RE: [Flashcoders] "hover" event for links in HTML textfields - possible?

2008-12-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Not sure. You can do the hover effect using CSS - use the a:hover style. Apply a stylesheet describing a:hover to your textfield. Works great. However, not sure you can capture that particular event. You can use TextEvent.LINK event to find out when the user clicked the text, but there is

RE: [Flashcoders] display trace() in text field

2008-12-04 Thread Merrill, Jason
Trace only sends strings to the Flash or Flexbuilder output window, so no. However, all you have to do is set the variable you want to see to the text property of the textfield: myTextField.text = myVariableIdLikeToSee Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media ·

RE: [Flashcoders] To support FP10 or not to support FP10

2008-12-04 Thread Merrill, Jason
What is your audience? How many? What kind of Flash site/app are you building? I think audience consideration trumps features or convenience, but it all depends on what you're doing. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff Support L&LD Interest

RE: [Flashcoders] To support FP10 or not to support FP10

2008-12-04 Thread Merrill, Jason
"[my web sites are] meant to act as my clients presence on the web meaning they should be widely accessible..." Then as you said, they should be widely accessible. Why would you force many of your users to upgrade to Flash player 10 before it's widely ubiquitous? Without deep market penetratio

RE: [Flashcoders] use get / set functions or make your own

2008-12-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
I tend to send this link on whenever this debate comes up, good article on public vars vs. getters and setters from a well respected Actionscript coder. http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/2005/03/no-brain-getter-and-setters.cfm And I also agree with Steve, Ian, the others, I used to be against p

RE: [Flashcoders] use get / set functions or make your own

2008-12-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> yep that was the article, but the original poster asked a subtly different question (unless I'm mistaken). allandt asked about implicit vs explicit getters setters. >> Rereading it and seeing its about public variables vs implicit, it's a nice read ;). But another discussion:). Uh, I guess you

RE: [Flashcoders] getting the width of a movieclip

2008-12-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
Wait for the clip to be completely loaded before you check it's width. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff Support L&LD Interested in Flash Platform technologies?  Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Interested in innov

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 - load an external graphic into a movieclip?

2008-12-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Thanks! That's working (now I just need to learn all the differences like scaleY for _yscale &c.) Here's the perfect read and print for you: http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/ Click on downloads on the right side and check out the AS3 Migration cheat sheet. Jason Merrill Bank of Ame

RE: [Flashcoders] getting the width of a movieclip

2008-12-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
Wait for the clip to be completely loaded before you check it's width. >>Patience has never been one of my strong points. Think of it this way, you don't measure the size of the baby when it's only halfway out. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · G

RE: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener

2008-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
To add on to David's fine reply, Ross, you're close, but not quite - this is how I write custom events, I think you'll want to do something like this instead - this works great for me: To write the event: package events { import flash.events.Event; public class MyEvent extends

RE: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener

2008-12-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
-Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: donderdag 18 december 2008 23:20 To: Flash Coders List Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener To add on to David's fine reply, R

RE: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener

2008-12-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Maybe I am slow... or even dumb? >>But all those things I can do with normal events, I guess. I was simply showing you a simple example of how you would have a custom class broadcast a custom event... normally you would not use normal events like the mouse event kind for that kind of situatio

RE: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener

2008-12-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>" But all those things I can do with normal events, I guess. So my wordplay aside, given my example, you would not use a "normal event" for this type of thing (having a class check data states and broadcast a notification to any listening classes that a certain data state, i.e. the machine is

RE: [Flashcoders] Custom eventListener

2008-12-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
not sure why my head is not wrapping around this, but thanks for all your help. Ross -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:20 PM To: Fl

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash AS3 debugging

2008-12-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> I'm getting used to AS3, but debugging isn't updating the stage as I >>step through. Actually, nothing is rendered at all, even though I'm >>stopping at a point where things should be on the stage. Am I doing >>something wrong? Yes. (please provide more info, you could be doing ANYTHING wr

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: Interactive Developer, NYC | 90-100k (Beau Gould (OSS))

2009-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
Agreed - for NYC, that's not obscene given the cost of living there. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff Support L&LD Interested in Flash Platform technologies?  Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Interested in innovat

RE: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
You may want to look at the haxe language and compiler which already does what you're trying to do and see if you can compete with that - or at least find out what it does that you would like to do - this thread may be better suited for the osflash list only because this is the kind of thing the

RE: [Flashcoders] Class syntax question...

