[Flashcoders] FlashLite Phones?

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Bedar
Just looking into mobile development, and I'm a bit confused... Can anyone point me to any phones available in the US that can run FlashLite? I have the list at: http://www.macromedia.com/mobile/supported_devices/flashlite/ But these don't seem available from local carriers... Thanks, Mike

Re: [Flashcoders] Q;Flashout on OSX

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Bedar
Is there a FlashOut version for OSX? I thought it was windows only On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Is anyone running the latest version of Flashout in Eclipse on OSX? I've installed the plugin, it appears in my preference pane but I get the error message:

Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference class [Get path of a selected file]

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Bedar
The file browser window? On OSX i get a normal mac FB - resize and all... On Oct 25, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Michael Stuhr wrote: Muzak schrieb: Which makes it completly useless running from the local file system :/ (which was probably their intention) But why on earth does this have to

Re: [Flashcoders] AOL not loading JPG files

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Bedar
just change the file extension of the images.. flash cares not On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Jack H wrote: I've just learned of the problem where the AOL browser will convert JPG files to ART files and thus not allow AOL users to see dynamically loaded JPG files in SWF files. I was wondering

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex

2005-10-27 Thread Michael Bedar
Personally I have never been tempted to work in Eclipse - I like the IDE and work well in it.. but I have to admit FlexBuilder2 is tempting me a bit. In most of my projects these days there is no need for an FLA, so I will definitely be learning Flex enough to at least make an educated

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and ASP/MSSQL

2005-10-29 Thread Michael Bedar
You would need to call a javascript function from AS when the user clicks the inside swf and set the value of a hidden form field.. then the user can click the HTML send button and send everything. On Oct 30, 2005, at 12:38 AM, Amanda Kuek wrote: Hello everyone, This is a question

Re: [Flashcoders] XMLSocket OS X

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Bedar
I started on a really simple one in python, which runs great on osx... bedar.net/simpleChatServer.zip On Nov 20, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Michael Bianco wrote: Hello, Does anybody have a XMLSocket Server that works on os x? I cant seem to get a connection working between the SWF and my java

Re: [Flashcoders] Superscripting

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Bedar
One way is to use unicode, which has chars for all the superscript numbers.. you'll have to include them in the embed though.. many fonts render them in inconsistent sizes as well, so you'll have to try a few. 1¹2²3³4⁴5⁵6⁶7⁷8⁸9⁹0⁰ On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Pandian wrote: I am

Re: [Flashcoders] output gone in flash 8?

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Bedar
I assume you did not inadvertently check omit trace in the publish options? On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:56 PM, YuriGoul wrote: No it is not that, the actionspanel is fine. Even erased comments and traces with profanities, but it made no difference :-) YuriGoul On 4-dec-2005, at 18:48,

Re: [Flashcoders] output gone in flash 8?

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Bedar
comes to the front as happens when the trace is executed, but there is nothing in it. On 4-dec-2005, at 19:21, Michael Bedar wrote: I assume you did not inadvertently check omit trace in the publish options? On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:56 PM, YuriGoul wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] output gone in flash 8?

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Bedar
and holds his breath) On 4-dec-2005, at 20:27, Michael Bedar wrote: Also- check the filterLevel in the output window menu... if it's set to None, it will behave as you describe... set it to verbose. On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:14 PM, YuriGoul wrote: Nope. I can create a new empty file with no matter

Re: [Flashcoders] build text one char at a time with random

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Bedar
If the background color is the same under all of the text, you could easily use a little css to tag the areas you want hidden, by making them that color, even with a crazy font. On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:50 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Robin Burrer wrote: I'm sure

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Bedar
Just to expand on that, loadMovie loads an external SWF or JPG (and more in Flash 8) into a MovieClip. attachMovie loads a named MovieClip from your flash library into a MovieClip. On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Flash guru wrote: try attachMovie(), its well documented in the help files

Re: [Flashcoders] Removing A Delegated EventListener

2005-12-23 Thread Michael Bedar
Or use something like gdispatcher in place of MM's EventDispatcher class... http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2003/09/code_gdispatche.html It has better ways of adding and deleting... On Dec 23, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote: Most auspicuous response timing. I was just

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-24 Thread Michael Bedar
I'd rather rewrite code any-day then fix someone else's... i'd be willing to wager that i'm saving time too. I comment my code a bit, but i only take the time to do any docs if a client feels very strongly about it. On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:19 PM, JesterXL wrote: I just re-write. Everytime

Re: [Flashcoders] flv batch encoding

2005-12-25 Thread Michael Bedar
Are we talking about encoding live video on the fly? 'cause that is a different story altogether On Dec 25, 2005, at 1:32 PM, erix tekila wrote: Be aware that Flix and Sorenson are not able to create cuepoints. 2005/12/23, Sander [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am planning a project and this

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic textbox inside Movieclip not resizable when i insert a node in a XML file...

