Re: [Flashcoders] how to not overwrite methods, but append functionality

2006-08-11 Thread Martin Wood
Matthias Dittgen wrote: Hello list, my tooltip class uses code like this "mc.onRollOver = function() {}" to add its tooltip functionality to a movieclip mc. But this way it overwrites the onRollOver method of mc and disables the functionality like highlighting. So now my question (probably a

Re: [Flashcoders] how to not overwrite methods, but append functionality

2006-08-11 Thread Martin Wood
in MyTooltip you can re-assign the onRollOver to another name and call that from the new onRollOver, like this : in MyTooltip mc.onRollOver2 = mc.onRollOver; mc.onRollOver = function() { // some stuff here // call the original this.onRollOver2(); } thats one way of doing it martin

Re: [Flashcoders] Play Sound Backwards or in Slow Motion during RunTime

2006-08-17 Thread Martin Wood
nice, follow the trail and you can get source code for doing audio DSP in flash 9 : http://www.flashcodersbrighton.org/wordpress/?p=9 I knew it would work :) Andy Makely wrote: On 8/11/06, Helmut Granda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone knows of a technique to play a sound backwards or

Re: [Flashcoders] Question about __constructor__

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Wood
The first thing to understand is that AS2 uses the same bytecode as AS1. i.e. AS2 if just AS1 with pretty makeup and a new hairdo. This page might help you understand more about __proto__ , .prototype and all the weird stuff we did that is thankfully in the past (most of the time) :) http://w

Re: [Flashcoders] How does registerClass() / registerClassAlias() work internally?

2006-08-21 Thread Martin Wood
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: It always intrigued me how this method worked internally. First, when I register this (AS2): Object.registerClass('mylinkageid_or_myobjectname',myclass); 1)How does flash knows that each time I create a new instance of the object/movieclip symbol it should attac

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3.0 compiler Qs

2006-08-21 Thread Martin Wood
Does the compiled code get recompiled during runtime to machine code (like a JIT compiler) or does it get interpreted? Some Adobe presentation on the subjet was saying that all the code get JIT'ed, except the $iinit and $cinit functions which are the one defining the classes and initializing t

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3.0 compiler Qs

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Wood
of course :) thanks Chafic and David.. Chafic Kazoun wrote: From what I know (And I am no expert on the Flash Player). The way the JIT process works, not everything is actually always JITed. Bytecode that is executed once may not tget JITed at all. But code that is accessed multiple times or

Re: [Flashcoders] working with dynamic images using mysql database

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Wood
space defined beside the thumbs, loading the images from a folder is quite simple but here iam interested to *load images from databse* using mysql. can any one of u plz help me on this. -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon ___ Flashc

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Actionscript Coding conventions

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Wood
that lead me down some interesting paths...I didnt know there were 2 versions... Im still not a fan of that style of Hungarian notation but I can see the benefits of the 'original' : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html you learn something new every day :) Mark Lapasa wrote: I

Re: [Flashcoders] AMFPHP 1.2 Class Mapping & VO's incomming from PHP5 - It works but...

2006-08-29 Thread Martin Wood
Unfortunately the player wont do data type conversion when deserializing the contents of an object returned via remoting. You have to make sure your types are right on the server so that when the remoting gateway constructs the amf data to send to flash it has the correct types already inside.

Re: [Flashcoders] mvc dillema

2006-08-29 Thread Martin Wood
So I was wondering what the best method may be to access the model to add a playlist. Some say the best way is to create a wrapper function to the MusicPlayer class, that simply runs the method of the model. But then I need to create extra kinda useless functions in the MusicPlayer class. So what

Re: [Flashcoders] AMFPHP 1.2 Class Mapping & VO's incomming from PHP5 - It works but...