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
If you want to use a class like this: MyClass.myMethod(myargs) Then the myMethod function in MyClass should be defined as static. So instead of: public class MotionBlur { public static function coordBlur(mc:MovieClip, blurFactor:Number = 1.5) { //logic he

RE: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> I'm only just starting to understand the concepts but AS3 Design Patterns is a great book (aside from being riddled with typo's) Are you talking about the Joey Lott book on AS3 design patterns? Just curious as I was thinking of picking that one up. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instruct

RE: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
I think just a quick answer to your questions which may help a lot is to check into understanding MVC - the Model-View-Controller design pattern. Probably one of the most common pattern used and one that other coding design frameworks use as well for part of their operations. So there are also

RE: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
I agree along the lines of Mark. >From a developer perspective, I'm always cautious of different flavors of >languages which require special compilers, or alternative languages and >compilers, like haxe. Several reasons: 1. What happens when you leave the project/company and the next develop

RE: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
. >> >> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007126/?CMP=AFC-ak_book&ATT=Head+First+Design+Patterns >> >> http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfdp/ for a quick overview and a >> typical illustration >> >> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007126/

RE: [Flashcoders] splitting classes into subdirectories?

2009-01-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Should be the same. Is MainModel in ca.bentonconsulting.ca or is it in the model package? Seems you put it in the former. Also, classes need to be declared public: package myPackage { public class MainModel { public function MainModel() {

RE: [Flashcoders] change the origin of rotation for a movieclip?

2009-01-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> How about a real answer? I wonder if you could deconstruct the way it was done in AS2 and make an AS3 version out of this: http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/2003/09/dynamic-movieclip-registration-with-as2.cfm Just a thought. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Med

RE: [Flashcoders] inversed mask (bitmapData/matrix) help.. AS2

2009-01-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Anyone? Tons of emails about the same topic over and over? But not one >>reply to some AS2 coding help?? >>Surely it cant be too difficult for most of you 'coders' here, on this >>mailing list? Sorry - with all those objectives and all that code you posted (when I'm busy and someone posts a t

RE: [Flashcoders] change the origin of rotation for a movieclip?

2009-01-13 Thread Merrill, Jason
Sweet - he updated Darron Schall's class for AS3 - nice. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff Support L&LD Interested in Flash Platform technologies?  Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Interested in innovative ideas i

RE: [Flashcoders] recursive question?

2009-01-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
Real quick idea,not tested (the code below could probably be made better with a rest statement - see link below), how about not doing it recursively (because that's why it's calling remove more than once), but doing something like this: import flash.display.Sprite; private function removePrevio

RE: [Flashcoders] recursive question?

2009-01-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
Right Taka, thinking the same thing, and I was just assuming he was doing something more (not shown) in the draw function other than just adding the child - otherwise, you're just adding blank things to the screen. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB &

RE: [Flashcoders] top down plane games

2009-01-26 Thread Merrill, Jason
I think you should definitely consider picking up this book and going through the animation and physics lessons: Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation by Keith Peters (published by Friends of Ed) I just picked it up and have been really impressed with it - there is a lot of discussion on trigo

RE: [Flashcoders] This is kind of Wonderfl

2009-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
* awesome! And most def the coolest i've seen in along time! Sid On Feb 2, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: > Is this spam? Or did that site not pay their ISP dues? This > (http://wonderfl.kayack.com/ > ) seems to be a web site circa 1998 - what does this have to d

RE: [Flashcoders] This is kind of Wonderfl

2009-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Is this spam? Or did that site not pay their ISP dues? This (http://wonderfl.kayack.com/) seems to be a web site circa 1998 - what does this have to do with Flash? Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · Learning Performance Solutions L&LD Interested in Flas

RE: [Flashcoders] This is kind of Wonderfl

2009-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
uld like it greatly if one could just go online as per normal and use the app in the browser. Mixing something like aviary, but with the ability to make animations, and having and ide with flashdevelop's feature set, would be downright awesome. My 2 cents, Anthony Merrill, Jason wrote: >

