[Flashcoders] Printing a swf from inside a text field

2006-08-01 Thread Paul Venton
Hello I'm building a Flash 8 application that parses XML files containing HTML and a separate CSS file to build its various layouts using homebrew components. So far I'm having a wail of time as almost everything has been working as expected. One of this project's requirements is that

RE: [Flashcoders] Class Silent

2006-08-05 Thread Paul Venton
Well for starters, your fadeObj method defines a parameter which has the same name as your public variable. Also, it appears that your onEnterFrame contains a reference to mc that doesn't exist in its scope; perhaps using a Delegate helper would solve that, or simply change it to this since the

RE: [Flashcoders] HTML in XML

2006-08-11 Thread Paul Venton
Crazy talk my arse! ;-) I've used XML with HTML and CSS to drive several commercial products I've developed. So long as all tags are correctly terminated it makes sense to use XML; where do you think XHTML came from? XML is, by nature, a portable document that can be used and interpreted by

RE: [Flashcoders] JOB: BLITZ Agency

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Venton
Just checked out the website and thought I'd report an issue I'm having. I'm using IE6SP2 with Flash Player 9.0.16.0. I have to manually refresh the page after clicking any of the main menu items; they all stall after reporting 100% loading. ___

RE: [Flashcoders] vars with $

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Venton
I know PHP uses it and TorqueScript use $ and % to differentiate between global ($) and local (%) variables but it has no special meaning in Flash. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 August 2006 19:27 To:

RE: [Flashcoders] JOB: BLITZ Agency

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Venton
Maybe that's why they're after a new developer ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elena Blanco Sent: 18 August 2006 19:48 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] JOB: BLITZ Agency Same thing here with firefox 1.0.7 on

RE: [Flashcoders] Right-MouseClick

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Venton
I works with Firefox 1.5.0.7 but not when testing with IE7RC1. The latter still shows a minimal menu along with the custom one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John VanHorn Sent: 22 September 2006 18:48 To: Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] Moving to AS2, array always undefined

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Venton
Says who? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: 12 October 2006 21:20 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Moving to AS2, array always undefined There's more than one way to skin a cat is another common

RE: [Flashcoders] Make your own multiuser flash apps

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Venton
Looks good - had a quick test with a dead cat but ran out of time ... plan on making a proper visit soon :-) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: capturing a href=link/a events?

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Venton
asfunction :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sebastian Sent: 16 May 2007 12:13 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] AS2: capturing a href=link/a events? Hello again, a more difficult question maybe... Is there

RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: capturing a href=link/a events?

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Venton
Make sure you aren't putting spaces in your function call ... ie asfunction:myFunc,p1,p2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sebastian Sent: 16 May 2007 15:17 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: capturing a

RE: [Flashcoders] Cycle through XML nodes

2007-06-12 Thread Paul Venton
I had thought of posting something similar but in all seriousness this really is pretty basic stuff. Please read some of the Flash documentation, specifically regarding XML - it's all there for the taking. Either that or maybe the FlashNewbies list ... no offence intended. -Original

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

2007-08-21 Thread Paul Venton
In the context of video acceleration since the hardware, of not available then software, will be decoding and displaying the video. There's no mention of hardware being used to accelerate non video playback. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [Flashcoders] what is that

2007-08-22 Thread Paul Venton
Because you're special :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dr.ache Sent: 22 August 2007 16:25 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] what is that but why do i receive that mail? i had written more than one

RE: [Flashcoders] DropShadowFilter rendering issue: SOLVED

2007-08-24 Thread Paul Venton
According to the documentation, the alpha property accepts a value between 0 and 1, and strength a value between 0 and 255. So is the documentation wrong? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: 24 August 2007 17:58 To:

RE: [Flashcoders] copy bitmap problem in Firefox and Safari

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Venton
Checked with the following: Internet Explorer 7 with Flash Player 9.0.47.0 no problems encountered. Internet Explorer 6 with Flash Player 9.0.47.0 no problems encountered. Firefox 2 with Flash Player 9.0.60.184 images do not load unless cached. Safari 3 with Flash Player 9.0.60.184 images do not

RE: [Flashcoders] copy bitmap problem in Firefox and Safari

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Venton
That works fine across all browsers I mentioned previously :-) If you clear the browser's cache you'd be able to test it yourself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of natalia Vikhtinskaya Sent: 25 August 2007 17:17 To:

RE: [Flashcoders] coding a world clock

2007-08-31 Thread Paul Venton
Have a gander at the Date object ... it's all there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corban Baxter Sent: 31 August 2007 19:22 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] coding a world clock Just wanted to know where I could get

RE: [Flashcoders] JumpShip Framework, version for AS3 and major update to AS2 version

2007-09-05 Thread Paul Venton
You might find google useful ;-) http://osflash.org/projects/jumpship -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: 04 September 2007 11:36 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JumpShip Framework, version for AS3

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 UI Bug

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Venton
I know what you mean. It only happens occasionally here but when it does I find the test movie is obscured by some, not all, of the panels. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: 05 September 2007 22:03 To:

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 UI Bug

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Venton
More ... When opening panels (any) when collapsed to icons, they open but fail to show any content. I have to close and re-open the panels in hope that their content is rendered. Very annoying when I'm tight for time. The test movie often opens as a resized window to well below 100%

RE: [Flashcoders] caching loaded swfs and jpegs

2007-09-07 Thread Paul Venton
You could use: var urlNoCache:String = (System.capabilities.playerType == External ? ? + getTimer(): ); Appending urlNoCache to your url will only add a string when played in an external player or test movie. Testing in anything else creates an empty string. Substitute getTimer with whatever

RE: [Flashcoders] Function call from a function

2007-09-07 Thread Paul Venton
target_mc.closer_mc.onRelease = Delegate.create(this, getPopHolder); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Marshall Sent: 07 September 2007 18:24 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Function call from a

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 ROLL_OVER or MOUSE_OVER ? Which one, and why ?

2007-09-08 Thread Paul Venton
From the docs: The purpose of the rollOver event is to simplify the coding of rollout behaviors for display object containers with children. When the mouse leaves the area of a display object or the area of any of its children to go to an object that is not one of its children, the display

RE: [Flashcoders] Text Editor Undo/Redo Stack

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Venton
Apparently that works in IE 5 and 6. IE 7 and Firefox throws an alert requesting permission for clipboard access; who'd what a website accessing the clipboard without permission? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Marsden Sent: 12

RE: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Venton
I take it they're not worried about the user taking screen grabs and email those off? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Campbell Sent: 26 June 2008 13:23 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

RE: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata?

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Venton
Just a thought ... couldn't you use the URLStream class to parse the file as it's being downloaded and once you have the metadata, close the connection? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 31 July 2008 21:35 To: Flash Coders

RE: [Flashcoders] A very simply question of XML toString()

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Venton
There's a great tutorial at http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using_xml_as3_pg1.htm Pretty easy to follow and I found it useful for getting my head around E4X. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On

RE: [Flashcoders] Tween AS3 issue with Firefox

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Venton
Can't see a tween either, however the site looks a pretty desolate after a page refresh! Might want to check the SWFs loadInfo (bytesLoaded against bytesTotal). -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On

RE: [Flashcoders] ColorTransform GTween

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Venton
Taken a look at the comments on here: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/08/gtween_a_new_tw.html after a quick search on Google. coltw:GTween = new GTween(theclip.transform.colorTransform, 0.5, { redOffset:255, greenOffset:255, blueOffset:255 }, { ease:Circular.easeOut } );