Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-07 Thread syam s
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Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-07 Thread valters boze
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Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-07 Thread elibol
Hi Syams, Way left field bro. I have this mental imagery of you falling from the sky into this topic, not knowing where you are. I remember your post about this question, it was answered. The way to do it without serverside programming is to use shared objects. Good luck with it, M. On 2/7/06,

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-06 Thread Nathan Derksen
You make it sound like I'm forcing it to work. I'm not forcing it, it works as a nice byproduct of how I normally setup and group my movie clips. I see this as being good coding practice. Things that are grouped together share a parent movie clip, making control of the group easier and

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-06 Thread Grant Cox
Just to throw my 2c in, I personally only use getNextHighestDepth(), and as yet haven't had any problems with it. The majority of our screens are already placed in the Flash timeline, I use attachMovie almost only to populate scrollpanes, and loadMovie only into graphic components. To keep

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-06 Thread Tyler Wright
Why not pick a good, standardized way to manage depths that works in every scenario? ...tag, you're it! Anyway, this has gone on long enough. If you haven't gotten the point yet you're never going to. ...I don't feel like playing anymore. ok, let's not talk down to others who have

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-06 Thread ryanm
What are the situations that you have come across where only manual depth management would work? Do you have other ways of managing depth? It's not a matter of getNextHighestDepth not working, it's a matter of controlling the depth to avoid unexpected behaviors. I've never had a problem

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-05 Thread ryanm
and you want to add something between the content and the footer, then just add it in between: buildHeader(); buildContent(); buildMoreContent(); buildFooter(); Guess where the new stuff ends up? No figuring out what depth to assign, no re-assigning depths, no collisions. Nice and simple.

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-05 Thread Nathan Derksen
Then I create a placeholder movie clip in the order I intend for it to go, then put the new movie clips in that clip later. The parent clip holds the depth, so no matter how many child clips I create, they are always ordered relative to the rest of the content as intended. I always group

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-04 Thread Daniel Cascais
getNextHighestDepth()+10*152/36%23*Math.random()*362; LOL ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-04 Thread Tyler Wright
The whole idea is that you keep things at *predictable*, and whenever possible explicitly defined, depths so that things are easy to manage. If you need getNextHighestDepth, that means you don't know what the current highest depth being used is, and that means you aren't in control of the

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Rønning
Ya like prototyping, XP style spike solutions are a very good idea. Reach a proof of concept prototype asap. Do it dirty, do it by stealing, do it whichever way you can do it as long as it's fast. And from the experiences garnered during this spike, a better solution of the problem can be

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Nathan Derksen
getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote: Another little bit of advice you may find useful, don't put depths right next to each other, leave room between them. When developing a UI, I often put them 10

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Derksen Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:04 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Yah, I really like it too, but it does the same thing for me. I save constantly anyways, so I rarely lose anything. I

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Hyndman
It's not when you don't want the movieclip to be on the highest depth. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nathan Derksen Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 11:07 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Rønning
: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? 9-5 I've been working on the same Flash RIA for the last 3 months. For this I have adopted to Sepy as this is what the rest of the dev team are using. Prior to that I was an Eclipse / MTASC k.i.d. Though when I get home and the collar comes and I'm

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Nathan Derksen
] on behalf of Nathan Derksen Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 11:07 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Nathan Derksen
AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote: Another little bit of advice you may find useful

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread elibol
into sepy and charge an application with the spirit of that which I AM. PEACE hehe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 11:37 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
Surprised at the lack of support for Primalscript on this list :) Its probably just the cost of Primalscript, that's all - its competing with Eclipse, SEPY, SciTE Flash, which are all free. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Nathan Derksen
Free is always nice to have :-) That's pretty wicked support, though. I considered it, but I like to support SEPY partially because they are at least working on a Mac version, while PrimalScript is not that I know of. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:41 AM,

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread j.c.wichman
] on behalf of Nathan Derksen Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 11:07 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread ryanm
No, but what Ryan describes is exactly what getNextHighestDepth() is for. Not at all. If you have a content container at 1, a navigation container at 2 (so that drop downs lay on top of the content), and a footer container at 3, and you need to add another content container (for rotating

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Cascais
I completely agree with what Ryan says, but if you still want to use getNextHighestDepth(), as Nathan commented, you could do something like this and get a similar result: ...getNextHighestDepth() + 10; Daniel On 2/3/06, ryanm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but what Ryan describes is exactly

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Bryan Thompson
] How do you code your Flash applications? No, but what Ryan describes is exactly what getNextHighestDepth() is for. Not at all. If you have a content container at 1, a navigation container at 2 (so that drop downs lay on top of the content), and a footer container at 3, and you need

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Anggie Bratadinata
On 2/4/06, elibol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anggie, my immediate advice would be to design your application API before you begin unit testing your functions; break down and generalize the internal communication of the application, use your own diagramming dialect to describe the application

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread ryanm
I completely agree with what Ryan says, but if you still want to use getNextHighestDepth(), as Nathan commented, you could do something like this and get a similar result: ...getNextHighestDepth() + 10; No! Bad bad bad! Now you *really* have no way to find your objects. Why not just do

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-03 Thread Troy Rollins
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Yeah, the sudden shut downs has frustrated me enough times that I just plain stopped using it, even though it's a better editor than SciTe Flash. Same. Sepy will not run on my Macs. Basically crashes on launch. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd.

