Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader/loadMovie vs. digit on instance name

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Wagner,

INMHO, the best way to add your numbers to the name of MovieClip is to 
first define a variable as the base name of your mc, then add the number 
(id) to that base name. I do it like this :


var baseName:String = "newWin_";
var mcID:Number = Math.round( Math.random() * 100 );
var mcName:String = baseName + mcID;

you'll be sure to allways have a string that way!

I usually use this in a loop (for or while) where I use an incremental 
number (i++)


var baseName:String = "newWin_";
for (var i:Number = 0; i < maxMC; i++) {
   var mcName:String = baseName + i;
}

HTH

Alain

Wagner Amaral wrote:

Yesterday I was building a WindowManager class, and I wanted to assign
random names to each created window. So I went for the obvious:

var randName:String = String(Math.round( Math.random() * 100 ));
var _newWin:Window = Window( _tgt.attachMovie(_linkage, "newWin_" +
randName, _tgt.getNextHighestDepth(), initObj) );

which gives me something like: _level0.windowContainer.newWin_123456

however, when I tried to load an external image into a movieclip
inside this new Window, MovieClipLoader.loadClip() failed silently,
and loadMovie() gives an error in the path (doesn't specify which
path, but then I found it was the destination movie's path)
setting properties like _newWin.textContainer.text = 'xyz'; works ok,
but I could not load an image into _newWin.imageContainer, even though
I can trace it (gives me
_level0.windowContainer.newWin_123456.imageContainer)

then I did this, and the image loaded correctly, along with the text 
properties:


var randName:String = String(Math.round( Math.random() * 100 ));
var randNameArray:Array = randName.split( '' );
var newNameArray:Array = new Array( randNameArray.length );
for ( var i:Number = 0; i < randNameArray.length; ++i ) {
newNameArray[i] = String.fromCharCode( 97 + 
Number(randNameArray[i]) );

}
randName = newNameArray.join( '' );
var _newWin:Window = Window( _tgt.attachMovie(_linkage, "newWin_" +
randName, _tgt.getNextHighestDepth(), initObj) );

basically I converted the numbers into their letter equivalent,
starting from a, which gives me something like:
_level0.windowContainer.newWin_abcdef

and now both loadMovie() and MovieClipLoader.loadClip() loads the
image correctly

my question is, why is this happening? isn't a digit a valid
'variable-letter' in flash ?
is this a known issue, or is it just me? am I doing something wrong?
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RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Micky,

if you want to spread the load across time, the best approach is to have 36
.swf files that you load one at a time.
To perform the loading you should use the MovieClipLoader (look it up on
HYPERLINK
"http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.h
tm?href=2538.html"livedocs or just HYPERLINK
"http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=MovieClipLoader&meta="google)
And of course there are many preloaders out there that can speed up the
process as well.

With that you'll be on your way in no time !

HTH !

Alain



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Subject: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to
do this?

Hello,

Here is the scoop: I have 36 movie clips in my library that get placed on
stage via actionscript...

Long story short, I would like to load each clip one at a time, for
example: movie_clip-01 fully loads and animates into position, then
movie_clip-02 loads and animates into position, (...), and finally
movie_clip-36 loads and animates into position. Basically, I want to
break-up the load across time, vs. doing it all at the beginning.

Just wondering if the above idea makes sense? Is it standard to do that type
of loading from the library at runtime, or should I be working with
  36 external swf files?

Anyone seen any tutorials and/or example files on the web that cover this
type of loading?

Any tips/suggestions/links/rtfm's (with page #) ya'll can send my way would
be kick-butt! :)

Sorry if noob question... I am just now getting back into Flash after a
2-year hiatus.

Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Micky

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RE: [Flashcoders] AS2 Flash Remoting Troubles

[Alain Rousseau]

This may be a scoping problem,
As you define your result handling function inside your clic handler. You
could try this :


import mx.utils.Delegate;

// your usual code here


createAccount.click = Delegate.create(this, clickHandler);

function clickHandler() {
var checkUsername_pc:PendingCall =
FlashChat.CheckUsername(username_txt.text);
var checkUsername_res:RelayResponder = new RelayResponder(this,
"CheckUsernameResult", "CheckUsernameFault"); // btw you had twice the same
var name here checkUserName_pc for PendinCall and Responder

}

function CheckUsernameResult(msg) {
trace("--> CheckUsernameResult was " + msg);
}

function CheckUsernameFault(msg) {
trace("--> CheckUsernameFault was " + msg);
}


HTH

A.

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Here is my entire code which I am having issues with:

import mx.remoting.Service;
import mx.remoting.PendingCall;
import mx.rpc.RelayResponder;
import mx.rpc.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.ResultEvent;
import mx.services.Log;

var gatewayServer:String = "devel.yourcfpro.com"; var webServiceLog = new
Log(Log.VERBOSE); var createAccount = new Object();
createAccount_btn.addEventListener("click", createAccount);

CheckSO();
var FlashChat:Service = new Service("http://"; + gatewayServer +
"/flashservices/gateway", webServiceLog, "properties.cfc.flashchat", null,
null);

createAccount.click = function() {
var checkUsername_pc:PendingCall =
FlashChat.CheckUsername(username_txt.text);
var checkUsername_pc:RelayResponder = new RelayResponder(this,
"CheckUsernameResult", "CheckUsernameFault");
function CheckUsernameResult(msg) {
trace("--> CheckUsernameResult was " + msg);
}
function CheckUsernameFault(msg) {
trace("--> CheckUsernameFault was " + msg);
}
}

webServiceLog.onLog = function(txt) {
trace(txt);
}
stop();


Which produces the following in the Debug Window:
11/25 10:2:18 [INFO] : Creating Service for properties.cfc.flashchat
11/25 10:2:18 [INFO] : Creating gateway connection for
http://devel.yourcfpro.com/flashservices/gateway
11/25 10:2:18 [INFO] : Successfully created Service
11/25 10:2:23 [INFO] : Invoking CheckUsername on properties.cfc.flashchat
11/25 10:2:25 [INFO] : properties.cfc.flashchat.CheckUsername() returned
true



Graham Pearson wrote:
> I am working on moving my AS1 Flash Remoting Applications over to AS2 
> and having a devil of a time. The problem that I am running into is 
> that the code within the RelayResponder does not execute to my knowledge.
> Here is an example of what I am doing.
> 
> function onEchoFault(rs:FaultEvent) {
> trace("--> onEchoFault has been executed "); } function 
> onEchoResult(re:ResultEvent) { trace("--> onEchoResult has been 
> executed "); }
> 
> var pc:PendingCall = myService.makeEcho("Hello World!"); pc.responder 
> = new RelayResponder(this, "onEchoResul", "onEchoFault");
> 
> 
> When I run the application in my debugger window I get the following
> 
> 
> 11/25 7:26:11 [INFO] logger1: Creating Service for 
> properties.cfc.HelloWorld
> 11/25 7:26:11 [INFO] logger1: Creating gateway connection for 
> http://devel.yourcfpro.com/flashservices/gateway
> 11/25 7:26:11 [INFO] logger1: Successfully created Service
> 11/25 7:26:13 [INFO] logger1: Invoking makeEcho on 
> properties.cfc.HelloWorld
> 11/25 7:26:15 [INFO] logger1: properties.cfc.HelloWorld.makeEcho()
> returned "Hello Hello World!"
> 
> I do not get the Trace statement on the onEchoResult. What am I doing
wrong.
> 
> 

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Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 Flash Remoting Troubles

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Graham,

Did you check your typos ? we forget sometimes but, this is often the 
first place to look !


pc.responder = new RelayResponder(this, "onEchoResul", "onEchoFault");

you forgot the "t" in "onEchoResult" :)


A.


Graham Pearson wrote:

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I am working on moving my AS1 Flash Remoting Applications over to AS2
and having a devil of a time. The problem that I am running into is that
the code within the RelayResponder does not execute to my knowledge.
Here is an example of what I am doing.

function onEchoFault(rs:FaultEvent) {
trace("--> onEchoFault has been executed ");
}
function onEchoResult(re:ResultEvent) {
trace("--> onEchoResult has been executed ");
}

var pc:PendingCall = myService.makeEcho("Hello World!");
pc.responder = new RelayResponder(this, "onEchoResul", "onEchoFault");


When I run the application in my debugger window I get the following


11/25 7:26:11 [INFO] logger1: Creating Service for properties.cfc.HelloWorld
11/25 7:26:11 [INFO] logger1: Creating gateway connection for
http://devel.yourcfpro.com/flashservices/gateway
11/25 7:26:11 [INFO] logger1: Successfully created Service
11/25 7:26:13 [INFO] logger1: Invoking makeEcho on properties.cfc.HelloWorld
11/25 7:26:15 [INFO] logger1: properties.cfc.HelloWorld.makeEcho()
returned "Hello Hello World!"

I do not get the Trace statement on the onEchoResult. What am I doing wrong.


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RE: [Flashcoders] MP3 sound cutting out

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Paul,

Does your screen length (time) affect the sound or is it the sound that
determines the length of a screen ? Firsthand, it sounds like a synch
problem to me. Is there any other places where you call stopAllSounds() or
playSound() ? This might as well affect the cut off.

HTH

A.

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Subject: [Flashcoders] MP3 sound cutting out

Hi,

I've got a template-based e-learning application which plays a dynamic
mp3 voiceover file (typically around 200k in size) once a screen has loaded.


The problem I've got is that on a few screens, the audio more often than not
cuts off before it has finished - in a random place each time. Other screens
that are fine have exactly the same type of MP3 compression, and swapping in
the MP3 file from a screen that does work doesn't solve the problem. I've
noticed the problem is much worse in Player 9, doesn't happen as much in
Player 7, and even less if I simply run the .swf outside the browser.
Anybody got any ideas? It's driving me nuts!

The sound code is simply:

private static function playSound(soundToPlay):Void {
// stop any currently playing sound 
stopAllSounds();

var mySound = new Sound();
mySound.onLoad = function(success:Boolean)
{
if (success) 
{
mySound.start();
} else {
trace("Sound failed");
}
};

mySound.loadSound(soundToPlay, true);
}


Thanks for any help,
 
Paul Coupe
Lead Developer
  
LINE Communications
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RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting a click on an html link in a text field

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Mark,

You should look into asfunction 
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhel
p.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=1719.html

It lets you call AS functions through links in a html textlike this : 


HTH

A.