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Bedar
first, you should not be using the Variable property of a textfield.. To get your text box resizing to fit the content you add, set the autoSize property to true in actionscript, ie caixa_txt.autoSize=true; caixa_txt.htmlText=pwhatever/p On Dec 27, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Jose Maria Barros

Re: [Flashcoders] Caret position coords

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Bedar
To answer the original question - there is no direct way to do this, although you can use the text-extent to get the x offset of the caret fairly easily in a single line textfield. On Jan 2, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Andreas Rønning wrote: Is there a decent way of getting the _x / _y position of a

Re: [Flashcoders] Change layer/path of a MovieClip

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Bedar
You cannot change the parent of a movieclip in Flash 8, although from what I understand about 8.5 this will be possible. If you want a movieclip on the root, why not make it there? tmp_mc=_root.attachMovie('blankClip', 'mc'+depth, depth); tmp_mc.loadMovie(moduleName+'.swf'); code to

[Flashcoders] Flash Lite Updater for Mac?

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Bedar
Am I missing this somewhere? Please don't tell me that they are leaving Mac users out in the cold again... Michael ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Lite Updater for Mac?

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Bedar
/messageview.cfm? catid=588threadid=1098868enterthread=y On Jan 4, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Michael Bedar wrote: Am I missing this somewhere? Please don't tell me that they are leaving Mac users out in the cold again... Michael ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] .attachMovie issue

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Bedar
He's typecasting, so no new operator is needed. As for the original question, your getNextHighestDepth is on the wrong MC for starters.. this.PointContainer.getNextHighestDepth() -not - this.getNextHighestDepth() On Jan 29, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Nathan Derksen wrote: If Record is a class

Re: [Flashcoders] Set volume of flash video?

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Bedar
You can attach a new sound object, and control the volume through that.. On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... Is there a property to get/set the volume of a flash video on the stage? Thanks, - Michael M. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] createChildAtDepth help needed

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Bedar
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash connecting to a database - all running on a DVD-ROM

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Bedar
As long as your dataset is relatively small, XML is fine, but at some point a real database is going to be needed. I'm not sure how v12 with flash is going to work, but I have used Valentina with Director, and when you have 10's of thousands of records, you can't afford the disk space or

[Flashcoders] Flash/Shockwave Safari loading conflict

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Bedar
I have a site that has a shockwave movie and several swfs. On Safari, the SWF's are periodically unable to load an image or xml file. We made a test page that just has 1 SWF and 1 DCR, the swf containing a button that loads a single image. Pressing this butt repeatedly yields about a

Re: [Flashcoders] eval gone in AS3, how to get reference to mc via target name?

2006-03-04 Thread Michael Bedar
While I agree that eval still had a use or two, you can easily write the function yourself and just add it to your code Library.. almost as good On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Boon Chew wrote: The problem is when you get an entire string (the target name), you just want to get to the

Re: [Flashcoders] Remove right click menu

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Bedar
Doesn't office show a contextual menu on r-click? If so you can customize the contextual menu instead of hiding it... var newMenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(); newMenu.hideBuiltInItems(); On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Dominico Savio wrote: :( can't use the solution from Gaia-Tek :(

Re: [Flashcoders] best flash actionscript book/reference

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Bedar
Just wait a few months and read up on Flex2 in the meantime :) On Mar 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Andy Johnston wrote: I would highly recommend Colin Moock's Essential Actionscript 2.0 it is an excellent guide to the package system and object oriented goodness. so after not having coded in

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Bedar
The question that I would be asking myself if I was thinking of using Flex2 for a real world project right now, is, if at some point in the development cycle it would be ok to have to rewrite/rework an unknown percent of the code, due to a new beta or final release.. if that does not sound

Re: [Flashcoders] best 360VR panorama

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Bedar
Following one of those links, i got to this page.. http://nodename.com/lab/dispmapPano/ anyone have source to these examples? I've been playing with distortion maps, but this effect is alluding me:( On Mar 16, 2006, at 11:26 AM, eric dolecki wrote: You might wanna hold off a day or two

Re: [Flashcoders] Album Art and Sound.id3

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Bedar
Don't think so, but you can use the info to download it from amazon using their web api. On Mar 16, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Justin Raymond wrote: Does anyone know if you can get album art (jpg) through sound.id3, I have managed to get most of the other tags. Is this possible? Many thanks Justin

Re: [Flashcoders] loading XML as string via parseXml: how to avoidundefined? (onParseComplete??!)