2006-08-30 Thread Martin Wood
Just knowing that the object is populated before the constructor is called and that those properties take precedence over my class explains a lot. Now I'm much better prepared to handle what remoting throws at me :) great... I think thats one part of remoting where they could have done somethi

Re: [Flashcoders] AMFPHP 1.2 Class Mapping & VO's incomming from PHP5 - It works but...

2006-08-30 Thread Martin Wood
Just knowing that the object is populated before the constructor is called and that those properties take precedence over my class explains a lot. Now I'm much better prepared to handle what remoting throws at me :) Accidentally hit the wrong key combo and sent the previous mail before i was f

Re: [FlashCoders] Images stay on memory forever?

2006-08-31 Thread Martin Wood
Sounds perfectly normal to me, making something invisble in flash doesnt mean it will unload the content from memory, in fact it doesnt necessarily mean it wont get rendered. Im not sure if this is still the case in fp8 but i know that in previous versions i would also move a clip to -1,-1

Re: [FlashCoders] Images stay on memory forever?

2006-08-31 Thread Martin Wood
are the clips created via attachMovie? why do you need to reclaim 4MB? its not a lot of memory. Flash may well use a memory management strategy that doesnt require it to immediately return the memory its allocated. Dimitrios Bendilas wrote: Hi Martin, Ok, but the memory doesn't even free

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Images stay on memory forever?

2006-08-31 Thread Martin Wood
p.s. Martin, is this true? - does the player really NOT render things placed way off stage? "Im not sure if this is still the case in fp8 but i know that in previous versions i would also move a clip to -1,-1 to stop the renderer from including it." im sure it *was* true back in the

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: Application Framework

2006-09-01 Thread Martin Wood
Jeff Brown wrote: Wow Duncan, this may solve quite a bit. It looks even easier than the php->xml->flash method I was looking for. Although my designer may need to install the Flash Remoting thing. We've already started development on the app's php mysql side, but we're a little ways (re: 8-10

Re: [Flashcoders] [JOB] Sr. Flash/AS Programmers

2006-09-07 Thread Martin Wood
And sometimes the user group meetings do some web broadcasts so I always check whats going on :) Count Schemula wrote: That's why I think the main requirement was city name in the title, so, people could delete them if they were geographically irrelevant. On 9/7/06, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Flashcoders] Job postings ok?

2006-09-07 Thread Martin Wood
yes. Michael Levine wrote: Hi I just joined this list per someone¹s recommendation. I wanted to ask before I ruffle any list-feathers ­ are job postings ok? Thx Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or sear

Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

2006-09-18 Thread Martin Wood
Kevin Aebig wrote: Just so we're clear, I don't mean they simply enjoy their jobs. I'm talking about the guys who constantly learn, adapt and take their work home with them on a regular basis. The guys who eat, breathe and sleep their jobs. I've found that there are many guys fresh out of scho

Re: [Flashcoders] flash returns "incorrect" size for masked clips

2006-09-29 Thread Martin Wood
useful is a matter of perspective :) if you want to load in the content behind a mask and dont know how big the content is then its useful to be able to find out its real size, not just the visible size. Radley Marx wrote: I have a .swf that's 400x300. It has a stage and mask that's 400x300,

Re: [Flashcoders] [JOB] Flash developer, Cambridge, UK

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Wood
Zárate wrote: Hi guys, The company I work for is looking to hire Flash developers as we have a huge amount of work. We're based in Cambridge, UK and do predominately e-learning applications. You can check out our website http://www.tribalctad.co.uk for more info. Main role: Flash developer. T

Re: [Flashcoders] Hough transform

2006-10-06 Thread Martin Wood
I dont have a simple way to do it but I can point you to some teaching materials so you can learn how to do it. http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/davidy/teachvision/vision0.html There are some good descriptions of implementing the hough transform and other techniques for finding shapes like act

Re: [Flashcoders] Referencing MovieClip

2005-10-18 Thread Martin Wood
if the methods are in the same class, then that should work, assuming that the reference to timeline is still valid, try trace(timeline) to make sure. alternatively, you could store the movieclip references in an array and then access that later rather than getting them from their parent movie

Re: [Flashcoders] > Normalizing point

2005-10-19 Thread Martin Wood
you can also combine that with some curve smoothing Once you have 3 points you can calculate the angle between the first and the third and use a tolerance (some call it the 'breaking angle') to determine if the middle point can be removed from the data set. so one idea could be to use 1 dista

Re: [Flashcoders] Macromedia unveiling Flex 2andFlash9 :communication or cacophony ?