[Flashcoders] Details of extending UIComponent

2009-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
I posted this on Flexcoders earlier today without any responses. But then, Yahoo's servers have also been timing out - maybe the forum is not working well. I figure someone else might be able to point me to some information. Can someone send me some links to information on all the ins and outs

RE: [Flashcoders] capturing mouse events for layered sprites

2009-02-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
Just off the top of my head, - so then don't disable mouse events since you need them. Instead, maybe in all your classes, the container, and the children classes, when a rollover occurs, broadcast a custom event AND also make it bubble up the display list (bubbles=true) - then wherever your cu

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Internet Explorer 8

2009-02-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Is it fair of client to ask me test for IE8 when it isn't officially >> released yet? No. There are any number of bugs that could be in pre-release versions. Plus, your contract with the client should have explicitly stated the browser vendor and version(s) you would build for. They can't

RE: [Flashcoders] capturing mouse events for layered sprites

2009-02-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Good suggestion Jason, but the issue is that when he rolls over a shape, its >>going to broadcast mouse out for the container. The custom event idea would >>still work if the custom shape events conditionally broadcast a >>container_mouse_out event based on a hit test. But what I am saying is t

RE: [Flashcoders] Best way to access my main class?

2009-02-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>*Option 3:* I create a custom event, dispatch that event, and create a >>listener in MyGame rather than call a function directly. >>I'm guessing this is the best way to go theoretically, and will allow me to >>reuse my BouncingBall object in other applications, but it's a lot of extra >>code, and

RE: [Flashcoders] Best way to access my main class?

2009-02-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>I think I whip up custom events more than almost anything else. Yup - me too - in fact, in FlashDevelop, I have a nice event template in the form of a code snippet for a new custom events I use all the time: package { import flash.events.Event; public class extends Ev

RE: [Flashcoders] Best way to access my main class?

2009-02-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
ttyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:03 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Best way to access my main class? >>*Option 3:* I create a custom event, dispatch that event, and create a &

RE: [Flashcoders] Either an incredibly easy or incredibly difficult problem

2009-02-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Might be possible, but I don't know of a way - Sprite.graphics is for drawing graphics with code - not accessing manually created graphic properties. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technology & Media Learn about the Adobe Flash platform for ri

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting attributes out of a node with : in it

2009-02-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Use the namespace feature. Something (if not exactly) like this: var ywNS:Namespace = xml.namespace("yweather"); trace(myXml.ywNS::conditi...@text); trace(myXml.ywNS::conditi...@code); trace(myXml.ywNS::conditi...@temp); Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Performance Solutions Instru

RE: [Flashcoders] Converting hex colour numbers back and forth

2009-02-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Courtesy Evan Mullins of Circlecube Studio: //bitwise conversion of rgb color to a hex value function rgb2hex(r, g, b):Number { return(r<<16 | g<<8 | b); } //bitwise conversion of a hex color into rgb values function hex2rgb (hex):Object { var red = hex>>16; var greenBlue = hex-(red<

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting attributes out of a node with : in it

2009-02-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
This should work: private function loadedXML( e:Event ):void { var myXML:XML = new XML( e.target.data ); var ywNS:Namespace = myXml.namespace("yweather"); trace( myXML.channel.item.ywNS::conditi...@temp ); } Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Performance Soluti

RE: [Flashcoders] Which way is best...

2009-02-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Black-box thinking needed here - the buttons should be self-contained, loosely coupled, only dispatch custom events. The parent should listen for those events and issue a command based on what they hear. The buttons should not issue the command. Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning P

RE: [Flashcoders] Fullscreen Mode with TWO projectors

2009-02-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Stop the email please thank you What I think are funny about these posts are when the person replies without changing the subject line, so you can see what message finally pushed them over the top. Another funny thing is, you wonder what they thought they were signing up for when they subscrib

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: xml and e4x searching question

2009-03-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>, I >>thought I'd read that future versions of XML were moving away from the use >>of attributes - any truth to that rumor? Have not followed this thread, so apologies if I am saying stuff already been said. I hadn't heard that, and I doubt its true (but would be interested in any links anyon

RE: [Flashcoders] RegExp headache

2009-03-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>/(((<|>)=?)|==)?(-?\d+)/ >>hot darn. A side note. I'm so in awe at the people who understand and can write Regular Expressions on a whim - I have hacked a few from some examples for projects, but it's nothing I really understand too much, a skill I need to learn - they are so handy. Jason