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Bedar
xml.parseXML is not an asynchronous event like xml.load, so like jesse said, you have no need of a loader, so, after you call parseXML, you can start using the xml object to read your data on the next line. On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:37 PM, JesterXL wrote: getBytesTotal is only used for

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 broken

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Bedar
Define reluctant. Is it crashing Flash, or freezing? Have you tried different FLA's? On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Weyert de Boer wrote: Since this afternoon my Flash 8 copy on my Mac is reluctant to export movies. Even restarting Flash 8 or the mac doesn't help! Anyone know how to fix

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash MX2004, Video CD with auto-play {Director v. Flash??}

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Bedar
Just for the record, there is no autoplay on OSX, if you are supporting mac. On Mar 18, 2006, at 10:25 PM, Ramon Miguel M. Tayag wrote: Director is really made for CD authoring, however, for what you want to do, Flash is sufficient. On 3/19/06, Michael Hulse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash MX2004, Video CD with auto-play {Director v. Flash??}

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Bedar
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_13374 This technote is for Director, but applies to flash projectors as well. Also, here is a good article about burning a hybrid CD, should you choose to go down that road. http://director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=831

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash MX2004, Video CD with auto-play {Director v. Flash??}

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Bedar
ugh, changing a users screen resolution is ugly. On Mar 19, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Charles Parcell wrote: Something else to be specific about is your note of Full Screen. Do you mean that the projector should stretch to fill the current monitor resolution or do you mean that the app should

Re: [Flashcoders] Drawing regular, filled shapes into BitmapData

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Bedar
Ok, So you want to draw a circle in AS, easy enough. Then you want to draw it to a bitmap, and the AA provided by smoothing is not enough? Can you just apply a slight blur filter to the bitmap? On Mar 20, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Ian Thomas wrote: Hi Adrian, I have no experience of doing

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Bedar
Can you verify that the SWF has fully loaded before assigning the rollover? On Mar 21, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Christopher Whiteford wrote: I am having a problem with figuring out why I am having scoping issues with a rollover button. I am trying to load a swf file outside_btn.swf in that has

Re: [Flashcoders] Beware of depth 9876

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Bedar
In general it is a good idea not to work on the root level for anything making movieclips... much better to create a container clip first on root and play in that. On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Eskil Janson wrote: I suppose this has been discussed a few times already, but if not: When

Re: [Flashcoders] setStyle TextFormat

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Bedar
Set the text format AFTER you set the text or htmlText. On Mar 26, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Laurent CUCHET wrote: There is a var and a textfield with style, var don't get the style, do you know why ?? Thank you, Laurent var style1 = new TextFormat(); style1.url = http://www.macromedia.com;;

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 2 - suitable for designers?

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Bedar
If you are comfortable writing AS1 code on the timeline, switching to AS2 should be painless. On the timeline, the only differences will be case sensitivity and type strictness, both of which can only make your code easier to debug and maintain. Then, if at some point you want to learn

Re: [Flashcoders] Using onRollOver and onRollOut inside a Class File??

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Bedar
Whats wrong with this? myButton.onPress=function(){ // } Alternatively, use delegate to call a function from the correct scope. myButton.onPress=Delegate.create(this, myButton_Click) On Mar 28, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Mike Anderson wrote: Hello All, I am getting very confused here, on how to

Re: [Flashcoders] Flowing Text in Flash

2006-03-29 Thread Michael Bedar
Get text extent is a TextFormat method On Mar 29, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Chris Hill wrote: Yeah, that's what I figured, but if I remember, getTextExtent is a Lingo call for Director? I'll try doing a line of tokens at a time, and see if I can improve the speed that way. Cheers C Michael