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Detecting a click on an html link in a text field

Hi List,

If you have an href link within an html text field in Flash, is there any
way of detecting when the user clicks on it?

Not being a standard button, you obviously can't do:

on (press) {   
doStuff();
}


But is there another way?

Cheers.

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RE: [Flashcoders] Q;Convert hex values to ra,rb,ga,gb,ba,bb,aa,ab??

[Alain Rousseau]

Jim,

Here's a utility Class I made to tint any MovieClip using the ColorTransform
object.

Use it and modify it as you wish :)

HTH !

A


class ca.daroost.utils.Tint {
//

/***
**
*
*  Constructor : Tint
*


*/
//
function Tint() {
}
//

/***
**
*
*  Method : tintMC
*   
*  Changes the tint of the targetMC
*
*   @param : targetMC - the MovieClip to apply the tint
to
*color - the new color to be applied
*alpha - the new alpha to be applied
*


*/
//
public static function tintMC(targetMC:MovieClip, color:Number,
alpha:Number) {
alpha = (alpha == undefined) ? 100 : alpha;
var tintTransform:Object = new Object();
var newColor:Color = new Color(targetMC);
var r = color >> 16 & 0xff;
var g = color >> 8 & 0xFF;
var b = color & 0xFF;
var pRed:Number = Math.round(r/255*100);
var pGreen:Number = Math.round(g/255*100);
var pBlue:Number = Math.round(b/255*100);
tintTransform.ra = pRed;
tintTransform.ga = pGreen;
tintTransform.ba = pBlue;
tintTransform.aa = alpha;
tintTransform.rb = 0;
tintTransform.gb = 0;
tintTransform.bb = 0;
tintTransform.ab = 0;
newColor.setTransform(tintTransform);
}
}


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Subject: [Flashcoders] Q;Convert hex values to ra,rb,ga,gb,ba,bb,aa,ab??

Hi
Woking on a color selctor and I need to dynamically convert loaded hex
values to values the ColorTransform class uses (ra,ra,ga,gb,ba,gb,aa,ab)

Does anyone know the forumula to do this?

Mucho gracias para tu ayuda!
Jim Bachalo


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RE: [Flashcoders] Q:associate class with MovieClip using composition and WITHOUT attachmovie

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It's been discussed in here before,

You should look up that thread :
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2003-May/075855.html

Or search through Muzak's search page for this list :
http://www.muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/


HTH !

A

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and WITHOUT attachmovie

Hi
Normally if I want to associate  a MovieClip with a class using composition
I simply use attachMovie and cast the returned instance to the class I want
to use.

If you can't use attachMovie (ie the Movieclip already exists on the stage
for example)

is it still possible to use comoposition to link the Class to the mc?

just wondering...

Jim Bachalo

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RE: [Flashcoders] Preloader not working with singleton

[Alain Rousseau]

You have instances in the library that Loads in first frame, So they load
before frame 0, plus you use attachMovie to load your preloader. What
happens is that the preloader and all assets that are set to export in first
frame load, then the preloader gets attached but all your assets are
allready loaded.

The best approach is to separate the preloader from the content to be
preloaded in two separate swf. And do not use attachMovie for your preloader
instance, just place it on the stage directly.

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Preloader not working with singleton

Hi list...

Dumb throwback question:  my load progress bar isn't working.  I have two
frames, one to monitor the loading of the swf, and when it happens, go to
the next frame to init a singleton, but my load progress bar doesn't show up
until the swf is 100% loaded.  What am I missing here?

Thanks,
- Michael M.

//First frame:
_root.attachMovie("loading", "loading", 1, {_x:574, _y:494}); var l:Number =
new Number(_root.getBytesLoaded()); var t:Number = new
Number(_root.getBytesTotal()); var pct:Number = new Number(0);
_root.onEnterFrame = function():Void  {
l = _root.getBytesLoaded();
pct = Math.round((l/t)*100);
_root.loading.progBar._width = pct;
if (pct == 100) {
delete _root.onEnterFrame;
nextFrame();
}
};
stop();


//Second frame: (inits singleton)
var o:ar = ar.getInstance();
o.init();
stop();

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Re: [Flashcoders] HTML display component for Flash?

[Alain Rousseau]

Wich is the one he is using right now ... ;)


Joseph Balderson wrote:

You might want to check out Deng:
http://osflash.org/deng/
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vipin chandran wrote:

Sorry I can't wait that long. This is an emergency situation for me.

I don't have time to code a parser by myself.

If anybody can share your experience with me, that will be great!!!

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Vipin

On 11/4/06, eka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hello :)

if you wait the end of this year you can use HTML in a SWF with 
apollo :


http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo

More information in this videos :

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143

http://www.mediabox.fr/adobe_max_2006_01.html ( cuePoint about 
apollo at

the
end of the list on the bottom of this link)

EKA+ :)


2006/11/4, vipin chandran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am in search for a flash component which display HTML content.
> I got one, which is Deng. But it takes a lot of time to render my
content.
> I have my content as XHTML.
>
> I am new to this group and I dont have any previous discussion about
this.
>
> Anybody, please help me getting a good component or code library 
which

> does
> this.
>
> Regards,
> Vipin
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RE: [Flashcoders] Q:register a movieclip with a class dynamically

[Alain Rousseau]

It's a trick that you can find at the osflash.org web site. Here is the link
: 
http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2#creating_a_class_instance_based_on_mo
vieclip_without_a_symbol_in_the_library

Used it a few times and it's a charm ! :)

HTH

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bedar
Sent: 30 octobre 2006 12:52
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Q:register a movieclip with a class dynamically

I forget who posted this originally, but here's how to create a class that
extends MovieClip without a symbol in the library.

Then you can use attachMovie to create an instance.

> class net.something.MyButton extends MovieClip {
> public static var symbolName:String 
> ="__Packages.net.something.MyButton";
> private static var symbolLinked=Object.registerClass (symbolName, 
> MyButton);
>
> public function MyButton()
> {
> }
>
> // Other implementation goes here...
> }



On Oct 30, 2006, at 12:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
> Hi
> I have a pretty basic question concerning registering Movieclips that 
> are created dynamically.
>
> //CODE START
> import com.mydomain.util.MyClass;
> var holder=this.createEmptyMovieClip
> ("_mcRef"+_xPos,this.getNextHighestDepth());
> //CODE END
>
> How do I register 'holder' with MyClass?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Jim Bachalo
>
>
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Re: [Flashcoders] CSS question..

[Alain Rousseau]

Also you should use font-size (in px) not size. I'm not sure if 
text-transform works or letter-spacing or margins for that matter. Keep 
you CSS simple and all should be well.


HTH

Alain

grimmwerks wrote:

I'm trying to use a }   



.secondary_button {
font: 18px Eureka-Italic;   
color: #ff;

text-align: right;
margin-bottom: 8px;
}

.body{
font: 21px/25px QuadraatSans-Regular;
color: #ff;
margin-bottom: 8px;
}

.EX_Title{
font: 35px/38px QuadraatHead-Bold;
color: #ff;
margin-bottom: 8px;
}

.EX_Subtitle{
font: 21px/27px QuadraatHead-BoldIta;
color: #ff;
margin-bottom: 16px;
}

.EX_Date{
font: 25px/29px QuadraatHead-Light;
color: #ff;
margin-bottom: 16px;
}

.FV_Section{
font: 25px QuadraatHead-Bold;
size: 25px;
color: #ff;
letter-spacing: 1px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
}

.FV_Time{
font: 30px/25px QuadraatSans-Regular;
color:  #ff;
}

.FV_Year_Duration{
font: 30px/25px QuadraatSans-Regular;
margin-bottom: 16px;
color: #ff;
}

.FV_Location{
font: 20px/23px QuadraatSans-Regular;
margin-bottom: 33px;
color: #ff;
}

.FV_Film_Title{
font: 27px/27px QuadraatHead-Bold;
color: #ff;
}

.FV-ATM_Program_Title{
font: 35px/38px QuadraatHead-Bold;
margin-bottom: 8px;
color: #ff;
}

.FV-ATM_Date{
font: 25px/29px QuadraatHead-Light;
color: #ff;
}

.FV-EFK-DS_Program_Title{
font: 27px/27px QuadraatHead-Bold;
margin-bottom: 8px;
color: #ff;
}

.FV-EFK-DS_Date{
font: 40px/38px QuadraatHead-Bold;
letter-spacing: 1px;
color: #ff;
}

.PP-SE_Weekday{
font: 25px/25px QuadraatHead-Bold;
letter-spacing: 1px;
color: #ff;
}

.PP-SE_Date{
font: 40px/38px QuadraatHead-Bold;
letter-spacing: 1px;
margin-bottom: 16px;
color: #ff;
}

.PP-SE_Program_Title{
font: 27px/27px QuadraatHead-Bold;
margin-bottom: 16px;
color: #ff;
}

.PP-SE_Time{
font: 20px/23px QuadraatSans-Regular;
color: #ff;
}

.PP-SE_Location{
font: 20px/23px QuadraatSans-Regular;
margin-bottom: 16px;
color: #ff;
}
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RE: [Flashcoders] Drag movieclips with interactivity

[Alain Rousseau]

 just found the thread in my mailbox : "draggable mc with buttons in it?"

Look for that in the archives ! :)

A.

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Sent: 25 octobre 2006 15:15
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Drag movieclips with interactivity

Thanks, that's sort of what I figured I'd have to do.
I did search the archives but couldn't find the recent thread.

--- Alain Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The best thing would be to have a drag bar nested inside the movieclip 
> with a code like this :
> 
>  bar.onPress = function() {
>   this._parent.startDrag();
>  };
> 
> And there you go ...
> 
> Otherwise there is still onMouseDown ... But this has been discussed 
> not too long ago ... If you want to search the archives go at the 
> following link :
> http://www.muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/
> 
> HTH
> 
> A.
> 
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> 
> Hello again,
> 
> I'm trying to let the users drag movieclips around the screen, but the 
> movieclips all have nested movies and interactivity so I can't use the 
> old
> 
> mc.onPress
> 
> as it stops all the nested interactivity from working.
> How can I get the movieclip to drag without using mouse events?
> 
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RE: [Flashcoders] Drag movieclips with interactivity

[Alain Rousseau]

The best thing would be to have a drag bar nested inside the movieclip with
a code like this :

 bar.onPress = function() {
this._parent.startDrag();
 };

And there you go ...

