[Flashcoders] text not displaying in an input text field

2005-11-04 Thread Tom Rhodes
Hi All, I'm having a weird problem with a text editor i made ages ago, i'm updating it to use styles instead of textformat. however, whenever i have my input text field set to use the style sheet nothing displays. in the output window, the text and the htmlText are filled with what they

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Loading Images

2005-11-07 Thread Tom Rhodes
use flash 8 to read the files in a directory or php can pass you all the filenames from a directory too, then just load them in - Original Message - From: Lehr, Theodore M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 8:08 PM Subject:

[Flashcoders] file upload with flash 8 weirdness

2005-11-08 Thread Tom Rhodes
Hello all, i think my prob is in my php, but i'm uploading a file to the server, everything goes aok as far as flash is concerned, onProgress and onComplete both fire away happily. but the file he no end up on server :( why would flash say everything is cool and the file not end up there?

Re: [Flashcoders] file upload with flash 8 weirdness

2005-11-08 Thread Tom Rhodes
ah, ignore me, i panicked, no trailing slash on the directory. *crawls back into dark place* - Original Message - From: Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:09 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] file

[Flashcoders] the incredible world of IE on the mac....

2005-11-09 Thread Tom Rhodes
Hello, Anyone now of any good reason why a piece of flash player 7 content would show in every browser and platform tested but NOT on a mac in internet explorer? i think it might have something to do with DB calls or loadMovie. but i'm stumped. cheers, tom.

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: [Flashcoders] Game plays beautiful on PC/ not on mac. wtf?

2005-12-23 Thread Tom Rhodes
k'est k tu faire trouduk?! joyeuses fetes un fois, oui, mais, quatre, cinq e plus. non! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 11:26 AM Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: [Flashcoders] Game plays beautiful on PC/

Re: [Flashcoders] Bug in Macromedia's flash detection code wheninstalled player is either 6.0.22, 6.0.23 and 6.0.29 ?

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Rhodes
i just had a client refuse content in 8, because of their security settings rendering the nice smooth express install i had set up useless. they got the noscript instead. so now i'm redoing everything for player 6 (pain the the you know what) :( - Original Message - From: Martin

Re: [Flashcoders] REPOST Bug in Macromedia's flashdetectioncodewheninstalled player is either 6.0.22, 6.0.23 and 6.0.29 ?

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Rhodes
vegne af Tom Rhodes Sendt: fr 06-01-2006 16:17 Til: Flashcoders mailing list Emne: Re: [Flashcoders] Bug in Macromedia's flash detectioncodewheninstalled player is either 6.0.22, 6.0.23 and 6.0.29 ? yup, their browser was set to not execute js/vb. and yes i'd set up a bit of text along

[Flashcoders] weird loading prob

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Rhodes
Hello All, Dunno if anyone has seen this before, I have a php page which gets vars off the query string and writes them into the object/embed tags of a movie, along with doing a bit of tracking too. Problem is this, very occasionally, every other element apart from the flash loads on the

RE: [Flashcoders] nested MC not firing event

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Rhodes
one way is to change your hit areas dependent on state, if you know what I mean. in your drop down example, the parents hitstate, with it's action to hide if the mouse leaves it, can be accomplished like this; you have one hit state to bring it out, then you change it so it has a hit area outside

RE: [Flashcoders] 0,0????

2006-02-03 Thread Tom Rhodes
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] 0,0 Looks fine to me. Is your code nested inside another clip? Alias On 2/3/06, Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, if anyone's got a mo, I'm going mad.. code function makeBG(roundness:Number,w:Number,h:Number,colour:String,targ:MovieClip):Movi

RE: [Flashcoders] Timeline sound delay

2006-02-06 Thread Tom Rhodes
set it to stream -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcelo Wolfgang Sent: 06 February 2006 20:02 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Timeline sound delay Hi list, I'm doing a freelance project, and I'm having problems with

RE: [Flashcoders] Xpath4AS2

2006-02-08 Thread Tom Rhodes
] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:18 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] Xpath4AS2 hey all, anyone know of any good tutorials on how to use XPath4AS2? can't seem to find much.. ta, tom

RE: [FlashCoders] textfield swapDepths

2006-02-09 Thread Tom Rhodes
= MovieClip.prototype.swapDepths; A little hack that lets you swap textfields. Didn't try it yet but I guess it works. Do you all think it's something I wouldn't mind putting in? Or is it too dirty? I think it's ok. Dimitrios - Original Message - From: Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] don't think this is possible - 100% of variable height table cell