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween and actionscript

2006-03-29 Thread Michael Bedar
Or just add a keyframe in the middle and change the alpha On Mar 30, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Zeh Fernando wrote: I have a movieclip animating across the stage using a tween in the timeline. Halfway through that tween I'm using AS to set the _alpha of the clip to 50%. At the moment I do

Re: [Flashcoders] Movieclip methods in homemade class

2006-04-02 Thread Michael Bedar
Does class Tiles extend MovieClip? You'll need a linked MC for Tiles, as well as one for each class that extends Tiles On Apr 2, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Michael Kønig wrote: I am making a tilebased game where each tile is an individual class that inherits from the Tile class. I have a MC in

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2.0 class ................. private function calling...

2006-04-02 Thread Michael Bedar
You mean that Flash ignores private when calling from the timeline? Try from another class. On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:16 PM, 신진석[Jinseok Shin] wrote: I found private function call. //class as file class test_class{ private var _path:MovieClip = path function

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: TextField._yscale bug?

2006-04-02 Thread Michael Bedar
copy_txt.text = something; copyMirror_txt.text = copy_txt.text.split().reverse().join() On Apr 2, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Pieter Snoeck wrote: Hey, no one can help me here? I have tried all the flash 8 font rendering modes and when I export to flash player 7, everything is fine. I really need

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 Asset Xtra

2006-04-03 Thread Michael Bedar
Assessability and EternalInterface both involve talking to the host player, so i would not be shocked if these never work... no pun As far as V2 components.. I have tested my own custom components and they are working fine, so I'm not sure what the catching point is.. Maybe they will fix

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex 2 SDK Sample Files crash 8.5 Player on OSX

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Bedar
I've encountered the 'you-suck-cause-you're-on-a-mac-and-can't-really- use-Flex 2' problem, but after 3? alpha/beta releases of Flex for windows only i'm getting used to it Michael On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:58 PM, bryan.rice wrote: Hi All, I guess the subject pretty much covers it. I

Re: [Flashcoders] Flv streaming end detection

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Bedar
flvtool2 is a ruby script an works swell on OSX. -- Michael Bedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 7, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Marlon Harrison wrote: Any chance of Mac OS X solutions? On 4/7/06, Sönke Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This could also be a problem of the encoder you used. I know

Re: [Flashcoders] Load 40% of target with MovieClipLoader Class

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Bedar
Use onLoadProgress ... wait for whatever percent you want, then play On Apr 7, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Mike Guerrero wrote: Question: How can I load only 40% of a target movieclip using the MovieClipLoader class? I have used several times to load swfs, but on a recent project the target

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

2006-04-09 Thread Michael Bedar
While this is true, it seems very backward to need JS to view Flash content... On Apr 9, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Paul BH wrote: I second what Steven says - to give you a bit of perspective, I worked on the relaunch of fhm.com about a year or so ago, and we looked into what implications there

Re: [Flashcoders] dumb xml question

2006-04-10 Thread Michael Bedar
The Text content is always 1 level father than you'd think, so do mynode.firstChild.nodeValue mike On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can i get the innertext of an xml node of type 1 (without doing toString and stripping the xml tags) in flash mx (not 2004)?

Re: [Flashcoders] Text editor - Selection trouble.

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Bedar
I did this a long time ago, and as others have said, you need to use an onMouseDown. You will still lose your selection however.. I ended up storing the selection begin and end an using that to set the selection again after I applied the style. Mike On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Magnus

Re: [Flashcoders] Manually triggering the Screens onResize event

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Bedar
Maybe i'm missing something, but why not just manually call your resize function at runtime? On Apr 12, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Mike Anderson wrote: Hello All, I have a Flash App, that uses a Non-Scaling type setup - in which upon browser resize, the controls simply reposition themselves

Re: [Flashcoders] optimize lineTo algorithm

2006-04-13 Thread Michael Bedar
This kind of algorithm could be quite intense.. If you are just drawing it once, it may be faster to just draw the 500 points. Optimization would depend on any assumptions you can make about the data. A brute force approach would be to just iterate through the points and compare 3 at

Re: [Flashcoders] Retrieving Link Text in a Text Field

2006-04-13 Thread Michael Bedar
I don't think you can directly get the link text, but you can add parameters to asfunction calls, so maybe you can do it that way? -- Michael Bedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 13, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Jason Lutes wrote: Is there a way to identify the contents of a link element in an HTML