RE: [Flashcoders] RegExp headache

2009-03-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
sday, March 05, 2009 1:58 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] RegExp headache Like Glen said, check out Grant's RegExr - it really helps this kind of thing out. :-) Ian On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: >>>/(((<|>)=?)|==)?(-?\d+)/ >

RE: [Flashcoders] RegExp headache

2009-03-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Seriously, just play with RegExr / Regex Buddy, get the cheat sheets: Am now - love it! Can't I still be in awe? :) Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technology & Media Learn about the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - joi

RE: [Flashcoders] GetDefenitionByName from loaded SWF

2009-03-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
1) What is a "mutator"? 2) Why are the children being coupled to the parent? I would recommend using event bubbling - dispatch from the children, the parent listens for it and does what it needs to do. Have the parent push data to the child if necessary, and then the child can do what it nee

RE: [Flashcoders] Intersection on circle based on angle

2009-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
In AS3, Point.polar() Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technology & Media Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -Original Message- From: flash

RE: [Flashcoders] Intersection on circle based on angle

2009-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> I have the angle (say 0 degrees). >>The length would then be pixels from the >>center (ie. radius)? Yes, radius is pixel distance from starting point (in your case, the center point of the circle). Then you just need to convert angle to radians and you're good to go. var cartesianPoint:Poi

RE: [Flashcoders] Intersection on circle based on angle

2009-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> var coord:Point = Point.polar( _radius, angle ); Yeah, did you see my post? :) Point.polar takes radians, not angle. They are not the same thing. I posted some methods for you which do the heavy lifting and conversion of angle to radians. Try it out and see if any of those methods work for

RE: [Flashcoders] Question about AS3 components

2009-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
I was asking about the required method overrides for AS3 components in Flex to do some similar things, and Muzak posted this here back on Feb 2nd - even if you're not using Flex, much of this is likely still relevant. Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't really have great documentation on this: Flexcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] odd error trying to load rss viewer on the internet

2009-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
That error is usually indicative of a bad URL - I went there, got a page not found error - is it a public web location? Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technology & Media Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experienc

RE: [Flashcoders] odd error when I try a rss viewer on internet

2009-03-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Yes, the file is online, in the URL: Uh, no it isn't. You have a different problem - that feed is not on the web - even if it is showing up in your ftp program. Contact your web server administrator. Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technolog

RE: [Flashcoders] Tween AS3 issue with Firefox

2009-03-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
The issues is likely not the tween itself, but differences in the installed Flash player for IE and Firefox. Be sure you have the necessary version of the Flash player installed for Firefox. Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technology & Media Mo

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash-HTML WYIWYG editor?

2009-03-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
I've done something similar - a Flash-based WYSIWYG editor for content - the user can import, place, and move objects (sound, video, flash, images) around the screen, and the system saved the locations as XML data - also format text and save the formatting as HTML formatted text. So yeah, it outpu

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash-HTML WYIWYG editor?

2009-03-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Thats sounds very cool Jason! :-) Is there a demo version one could try? Vayu - thanks - sorry, its an RIA I built for internal company use only. Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technology & Media Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash plat

RE: [Flashcoders] Best data type for Zend AMF

2009-03-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Since i'm not at all into Flex, in the video he talks about binding >>(and mapping them to ValueObjects). >>My question is can i do this with pure AS3? You can certainly do Value Objects (which are simply just simple classes with properties you set and get - anyone can write one), but databin

RE: [Flashcoders] point in a circle

2009-04-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> x = Math.cos(angle) * radius >> y = Math.sin(angle) * radius With Flash player 9 and 10 and AS3, you actually don't need that use of trigonometry anymore for this kind of thing with the introduction of Point.polar(). Always good to still know the trig though, but for this, you don't need to. A

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading MC

2009-04-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
No offense meant here, seriously, but this is a minor pet peeve of mine. I think the reason people don't respond to questions like this is not because they don't know the answer, it's because the poster wrote way too much in the way of description and posted too much code for list members to sort t

RE: [Flashcoders] Nintedo experiencewii ( how did they do that ? )