2006-02-15 Thread Tom Rhodes
Hi all, Does anyone know a way to force a movie with a fixed width to fill 100% of a table cells height? I'm thinking it's not possible, but if there was a way to get the height of a cell through js, then maybe it is, I can't find any usefull info on the subject at all. cheers,

R: [Flashcoders] dispatching an event from a frame

2006-02-28 Thread Tom Rhodes
Why not set up your listener in a class, and pass the class the timeline of the frame you want to do something with, and watch the _currentframe property until it is 100 -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di quinrou . Inviato: 28 February

Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference upload, change file name

2006-03-05 Thread Tom Rhodes
jim wrote: I only need the ability to change the name of the file that is being uploaded. How would I go about this? I tried changing the [FileReference instance].name field but this is read only. On the php side I am not sure if I can pass through other data with the file data. I did this with

Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference upload, change file name

2006-03-05 Thread Tom Rhodes
David Rorex wrote: On 3/5/06, Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim wrote: I only need the ability to change the name of the file that is being uploaded. How would I go about this? I tried changing the [FileReference instance].name field but this is read only. On the php side I am

Re: [Flashcoders] .curveTo question

2006-03-06 Thread Tom Rhodes
curveTo takes 4 args, not 2. have a look in the help for curveTo, you need to specify the control points and the anchor points... ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] TextField._yscale bug?

2006-04-03 Thread Tom Rhodes
PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest to use a wrapper movie clip and apply _yscale = -100 to it instead of textfield itself. -- __ Tom Rhodes - Developer / Composer Wheelhouse Creative Ltd, 2 Albion Place, Hammersmith, London. W6 0QT Tel: 020 8748 4466

[Flashcoders] weird

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Rhodes
Hello all, Got a very weird problem, i just compiled my movie and now 90% of the dynamic text fields ignore the font they are set too and just display in times new roman instead. for a couple of weeks they have been in tahoma! they are set to be bitmap text and have worked 100% fine up to

Re: [Flashcoders] weird

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Rhodes
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Re: [Flashcoders] DataGrid text disappears when using Embed Fonts in Flash 8

2006-04-25 Thread Tom Rhodes
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Re: [Flashcoders] Grab IP address

2006-05-30 Thread Tom Rhodes
http://training.figleaf.com -- __ Tom Rhodes - Developer / Composer Wheelhouse Creative Ltd, 2 Albion Place, Hammersmith, London. W6 0QT Tel: 020 8748 4466 Fax: 020 8748 4850 www.wheelhousecreative.co.uk

Re: [Flashcoders] File Upload using Flash7 and servlets

2006-06-09 Thread Tom Rhodes
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Re: [Flashcoders] Help needed

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Rhodes
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Re: [Flashcoders] WSIWYG HTML text editor in Flash?

2006-08-01 Thread Tom Rhodes
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[Flashcoders] System.capabilities.os output on a linux system

2006-08-29 Thread Tom Rhodes
just a quickie, can anyone send me what flash returns as a value for System.capabilities.os on a linux system please? tia. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] Audio Recording Feature Through Flash

2006-10-26 Thread Tom Rhodes
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Re: [Flashcoders] access to drawing API information via ActionScript

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Rhodes
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Re: [Flashcoders] Playing big FLV files (locally) - where's the problem ?

2007-03-16 Thread Tom Rhodes
capacity to load a 2 gig FLV in memory ...which is quite weak normally Thanks in advance for any pointers, Cedric -- __ Tom Rhodes - Developer / Composer Wheelhouse Creative Ltd, 2 Albion Place, Hammersmith, London. W6 0QT Tel: 020 8748 4466 Fax: 020 8748

[Flashcoders] onIOError downloading with filereference class in AS2

2007-09-13 Thread tom rhodes
Hi all, Got a really annoying prob, i've got flash sending bitmapData to php, php makes a jpeg, saves it on the server and returns the unique filename to flash. all of this works perfectly. then the system dialogue box opens, you select where you want to save the file and onIOError is

Re: [Flashcoders] Terminal Server

2008-02-07 Thread tom rhodes
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tom rhodes Sent: 07 February 2008 15:16 To: flashcoders Subject: [Flashcoders] Terminal Server Hello all, I've done a little googling to find out how to connect to Terminal Server from a webpage. Just wondering if anyone has any experience of doing this through