2005-10-19 Thread Martin Wood
(except for the fact that they seem to be trying to kill open source remoting... damn cant they just compete on features!) Hank, i really dont think this is true. if you check the new docs you'll see that AMF is still in the new player, BUT there is a new version of AMF (AMF3) which contains

Re: [Flashcoders] javascript function SetVariable doesn't work withFlash Player 8

2005-10-25 Thread Martin Wood
Stan Vassilev wrote: If you run this offline, make sure this file you test is in the trusted list. You gotta go to the "advanced" flash panel hosted on macromedia.com to do this. but surely therein lies a paradox. if i want to run it offline, you must first go online? _

Re: [Flashcoders] OK to ask about X Factor Studio here?

2005-10-26 Thread Martin Wood
i reckon so...im sure quite a few people use it... personally i dont, but dont let that stop you :) Miles Thompson wrote: Is it OK to ask an XPath / X Factor Studio question here? Miles Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.fi

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex

2005-10-27 Thread Martin Wood
well, if you want to have a stab at it, it would make a great addition to the current set of open source tools used for developing flash content. head over to osflash.org and get involved :) im sure theres others around who would be interested in helping develop something like this...i know i

Re: [Flashcoders] File under BIZARRE: Keyboard Freezes Game, Wiggling Mouse Unfreezes

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Wood
no problems for me, XP, IE and Firefox both FP 8. martin Buck Ruckman wrote: assist. Is this a processor thing? Is it my file? Is it the Flash player 7 in IE? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figlea

Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie AS3 question

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Wood
ryanm wrote: What I don't get is why it needs "this.addChild" instead of just addChild. I've been sick of the keyword "this" for a long time and have since avoided it in AS2. Any reason that it needs to be back in for AS3? Maybe because it's one of the most useful scope references ever

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Newbie AS3 question

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Wood
If you come along maintain someone's code 6 months from now and you find a complex method of 200 lines of so, it's useful to have the this prefix to distinguish between variables that are local to the function and those that are available to the instance. true, but i would also immediately re-fa

Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie AS3 question

2005-10-29 Thread Martin Wood
. Singleton.getInstance().method argument; the latter is for those programmers who don't know ActionScript well. If you do it every day, there is no point. - Original Message - From: "Muzak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" Sent: Friday, Octob

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Newbie AS3 question

2005-10-29 Thread Martin Wood
ryanm wrote: The idea is to use it (this) when you have two variables with the same name, usually to distinguish between the class member and a locally declared variable. You must know that :) The compiler won't know to use "this" or not in those cases, so it is important to use it in those con

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and ASP/MSSQL

2005-10-30 Thread Martin Wood
The person who gave me the brief said something along the lines of "Sure Flash can talk straight to a database! All you need to do is set the connection string or something!" I hitherto hadn't realised this was possible - I've always thought you used loadVariables to call an (in my experience) ASP

[Flashcoders] Scope Issues was :Newbie AS3 question

2005-10-31 Thread Martin Wood
In my opinion this problem comes up so often because of bad design in the libraries. If the libraries were written to support the observer pattern rather than all this anonymous function / function binding the world would be a better place, ok, the technique itself is useful and slightly more com

Re: [Flashcoders] Profiling the clients CPU

2005-10-31 Thread Martin Wood
maybe it would be best to do the profiling using the code that is being performed, otherwise your results may be unreliable. i dont know if thats possible in your case, but you could start from the bottom and work up. run a few loops of the doSomethingEasy() and see how fast its running, if

Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

2005-10-31 Thread Martin Wood
i think its just a function declared with package scope. Mark Lapasa wrote: flash.util.trace() Is that a method of a package? Or a compiler directive? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mail

Re: [Flashcoders] ASDT data loss?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
Its a known issue, which is fixed in the CVS build. unfortunately if you point the current version at an existing directory for a new project, it decides to forcibly delete the contents. sounds like you discovered that bug. the fix has been in cvs for a while now, so its probably time we got

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
JesterXL wrote: I used to use FAME because MTASC is extremely fast at compiling compared to Flash. However, MTASC is apparently not going to support AS3, thus the whole point of using FAME, for me anyway, is dead. While Flashout has some nicely formatted traces, and ASDT has some neat temp

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
i'll combine my answer to jesse with a response to this as well, because they cover some of the same ground..hope you dont mind. why choose open source vs flexbuilder 2 ? because A: its open source, if it doesnt do what i want, there is always the possibility to change that B: it would most

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
very true, it also brings up the point that the development of open source tools can (to some extent) now be unified where the eclipse platform is concerned. If a developer creates a nice plugin for flash development on eclipse, a developer who is using either FB2 or a collection of open sourc

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
but you'll need some trigonometry to work out the rotation angle from the point that is clicked. if my memory serves me, you can use Math.atan2( y, x ) to get you the angle in radians, but i think you have to do some quadrant checking to get the right answer. the quadrant check itself is e

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
g.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Wood Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:22 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ? but you'll need some trigonometry to work out the rotation angl

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
well, what you need to do is work out the shortest route to the angle you want. i think it would go something like this first compute the difference in angles : angleDiff = abs(destAngle - sourceAngle) if its greater than 180 degrees, you want to go the other way. to find that, check which a

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
, but it would really be worth it. The Tween class seems to only want to += until it gets to the desired rotation - which is understandable. But sometimes we need tighter control ;) e.dolecki On Nov 1, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Martin Wood wrote: well, what you need to do is work out the shortes

Re: [Flashcoders] can I dynamically register an MC with an AS2.0 class?

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Wood
alternatively you could just have a setClip method defined in IMapHolder and implemented in the two classes. Then keep a reference to the clip as a member variable and work with that instead of subclassing movieclip. martin Liam Morley wrote: I'm working in FlashPro8. I have an empty movie cl

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Wood
8ball Developer wrote: Hi guys, I'm giving a presentation on using flash for an application in a few hours and would like to have a firm answer on the following items. 1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? flash streams mp3. thats all. (why it doesnt do ogg, i dont know

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Wood
8ball Developer wrote: 1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? flash streams mp3. thats all. (why it doesnt do ogg, i dont know.. :) Sorry. I meant to say: can a flash player, play mp3 streamed from Helix? Or does it have to come From Flash comm? no, it can come from

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Wood
100% sure about this? Is this documented someplace? I'm trying to get them to replace Helix with FCS. On 11/2/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 8ball Developer wrote: 1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? flash streams mp3. thats all. (why it doesn

Re: [Flashcoders] scope in classes

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Wood
my favourite topic and my favourite links : http://osflash.org/flashcoders/as2 at the bottom theres a link to this page http://www.dynamicflash.co.uk/2005/02/delegate-class-refined/ from which you can find this implementation http://dynamicflash.com/classes/Delegate.as enjoy. :) martin Je

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Loading Images

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Wood
look at MovieClip.loadMovie(); despite its name it can load images. :) martin Lehr, Theodore M. wrote: How can I dynamically load images? So when I want to have more images in the movie I just need to put them in the right folder instead of updating the movie. __

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Loading Images

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Wood
ah, i think i missed your point. do what Tom said. :) Martin Wood wrote: look at MovieClip.loadMovie(); despite its name it can load images. :) martin Lehr, Theodore M. wrote: How can I dynamically load images? So when I want to have more images in the movie I just need to put them in