Re: [Flashcoders] RANT: Collect Fonts Button

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Bedar
When you use a Font in Flash, I believe it makes a slightly optimized version of each glyph and stored it in the library of the SWF... What would be nice is if adding a font to your Library stored the whole font in the FLA in the same format. At the very least, It would be nice if Text

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Flash Object vs UFO for flash detection and aseolas workaround

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Bedar
So painfully true :) On Apr 14, 2006, at 5:33 PM, JesterXL wrote: No one cares, Jim, if their Flash works. Just because we're coder geeks doesn't mean we're JavaScript coder geeks, hah! - Original Message - From: Jim Kremens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Sorting objects within an Array ...

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Bedar
You need to supply a custom sort function, like // function mySort(a,b){ if (a._xscaleb._xscale){ return -1 }else if(a._xscaleb._xscale){ return 1 }else{ return 0 } } // then sort with it... myArray._xscale.sort(mySort) Or you could try a .sortOn() with _xscale, but i'm not sure offhand if

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Sorting objects within an Array

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Bedar
Glad its working for you, but thats so Flash 6. On Apr 15, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Stephen Ford wrote: Thanks all. I found this function online and it works perfectly: - Array.prototype.sortOn = function(p){Array.$sortprop = p;

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Sorting objects within an Array

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Bedar
I think Flash 6 had sortOn. 7 added options... On Apr 15, 2006, at 9:06 PM, JesterXL wrote: Late to the thread. Doesn't Flash 7 have Array.sortOn built in? - Original Message - From: Michael Bedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent

Re: [Flashcoders] How To Detect the FullScreen mode of the swf file

2006-04-25 Thread Michael Bedar
How about not using showall? If you set it to noscale, then you can resize your content any way you want, and also i suppose compare current size to screen size correctly. On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:38 AM, elibol wrote: I agree with an alternative to showall. depending on the circumstances

Re: [Flashcoders] Can't tint AND add GlowFilter?

2006-04-25 Thread Michael Bedar
You will need to make a seperate MC to add the glow to... ie MainMC.GlowMC MainMC.TintMC OR, you can apply the filters to a bitmap, instead of applying them directly to the MC. On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... The code below tints a MC on the stage

Re: [Flashcoders] DCR (was (no subject))

2006-04-29 Thread Michael Bedar
Doesn't Director export Quicktime of Avi Files? On Apr 29, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote: Is there anyway to convert shockwave dcr files to video files ? This is a Director question - anyway, you can use screen capture software to make a video file from whatever on the screen.

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: [Off List Response] for (var i in ..) loop interupted by frame change

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Bedar
If I remeber correctly, goToAndStop() and MoviClip.gotoAndStop() are completely separate functions, and even have different behavior on the root timeline. On May 9, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Tyler Wright wrote: This is Great! What a horrible thing to have to know, it just doesn't make sense that

Re: [Flashcoders] Input filtering

2006-05-10 Thread Michael Bedar
(onKeyDown: + code); } }; // test.onKeyUp = function () { for (var i = 0; i this.key_down_array.length; i++) { if (this.key_down_array[i] Key.isDown (i)==false) { this.key_down_array[i] = false; } } }; // -- Michael Bedar

Re: [Flashcoders] How to make a MAC - PC hybrid CD-ROM

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Bedar
OSX has no autorun capability... On May 16, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Scott Brantley wrote: Here is me answering my own question. http://www.were-here.com/content/templates/articles.asp? articleid=140zo neid=7 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] load data

2006-05-17 Thread Michael Bedar
was it the smile that did it for you? On May 17, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Steven Sacks wrote: I have a feeling that Flashgrrl is actually a guy faking his gender to get more help from all the lonely guys here on Flashcoders. It is scientifically proven to work in other online places (chat

Re: [Flashcoders] Installing Flash 8 pro on a fresh OSX 10.4.6 crash on launch

2006-05-20 Thread Michael Bedar
install applejack - it does permissions, disk repair and cleans system caches http://applejack.sourceforge.net/ and run it in single user mode % applejack auto restart also- the old reset your pram still works for certain problems. On May 20, 2006, at 8:30 AM, erixtekila wrote: Le 20

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flex vs. Flash IDE

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Bedar
There may have been alpha's betas available for a while, but they've been PC only.. i have to grind that axe every now and then On May 23, 2006, at 9:03 PM, Adam Pasztory wrote: Someone suggested that Adobe hasn't done a good job explaining the difference between the two. I can't see