[Flashcoders] Terminal Server

2008-02-07 Thread tom rhodes
Hello all, I've done a little googling to find out how to connect to Terminal Server from a webpage. Just wondering if anyone has any experience of doing this through flash? If anyone has can they point me to some usefull resources as i need to scope out the price of making a flash front end that

[Flashcoders] windows user login data and active directory

2008-05-30 Thread tom rhodes
hi all, i would like to know if it is possible to access windows user login data, to use the same information in a flash intranet as a login, also is it possible to get at active directory data to use as part of a flash app? the client would like this project to be an active desktop but i think

[Flashcoders] weird whitespace issue

2009-07-06 Thread tom rhodes
hey all, just in the final stages of finishing a project and have come across something i've not seen b4, which is a problem ;) basically have a look here... www.sciop.it/news/articoli/108/ before the N there is some whitespace. using firebug i see that before the N there is nothing whatsoever

Re: [Flashcoders] weird whitespace issue

2009-07-06 Thread tom rhodes
hey cedric, nope! it changes, plus i don't see it ever locally! weirdest thing ever... 2009/7/6 Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li hello tom, you mean the whitespace from the start of the paragraph ? isn't it some paragraph start margin ? cheers cedric hey all, just in the final

[Flashcoders] dynamically creating swfs

2009-09-28 Thread tom rhodes
hi all, just been googling but i'm not 100% sure what i want to do is possible. i want to generate a swf from a flash cms on a server. i'm thinking as mxml is xml it should be possible with flex? can anyone give me some links with some good info? thanks in advance, tom.

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with First Flash Movie

2009-11-16 Thread tom rhodes
hey beno, you'll probably have more luck in here than the OSFlash list as that is a more specialised place, there used to be a flash newbie list too on chattyfig, don't know if it's still around. firstly if you want to carry on with your current approach each class is a unique .as file. you need

Re: [Flashcoders] Infinite Loops

2009-11-18 Thread tom rhodes
stop(); just stops the playhead of a timeline in a movieclip, you are tweening with code, two completely different things. where is the code that calls the functions in this class? 2009/11/18 beno - flashmeb...@gmail.com Hi; I have the following code. All the functions go in infinite loops

Re: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Still Infinitely Looping

2009-11-26 Thread tom rhodes
ok, i appreciate this is the flashcoders mailing list and all but... for me the post about KISS is bang on the money. fair enough beno that you want to learn AS3, but if you are wanting to do character animation AS3 may not be the best place to start! get to know the timeline, the drawing tools,

Re: [Flashcoders] Rotation

2010-01-26 Thread tom rhodes
hey beno, shape tweens and animation aren't AS3 per se. look at traditional animation techniques if you want to get the most out of animation on the timeline... 2010/1/26 beno - flashmeb...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)

Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

2010-01-29 Thread tom rhodes
lol, fantastic idea angela! alternative Jobs content ahah. great comment on theFlashBlog piece about the impossibility of doing nearly any site on FWA in HTML5. even gmail uses flash for some refinements to the interface... On 29 January 2010 14:29, Angela Ferraiolo aferrai...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and MySQL

2010-01-29 Thread tom rhodes
beno, just 2 minutes and google will bring you thousands of results of mysqlphpflash communication. not to mention asp, or sockets, or java, or neko, or flash remoting... On 29 January 2010 14:37, beno - flashmeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; It dawned on me that in my study thus far of this very

Re: [Flashcoders] SEO + Flash = any great strategies?

2010-02-04 Thread tom rhodes
swfaddress SEO solution works for me very well, i did a flash news site for a client and searching for headlines or article text came up in google perfectly. it's php serving up either a version of the site for the web crawler/non flash user or the flash if you've got it... On 4 February 2010

Re: [Flashcoders] SEO + Flash = any great strategies?

2010-02-04 Thread tom rhodes
ah forgot to mention to use mod_rewrite and have all the links in your non flash version be without the #... On 4 February 2010 11:42, tom rhodes tom.rho...@gmail.com wrote: swfaddress SEO solution works for me very well, i did a flash news site for a client and searching for headlines

Re: [Flashcoders] SEO + Flash = any great strategies?