Re: [Flashcoders] Resizing Imported Images

2005-11-08 Thread Martin Wood
no, once its loaded in the mc is the image. you can always use another mc as a container if you require it. martin Lehr, Theodore M. wrote: Is there anyway to resize an image imported via loadMovie - not resizing the mc it is loaded into - but the image itself? ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Resizing Imported Images

2005-11-08 Thread Martin Wood
are you waiting until the image is loaded before manipulating the movieclip? the MovieClipLoader class may be useful if you arent using it (or a suitable alternative) martin Lehr, Theodore M. wrote: I don't mind resizing the one it is loading into but I can not get it to work... I tried but

Re: [Flashcoders] Remoting with AMFPHP vs. ASP

2005-11-09 Thread Martin Wood
Robin Burrer wrote: Read the chapter about "Flash Remoting And ASP.net" in "Flash remoting the definitive guide". Not sure if I would buy the book just for this chapter though. you could always take advantage of the free 14 days of safari, i read this book on there. http://safari.oreilly.

Re: [Flashcoders]

2005-11-11 Thread Martin Wood
this is a bug in the current public build of ASDT, it doesnt handle keywords in string literals properly. Its fixed in CVS, but I dont expect you to build it :) There will be a new release *sometime soon* if you dont want to build from CVS. thanks, Martin Steve Warren wrote: Hey folks, H

Re: ÍøÒ×ÓÊÏä×Ô¶¯»Ø¸ ´: Re: [Flashcoders]

2005-11-11 Thread Martin Wood
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Re: [Flashcoders] dispatching events from a class

2005-11-13 Thread Martin Wood
that still wont work because you are dispatching the event before you bind the function as the handler. what are you trying to achieve (apart from getting the event to fire), i know this is just an example, but it seems a bit strange. anyway, you cant call init in the constructor to dispatch

Re: [Flashcoders] Detect if swf being viewed in html page

2005-11-14 Thread Martin Wood
if you are writing the url, the make sure that the html passes in a variable to the flash movie. if the variable isnt set then you know you have been accessed directly. martin On 11/14/05, Paul Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to detect if a swf is being viewed in a html /

Re: [Flashcoders] New Hire Resources list. Input needed.

2005-11-14 Thread Martin Wood
if they are already literate in other programming languages, this might help http://www.timotheegroleau.com/Flash/articles/scope_chain.htm particularly the section about 'this', which we all know has a great potential to cause confusion. :) its a long article, but is quite enlightening about

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Remoting Question

2005-11-14 Thread Martin Wood
The problem I am quite simply having is that I find flash remoting confusing. I have been working with actionscript for about 3 years now, and understand it fully. I just don't understand how to form packets and transfer them between flash and the remoting software. The only programming I hav

Re: [Flashcoders] Eclipse/FDT/Subclipse weirdness

2005-11-15 Thread Martin Wood
for more information you might want to check the eclipse log file, its found at workspace/.metadata/.log that might give you more information about what is causing the problem. as has been said, theres some cleaning you can do thats a lot less drastic, first is doing an SVN clean, right click

Re: [Flashcoders] recursive function that returns an array

2005-11-18 Thread Martin Wood
you dont 'delay' the return function, just consider that each invocation of the function can pass back a result to the calling function the idea is something like this (its not tested code, but hopefully will give you a starting point...) also, it assumes that each node has only one child, ot

Re: [Flashcoders] Return a class

2005-11-18 Thread Martin Wood
Will you only be creating one type of object? or multiple types? If its just one, then myFactory.getDrag() can create and return the object..but im guessing thats not the case or you wouldnt be asking :) so, you could return a string of the full class name (including its package) and assumi

Re: [Flashcoders] Movie seems to unload?