2009-04-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yep - and likely done with one of the many Javascript libraries out there - of course they had to work with YouTube to get this implemented for both the page, and for the video player which probably uses ExternalInterface to trigger the Javascript events that trigger the animation. Very cool marke

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>(On a side note, are there people out there who are successfully using >>FlashDevelop with the FlexDesignView plugin for real development? Or should >>I lay down the cash for FlexBuilder?) I'm using FlashDevelop + the free Flex SDK from Adobe to create Flex apps. Works great, no problems. I di

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> As Dave said, you should probably look into tweaking the Eclipse JVM memory If you google "Eclipse JVM" or "Eclipse ini" I'm sure something useful will come up. Dave, Muzak - Hey thanks guys. However, been there and done that tweaking of the ini a few times to create more heap space. Initall

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
I have the stand alone version then, not the plug-in. >> No, this is actually a Good Thing(tm). Eclipse is a mature environment >>with lots of people improving it regularly. And because of its plugin >>architecture, you can use it for all sorts of things. I understand what you mean, but I am us

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
OK, if that's true, (I didn't notice), but I still liked it when I was a beginner - it walked me through holding my hand essentially so I got more and more comfortable - it "turned the lightbulb" on for me, so to speak so I could move off on my own. If it taught me some bad ways to do things in the

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Well said Paul. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyf

RE: [Flashcoders] Access objects in embedded swf

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
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RE: [Flashcoders] Access objects in embedded swf

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>: Property a1 not found on Main_Portfolio What is " Main_Portfolio"? that seems to be different from Main or portfolio or Portfolio. Does the compiler actually append class and property names together like that or is this a variable someplace else? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global L

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop problem

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Sorry to ask the question here, I know there is a FlashDevelop forum, but I need an answer quick, and they sometimes take 24 hours to respond there. I'm guessing someone here knows the answer. Yesterday, I don't know what I did, but in my Flex 3 project I am building, when I hit either F5 (test p

RE: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop problem

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
oders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: woensdag 15 april 2009 15:59 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop problem Sorry to ask the question here, I know there is a FlashDevelop forum, but I need an an

RE: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop problem

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
your settings?? Look in Tools->Program Settings and check that your AS2 and AS3 context are setup and not disabled, possibly have a root around in these context's. That's my limit... Glen Merrill, Jason wrote: > Sorry to ask the question here, I know there is a FlashDevelop f

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>Just pick a version and stick with it. You don't have to upgrade >>Eclipse. Right, except in a case like this memory problem, you did say when we were trying to troubleshoot my problems: >>1. Use a different (newer) version of Eclipse. >>2. Use a different JVM with Eclipse. Another part of th

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>> Right, except in a case like this memory problem, you did say when we > were trying to troubleshoot my problems: >>Well, that's no different from any other upgrade, And it'll have to go >>through the same approval process, I would think, right? Well yeah, but each time - so I got FB 3 appro

FW: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
[Merrill, Jason] >>> Right, except in a case like this memory problem, you did say when we > were trying to troubleshoot my problems: [Watts, Dave] >>Well, that's no different from any other upgrade, And it'll have to go through the same approval process, I would t

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Dave, I'm really growing weary of this thread, I see we're not on the same side of the issue, and that isn't going to change, but I do have to respond to one last thing you said: >> So I'm at least aware of security issues within the enterprise. None of these things should be that big of a hurdle

RE: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop problem

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yep, that was it, meant to post. Thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -Original Message- From: f

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>I'll be happy to help with any configuration questions you have I'm going to try and fix Flexbuilder this afternoon - I might if I run into problems. I appreciate the offer, thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings o

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> In fact, if it would be helpful, I can zip up a copy and put it somewhere. Yeah, but don't I need a legal copy? We purchased a license with charting. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for r

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Ha. Well great, seems my eclipse.ini file is missing - could you send me a good one (meaning good settings - I have 2GB ram) or copy and paste the contents into a reply and I'll make one with notepad and add the .ini extension? Thanks. I had done this before with the Flexbuilder.ini file because

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Awesome, thanks Dave - great info, I appreciate your time spent writing all that up, and also for the files you send off list. I really appreciate it. I'll plug these in tonight and see if I get better results. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Develo

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> In the case of the integrated install, FlexBuilder will by default use the JVM installed in c:\program files\adobe\flex builder 3\jre I looked in that folder, and all I see are license files, copyright, readme files, etc. and a bin and a lib folder. Is it installed in one of those or could I p