Otherwise there is still onMouseDown ... But this has been discussed not too
long ago ... If you want to search the archives go at the following link :
http://www.muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/

HTH

A.

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Sent: 25 octobre 2006 14:11
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] Drag movieclips with interactivity

Hello again,

I'm trying to let the users drag movieclips around the screen, but the
movieclips all have nested movies and interactivity so I can't use the old

mc.onPress

as it stops all the nested interactivity from working.
How can I get the movieclip to drag without using mouse events?

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RE: [Flashcoders] SCORM multi api wrapper

[Alain Rousseau]

I believe that you can't get any return value that way (not sure, could be
wrong). What you need to do is call a javascript with proxy.call wich then
(the javascript)  calls another function that sends data to flash through
the proxy ...

A better way to do that, if you use Flash 8, is to use ExternalInterface.

I did some E-Learning in the past and we only sent data to the wrapper, the
only time we retrieved anything was on the first load with flashvars

HTH

A.

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To: Flashcoders mailing list; Open Source Flash Mailing List
Subject: [Flashcoders] SCORM multi api wrapper

Guys, sorry for posting on both mailing lists, but I don't know where it
belongs.

 

With the SCORM Version 1.2/2004 Template for Flash , if you do following
: 

 

proxy.call( "apiCall", "getValue", "_DataModelElement_" );

 

how can you access the value

 

proxy.call doesn't return anything, and if you do following : 

 

var value:String = proxy.call( "apiCall", "getValue", "_DataModelElement_"
);

 

 

Mtasc gives an error, because proxy.call has no return value.

 

Lieven Cardoen

 

Ps : I've searched for this on flashforlearning.com, on adobe sit, google,
... and found nothing

 

Lieven Cardoen
Application developer

indiegroup
interactive digital experience
engelse wandeling 2 k18
b8500 kortrijk 

 

 

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Re: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

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Have you looked at Adobe EPS File  language specification ? You can find 
it  here : http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/index_specs.html


*Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) File Format Specification Version 3.0* 
#5002 


You should be able to do something with that ...


HTH



Eric Lee wrote:

Howdy list,

I'm looking for a way to export vector data from flash to some sort of a
format that Illustrator can use-svg, ai, eps, etc. Does anyone know how to
do this?

 


Thanks!

-eric

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RE: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

[Alain Rousseau]

Speaking of wich, just found it in my inbox ... Here is a link :

http://flash-creations.com/notes/dynamic_drawingapi.php#cutoutmask 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain
Rousseau
Sent: 20 octobre 2006 11:49
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

This has been talked about in the Archives I believe ... You could search it
, but I remember that to be able to create a ring using the drawing API, you
first need to draw the outer circle clockwise and then draw your innercircle
counter-clockwise all that inside  beginFill and endFill.

That's what I remember, but I might be wrong somewhere ... Look it up in the
Archives (this or last year), it was a post by Helen Triolo if I remember
right.

HTH

Alain

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Sent: 20 octobre 2006 10:56
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

check out www.mediaverk.lv/asd it might give you just what you need


2006/10/20, Guntur N. Sarwohadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello David,
>
> You can use flash drawing API. You might use just 2 drawing methods:
>
> moveTo(x,y) moves a pointer from where you want to start drawing from
>
> and
>
> curveTo(cpx, cpy, x, y) draws a curve with cpx is the location of the 
> curve control point by x, cpx is the curve control point by y, and x & 
> y is the final point / destination to draw
>
> you might as well define the line style using lineStyle or filling it 
> with a color using beginFill and then endFill.
>
> it's all in the help / manual located at the IDE..
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Guntur N. Sarwohadi
>
> On 10/20/06, David Cake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > New to the list, new to Flash/flex, experienced java/C/web 
> > etc coder. Please excuse me if my question is in a FAQ that I should 
> > have read somewhere (and feel free to direct me to such resources)
> >
> > I want to create a vector ring shape, a circle with an 
> > excised inner circle, in code. I don't want to use tricks like 
> > gradient fills that make it look like a ring - I want sharp borders 
> > (and there are a lot of additional graphic elements that I want to 
> > look like part of the same object within the ring). I haven't been 
> > able to find any examples that create vectors with internal holes to 
> > them.
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RE: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

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This has been talked about in the Archives I believe ... You could search it
, but I remember that to be able to create a ring using the drawing API, you
first need to draw the outer circle clockwise and then draw your innercircle
counter-clockwise all that inside  beginFill and endFill.

That's what I remember, but I might be wrong somewhere ... Look it up in the
Archives (this or last year), it was a post by Helen Triolo if I remember
right.

HTH

Alain

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Sent: 20 octobre 2006 10:56
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

check out www.mediaverk.lv/asd it might give you just what you need


2006/10/20, Guntur N. Sarwohadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello David,
>
> You can use flash drawing API. You might use just 2 drawing methods:
>
> moveTo(x,y) moves a pointer from where you want to start drawing from
>
> and
>
> curveTo(cpx, cpy, x, y) draws a curve with cpx is the location of the 
> curve control point by x, cpx is the curve control point by y, and x & 
> y is the final point / destination to draw
>
> you might as well define the line style using lineStyle or filling it 
> with a color using beginFill and then endFill.
>
> it's all in the help / manual located at the IDE..
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> Hope this helps,
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> > look like part of the same object within the ring). I haven't been 
> > able to find any examples that create vectors with internal holes to 
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RE: [Flashcoders] >> Event Listener and Levvels

[Alain Rousseau]

Lol,

Got a record from them ... "Message to Love" if I remember right ;) a gift
... So don't get any funny ideas ... 

-Original Message-
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Jason
Sent: 19 octobre 2006 11:58
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] >> Event Listener and Levvels

You're loading components into levels (_level40 in your example) ?  Hmm,
sounds a little troublesome in the first place IMO. level42 was also an 80s
Brit pop group by the way so steer clear of that one.

Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions 
 
 
 
 
 

>>-Original Message-
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>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent CUCHET
>>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:30 AM
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>>Subject: [Flashcoders] >> Event Listener and Levvels
>>
>>I create a listener at level0
>>How can I do to apply the action with another level component ?
>>
>>var comb_fill:Object = new Object();
>>comb_fill.change = function(evt2:Object) {
>> //action
>>};
>>my_cb.addEventListener("change", comb_fill); 
>>_level40.mycb1.addEventListener("change", comb_fill);// doesnt work
>>
>>Thank you very much
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RE: [Flashcoders] >> Event Listener and Levvels

[Alain Rousseau]

You have the answer in your question ! ;)

 "I create a listener at level0"

If you know the level of your listener, then you should use it to reference
it in your function calls.
But all that depends on how your projects is built. Is your code on _level0?
is it loaded in another swf ? Etc ...

So to return to the question,

You should try this :
_level40.my_cb1.addEventListener("change",_level0.comb_fill);  
(or use this.comb_fill instead of _level0.comb_fill)
So you are sure to send to right reference of your listener to the other
combo_box in the right scope ... 

Haven't tried it but I believe this should work !


Bonne chance !

Alain



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CUCHET
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I create a listener at level0
How can I do to apply the action with another level component ?

var comb_fill:Object = new Object();
comb_fill.change = function(evt2:Object) {
 //action
};
my_cb.addEventListener("change", comb_fill);
_level40.mycb1.addEventListener("change", comb_fill);// doesnt work

Thank you very much
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RE: [Flashcoders] LoadVars to XML object

[Alain Rousseau]

 
If you do a sendAndLoad allready, you should try to define your xml in the
onData event of the LoadVars.

import mx.utils.Delegate;

var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;

lv.onData = Delegate.create(this, parseData); // onData returns the source
of the file as a string so the parameters are passed without the need of
arguments

lv.sendAndLoad( ... ); // Do your stuff here


function parseData(src:String):Void {
xml.parseXML(src);
// or this should work as well
// var newXML:XML = new XML(src);
}


HTH

Alain
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars to XML object

Is there a way to do this without specifying a URL in sendAndLoad? or
without actaully sending it out anywhere? I have a php page which in an
initial load vars sendAndLoad is sending back xml. SInce Flash see's it as a
string I just want to convert it to an xml object without sending it out
anywhere again.
Thanks!

On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Cedric Muller wrote:

> var xml:XML = new XML();
> xml.ignoreWhite  = true;
> xml.onLoad = function () {
>   trace(this);
> }
> var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
> lv.sendParam1 = "bla";
> lv.sendParam2 = "blo";
> lv.sendAndLoad(url, xml, "POST");
>
> hth,
> cedric
>
>> Hello All,
>> I am trying to convert the return string of a loadvars to an XML 
>> object. Does anyone know a simple way of doing this?
>> Thanks!
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RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Passing SWF parameters with MovieClipLoader?

[Alain Rousseau]

Oh sorry for misunderstanding,

To answer you question, I don't know if it is a garanteed behavior but if it
works, that could be the case, because flashvars are set before the swf
actually loads in your page. That onLoadComplete behaves in a similar way
seems plausible.

Further testing is required to say if it's a solid assumption. But if it
works, use it ! :)

Alain

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Sent: 17 octobre 2006 12:08
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Passing SWF parameters with MovieClipLoader?

I may not have been clear - I understand that if you actually want to _use_
the new clip, you need to wait for onLoadInit.

What I was trying to do is set parameters on the new clip _before_ it gets
loaded, similar to setting flashvars in HTML, or setting properties on an
empty clip before calling MovieClip.loadMovie().   And what I found is that
you can do this by setting those parameters in response to onLoadComplete.