2005-11-18 Thread Martin Wood
not sure, case sensitivity ? work on windows, deploy to linux? Kaloudis Stathis wrote: Please guys, any ideas?? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] elegant country list

2005-11-18 Thread Martin Wood
divide it into continents / large scale areas europe asia africa americas etc.. some kind of two stage selection? ? Toon Van de Putte wrote: Hi list, I'm building a shop site in Flash, where the user has to select their country from a list on the order form. I personally would like to avoi

Re: [Flashcoders] Calc max radius of a circle

2005-11-22 Thread Martin Wood
it will only affect the 'radius' measured along an axis perpendicular to the rotation axis..to calculate those values you can just take two points, one on each opposited edge of the circle, calculate where they are in 3d space then project them onto your viewing plane.. but are you also concer

Re: [Flashcoders] Xml editor

2005-11-22 Thread Martin Wood
for anything thats part of a project I use Eclipse and the free version of XML Buddy http://xmlbuddy.com/ if i just need a quick edit then i use editplus (for any type of text file) http://www.editplus.com martin Patrick Matte wrote: What software do you people use for editing xml for your f

Re: [Flashcoders] Blitting, Double-Buffering, and Other Bitmap Methodologies

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Wood
There's a good series of articles on gamedev.net :) http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=45#200 The Game Programming Genesis series. In a lot of cases the 'magical render' is performed by a render manager, the entities themselves dont do rendering, they are maintained in a list

Re: [Flashcoders] warp dynamic text in flash 8 with filters or script

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Wood
amp;file=1942.html and a tutorial from Guy Watson here http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/image_api.html thanks, Martin rishi wrote: Hi I want to warp dynamic text in flash 8 with filters or script Regards Rishi -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/c

Re: [Flashcoders] Targeting when using for loop

2005-12-01 Thread Martin Wood
t;color_"+j].loadMovie What is the correct way to target a movieclip in this way? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Martin Wo

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Wood
of these categories (like a glove). In fact there's an opensource project being developed to allow MIDI through Flash, though it requires an additional download and install to the user apart from the Flash Player itself (seen at osflash.org) -- Martin Wood http://reli

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Wood
On another note I also think, particularly with the speed of 8.5, that it would be great to give us direct access to the sound buffer. I am not sure how fast 8.5 math will be but if you can do a good FFT we could be making actual synthesizers and audio processors in flash. To me that would be cool

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Wood
chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Martin Wood http://rel

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Wood
ut i think its buggy (this is what i have read, ive not tried it yet) Are people currently trying to do sound related stuff? Hank :) martin -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.f

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Wood
hank williams wrote: Why bother with compression. This just creates more processor overhead. a minute of cd quality sound should be 10mbytes. This is not so bad. I dont know if flash would have any memory issues with this but I doubt it. In any case it could be chunked. But then the issues is w

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder 2

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Wood
apparently its coming in the next build. Ralph Caraveo wrote: Does anyone know if you can get the collapsable function window in Flex Builder 2? In Eclipse you have access to a window where you can see a birds eye view of all your class properties and functions and expand and collapse each one.

Re: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder 2

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Wood
Flex Builder 2? In Eclipse you have access to a window where you can see a birds eye view of all your class properties and functions and expand and collapse each one...but has this feature been removed from Flex Builder 2? If so, I'm gonna get mad. -- Martin Wood http://relivethe

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 and duplicateMovieClip

2005-12-08 Thread Martin Wood
r in AS3! Correct me if I'm wrong! Sascha -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-08 Thread Martin Wood
nd to Alcorn McBride Show Control equipment http://www.alcorn.com/products/showcontrol/index.html Jason ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Martin Wood

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-08 Thread Martin Wood
sense that if you want to control some local hardware that you need to download a piece of software. problem solved!! :) Regards Hank On 12/8/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is another side which would be great to open up. It would be amazing to integrate flash wit