2010-02-04 Thread tom rhodes
mind explaining what it is possible to do? what is the http host header sniffing type? On 4 February 2010 16:39, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Glen Pike wrote: That's fine in an ideal world where you probably have access to the apache config file, but being as a lot of

Re: [Flashcoders] Registration Point Issue

2010-02-09 Thread tom rhodes
http://www.google.it/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_itIT301IT303sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=display+object+registration+point+flash On 9 February 2010 12:55, beno - flashmeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I have this code: package { import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.ProgressEvent; import

Re: [Flashcoders] Scroll Bars not coming on increase of movie clipheight

2010-02-19 Thread tom rhodes
yeah didn't work in safari when i was playing around with something similar a few years ago, everything else was ok though. i was calling a function in JS to resize the size of the flash. i'd be interested if anyone had anything working along these lines that worked in all browsers... On 19

Re: [Flashcoders] 2.0 = 3.0

2010-02-22 Thread tom rhodes
Lehr, try this... var pArray:Array = new Array(); var mc:MovieClip = pArray[0] as MovieClip; mc.gotoAndStop(2); or... var pArray:Array = new Array(); MovieClip(pArray[0]).gotoAndStop(2); which is closer to your original AS2. On 22 February 2010 17:48, Henrik Andersson

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding and Removing a Sprite

2010-02-23 Thread tom rhodes
you could also make createBar return a reference to the sprite... function createBar(dfile:String):Sprite { ... mySprite = new Sprite(); // do stuff addChild(mySprite); return mySprite; } var mySprite:Sprite = createBar(string); then you can remove it

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding and Removing a Sprite: PART II

2010-02-23 Thread tom rhodes
ok, bar isn't the name of the sprite, it's a variable with name bar which contains a reference to your sprite... if you want to use names then do something like bar.name = String(bar_ + i); but personally i'd use an array like so... var bars:Array = []; function createBars():void { for (var

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding and Removing a Sprite: PART II

2010-02-23 Thread tom rhodes
yeah, horses for courses... if you want to better encapsulate stuff, i find it easier to work with arrays (in fp10 vectors) and pass them around if needs be. tying your code to specific timelines gives you more work to do if you want to reuse that code imho. for something quick and dirty in

Re: [Flashcoders] finding x of sprite

2010-02-25 Thread tom rhodes
Lehr, try this code, hopefully it should explain... function drawDot(targetSprite:Sprite, size:int):void { targetSprite.graphics.beginFill(0); targetSprite.graphics.drawCircle(0,0,size/2); targetSprite.graphics.beginFill(0); } var originOfStage:Sprite = new Sprite(); addChild(originOfStage);

Re: [Flashcoders] drawing lines

2010-02-25 Thread tom rhodes
look at lineGradientStyle, or use your dotted line to mask a shape with the diff colours in the right places, or draw different lines, one with one colour and one in another colour... On 25 February 2010 16:28, Lehr, Theodore ted_l...@federal.dell.com wrote: I would like to draw a line that

Re: [Flashcoders] corporate history timeline examples

2010-02-25 Thread tom rhodes
one that i remember from um years and years ago is the motown one. probably not all that amazing now but was probably one of the first and did it well. google should dig it up for you... On 25 February 2010 19:16, Mendelsohn, Michael michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote: Thanks for the

Re: [Flashcoders] Preloader, Pt. 2

2010-02-26 Thread tom rhodes
that's not going to preload anything though. we know how everyone loved the skip intro days... victor, you need to do this in flash (if i've understood you correctly) you get your preloader to load in your main content, it's a container...

Re: [Flashcoders] Draw Outline Slowly

2010-03-03 Thread tom rhodes
are you beno in disguise ;) ? i would strongly suggest if this is fixed (i.e. you know what you're shape is and it's not going to change) to do it on a timeline with masks. if not then you need to get to grips with the drawing api and for curves maybe some maths too. for a straight line it's

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Objective-C

2010-03-11 Thread tom rhodes
check out haxe (www.haxe.org), you can write in something almost identical to AS3 and target c++, cpp, php, javascript and neko when you compile. i haven't used it for c++ but i've followed conversations on the mailing list about targetting the iphone. probably a good way to dip your toe in while

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Objective-C

2010-03-11 Thread tom rhodes
more than one way to skin a cat :) just thought it might be handy to look at given that Matt was weighing up how much of a headache diving into objective-C woudl be... On 11 March 2010 18:05, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.comwrote: check out haxe (www.haxe.org), you can write in