-John

On 10/16/06, Alain Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yup, Tested and True,
>
> it's definitely onLoadInit that does the trick, because it is fired 
> when the first frame of your loaded SWF is played.
> onLoadComplete only tells you that the SWF bytes have completed 
> loading before it actually begins playing.
>
> the rest of the onLoad... events for the MovieClipLoader seem to be 
> there only for the purpose of load progress monitoring. Of course you 
> can put them at any use you see fit but basically that is waht they do.
>
> onLoadInit tells you that your SWF is ready for manipulation.
>
> HTH
>
> Alain
>
> John Harding wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a project where I'd like to use MovieClipLoader to load an 
> > external SWF, so that I can be notified when the load is complete.  
> > However, it appears that MovieClipLoader.loadClip() does not allow 
> > one to pass parameters (i.e. flashVars) to the SWF like 
> > MovieClip.loadMovie() does.
> >
> > As an experiment, I tried setting my SWF parameters in response to 
> > onLoadComplete(), and it appears to work - onLoadComplete is called 
> > before the loaded SWF initializes, and the parameters set in 
> > onLoadComplete() are set on the root clip of the loaded SWF.
> >
> > So my question is, does anyone know if this is guaranteed behavior?  
> > The Macromedia docs all seem to indicate that onLoadComplete() is 
> > completely useless and one should use onLoadInit() (and yes, I'm 
> > still using onLoadInit for everything other than the SWF 
> > parameters).
> >
> > Thanks!
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Passing SWF parameters with MovieClipLoader?

[Alain Rousseau]

Yup, Tested and True,

it's definitely onLoadInit that does the trick, because it is fired when 
the first frame of your loaded SWF is played.
onLoadComplete only tells you that the SWF bytes have completed loading 
before it actually begins playing.


the rest of the onLoad... events for the MovieClipLoader seem to be 
there only for the purpose of load progress monitoring. Of course you 
can put them at any use you see fit but basically that is waht they do.


onLoadInit tells you that your SWF is ready for manipulation.

HTH

Alain

John Harding wrote:


Hello all,

I have a project where I'd like to use MovieClipLoader to load an 
external

SWF, so that I can be notified when the load is complete.  However, it
appears that MovieClipLoader.loadClip() does not allow one to pass
parameters (i.e. flashVars) to the SWF like MovieClip.loadMovie() does.

As an experiment, I tried setting my SWF parameters in response to
onLoadComplete(), and it appears to work - onLoadComplete is called 
before
the loaded SWF initializes, and the parameters set in onLoadComplete() 
are

set on the root clip of the loaded SWF.

So my question is, does anyone know if this is guaranteed behavior?  The
Macromedia docs all seem to indicate that onLoadComplete() is completely
useless and one should use onLoadInit() (and yes, I'm still using 
onLoadInit

for everything other than the SWF parameters).

Thanks!
-John
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RE: [Flashcoders] ppt to flash

[Alain Rousseau]

 I believe you can keep your transitions effects and animations with Impress
(OpenOffice's PowerPoint editor)
But the output is not that great looking if I remember right. I was in a
e-learning company before my current job and we were looking for something
to replace the Breeze plugin for PowerPoint. I've stumbled upon OpenOffice
in my searches and tested it a little, It did the job, even added some
navigation buttons to switch between slides. I don't remember if you could
customize the look easily or if the slides were in separate swf files.

In the end the company went for writing their own PowerPoint Plug-in in C#
but I didn't see the end of it because I left before it was completed.

Alain

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Sent: 16 octobre 2006 16:38
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] ppt to flash

There are commercial pieces of software that will do it (we use one here at
work as part of our product), and I believe they all use VBScript to
interact with Powerpoint.  However, from what I've heard the next version of
Powerpoint will not have the VBScript support anymore (I guess MS
specifically says it shouldn't be used for things like this, so they're
killing it), so I'm not sure how good of a long-term solution that would be.

What parts of the PPT stuff are you trying to convert?  If you want
animations and sound and such then it would be pretty difficult, but if all
you want are the images then you could just use PPT to save the slides out
as images (just pick the JPG format in the "Save As..."
dialog) and then have flash use those images for the slides.  You'd have to
manually write the Flash code to handle the switching of slides and such,
but it's an easy way to get all the images you need.

   -Andy

On 10/16/06, Alain Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You should try OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org,
>
> It's similar to Windows Office, but open source and you have an 
> application that reads PowerPoints. With it you can convert your
PowerPoints to swf.
> Otherwise you could try and do it with a C# app. But for that I can't 
> really help you there.
>
> The only other way to do it with PowerPoint is either with Adobe 
> Breeze or other similar softwares.
>
> HTH
>
> Alain
>
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> Valério Guimarães
> Sent: 16 octobre 2006 16:07
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> Subject: [Flashcoders] ppt to flash
>
> Hi all,
>
>   I'm trying to convert ppt/pps to flash and I read the topic "SDK for 
> Flash".
>   In that topic the link http://bukoo.sourceforge.net/ was mentioned 
> but it is not working.
>   Does anyone has anything on how to parse a ppt/pps file or creating 
> a swf file?
>
> Regards
>
> Valério
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RE: [Flashcoders] Weird image download problems in IE

[Alain Rousseau]

I've never used the Loader myself, so I can't really help you out with this
error, but it might be an issue with Adobe's ActiveX Add-on ?? If it's only
IE that's affected that's where I would be looking.

Alain 

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Sent: 16 octobre 2006 16:31
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Weird image download problems in IE

Awesome, looks like that works.  Thanks!

Any idea what's causing the problem with the Loader?  Just some bug in Flash
or IE?

   -Andy

On 10/16/06, Alain Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Have you tried using the MovieClipLoader class ?
>
> It has an event very usefull called onLoadError . It gives you the 
> following informations (quote from the livedocs):
>
> "errorCode:String - A string that explains the reason for the failure, 
> either "URLNotFound" or "LoadNeverCompleted".
>
> httpStatus:Number [optional] - (Flash Player 8 only) The HTTP status 
> code returned by the server. For example, a status code of 404 
> indicates that the server has not found anything that matches the 
> requested URI. For more information about HTTP status codes, see 
> sections 10.4 and 10.5 of the HTTP specification at
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt.";
>
>
>
> You should look up the full docs on the matter here :
> http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/2538.html
>
> HTH !
>
>
> Alain
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy 
> Herrman
> Sent: 16 octobre 2006 15:23
> To: Flashcoders
> Subject: [Flashcoders] Weird image download problems in IE
>
> We're running into a really strange problem with image downloads in 
> Flash when running in IE and was wondering if anyone else has seen 
> something like this or has any ideas on what I could do to fix it.
>
> We need to have the Flash movie be able to download arbitrary images 
> from the web and display them.  I also need to be able to tell whether 
> the download worked or not, so I can display an error if it failed or 
> manipulate the image if it loaded.
>
> The problem we're running into is that in IE the loader class will 
> tell us the image failed to load even though it worked fine.  Here's 
> some test code we used to test:
>
> ---
> import mx.controls.Alert
>
> this.createClassObject(mx.controls.Loader, "my_ldr", 10);
>
> var poLoaderListener = new Object();
> poLoaderListener.oScope = this;
>
> poLoaderListener.complete = function(oEvent) 
> {mx.controls.Alert.show(oEvent.total); };
>
> poLoaderListener.progress = function() {};
>
> my_ldr.addEventListener('complete', poLoaderListener); 
> my_ldr.addEventListener('progress', poLoaderListener);
>
> my_ldr.load(IMAGE_URL);
> ---
>
> When running this in Firefox it works fine, and the alert box gives us 
> the right value.  However, in IE when trying this the alert box pops 
> up with a -1, telling us the download failed.  However, the image still
shows up.
>
> The only thing I've been able to figure out is that the speed of the 
> download has something to do with it.  In the actual product we're 
> downloading the images through a server that acts as a sort of proxy 
> which caches the images.  The first time we hit it the proxy has to 
> download the source image before returning it to the client.  This is 
> when we see the problem.  Later attempts seem to work fine as the 
> download happens faster (the server cached the image so it doesn't have to
redownload it).
>
> To simplify the test I took the proxy out of the loop and threw a 
> bandwidth limiter on the server that had the image I was testing.
> When throttling it back to act like a 56k modem I could reproduce the 
> error in IE.  It still worked fine (just really slow) in Firefox.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?  It's causing serious problems, as we 
> need to be able to tell if the image downloaded successfully or not.
> Any ideas of ways to get around this or fix it?  Note that we have to 
> support Flash 7+.
>
> Thanks!
>
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RE: [Flashcoders] ppt to flash

[Alain Rousseau]

You should try OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org, 

It's similar to Windows Office, but open source and you have an application
that reads PowerPoints. With it you can convert your PowerPoints to swf.
Otherwise you could try and do it with a C# app. But for that I can't really
help you there.

The only other way to do it with PowerPoint is either with Adobe Breeze or
other similar softwares.

HTH

Alain

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Subject: [Flashcoders] ppt to flash

Hi all,

  I'm trying to convert ppt/pps to flash and I read the topic "SDK for
Flash".
  In that topic the link http://bukoo.sourceforge.net/ was mentioned but it
is not working.
  Does anyone has anything on how to parse a ppt/pps file or creating a swf
file?

Regards

Valério
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RE: [Flashcoders] Weird image download problems in IE

[Alain Rousseau]

 Have you tried using the MovieClipLoader class ? 

It has an event very usefull called onLoadError . It gives you the following
informations (quote from the livedocs):

"errorCode:String - A string that explains the reason for the failure,
either "URLNotFound" or "LoadNeverCompleted".

httpStatus:Number [optional] - (Flash Player 8 only) The HTTP status code
returned by the server. For example, a status code of 404 indicates that the
server has not found anything that matches the requested URI. For more
information about HTTP status codes, see sections 10.4 and 10.5 of the HTTP
specification at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt.";



You should look up the full docs on the matter here :
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/2538.html

HTH !


Alain

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Sent: 16 octobre 2006 15:23
To: Flashcoders
Subject: [Flashcoders] Weird image download problems in IE

We're running into a really strange problem with image downloads in Flash
when running in IE and was wondering if anyone else has seen something like
this or has any ideas on what I could do to fix it.

We need to have the Flash movie be able to download arbitrary images from
the web and display them.  I also need to be able to tell whether the
download worked or not, so I can display an error if it failed or manipulate
the image if it loaded.