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
I compared differences between your Flexbuilder 3 directory and mine, the only differences I saw were related to log files: You have: FlashPlayerMergeModule_InstallLog.log and Adobe_Flex_Builder_3_InstallLog.log and I don't. I have: hs_err_pid10724.log, hs_err_pid7148.log, hs_err_pid4728.log

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:53 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book? I compared differences between your Flexbuilder 3

RE: [Flashcoders] Fake Preloading

2009-04-16 Thread Merrill, Jason
Just gotta say, that's hilarious! I guess you just make a stupid little animation that appears for a second. Funny that the client doesn't get it. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich me

[Flashcoders] Flash e-learning list revived

2009-04-16 Thread Merrill, Jason
Hey everyone. (Apologies in advance - I'm sorry that this is a blatant cross post to more than one e-mail list. If anyone knows me, they know I despise people who cross post questions on e-mail lists, or worse, marketing/products, but this is neither and I think maybe this one is an exception.

RE: [Flashcoders] Just a quick one

2009-04-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> It just told me there was no property called contentLoaderInfo in my >>class file. What Actionscript editor are you using? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - joi

RE: [Flashcoders] formal qualifications

2009-04-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
I think it all depends on what type of company you want to work for. Some places will be looking for people with certain kinds of educational degrees, some will not. Since my group at Bank of America does multimedia for learning/training purposes, we look for formalized degrees in instructional te

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Tutorial Sites?

2009-04-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
I like the Adobe Developer Connection http://www.adobe.com/devnet/ Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community

RE: [Flashcoders] Just a quick one

2009-04-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>> It just told me there was no property called contentLoaderInfo in my > >>> class file. > > What Actionscript editor are you using? >> Cs3 That could be why. I would recommend you switch coding over to an editor with better code hinting and other capabilities like the FlashDevleop, which is a

RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?

2009-04-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> By the way, in case anybody was wondering, I ended up picking up the O'Reilly Flex Cookbook >> heh yeah your thread got hijacked. Heh, yeah sorry Todd. And by the way, in case anyone was wondering, Dave Watts spend a lot of time with me off list helping me get my copy of Flexbuilder 3 worki

RE: [Flashcoders] Accessibility of a flash game

2009-04-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>asked by the client to ensure "The game >>should meet all international accessibility requirements" "International Accessibility Requirements" - never heard of those, though I do not doubt they exist. I have heard of ADA and section 508 requirements in the U.S. Can you get more clarification on

RE: [Flashcoders] Accessibility of a flash game

2009-04-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yeah, I think you will definitely need to get clarification from your client on exactly what they mean when they are referring to accessibility, because even if its general accessibility for those with disabilities, you're still going to have limitations due to the nature of your game. Jason Merr

RE: [Flashcoders] Feasibility of xml file for high score data storage

2009-04-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> The game is for a rather large organization so it is not the >>easiest task in the world getting a database set up at their end. The To do any writing to XML or to a database, server side scripts will need to be used though (i.e. PHP, C#.NET, ColdFusion, ASP). What kind of server side technolo

RE: [Flashcoders] Benefits of as3 - to the client

2009-04-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> No benefit at all unless he needs to have his website redesigned That isn't quite true. Benefits to migrating it to AS3 would be increased performance with the AVM2, as well as future maintenance ease given you'll be taking advantage of many of the features AS3 has to offer over AS2. You'd li

RE: [Flashcoders] loading images in a circle format..

2009-04-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
Go to www.gotoandlearn.com and find the tutorial, "Creating 3D Carousels". Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community ___

RE: [Flashcoders] Benefits of as3 - to the client

2009-04-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Maybe the admin should include a little line in the footer about how >>to subscribe (Want to subscribe? What would be the purpose of adding "how to subscribe" information if 1) the point is that some people don't understand how to UNsubscribe, and 2) they would have already been subscribed if

RE: [Flashcoders] Benefits of as3 - to the client

2009-04-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Hi Merill, It's Jason, and Merrill has two r's. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community ___

RE: [Flashcoders] Adobe AIR Mailing List?

2009-04-24 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> and give the group a name like >>FlashTiger, I made Air-Tight. Great name, I love it. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform C

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