Re: [Flashcoders] Calculator

2010-03-17 Thread tom rhodes
percent = percento = per cento = for/in every 100 so when you say 15% you are saying 15 in every 100. s if i have 100 apples and 25 of them are red... (25 / 100) * 100 = 25% of the apples are red. if i have 200 apples and 25 of them are red... (25 / 200) * 100 = 12.5% of the apples

Re: [Flashcoders] Calculator

2010-03-17 Thread tom rhodes
DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: No, that makes TOTAL sense. but why does 15/3000*100 = 0.5? 15% of $3,000 dollars is not 5¢ its $450 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_15_percent_of_3000 Maybe my mac calculator is broken? Frustrating.. Karl On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:14 AM, tom rhodes

Re: [Flashcoders] Calculator

2010-03-17 Thread tom rhodes
lol i was trying to make things as simple as possible... although google *could* be wrong ;) On 17 March 2010 17:27, jonathan howe jonathangh...@gmail.com wrote: Funny thing is, I'm in a talk right now with Grant Skinner presenting and he just threw up this slide: Math At a bare

Re: [Flashcoders] Interaction between clips and main timeline in AS3.

2010-04-16 Thread tom rhodes
File Publish Settings Flash Actionscript 3.0 Settings Strict Mode (uncheck it) that's your easiest solution if you are having trouble. once you get more into the AS3 side of things you won't need it any more... On 16 April 2010 17:33, natalia Vikhtinskaya natavi.m...@gmail.com wrote: Yes

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread tom rhodes
use some server side script to serve up your site, check to see in the headers sent to the server if the request coems from a bot or from a browser, if from a bot, serve up your xml, if from a browser server up your site. have a google for swfaddress SEO On 20 April 2010 11:52, Paul Andrews

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread tom rhodes
engines if discovered? Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/4/20 tom rhodes tom.rho...@gmail.com use some server side script to serve up your site, check to see in the headers sent to the server if the request coems from a bot or from a browser, if from a bot, serve up your xml, if from a browser

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and iThingammybob

2010-04-20 Thread tom rhodes
pretty sure you can't do that On 20 April 2010 14:46, Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com wrote: Come to think of it, I wonder if you could just make a website for support and download of your app. Sell it on the site via Paypal or a shopping cart. Can Apple prevent developers from doing

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread tom rhodes
google bots follow links. like i said before look at the swfaddress SEO stuff to get started. as long as what google finds at yoursite.com/section/is the same content you deliver in your flash when you go directly to yoursite.com/section/ then there is no foul play going on. it's not doubling up

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-21 Thread tom rhodes
into the index a On 21 April 2010 01:21, tom rhodes tom.rho...@gmail.com wrote: google bots follow links. like i said before look at the swfaddress SEO stuff to get started. as long as what google finds at yoursite.com/section/is the same content you deliver in your flash when you go

[Flashcoders] 10.0.45 and image artifacts?

2010-04-22 Thread tom rhodes
Hi List, just revisiting a 6 month old project, changed the layout slightly and republishing i'm getting horrible horizontal streaks across the screen when images are scrolled horizontally. this project has been used live for 6 months without issue and now i see that the new player (i only got it

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread tom rhodes
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/quake_ii_runs_on_html5.html http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/quake_ii_runs_on_html5.htmlseems that html5 isn't as crappy as some people are making out. On 30 April 2010 09:50, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Ouch my side

[Flashcoders] ExternalInterface broken? chrome and safari on linux...

2010-05-05 Thread tom rhodes
anyone got ExternalInterface calls working in chrome/safari on linux? or know why mine might be failing? they work on everything else seemingly... tia, tom. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface broken? chrome and safari on linux...

2010-05-05 Thread tom rhodes
-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of tom rhodes Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:26 AM To: flashcoders Subject: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface broken? chrome and safari on linux... anyone got ExternalInterface calls working in chrome/safari on linux? or know why mine might be failing

Re: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface broken? chrome and safari on linux...