The problem we're running into is that in IE the loader class will tell us
the image failed to load even though it worked fine.  Here's some test code
we used to test:

---
import mx.controls.Alert

this.createClassObject(mx.controls.Loader, "my_ldr", 10);

var poLoaderListener = new Object();
poLoaderListener.oScope = this;

poLoaderListener.complete = function(oEvent)
{mx.controls.Alert.show(oEvent.total); };

poLoaderListener.progress = function() {};

my_ldr.addEventListener('complete', poLoaderListener);
my_ldr.addEventListener('progress', poLoaderListener);

my_ldr.load(IMAGE_URL);
---

When running this in Firefox it works fine, and the alert box gives us the
right value.  However, in IE when trying this the alert box pops up with a
-1, telling us the download failed.  However, the image still shows up.

The only thing I've been able to figure out is that the speed of the
download has something to do with it.  In the actual product we're
downloading the images through a server that acts as a sort of proxy which
caches the images.  The first time we hit it the proxy has to download the
source image before returning it to the client.  This is when we see the
problem.  Later attempts seem to work fine as the download happens faster
(the server cached the image so it doesn't have to redownload it).

To simplify the test I took the proxy out of the loop and threw a bandwidth
limiter on the server that had the image I was testing.
When throttling it back to act like a 56k modem I could reproduce the error
in IE.  It still worked fine (just really slow) in Firefox.

Has anyone seen this before?  It's causing serious problems, as we need to
be able to tell if the image downloaded successfully or not.
Any ideas of ways to get around this or fix it?  Note that we have to
support Flash 7+.

Thanks!

   -Andy
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Classes and Preloading ...

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Stephen,

The best way to use a preloader is to put it in a different swf movie 
that loads the one you wish to preload, that way you'll be sure it will 
load correctly.



HTH

A.


Stephen Ford wrote:


I'm using AS2 classes in my flash movie.

I have created a class called Preloader.

How can I load this class without loading all other classes.

The problem is that when testing my movie, nothing appears onscreen until about 
30% of the total movie has loaded (because by default flash loads all classes 
before anything else).

You can select what frame of a movie to load your classes on, but what if you 
want to load all classes (except one class - in this case the Preloaded class) 
later than the first frame ??? so that your preloader is working straight away 
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RE: [Flashcoders] Scripted Angled Motion

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Kevin,

It's quite simple actually. If you know the angle (it need to be in radians)
all you need after that is the speed of motion. To know the movement in the
x axis it's the cosine of the angle, for the y axis, it's the sine of the
angle so you will have the following :

mc._x = Math.cos(angle)*speed;
mc._y = Math.sin(angle)*speed;


And here is a quick example for that :

import mx.utils.Delegate;

var object:MovieClip = this.object;
var angle:Number = 45;
var DEGtoRAD:Number = Math.PI/180;
angle *= DEGtoRAD;
var speed:Number = 5;
object.onEnterFrame = Delegate.create(this, moveObject);

function moveObject():Void {
object._x += speed*Math.cos(angle);
object._y += speed*Math.sin(angle);
var leftBorder:Number = object._x-object._width;
var rightBorder:Number = object._x+object._width;

var topBorder:Number = object._y-object._height;
var bottomBorder:Number = object._y+object._height;

var initY:Number = -object._height;
var initX:Number = -object._width;
if (leftBorder >= Stage.width) {
object._x = initX ;
} else if (rightBorder <= initX) {
object._x = Stage.width + object._width;
} else if (bottomBorder <= initY ){
object._y = Stage.height + object._height;
} else if (topBorder >= Stage.height) {
object._y = initY;
}
}


In this code you can use Degree angles and then convert them to radians.
This will give you some kind of asteroids game type of motion.

HTH


Alain
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From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 12 octobre 2006 14:43
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: [Flashcoders] Scripted Angled Motion

Hey all,

 

I'm trying to do something, but the mathematics of it are messing with my
head.

 

I've got a clip that I want to move in a specific direction (angle) without
giving an end target. When the clip is offstage, I'll simply reset it and
trigger it again accordingly. 

 

I don't need for it to ease or anything fancy, just move on a designated
angle.

 

Thanks,

 

!k

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RE: [Flashcoders] IE doesn't seem to want to recognize FlashVars

[Alain Rousseau]

 It seems to work when I pass the Flashvars directly to the swf :
http://www.iconicweb.com/home3.swf?page=Portfolio&subPage=toyotaEPNS
But not through the html page. 

I believe that your problem is in the Javascript. You should try and debug
that first do some alerts in your scripts to check your variables, etc ...


HTH

A.

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Subject: [Flashcoders] IE doesn't seem to want to recognize FlashVars

Ok I have a page that redirects based on FlashVars and for some reason every
browser expect IE seems to work. I have tried using flashobject, passing the
variables in the querystring and referencing _root variable. I am at my wits
end with this.

If anyone could take a look at it in IE and Firefox and possibly have some
explanation I would be thankful.

Here is the link:
http://www.iconicweb.com/indextest.html?page=Portfolio&subPage=toyotaEPNS
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RE: [Flashcoders] Simplified Chinese

[Alain Rousseau]

 
Personnaly I havent tried putting the text in an external .as file, if you
can get the chinese characters in there maybe it'll work. On a windows
system you can use Arial Unicode MS, on a Mac here is a link where you can
see what fonts you'll need :
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_macosx.html#simplified 

You do need to have the Chinese language installed and activated on your
system for this to work (Mac and Win). Otherwise you won't see the font.

HTH

A.


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From: Eric E. Dolecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Simplified Chinese

Is it possible to put the simplified chinese into an external .as file with
UTF-8 encoding (say, setting string variables) and using that? And what
would a good unicode font for simplified chinese actually be? Hoping that I
don't need to change my OS settings to pull any of this off.

- e.


On Oct 10, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Alain Rousseau wrote:

> For me it works well if I don't try to use animations to display the 
> text and no embeded fonts.
> What you need is a unicode font selected in your TextField and a 
> unicode text data, wheter it is an xml file, a text file or a 
> database.
>
> Otherwise you'll need to go through hoops jumping and live with a huge 
> filesize
>
> A.
>
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> Subject: [Flashcoders] Simplified Chinese
>
> I've been digging around the net and the archives and have only found 
> that its basically impossible to get Simplified Chinese to display 
> well in a SWF.
> Has anyone come up with a solution (that wasn't composed of hoop 
> jumping
> galore) to this problem yet?
>
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RE: [Flashcoders] Simplified Chinese

[Alain Rousseau]

For me it works well if I don't try to use animations to display the text
and no embeded fonts.
What you need is a unicode font selected in your TextField and a unicode
text data, wheter it is an xml file, a text file or a database.

Otherwise you'll need to go through hoops jumping and live with a huge
filesize

A. 

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Sent: 10 octobre 2006 11:42
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] Simplified Chinese

I've been digging around the net and the archives and have only found that
its basically impossible to get Simplified Chinese to display well in a SWF.
Has anyone come up with a solution (that wasn't composed of hoop jumping
galore) to this problem yet?

- e.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Movieclip event hook back to class instance?

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Dan,

I think that what you'll have to do is create your own event and dispatch it
using the EventDispatcher Class.

First you'll need to initialize your "outro" mc with event dispatcher

// in mc timeline's first frame
import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
var addEventListener:Function;
var removeEventListener:Function;
var dispatchEvent:Function;

EventDispatcher.initialize(this);

// further in the mc on chosen frame
this.dispatchEvent( {target:this, type:"onFrameLabel", label:"endOutro"});


Now all you need is a listener object for that event in your code :

import mx.utils.Delegate; // or whatever Delegate class you use - Proxy or
dynamicflash's Delegate
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.onFrameLabel = Delegate.create(this, myActions);

outroMC.addEventListener("onFrameLabel", listener);

function myActions(evtObj:Object) {
trace(evtObj.target+" Dispatched event "+evtObj.type+" at frame
label "+evtObj.label);
// do whatever you want here 
if (evtObj.label == "endOutro") {
trace("end of outro");
}
}


If you don't want to use the timeline you could use setInterval (or
setTimeout if you use Flash 8) to delay the event dispatching to a certain
amount of time.


HTH

Alain

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Sent: 6 octobre 2006 08:20
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] Movieclip event hook back to class instance?

Hi all!

I have a (hopefully not too ignorant) question relating to movieclips
created on the fly.
Basically, I have a preloader class that is generic and reusable.  
It's called from whatever object that does dynamic loading of content and
then in turn invokes a movieclip from a passed symbol name(can be anything,
as long as a basic movieclip structure is followed). It all works great.

However, when the loading is done I want the dynamically created mc to play
an "outro" animation that is preanimated in the movieclip (as opposed to
animated via AS, that would be easy ;) ). My problem is finding a way for
the preloader class instance to tell when the movieclip reaches a certain
frame or frame label (and is done with the outro). I can't find a suitable
event to hook into? I guess I was looking for something like
"mc.onframelabel" to hook a function to, I guess that was naive. :)

Can I in some way create a hook myself, or do I have to create a watcher
object that checks each frame where the playhead is in my dynamic loader
movieclip? Would certainly work, but it's not very elegant. My goal is to
keep the preloader movieclip code-free.

Anyway, I hope I managed to describe the problem. Apologies for any
ignorance and any terms/keywords used out of context. I'm pretty new to more
advanced actionscript, but have many moons of general coding experience. :)

Many thanks in advance,
Dan
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RE: [Flashcoders] Using XRay

[Alain Rousseau]

Try this link, 

It has everything you need to know about XRay, including where to download !

Enjoy !

http://www.osflash.org/xray

A

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Using XRay

I've seen lots of people posting about XRay lately, but I haven't had luck
with it, yet.

I do have the executable running, but I don't have the Connector to the
Flash IDE. Can anyone post a link to download that? I have not been able to
find it!

: : ) Scott
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RE: [Flashcoders] movieclip._y = textField._height

[Alain Rousseau]

Instead of using textField._height, you should use textField.textHeight.
This is more reliable than the _height property

A

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Sent: 28 septembre 2006 09:33
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] movieclip._y = textField._height

How about this?

var test:Number = Math.round(parseFloat(textField._height));
movieClip._y = test;

;)


strange, works for me obviously,...


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lieven
Cardoen
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:24 PM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] movieclip._y = textField._height

Instead of going to y-coordinate 60, it goes to ZERO.

Even if I like do this : 

Var test:Number = textField._height;
movieClip._y = test;

Still the same shit. Incredible.

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Sent: donderdag 28 september 2006 15:13
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well, what DOES it do?