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flex vs. Flash IDE

2006-05-24 Thread Michael Bedar
In fact, I am developing in AS3 and Flex 2 on my Mac right now. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 23, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Michael Bedar wrote: There may have been alpha's betas available for a while, but they've been PC only.. i have to grind that axe every now

Re: [Flashcoders] OnPress, transparent bitmaps

2006-05-30 Thread Michael Bedar
well.. you can dynamically set another MC to be the hitarea.. On May 30, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Robert Gordon wrote: Hey list (I'm a new member), I used to do the following: - create a container clip (mc) - create a clip within mc to hold an image (mci) - create a clip within mc to hold an alpha

Re: [Flashcoders] self published.

2006-05-30 Thread Michael Bedar
socket server? On May 30, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Thomas Marbois wrote: Hi I have an idea for a self placed utility using Flash. Meaning I allow users to place this utility in their own domains - and I dont know where those domains are -- and my utility allows me real-time communications

Re: [Flashcoders] Prevent Multiline Selectable TextField from scrolling?

2006-06-05 Thread Michael Bedar
Only thing I can think of right now is always showing all of the text, and masking the portion you want to hide... On Jun 5, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Tom Lee wrote: This should be a trivial problem, but for some reason I'm not seeing an obvious and clean solution (one of those Mondays). What I

Re: [Flashcoders] Movie clip accessibility

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Bedar
When you load an image into a MC with loadmovie, you are effectively destroying that MC, so load the image into a subclip On Jun 7, 2006, at 9:05 AM, vivek wrote: HI, I am facing a problem with accessibility of my application. I have a movie clip on stage. It's accessibility name is

[Flashcoders] The class or interface [***] could not be loaded.

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Bedar
I'm working on a project where I am suddenly getting this error The class or interface [***] could not be loaded. for each class in the project.. Clearing the ASO is not helping.. anyone have further troubleshooting tips? ___

Re: [Flashcoders] The class or interface [***] could not be loaded.

2006-06-08 Thread Michael Bedar
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Bedar Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:30 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] The class or interface [***] could not be loaded. I'm working on a project where I am suddenly getting this error The class or interface [***] could

Re: [Flashcoders] Littleloud: Flash Developer Position

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Bedar
I think people should try to get the location in there, if they are looking for someone on-site.. it would for instance be a long commute for me... On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:16 PM, James Booth wrote: Maybe he just forgot to put the ;) At the end. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Progressivelly download (and show) a jpg image

2006-07-02 Thread Michael Bedar
It's possible.. but not using loadMovie.. you'd have to make something serverside that read the image and sent it byte by byte.. kinda like a reverse on those samples that saved images to the server using bitmapdata. definitely not an optimal way to load an image. maybe there is a better

Re: [Flashcoders] Issue with reapeat test publish

2006-07-02 Thread Michael Bedar
Sorry, not to be mean, but this was kinda funny:) Try opening the bandwidth profiler and you can see what it's doing. On Jul 2, 2006, at 3:21 PM, js wrote: When I test publish a file the first time, everything works as expected. However when I press ctl-enter again (while the window is

Re: [Flashcoders] Shared Fonts issue... textformat object only works in dynamically created textfields!

2006-07-04 Thread Michael Bedar
i assume you mean... tf = new TextFormat() tf.font = myfont mytextfield.setNewTextFormat(tf) Did you try using mytextfield.setTextFormat(tf) AFTER you change the text? On Jul 4, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: I really need some quick help here as I need to deploy this

Re: [Flashcoders] Shared Fonts issue... textformat object only works in dynamically created textfields!

2006-07-04 Thread Michael Bedar
well, in that case setNewTextFormat definitely won't work.. if a normal setTextFormat does not work, i'm out of ideas.. On Jul 4, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: Oh yes sorry... my mistake. Yes, sure. I actually don´t touch the textfield´s text. On 7/4/06, Michael Bedar

Re: [Flashcoders] Code limit per frame?

2006-07-16 Thread Michael Bedar
As far as I know the ONLY issue that can stop your movie from working correctly is the execution time limit, which presents as a dialogue alert in the flash player. If you are not getting this alert box, then your code should be working as coded. On Jul 16, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Stas

Re: [Flashcoders] I want new Flash 8!