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
I'd be more than happy if you, experts, can tell me the right way to code/develop Flash applications. TIA, -- Anggie Bratadinata Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A I guess they don't can their worms in Indonesia. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE:

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Cedric Muller
what's that ?? harsh ? I'd be more than happy if you, experts, can tell me the right way to code/develop Flash applications. TIA, -- Anggie Bratadinata Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A I guess they don't can their worms in Indonesia. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions |

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Ramon Tayag
Hey Anggie, Hello from a neighbor. I'm no guru, but I am OC (obsessive compulsive) when it comes to keeping my code clean. 1) If I can help it, I keep all my code in one place. All in one frame, all the better. All in one swf? Better yet. 2) I don't keep the actual code in the FLA but I

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Webster
5) Comment, a lot! Just wanted to qualify this piece of advice. You should comment appropriately, which is not necessarily the same as commenting a lot. Comments such as... // Increase the value of i by 5 i += 5; ...are no good to anyone. Instead, explain why 5 is being added to i,

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:47 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? what's that ?? harsh ? I'd be more than happy if you, experts, can tell me the right way to code/develop Flash applications. TIA

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Dude, that's some funny shit. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Winterhalder Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:22 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? On 2/2/06

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Steven Sacks
1) If I can help it, I keep all my code in one place. All in one frame, all the better. All in one swf? Better yet. That's one of the worst things I've ever heard. Maybe you should get on medication for your OCD. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin Mulvihill
Steven Sacks, I am just surprised to see you writing that kind of stuff. Maybe you were trying to be funny, but I'm not seeing much humor in it with all the bickering and name-calling going on this list these past few days. Maybe it's just me, but I just don't like the tone here lately. Being

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread ryanm
1) If I can help it, I keep all my code in one place. All in one frame, all the better. All in one swf? Better yet. That's one of the worst things I've ever heard. Maybe you should get on medication for your OCD. Sigh... ryanm ___

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Grant Cox
I personally use Eclipse / MTASC, so all code is class based. In my Flash file all symbols that need functionality have a linkage id, and almost all of my symbols are only a single frame (unless shape tweening is needed). To make the Flash compile faster, none of these symbols are linked to

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 11:37 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? I personally use Eclipse / MTASC, so all code is class based. In my Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Anggie Bratadinata
On 2/3/06, Mark Winterhalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (to open) a can of worms, idiom: to ask for general stylistic advice on a professional mailing list, often resulting in contradicting advises that turn into flame wars, ending with somebody crying and repeated demands for the thread to be

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Anggie Bratadinata
On 2/2/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be more than happy if you, experts, can tell me the right way to code/develop Flash applications. I guess they don't can their worms in Indonesia. Nope, we export them without the can. :) Heard of Brontok.W32.Virus? -- Anggie

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:44 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Don't feel bad Anggie, I think it is an interesting topic that is worthy of discussion. The problem is that best practices are quite

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Grant Cox
/ animation works I'll use Flash * * Thank you * * The end */ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:44 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Don't

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Anggie Bratadinata
On 2/3/06, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't feel bad Anggie, I think it is an interesting topic that is worthy of discussion. The problem is that best practices are quite subjective, and as such some people feel the need to be offended at alternative suggestions :) What a relief !

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
dormant during the day time within Flash Lemming. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:58 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Are you actually

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Andreas Rønning
I'll drink to that. Subversion is king. - Andreas Rønning 6) Use subversion or some other form on source code control Saved my bacon on more than a few occasions! Steve --Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread grant
I build assets in flash and give them symbol names that match my class names. for example loginForm = com.bluetube.view.LginForm I code in eclipse and bind classes to symbols using Object.registerClass, I compile with mtasc and use ANT to build. I always have an ApplicationForm class that

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Andreas Rønning
Hi Anggie, haven't seen you active on this list, so i guess this is welcome as well..? I'm not an expert by any standard, but i do have close to 7 years of practical Flash experience paying my rent, so at the very least i guess that makes me a professional :) When i write these things i tend