On 9/28/06, Lieven Cardoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Really strange bug :
>
>
>
> If I put movieclip._y = 60 , it works fine
>
>
>
> If I put movieclip._y = textField._height , it doesn't work fine
>
>
>
> Lieven
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RE: [Flashcoders] ::dk:: issues with external data and external swf

[Alain Rousseau]

This may be a scope issue. 

Do you make use _root to reference the lower level of your loaded swf ? 
And are you loading the swf in a movieclip or a Level ? 

Either way _root will reference back to _level0 wich isn't the same scope as
your loaded swf. 
Try replacing "_root" with "this" or a relative path to the movieClip or
textfield you want to target (ex : this._parent.myTextField).

HTH
Alain

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To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] ::dk:: issues with external data and external swf

Bjorn Schultheiss wrote:
>  
> What error is it throwing?
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Bjorn Schultheiss
> Senior Flash Developer
> QDC Technologies
> 
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dnk
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 September 2006 1:53 PM
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> external swf
> 
> Bjorn Schultheiss wrote:
>> Dk,
>>
>> Is your swf loaded from within the same domain?
>> Are the required remoting classes compiled into your swf?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>  
>> Bjorn Schultheiss
>> Senior Flash Developer
>> QDC Technologies
>>

No errors!

Just missing data. Like I said the data is making it into Flash (as
determined with "service capture"), but just not displaying. It displays 
 fine when not loaded into another movie.

d

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Re: [Flashcoders] Associate clip with class

[Alain Rousseau]

There is an interesting article on the subject in the Flashcoder's Wiki 
at osflash.org : 
http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2#creating_a_class_instance_based_on_movieclip_without_a_symbol_in_the_library


With this approach you can create a class that extends MovieClip and 
then create an instance of that class without a symbol in the library. I 
found it very useful and really neat ! works like a charm !



Alain

Geoff Stearns wrote:


it does work in flash 8.

as for clips on the stage, it does work, you just have to give the  
clip a linkage ID in the library first, and use that linkage to  
register the class to it.



On Sep 19, 2006, at 5:31 PM, slangeberg wrote:

Does Object.registerClass() work in Flash 8 (i haven't been able to  
get it
to work)?  Also, does that allow you to register more than one clip  
with a

class?

The documentation seems to point to using the Linkage setting for AS2:

*> Availability: *ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6 - If you are using
ActionScript 2.0 classes, you can use the ActionScript 2.0 Class  
field in

the Linkage Properties or Symbol Properties dialog box to associate an
object with a class instead of using this method.


Also, I don't think it works for clips that you've dragged to the  
stage:


When an instance of the specified movie clip symbol is created by  
using


MovieClip.attachMovie() or MovieClip.duplicateMovieClip(), it is  
registered

to the class specified by theClass

Scott


On 9/19/06, Geoff Stearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



that article was only meant for assigning a class to your _root
timeline... I don't think he intended it to be used for other
movieclips in the library or on stage.

for that you could just use the linkage in the library or use
Object.registerClass()





On Sep 19, 2006, at 4:29 PM, slangeberg wrote:

> I was looking at Danny's article regarding a Flash Document  Class 
at:

>
> http://www.dannypatterson.com/Resources/Blog/EntryDetail.cfm?id=106
>
> And i started to wonder if people are using this to associate their
> clips on
> stage with a class?
>
> Are people doing this kind of thing (or otherwise) instead of
> setting the AS
> 2.0 class property in the 'linkage' dialog of their movieclips  in 
the

> library?
>
> I just hate how it's not obvious (by linkage) which class is being
> used in
> Flash 8.0. Only gets me more excited for some Flash 9.0 projects to
> come
> through!
>
> : : ) Scott
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Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: Application Framework

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Jeff,

if you want to convert the XML to anative AS object you could try out 
Sephiroth's XML2Object class

http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?pageNum_comments=0&id=129

or the XMLObject class which is similar but with a few more 
functionnalities.

http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=134#

   import it.sephiroth.XML2Object;

   var XML_FILE:String = "http://my.server.com/myapp/xmlfile"; + 
i_id + ".xml";

   var oXML:XML = new XML();
   var ObjFromXML:XML2Object = new XML2Object();
   var myObject:Object = new Object();
   var thisRef = this;
   oXML.ignoreWhite = true;
   oXML.onLoad = function(success) {
   if (success) {
   myObject = ObjFromXML.parseXML(oXML);
   thisRef.accessObject();
   }else{
   //you error code here
   }
   };
   
   oXML.load(XML_FILE);


   function accessObject():Void {
var i:Number = -1;
while (++i < myObject.bgColor.length) {
   trace("bgColor = "+myObject.bgColor[i]); // if you have 
more than one bgColor tag in your XML, the class will convert it to an array

}

   }

This is an example of what you can do with that class. This would save 
you the time of creating your own Object.



HTH

Alain

Jeff Brown wrote:


Thanks Mike!

That looks like something I can tweak.
But, id do still have a question or two.

It seems it might go easier on me if I rdeifine the XML to use just child
nodes instead of attributes.  Does that make sense, or is there an easier
way to get at an attribute of your array then say:

var g_id:Number  = itemAr[i].firstChild.attribute.group.nodeValue;
var bgcolor:String = 
groupAr[g_id].firstChild.attribute.bgcolor.nodeValue;


I mean, I did a little searching on the web and found some XPath
documentation, thanks to Ramon's note, so is there something like.

var g_id:Number = XPathAPI.selectInteger(itemAr[i], "atribute::lang");
var bgcolor:String = XPathAPI.selectString(groupAr[g_id],
"attribute::bgcolor");

Hmm, even my examples, if they exists, seem verbose.  But if it works, 
then

I can get the stuff done I need too.

I guess the ideal would be for me to build some 'tweaked' object so 
that I

could use.

- ideal code ---
var data:Data = new Data("http://my.server.com/myapp/xmlfile"; + i_id +
".xml");

while (Data.items())  // iterator sets internal pointer to internal item
Array
{
 var bgcolor:String = Data.getBgColor(); // for example looks up the 
Group

by the current item's group attribute.
 ...
 // build display stuff
}
 /ideal code ---

If this is just a pipe dream, let me know.  I think something like my 
ideal
code example above would work great, because I won't be building the 
flash

for the application, and my flash designer is a little leary of
actionscripting.  And I knew conceptually that flash could read XML.  
If I

can give her an object like that, then I know she can build what we need.

Thanks

Jeff


On 8/31/06, Mike Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



It's built into Flash 8:

import mx.xpath.XPathAPI;

function getXMLData() {
var myXML:XML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
var groupAr:Array = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(
this.firstChild,
"/data/grouplist/group");
var itemAr:Array = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(
this.firstChild,
"/data/itemList/item");
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Re: [Flashcoders] TextFormat

[Alain Rousseau]

Try to embed it into some textfield on the stage and then trace font
name.
 



How would you do that?  There is no mytextfield.font property. Only
TextFormat.font and TextField (class).getFontList() which shows all the
fonts on the user's system.  


Thanks for your advice,

Jason Merrill
Bank of America 
Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions 







There is the  myTextformat = myTextfield.getTextFormat()  method that 
way you can get the font used in your textfield with myTextformat.font !


hth

Alain
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Re: [Flashcoders] problem about blur

[Alain Rousseau]

http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=dynamically+blur+movieclips+with+flash+8

Gustavo Duenas wrote:

Hi, I have a web site and I'd like to know how to make the different  
external movieclips I have would be blurred  while a button is  
pressed. then,  how to remove the blur of the movie clips once we  
return to the main dialog.

I know you might be busy but I'd appreciate your help

thanks


Gustavo


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Re: [Flashcoders] help

[Alain Rousseau]

You need to have the actual 3D view of the object to do this. You either
take pictures of your object in different angles, or you can film it
rotating or you can make a 3D animation of it rotating. After that, you
create transition animations for each scene you want to create using the
pictures (movie or render) that you created. This part can be done easily
with QuickTime Pro.

HTH

A



From: "Bachman, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:46:08 -0500
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Conversation: [Flashcoders] help
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] help

Thanks for the reply Ron...

Right now I'm just trying to recreate the "3-D Camera" rotation after
you select a different phone to explore. Is this done is some video
software or can it be done with flash?

Any ideas would be very helpful. Thanks.

Richard Bachman
Assistant Art Director | 316.828.6279 | www.kochcreativegroup.com





-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Wheeler
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Bachman, Richard wrote:
> I need help with creating a site somewhat like this
> onehttp://www.samsung.com/se/current/campaign/slim/site/index.htm
>
> I'm trying to figure out the coding involved in this site. Thanks!
>
>   
There could be quite a bit.
I did not try the game but the phone exploration part has a fair amount
of action in it.

There are probably many ways to do this. It is not too complex to handle
as a set of timeline animations but might be easier with some
Actionscript framework to orchestrate the animations.

What are you trying to do? What Flash or Actionscript technologies are
you most comfortable with?
Have you got a design of what you want your application to do? Once you
know all of the states that your user can get into and what they can see
and do in each state, you will have a better guess about how much code
you will need.

Ron

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Re: [Flashcoders] help

[Alain Rousseau]

Well first you need to have a good graphics team with you to do all the 3D
and video and pictures part, next you need to work on your concept, and
finally you do join everything together for a nice site that took about 1
month to build. There isn¹t much coding in that site, mostly animation,
transitions from scene to scene.

Have fun !

A



From: "Bachman, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:11:32 -0500
To: 
Conversation: help
Subject: [Flashcoders] help


I need help with creating a site somewhat like this
onehttp://www.samsung.com/se/current/campaign/slim/site/index.htm

I'm trying to figure out the coding involved in this site. Thanks!

Rich
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Re: [Flashcoders] file reference

[Alain Rousseau]

This was asked not too long ago (last week !)

Search for the following : ³FileReference and Getting File Path² with the
cool new tool that Muzak has provided us
http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/




From: Mayur Bais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:01:16 +0530
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' 
Subject: [Flashcoders] file reference

hello all,
I want to know the path of the file on the local hard drive which is been
browsed by the user.
How can I achieve this ?
flash 8 provides flash.net.FileReference package which we can achieve browse
and upload. 
But I could not find the solution to my problem. Any idea how can I do this
? 