2010-05-05 Thread tom rhodes
i've tried... On 5 May 2010 18:59, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: On 05/05/2010 17:43, tom rhodes wrote: ok, currently got probs with firefox as well on linux. the swf thinks ExternalInterface is available but nothing gets called in the JS Maybe it's really a problem with the code

Re: [Flashcoders] XML Question

2010-05-06 Thread tom rhodes
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp On 6 May 2010 14:56, John Singleton johnsingleton...@yahoo.com wrote: Whoops. Now I have this in my XML: DETAILSh3Senior Citizen Discount/h3 bDelta Electric and Construction Co., Inc./b finds its pricing to be fair and reasonable. Their prices

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-08 Thread tom rhodes
read the comments, seemingly nothing at all to do with anything flash-like in reality! On 8 May 2010 14:54, William Bierwerth b.bierwe...@earthlink.net wrote: Mac gaming-never took off either, they don't have the mindset for development ~b Ktu wrote: oh apple. Why do you have so many

Re: [Flashcoders] GPU, Direct or Normal?

2010-05-28 Thread tom rhodes
http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu-acceleration-mean.html http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu-acceleration-mean.htmlgoogle has a lot more too. On 28 May 2010 07:35, Fahim Akhter akhter.fa...@gmail.com wrote: That makes two of us brother. Fahim Akhter Game Developer

Re: [Flashcoders] GPU, Direct or Normal?

2010-05-29 Thread tom rhodes
designed for GPU if you set wmode to GPU, but doesn't really say very much more, which is the important part. Exactly what considerations should we take when designing for GPU compositing? Kevin N. On 5/28/10 5:23 AM, tom rhodes wrote: http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu

Re: [Flashcoders] setting variable

2010-06-05 Thread tom rhodes
var myContent:MovieClip = loadEvent.currentTarget.content as MovieClip; ... then later... myContent.myVar = something; On 4 June 2010 18:46, Lehr, Theodore ted_l...@federal.dell.com wrote: What would it's instance name be? my last line is: addChild(loadEvent.currentTarget.content);

Re: [Flashcoders] Impossible?

2010-09-03 Thread tom rhodes
why not make 2 bitmaps, one transparent and one not, mask the non transparent one to reveal the transparent one, will look the same as what you are trying to acheive i think... On 3 September 2010 15:01, Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.uk wrote: On 03/09/2010 13:32, George Jones wrote: Hi;

Re: [Flashcoders] Impossible?

2010-09-08 Thread tom rhodes
what henrik said, or stick them in sprites first and mask the sprites... On 7 September 2010 21:16, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Mask the Bitmap, not the BitmapData. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] TweenMax.allTo()

2010-09-09 Thread tom rhodes
look at TimelineMax for sequencing, or do a loop through all your objects and assign them different tweens. On 9 September 2010 21:38, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.comwrote: Because the number needs to not be random, but correspond with the item being tweened - I guess I could

Re: [Flashcoders] Best (fastest/memory efficient) way to animate bitmaps

2010-09-18 Thread tom rhodes
grant skinner didn't make the greensock stuff. credit for that goes to Jack Doyle :) On 18 September 2010 13:29, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: TimeLineMax ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] NOOBed - wtf basic procedural tween skipping

2010-09-29 Thread tom rhodes
yup, pretty much always been there, depends on your actual framerate. to make it smooth you'll have to do something timebased to calculate the position... On 29 September 2010 18:45, jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com wrote: hey gang i have no idea what's going on here -

Re: [Flashcoders] NOOBed - wtf basic procedural tween skipping

2010-09-29 Thread tom rhodes
he did say in the original post that a motion tween was smooth! On 29 September 2010 19:25, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote: This is going to sound abrupt but have you ever heard of a tweening engine? http://www.greensock.com/tweenlite/ On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Bob Wohl

Re: [Flashcoders] Converting fla to mov

2010-10-25 Thread tom rhodes
good idea to export it at 1 fps, that way you don't get skipped frames (even with heavy actionscript use), then speed up the resulting mov to the original framerate and you've got a perfect mov. On 25 October 2010 07:25, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: @Henrik One possible

Re: [Flashcoders] Intellij IDEA?

2010-11-23 Thread tom rhodes
flash develop has svn now On 23 November 2010 17:35, Tom Gooding t...@quickthinkmedia.co.uk wrote: Someone on our team introduced this on large projects to replace FDT - apparently the refactoring is a lot better, less of a memory hog and a lot of the supplementary tooling (ANT / SVN

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with adding two digits

2010-12-14 Thread tom rhodes
same here compiling for flash player 10 and flash player 9, 8 and below give 0.3 as expected On 14 December 2010 15:42, Adrian Zając zajac.adr...@gmail.com wrote: trace (0.27 + 0.03); ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with adding two digits

2010-12-14 Thread tom rhodes
to the last digit, and never compare floating point numbers for equality. Additional, interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problems On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:15 AM, tom rhodes tom.rho...@gmail.com

[Flashcoders] massive problems with cs5 not compiling/ corrupt fla/xfl files...