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-11 Thread Martin Wood
ne for the great response. I will put together a summary of this conversation and respond or post it to my blog for your approval. I want to make sure it's a fair and unbias (as much as possible) representation of the developer community before I send it off. Thanks again! Tyler -- Ma

Re: [Flashcoders] Custom Comboboxes

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Wood
styled comboboxes would also be appreciated. Tx in advance :) Ben ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon _

Re: [Flashcoders] Custom Comboboxes

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Wood
oh, not quite, it didnt like the line breaks, anyway it ended up at the same page :) Martin Wood wrote: you might like tinyurl.com :) it turned that into this : http://tinyurl.com/athba Ben Smeets wrote: Anybody know if the kind of comboboxes used in this "productselector"

Re: [Flashcoders] Class SimpleDateFormat

2005-12-13 Thread Martin Wood
some of these java classes?!!? Please let me know if you have seen anything like this. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashc

Re: [Flashcoders] Version control software?

2005-12-13 Thread Martin Wood
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Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Wood
(b) how much they'd be willing to pay for this in player size? Do you know what size of MIDI engine would work best for you, for which MIDI abilities, for instance? -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] alpha -= 10 = wtf

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Wood
quite a few times, its not just v8 :) alpha is a byte value (0-255) mapped into the range 0-100 martin Jason Rayles wrote: Has this been discussed? Flash player 8 trace(this._alpha); this._alpha -= 10; trace(this._alpha); Output: 100 89.84375 Thanks, Macromedia! -- Martin Wood http

Re: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-17 Thread Martin Wood
ActionScript - then it no longer stretches with the movie clip. Thanks, Chris -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] XML GALLERY

2005-12-20 Thread Martin Wood
looks like your xml and your code dont match. the debugger says your xmlnode has attributes thmb and main, your code says 'swf' and 'link' ? maybe thats it. martin Jose Maria Barros wrote: ups..sorry..forgot..well...it doesnt download the thumbnails..here is the code in the debugger Vari

Re: [Flashcoders] flv -> avi/mov/mpg ?

2006-01-09 Thread Martin Wood
come down from there at once Hubert... youre just a sticky river. :) > Hubert Cumberdale wrote: ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating An OOP MC Via Composition

2006-01-11 Thread Martin Wood
passing the target into the constructor. martin. Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, I attempting to create a mc, then attach a textField via composition, instead of extending the movieClip class. Could someone point out what I missed? -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon

Re: [Flashcoders] Adding Texfield to MovieClip via Composition Class

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Wood
problem with adding a text field to an attached movieClip through a class construct using composition. For example: class Tab { public var label_txt:TextField; public var tab_fmt:TextFormat; -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon

Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha fading a dynamic text field

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Wood
just remember to embed the font :) Adrian Lynch wrote: I can't for the life of me remember if I've done this before, and if I had problems with it in the past. Can you programatically fade a dynamic text field, for example with tf._alpha = 50? -- Martin Wood http://relivethe

Re: [Flashcoders] Scope Chain in AS2

2006-01-16 Thread Martin Wood
ted from, leading to unexpected behavior when the method closure was invoked. http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:overview#Delegation Can someone please put this into context? Best Regards, Judah Frangipane -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/c

Re: [Flashcoders] Documenting my code

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Wood
I hope that NaturalDocs does get around to supporting JavaDoc, because in my test of doc tools over the last week or so it looks like the best fit for me - it actually runs on my Linux server, whereas most other things are either Mac or PC based or, like as2api, just cause me server errors. I'm tr

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex expires... what then?

2006-01-22 Thread Martin Wood
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Re: [Flashcoders] flash communication server and ISA client

2006-01-25 Thread Martin Wood
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/isa/isafp1/isasct.mspx maybe they are referring to the web proxy client? p.s. i know nothing about this, i just googled 'isa client' :) martin j.c.wichman wrote: What is an ISA client for that matter? ;) greetz Hans -- M

Re: [Flashcoders] small code question

2006-01-25 Thread Martin Wood
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