Any work around ? do I need to use any server side scripting for this ..
Please give some suggestion

Thanks in advance 
Mayur


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Re: [Flashcoders] What does this code mean and What are Inspectables ...

[Alain Rousseau]

You might also take a look at Joey Lott's Tutorial on the subject (V2 
Components)

It's for Flash MX 2004 but still applies to Flash 8.

http://www.person13.com/articles/components/creatingcomponents.html
and
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=A06B3C7D7B74030D

Steven Sacks wrote:


They are for AS2 components.

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-38760.html


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Re: [Flashcoders] good OOP way to re-assign class to clip

[Alain Rousseau]

Gregory,

I wasn’t sure, that’s why I proposed 2 ways, but I just checked and neither
will let you redefine the class associated with a movieclip. So I guess it’s
back to square one.
So far you have to create an new instance for the class you want to load
using Object.registerclass and attachMovie. I can’t think of any other way
right now.

I know it’s not what you had in mind, but maybe someone else can think of
something or try something out.

Good luck !

Alain


From: GregoryN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:32:11 +0400
To: Flashcoders mailing list 
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] good OOP way to re-assign class to clip

Alain,

I think you've misunderstood me.

I already have a movie clip on the stage, which was placed by
attachMovie(), and before it was an instance in the library,
assotiated with  MyClass1 .

Then, after some things happen (e.g. user moved this clip), I wand to
assign ANOTHER class to the mentioned clip, so this very clip to
become an instance of MyClass2.

That's why I need to RE-define the class for this clip.
  

-- 
Best regards,
 GregoryN  

http://GOusable.com
Flash components development.
Usability services.

> -- Alain Rousseau wrote:
>
> You should look into this article in the FlashCoders Wiki
> 
> http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2#creating_a_class_instance_based_on_mo
> vieclip_without_a_symbol_in_the_library
> 
> This is if you want to create dynamically a movie clip and then associate a
> class to it.
> If you allready have a moviclip that you want to use, you should look into
> Object.registerClass(³myClipID², MyClass);

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Re: [Flashcoders] good OOP way to re-assign class to clip

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Gregory

You should look into this article in the FlashCoders Wiki


http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2#creating_a_class_instance_based_on_mo
vieclip_without_a_symbol_in_the_library

This is if you want to create dynamically a movie clip and then associate a
class to it.
If you allready have a moviclip that you want to use, you should look into
Object.registerClass(³myClipID², MyClass);

HTH

Alain


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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:44:23 +0400
To: Flashcoders mailing list 
Subject: [Flashcoders] good OOP way to re-assign class to clip

Hello Flashcoders,

I have a clip (myClip_mc) associated with class, which is subclassing
MovieClip
(say, MyClass1).
class MyClass1 extends MovieClip ...

To do this, I entered class name as "AS 2.0 Class" in "Export for
Actionscript" dialog.
All this works OK (of course).

But under some circumstances I'd like this clip to be associated with
ANOTHER class (say, MyClass2).
class MyClass2 extends MovieClip  ...

How do I acomplish this in good OOP style?
Few ways I can imagine right now are:
1) myClip_mc.prototype.__proto__ = MyClass2.prototype;
2) Create an "instantiate()" method in MyClass2 to re-write all
props/methods of the target clip with ones of MyClip2 (similar to
EventDispatcher).

Both "ways" above don't seem good from OOP point of view, though...

Can anyone offer something more elegant?




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Re: [Flashcoders] MTASC and spaces in classpath

[Alain Rousseau]

Escaping spaces is fine in the Terminal, but not in Eclipse using 
Flashout. That's the issue here, how to define the Class Path in Eclipse.
I've read a post about it at 
http://www.pixelmotive.de/blog/archives/2005/06/fame_on_mac.php
Basically what it says is to create a shell script that "catches the 
call to mtasc then echoes the full mtasc command line into a seperate 
shell scripts and returns mtasc's output".


Here is a shell script that works for me, you can save it anywhere and 
give it a name with the .sh extension

make it executable like this

   chmod a+x locmtasc.sh


and here is the shell script itself

   #!/bin/sh
   echo  "#!/bin/sh" > subc.sh
   echo "/usr/local/bin/mtasc $@" >> subc.sh
   chmod a+x subc.sh
   ./subc.sh
   exit $?


note that the shell will create a shell file for you, you don't need to 
create an empty one yourself.

once this is done go in the Eclipse Preferences -> Flashout
in the "Location of mtasc.exe" enter the path to your locmtasc.sh : 
/Users/username/Documents/workspace/locmtasc.sh


and voilà you sould be able to make Flashout work with mtasc

The thing is that Eclipse adds quotes around the Macromedia Class Path, 
but it fails to parse correctly through Flashout. With this shell script 
the problem is solved.


Alain

Chris Allen wrote:


Erixtekila is right. you need to escape those spaces.

A quick way to get your paths written correctly is to open up the
directory that you are targeting in the Finder, then open Terminal. 
Next drag the folder in the Finder into the Terminal window and you

will see how the path should be written there. You can then copy it
from the terminal if you wish.  It might be overkill, but it's nice to
know that you got it right. especially with really long paths.

I hope that helps.

-Chris

On 3/30/06, erixtekila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 


Le 30 mars 06, à 16:26, Sam Thorne a écrit :
   


I'm getting the error "Class not found Support.Macromedia.Flash" when
my classpath is
"/Users/sam/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/Flash
8/en/Configuration/Classes"

Seems Mtasc doesn't like classpaths which have spaces in them on OS X,
it tries to interpret the a directory name (such as Application
Support, where the core classes are) as separate classes.
 


Escape it :
"/Users/sam/Library/Application\ Support/Macromedia/Flash\
8/en/Configuration/Classes"


erixtekila
http://blog.v-i-a.net/

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Re: [Flashcoders] problem with Delegate and scope

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Manuel,

The thing about Delegate is that you can't just call it like that. It is
supposed to be used either with eventHandling "onSomething = " or with
setInterval, setTimeOut. Here is a link that will make you see the light
http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2?s=delegate

So for exemple you could do in your code

ew_netConn.onBWCheck = Delegate.create(this,yourFunction);

Hope this clarifies some things about Delegate.

Alain


On 3/16/06 9:39 AM, "Manuel Saint-Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have not been having much luck with using Delegate lately.  If I
> understand it correctly then it will call a function in the scope of the
> class file that it is defined -right?
> 
> Well In one of my classes within this function I have the delegate being
> used and I'm not sure if it's because of a stupid error or what but the
> delegated function is not firing. As you can see I had to use the old
> viewRef workaround because the other Delegate attempt had also not been
> firing.  If anyone could point out what I'm doing wrong it would help
> immensely because I keep coming up against the same hurdle every time and if
> I'm writing my Delegate wrong and could figure that out it would increase my
> productivity greatly  today.
> 
> public function initNetConnection(){
> viewRef=this;
> netConn=new NetConnection();
> if(adMode=="stream"){
> 
> trace("stream");
> var appURI = "rtmp://...";
> //connection is of type streaming
> ew_netConn.onBWCheck = function(arg) {
> return;
> };
> ew_netConn.onBWDone = function(bw) {
> trace("BWDone");
> EW.bw = bw;
> EW.Video.setBwAndBuf();
> viewRef.setFileUrl();
> 
> 
> //Begin playing the FLV video and audio based on the init
> settings
> if(viewRef._aInit == "host"){
> trace(ObjectDumper.toString(parent));
> Delegate.create(this,audioOn);
> }else{
> 
>  Delegate.create(this, audioOff);
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mani
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[Flashcoders] Flash Programmer Needed - Montreal (QC)

[Alain Rousseau]

Hello FlashCoders,

Isacsoft / Bigknowledge is seeking a Flash Programmer for the creation of a
framework for our new e-learning application. Job will include organizing
and processing data for our pre-built applications; including debugging,
upgrading, and maintaining the code. Applicant should be a team player, be
very well organized and be able to work in a fast paced environment.

Requirements :

- Must have experience with Flash 8 & MX 2004
- Must know how to program using ActionScript 2.0
- Must have a good understanding of OOP
- Be able to work with Classes and Event creation/handling
- Excellent communication & organization skills
- Knowledge of XML

Pluses :

- Experience developing frameworks for Flash
- Knowledge of SCORM and it's integration with Flash/JavaScript
- Experience with the new Flash 8 features


If you are looking to gain solid work experience with Flash, this is the job
for you. If interested, please send all responses to Alain Faucher, Project
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Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData.loadBitmap with on stage MC

[Alain Rousseau]

What you want is to take a snapshot of the MC on the stage right ?
For this you use the draw() Method of the BitmapData :

var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(mc._width, mc._height);
bd.draw(mc);


Alain

Claudia Barnal wrote:


How could I achieve the same as this:

var bd = BitmapData.loadBitmap("myImg");

but loading and image (MC) that is on the stage?

The above works ok for me when I have an Image in the library, but I 
can't find how to achieve the same with a MC that is located on the 
stage.


Thanks

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Re: [Flashcoders] text field halfway round from bottom

[Alain Rousseau]

If you're using Flash 8 you can use the DisplacementMapFilter to do that 
effect. So far you can't write text on a path in Flash, unlile 
Illustrator or other vector based apps.
you can see an example at this french blog: 
http://jeanphiblog.media-box.net/dotclear/index.php?2005/10/29/172-flash-8-displacementmapfilter-texte-incurve


You can get the source of these exemples as well.

Hope this helps

Alain

rishi wrote:


Hi



Is there a way I can make a text field  halfway round from bottom. I
want to make bridge text or bulge text. Please suggest something in
Flash or somewhat alike.



Regards

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Re: [Flashcoders] onLoop event for sound

[Alain Rousseau]

doh ! :)


I don't know what's wrong with my brain these days, it's working in 
strange ways 


of course use onSoundComplete ! I actually had another problem in mind ...

sorry 'bout that !

A

Tobias Fendel [Die ActionScripter] wrote:


hi,

imho a better solution is to use the sound.onSoundComplete event:

mySound.onSoundComplete = function() { loopCount++ }

it is fired next frame after the sound ends. if you start your sound using a
script like mySound.start(0,) it may be your sound restarts (and resets
sound.position) before the next frame events calls your check.


greetings
tobias

ps: sorry about my bad english :)

 


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Of Alain Rousseau

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Hi Mark,

you could monitor the position of the sound comparred to it's 
duration, 
that way you know when it arrives at the end of the sound.


   if (sound.position == sound.duration) {
   loopCount++;
   }

In this case, the loop count will be made at the end of the sound.

