drop

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Anyone attempt a DragManager class in AS3 for use with Flash CS3 (not the flex sources). Specifically a singleton that takes a proxy (bitmap) and uses that for the dragging, with a method to have acceptable targets. Trying to work that out and would like to know if I'm re-inventing the

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Bradley
instead... cheers, jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Latcho wrote: whats this? Jon Bradley wrote: Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Bradley
A better link for those interested in obfuscation of AS3 code. http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=266992 peace, jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Latcho wrote: whats this? Jon Bradley wrote: Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 19, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Mark Winterhalder wrote: But I wonder, did anybody compare haXe vs AS3 bytecode yet? A decompiler is likely to assume AS3 has been used, and maybe haXe creates sufficiently different bytecode to confuse it. That doesn't really matter. If it's FP9, it's AS3. The

Re: [Flashcoders] Splitting TextField into Lines - Simple?

2007-08-16 Thread Jon Bradley
Check out Jack's great Text Metrics class. He just posted this Aug. 7th. http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/TextMetrics/ cheers, Jon On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Dan Efergan wrote: Hello FlashCoders. The seemingly simple task of splitting a Textfield into it's (soft) wrapped lines is

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering what impact if any this will have on the future of 3d in Flash. Well, all the video updates will have zero effect. Those have nothing to do with 3d. This is basically the inclusion of the MainConcept MPEG4

Re: [FlashCoders] AS3 TextFields with filters - game performance?

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Dimitrios Bendilas wrote: My major concern is performance, because of the use of filters. By the way, I want to use the filters so that I won't have to make a new Raster Font Engine in Flash (I've already done one for AS2.0) First thought for performance

Re: [Flashcoders] how are they doing this? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d?

2007-09-16 Thread Jon Bradley
It's video. On Sep 15, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Carl Welch wrote: Hi All, Does any one know how this site achieved its card flipping effect? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d? http://www.tripleslanguage.com/?CMP=BAC-1TO1Q3TP7042 Thanks. -- Carl Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.403.4819

Re: [Flashcoders] how are they doing this? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d?

2007-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
Whether they blit or not, everything is still a pre-rendered sequence, except the text. The clip layout is identical every time. I don't believe any distorian or 3d library API was used (ie PV3D or Sandy). There are a whole bunch of pre-rendered sequences that they are applying color

[Flashcoders] New server!

2007-10-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Whoohoo. Good job guys. Glad to see the server up and running again. Looking forward to massive amounts of email in my inbox all day long from all the flash coders out there. cheers, Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Two Solutions: Flex swc’s ( RPC) and or Intrinsic classes within Flash CS3!

2008-01-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Sander wrote: Hi FlashCoders!, I’ve been trying to evangelize my solution to the flash community but I don’t think it came through, really... I hope someone on this list will pick it up! Woah. That's pretty freakin cool. This almost seems as though it will

Re: [Flashcoders] 9-section scalable graphic

2008-01-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Andrew Sinning wrote: I know there's a term for what I looking for, but I don't know it and my searches are coming up empty. What do you call the technique of dividing a graphic into 9 different areas so that when you scale it the outer borders don't get

Re: [Flashcoders] Problems with Gradient Banding

2008-01-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Ed McManus wrote: Does anyone know what causes this? It's as if for large gradients flash doesn't perform enough steps making the transition from the start to end colors, so on a large scale the color difference between steps is clearly visible. This is

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars maximum?

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Dave Mennenoh wrote: I've been looking and looking and cannot find the info... I am trying to send an array containing many thousands of entries to a php page for db storage. However when I get too much info into a loadvars property, it just stops working and

Re: [Flashcoders] multiple TextFormats in one TextField

2008-02-06 Thread Jon Bradley
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: How can I preserve certain substrings of the text to keep their assigned TextFormats? Before you add text to a text field that has a different format than the default that you've specified (with setTextFormat), use setNewTextFormat() on the field and then

Re: [Flashcoders] wierd easter egg?

2008-03-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 5, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hey this is odd i'm testing my movie at http://qsworld.co.uk/index.php? extcategory=Designextdesigner=Darkest%20Starextproduct=Jacket and when i tried right clicking the top right corner and selecting zoom in, i got

Re: [Flashcoders] Source Control [WAS] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-15 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 15, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Muzak wrote: There's a new(er) plugin, called subversive that might be worth looking into. I haven't tried it yet, but heard good things about it: http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=overviewproject=subversive

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: Tweening a very large vector file causes shaking

2008-03-21 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Matt S. wrote: It seems like the problem started when I added _rotation to the the mix. The file is vector, imported from AI. is anyone familiar with this problem? Any recommendations for handling this sort of basic (or so I thought) effect? There's a bug in

Re: [Flashcoders] Help needed AS3 -- [Embed(source='library.swf' symbol='backgroud_mc')]

2008-03-24 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Cor wrote: This throws an error: TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. What am I doing wrong? You can't call new Background_mc() when it's an instance of Class - there's no constructor for it that the compiler recognizes. My

Re: [Flashcoders] Help needed AS3 -- [Embed(source='library.swf' symbol='backgroud_mc')]

2008-03-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Oops... my last email was kinda based on the idea that you were running this in Flex. My bad - replying to two lists at once. http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2007/03/associating_cus.php - jb On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Cor wrote: This throws an error: TypeError: Error #1007:

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 26, 2008, at 4:35 PM, artur wrote: is this possible? if so does it HAVE to be on a Flash Communication Server? or can it run on others? any links to sample setups would be great too..thanks ?? Flex compiles to an SWF file. However you'd do what you want to do with Flash, you would

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:34 PM, artur wrote: the CMS webservice i want to build will be done in FLEX / AMF / MySQL. and i want to make sure that it can scale and be redundant. Ok but that doesn't have anything to do with Flex. Flex is just a different application to build an SWF file. It

Re: [Flashcoders] Image colorization / contrast adjusting

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 27, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Alistair Colling wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible for flash to process a regular photograph to produce a pop-arty image like this: http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpo7028+pop-art-andy-warhol-1962-che- guevara-poster.jpg A little Warhol-style

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Cutter (FlashRelated) wrote: You could also use Adobe ColdFusion, which has native AMF support built-in, as well as a gateway for interacting with Flex apps. Then you have the power of a J2EE app server, the agility of RAD development with ColdFusion and Flex,

Re: [Flashcoders] PureMVC vs Cairngorm // who's better?

2008-04-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if it is a small to medium size app you may want to try EasyMVC from Tom Bray (http://www.tombray.com/2007/10/16/my-easymvc-seminar-wasnt- recorded/). His presentation on 3/28/08 was recorded as an Adobe ondemand seminar and

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Jer Brand wrote: myMovie.iDontCareIfYouHaveListeners_DIE_DAMN_YOU_DIE() ; LOL. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Using FlexBuilder3 profiler with FlashCS3

2008-04-25 Thread Jon Bradley
Good question. I haven't tried that yet. What you could try to do, off the top of my head, is use the SWFLoader and load up the SWF file into a simple Flex application. I believe the profiler will also profile the content loaded through SWFLoader, but I'm not certain of it. good luck!

Re: [Flashcoders] FPS limit of flash player inside browser?

2008-05-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 7, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Steven Sacks wrote: The fact of the matter is, running at a higher frame rate makes things look smoother. Period, end of statement. That's not an accurate generalization. Higher frame rate != smoother display in all cases. It matters for progressive elements

Re: [Flashcoders] FPS limit of flash player inside browser?

2008-05-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 8, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote: But it's important to remember movies work well at 24fps because they capture slices of time and not static frames. An entire 1/24 of a second is present on each of those frames, while with computer graphics we have a moment frozen in time.

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Usage of [Event....]

2008-06-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Helmut Granda wrote: Can you pass custom properties with this kind of event handling? All that this notation allows you to do is to define the event (as a string) and it's handler (the event class handling the event). It doesn't have anything to do with any

Re: [Flashcoders] Insert breakpoints and run debugger withoutFlashCS3?

2008-06-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:54 AM, EDELSTAR wrote: Данный почтовый ящик не обрабатывает подгрузки, заявки и прочие сообщения. Вам нужно написать на адрес, присвоенный Вашему СПО. List admin - can you block this? ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] scaleX on TextField

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 11:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but... In my case I can have scaleX 1000, so I loose too much quality with this method. I'm triing to embbed fonts outlines in my TextTield but the result is not very good (bad antialiasing). I guest that I have no other

Re: [Flashcoders] scaleX on TextField

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Matt S. wrote: Is this online somewhere? Sounds interesting :) var m:Matrix = new Matrix(); m.scale(100,1); myDisplayObject.transform.matrix = m; cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Maintain position on rotation

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:27 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote: While rotating, I want to place another MC's x,y (each frame) on that rotating MC. However the x,y never updates. I tried localToGlobal, but that doesn't seem to change either during the rotation. Can this be easily done? Give

Re: [Flashcoders] How to avoid fake data being sent to server?

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Ricky Bacon wrote: Security through obscurity is not a very good idea. You also still have the problem of someone decompiling the swf and modifying it to their needs. If Flash Media Server 3 is being used, for a very nice level of protection it can hash

Re: [Flashcoders] Netstream fails to close

2008-07-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Jason Van Cleave wrote: I could cast the sound onto a separate object and mute it, so that you don't see or hear any ill effects, but my proxy tells me the flv is still downloading, so if one of my clients users clicks on 10 video clips their connection will crawl

Re: [Flashcoders] flex 3 // Tile Component // Mutliple Drag Selection

2008-07-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:39 PM, artur wrote: would it be possible to Extend the Tile Component? instead of making a new one from scratch? Here's how I'd do it... Add a child to the container that's holding the TileList component. On click (mouse event), start drawing a rectangle (mouse move

Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 11, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Dave Watts wrote: It is possible, however, to load the Acrobat ActiveX control into a Flex application, and have it load a PDF. I'm not exactly sure how this works, but the LiveCycle Workspace application does this. That wouldn't really be helpful to the

Re: [Flashcoders] how many coders here actually have a degree related to computer science?

2008-08-20 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Do you have a degree related to computer science? if not, how difficult is it getting jobs programming AS3 without one? I think comp sci is much more geared toward software and computer engineering, as opposed to programming for rich media.

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

2008-08-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 25, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Omar Fouad wrote: But what the hell is an interface!!! I've read lots of books and posts without getting the answer. I bought Essential AS3 to read about interfaces and he says that helps for multi inheritance. In other places I read that it is a deal

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

2008-08-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Juan Pablo Califano wrote: This strikes me as the typical gratiutous bashing of some product just because it's made by MS. But perhaps you could elaborate a bit more on the idea... Nah, it doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft. I don't have anything

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