2010-12-20 Thread tom rhodes
Hi, i'm getting really close to a deadline and a very big project fla went corrupt on saturday, i googled the issues with cs5 and rolled back a version or two in svn and then saved only as xfl but today i made a few changes to the xfl to export a new swc with assets to use with the flashdevelop

Re: [Flashcoders] massive problems with cs5 not compiling/ corrupt fla/xfl files...

2010-12-20 Thread tom rhodes
yeah i think the probs started from power going off and on on friday afternoon. nothing i can do? On 20 December 2010 14:21, ZaoNews zaon...@bol.com.br wrote: Here we had to remake after power outage... 2010/12/20 tom rhodes tom.rho...@gmail.com: Hi, i'm getting really close

Re: [Flashcoders] massive problems with cs5 not compiling/ corrupt fla/xfl files...

2010-12-20 Thread tom rhodes
and starting from scratch just isn't an option... On 20 December 2010 15:08, ZaoNews zaon...@bol.com.br wrote: Sorry, I don´t know 2010/12/20 tom rhodes tom.rho...@gmail.com: yeah i think the probs started from power going off and on on friday afternoon. nothing i can do? On 20

Re: [Flashcoders] massive problems with cs5 not compiling/ corrupt fla/xfl files...

2010-12-20 Thread tom rhodes
i'll give it a go! sounds similar to what i did on sat to make it work for a day... On 20 December 2010 17:06, Mendelsohn, Michael michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote: One thing I tried which seemed to work, temporarily anyway, was to save the xfl file from the seemingly corrupt fla file,

Re: [Flashcoders] test

2011-01-12 Thread tom rhodes
ahahah. ok i promised a client 3d dancing and talking monkeys integrated with facebook and twitter, i've got a facebook account but i'm a bit stuck with the rest On 12 January 2011 10:08, Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.uk wrote: No, Beno is still on holiday. On 11/01/2011 18:06,

Re: [Flashcoders] Facebook API implementations

2011-01-17 Thread tom rhodes
the bigspaceship classes ( http://www.bigspaceship.com/blog/labs/bss-classes-flash-and-the-fb-graph/) using Oauth are great and once you're logged in you can play with graph api calls to your hearts content. On 17 January 2011 18:18, Zeh Fernando z...@zehfernando.com wrote: The first gotcha of

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Distribute some audio classes as SWC?

2011-02-01 Thread tom rhodes
if you use flashdevelop, you add the swc to your library and then you can use all it's assets in your code. On 1 February 2011 14:42, Mendelsohn, Michael michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote: Hi Eric... I've been wanting to do that forever with some fonts and a movie clip that I use in

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Distribute some audio classes as SWC?

2011-02-01 Thread tom rhodes
http://www.infogroupindia.com/blog/?p=513 On 1 February 2011 15:12, Mendelsohn, Michael michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote: Wait -- not so fast. How do you import it? Is it advanced AS3 settings|Library Path, then bring it in there? Clicking OK to that doesn't have the swc appear in

Re: [Flashcoders] OTish MP3 files for a piano scale

2011-02-08 Thread tom rhodes
multisampled pianos are available without having to record it all yourself! you'd still have to be loading a hell of a lot of wavs for it to sound half decent though, and probably code up something to handle the release of the keys properly... On 8 February 2011 16:27, Kerry Thompson

Re: [Flashcoders] OTish MP3 files for a piano scale

2011-02-08 Thread tom rhodes
not realistic enough no, but the OP did say it could be simple and not have to be too accurate. in which case multisampling each note would be overkill. i'd look for piano samples online (there will be oodles) and start messing with them and if it sounds ok to you then go with it... On 8

Re: [Flashcoders] OTish MP3 files for a piano scale

2011-02-08 Thread tom rhodes
Michelle's examples or see if you can find the Flashcodersbrighton experiments with as3 synths if you are interested. On 08/02/2011 15:35, tom rhodes wrote: multisampled pianos are available without having to record it all yourself! you'd still have to be loading a hell of a lot of wavs

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