2006-07-16 Thread Michael Bedar
There are a few issues that are annoying.. although I am not sure if they are mac-only.. One that drives me crazy is that sometimes auto-format won't work on valid code.. I've run into this a lot when decaring vars of custom types that are in packages.. as said, the redraw in the script

Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Bedar
The first form is fine, but you are trying to address a function called checkLoading inside an instance of ImageLoader, which does not exist.. if checkLoading is on the root level, then you would say: intId = setInterval(_root, checkLoading, 100 ); The second form is incorrect, no

Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Bedar
setInterval either takes a function, or an object with the name of a function that object contains as a string, hence the 2 ways of using it On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:16 PM, keitai guy wrote: hi - thanks for the help ... if checkLoading is on the root level, then you would say: intId =

Re: [Flashcoders] x,y coordinates of a character

2006-08-04 Thread Michael Bedar
what's the end goal in terms of functionality? On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Robert Gordon wrote: Hey List! I'm trying to find a way to determine the stage coordinates of a character within a dynamically constructed text field (multiline, wrapping, html formated). I've experimented with

Re: [Flashcoders] Font symbols, Polish, Export for Actionscript, barf

2006-08-04 Thread Michael Bedar
What most likely is happening is that when you are not exporting the font flash is using the fonts on your machine. Including a font in the Library is not sufficient - you need to create a dynamic tf on the stage and manually select the characters (or predefined sets of chars) you want to

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadMovie library

2006-08-08 Thread Michael Bedar
First of all, try MovieClipLoader to load your swf's.. If you don't want to use a runtime shared library, then I'd suggest making each movieclip you want to load at runtime a separate swf. You can export MovieClips directly from your library. also, as long as it is set to export for

Re: [Flashcoders] create viewport with same ratio as larger viewport

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Bedar
um.. not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but : 300/400 = 0.75 400/300= 1.33 BUT, if you just want to make a smaller window with the same proportions, try multiplying both width and height by a constant.. ie var calculatedWidth:Number = width*0.75 var calculatedHeight:Number =

[Flashcoders] Fonts in loaded movieclips

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Bedar
I know that shared fonts have been discussed to death, but I need a little clarification on this: I have a main movie, with Font symbols in the library, se to export. I am loading swf's into that movie.. should existing plain d- textfields in the subclips have access to the fonts in the

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Actionscript Coding conventions

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Bedar
Commenting in such a way that a document generator can parse your code is a good thing. I use VisDoc on OSX and it save a great deal of time. On Aug 23, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Mike Keesey wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Actionscript Coding conventions

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Bedar
Your code could be difficult to read for other developers for a variety of reasons.. often readability is lessened in the name of optimization.. or you could simply be doing something that is very complex.. why does adding block comments to your code ruin it? On Aug 23, 2006, at 5:03

Re: [FlashCoders] Local storage warning

2006-08-24 Thread Michael Bedar
you can store up to i think 100k without popping a warning on the default config.. more than that you have to ask permission.. you can query their setting to make it a little more user friendly. mike On Aug 24, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Dimitrios Bendilas wrote: Hello, I have this very very

Re: [Flashcoders] smooth MTASC/Mac workflow?

2006-09-02 Thread Michael Bedar
Actually, could someone answer the same question in regards to Flex on the Mac? I have been just using a shell script to compile from bbedit, but I'd love a more integrated solution to hold me over ... mike On Sep 2, 2006, at 4:31 PM, John Grden wrote: Yeah read my reply to your message

[Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Bedar
Is there a reliable way to detect a r-mouse click, and at the same time suppress the context menu? I could swear that there was a simple way to do it, but I amy be having a DIrector flashback..no pun intended. Thanks, Mike ___

[Flashcoders] BitmapData.draw(movieclip) causing weird mc behavior.

2006-09-27 Thread Michael Bedar
I'm running into an issue where I have a movieclip and a subclip, and I am first changing the frame of the subclip and then taking a snap- shot of the movieclip with BitmapData.draw(movieclip). For some reason taking the image causes the subclip to not update to display the correct frame,

Re: [Flashcoders] usefull firefox extension

2006-10-01 Thread Michael Bedar
me too.. i was excited there for a sec On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:22 PM, dnk wrote: Hubert Cumberdale wrote: http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3469/ While running any .swf Flash file in your browser you can see all the output generated by the trace flash functions in this sidebar component. F.

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