HTH

Alain

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Re: [Flashcoders] onLoop event for sound

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Hi Mark,

you could monitor the position of the sound comparred to it's duration, 
that way you know when it arrives at the end of the sound.


   if (sound.position == sound.duration) {
   loopCount++;
   }

In this case, the loop count will be made at the end of the sound.

HTH

Alain

Mark Walters wrote:


Does anyone know of a good way to create an onLoop event that gets
fired everytime a sound loops. I need to keep track of how many loops
are left.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Paul,

it's more a class than an extension, the mxp just installed it for you 
in the correct folder.

It should be in

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application 
Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\Classes\ca\daroost\SoundLoop2.as

If you go inside the Flash IDE and open the HelpPanel, you will see a SoundLoop 
item that you can open and browse for all help concerning the use of the class.
some basic usage is as follow :


   import ca.daroost.SoundLoop2;
   var mySong:SoundLoop2;
   mySong = new SoundLoop2():
   mySong.loadStreams("loop1.mp3",0,75);

and you have your file looping with 75ms removed at the end, which 
usually removes the gap at the end of the mp3 file.

If you have more questions, you  can mail me directly.

Hope this gets you in the right direction.

Alain


Paul Steven wrote:


Thanks Alain

I am not quite sure how to use extensions. It appears to have installed the
"SoundLoop2.as" file in the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration

How do I go about using this class in Flash? Sorry I have never used any
extensions before.

Thanks

Paul

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Rousseau
Sent: 11 November 2005 19:48
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly


Or you can try this little thing I made here, exactly for looping mp3
seamlessly :

http://lab.daroost.ca/source/SoundLoop2.mxp

it's just a Class that I packaged with helpPanel and codehints info. You
got all the info needed to make it work inside.

Hope this helps and works out well


Alain

JesterXL wrote:

 


I know... I have that on some mp3's.  You can try either adjusting the
startTime, OR fading in a completely new soundObject .

- Original Message -
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Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly


Thanks Jester

That now loops:) Only problem is that it is not seamless - there seems to
   


be
 


a slight delay:(

Cheers

Paul

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Sent: 11 November 2005 18:52
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Try:

mySound=new Sound(this); // notice the this
mySound.onSoundComplete = function()
{
  this.start();
};
mySound.loadSound("track1.mp3",true);


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Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly


Thanks Alain

You are right about the typo but even after fixing the typo it still does
not loop.

Is it true that streaming external audio will not loop?

Thanks

Paul

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Paul Steven wrote:



   


I am trying to play a looping external mp3 file but am having no joy as it
only plays once.

I tried this

mySound=new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("track1.mp3",true);
mysound.start(startTime,numloops);

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

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Hi Paul

this is a typo error ... you defined "mySound" but called "mysound.start()"

keep your eyes open ;)


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Re: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly

[Alain Rousseau]

Or you can try this little thing I made here, exactly for looping mp3 
seamlessly :


http://lab.daroost.ca/source/SoundLoop2.mxp

it's just a Class that I packaged with helpPanel and codehints info. You 
got all the info needed to make it work inside.


Hope this helps and works out well


Alain

JesterXL wrote:

I know... I have that on some mp3's.  You can try either adjusting the 
startTime, OR fading in a completely new soundObject .


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Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly


Thanks Jester

That now loops:) Only problem is that it is not seamless - there seems to be
a slight delay:(

Cheers

Paul

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Sent: 11 November 2005 18:52
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Try:

mySound=new Sound(this); // notice the this
mySound.onSoundComplete = function()
{
   this.start();
};
mySound.loadSound("track1.mp3",true);


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Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly


Thanks Alain

You are right about the typo but even after fixing the typo it still does
not loop.

Is it true that streaming external audio will not loop?

Thanks

Paul

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Paul Steven wrote:

 


I am trying to play a looping external mp3 file but am having no joy as it
only plays once.

I tried this

mySound=new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("track1.mp3",true);
mysound.start(startTime,numloops);

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

Paul

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Hi Paul

this is a typo error ... you defined "mySound" but called "mysound.start()"

keep your eyes open ;)


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Re: [Flashcoders] Looping an external mp3 file seamlessly

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Paul Steven wrote:


I am trying to play a looping external mp3 file but am having no joy as it
only plays once.

I tried this

mySound=new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("track1.mp3",true);
mysound.start(startTime,numloops);

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

Paul

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Hi Paul

this is a typo error ... you defined "mySound" but called "mysound.start()"

keep your eyes open ;)


Alain
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Re: [Flashcoders] Help For Custom Components

[Alain Rousseau]

as promised,

here is a link that will tell you exactly what to do and what to download to 
help you create your help files.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/mx2004/extending_help/index.html

It's for Flash MX 2004 but is still valid for Flash 8, so there should be no 
problem. You'll have all you need to create your help files.

Alain



Alain Rousseau wrote:

Documentation about mxi file creation is inside Dreamweaver ... go 
figure ! You should also download Dreamweaver extensions that help you 
build your mxi file, there should be a little help file about how to 
do it. I am now at work, and all my notes on this are at home so this 
is the best I can do right now.


I have sucessfully installed help files for flash before, I'll get 
back at you when I've got all my files at hand.


Alain

eric dolecki wrote:

I get all the jazz about the customactions XML document - but can 
that file

be specified in an MXI file so when you install a component via MXP, it
installs the help as well?

Looking for documentation, not finding any yet.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Help For Custom Components

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Documentation about mxi file creation is inside Dreamweaver ... go 
figure ! You should also download Dreamweaver extensions that help you 
build your mxi file, there should be a little help file about how to do 
it. I am now at work, and all my notes on this are at home so this is 
the best I can do right now.


I have sucessfully installed help files for flash before, I'll get back 
at you when I've got all my files at hand.


Alain

eric dolecki wrote:


I get all the jazz about the customactions XML document - but can that file
be specified in an MXI file so when you install a component via MXP, it
installs the help as well?

Looking for documentation, not finding any yet.

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Re: [Flashcoders] > Xml parsing object

[Alain Rousseau]

Check out Sephiroth's XML2Object class : 
http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=129

very nice and easy to use.

Weyert de Boer wrote:

Does anyone got some nice object/method that transforms a xml data 
from a xml object into a nice object graph?
I would like to ask (trying to avoid reinventing the wheel) before I 
am starting writing my own solution for parsing xml data into a 
structure for easier reference.


Yours,
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Re: [Flashcoders] Looping Loaded Sound

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or you can try a Class I made to do exactly that (it's an extension 
manager file, for installing the doc, code hints, etc )

http://lab.daroost.ca/source/SoundLoop2.mxp

JesterXL wrote:


s = new Sound(this);
s.onSoundComplete = function()
{
   this.start(0, 0);
};
s.loadSound("my.mp3", true);

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Hey Gang!

Has anyone had trouble getting dynamically loaded MP3s to loop?
I'm having a bit of trouble with this. Can Flash do this?
What's the deal, 'yo?

David Politi Super Genius
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Re: [Flashcoders] FAME on OS X

[Alain Rousseau]

Then you  should check on http://potapenko.com/flashout/ to see if you 
have installed Flashout the right way.
Other than that I can't help you much cos I'm still on Panther so I 
don't have FAME installed.



Sam wrote:


I'm Using Tiger, and have Java 5 installed
On Oct 21, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Alain Rousseau wrote:


What version of OS X do you have ?
If it's not Tiger then you can't use Flashout. It needs Java 5  
installed and it's only available for Tiger.



Sam wrote:



Any one have success setting up FAME on OS X?
I have everything working except Flashout is having trouble with  
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Re: [Flashcoders] FAME on OS X

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What version of OS X do you have ?
If it's not Tiger then you can't use Flashout. It needs Java 5 installed 
and it's only available for Tiger.



Sam wrote:


Any one have success setting up FAME on OS X?
I have everything working except Flashout is having trouble with the  
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Re: [Flashcoders] AttachMovie - where is x=0,y=0?

[Alain Rousseau]

the initial 0,0 point for any clip, stage, button, etc .. is at the top 
left corner. It's allways best to position your instances that way as 
well, for it will be easier later on to manipulate it's positioning.


Alain

eric dolecki wrote:


initial attach is at 0,0 of the stage. perhaps you need to check your info
panel to see that the triangle you created doesn't actually have its
registration point on the bottom left point of the triangle.

e.d.

On 10/19/05, Kevin Boyd (MMCR) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 


Having some issues attaching a movie clip in 7. if I draw a right-angled
triangle with it left most bottom point at 0,0 in the movieclip and then I
use attachMovie and position that at 0,0 on the stage; it plots the
triangle's middle at 0,0 and not the tip as drawn in the mc!

What are the basic rules of how MC's are attached, can't find anything in
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TIA

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Re: [Flashcoders] Stylesheet.transform

[Alain Rousseau]

Ahh nice to know,

was starting to look around :)
thx for sharing Patrick

Alain

Patrick Matte wrote:


Let me answer my own question : )

This code will transform the ".menu" css style to a TextFormat object :

var styleObj:Object = my_styleSheet.getStyle(".menu");
var styleFormat:TextFormat = my_styleSheet.transform(styleObj);
trace(styleFormat.font)



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Hi, I'd like to use the TextFormat.getTextExtent() method but first i 
have to transform my loaded CSS into a TextFomat.


Is there a way to transform a style from a css to a TextFormat object ?

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Re: [Flashcoders] dispatch event in 8

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Amir,

I believe you have a scope problem here. The compiler doesn't know wich 
object is dispatching the event.
You should use your dispatcher object or instance to call that method. 
Also you now need to initialize your dispatcher object to the 
EventDispatcher class


for exemple :

   import mx.events.EventDispatcher;

   function dispatchEvent() {};
   function addEventListener() {};
   function removeEventListener() {};

   var myDispatcher:Object = new Object();
   mx.events.EventDispatcher.initialize(myDispatcher);

   var myListener:Object = new Object();
   myListener.onEvent = function() {
  trace("onEvent triggered");
   };

   myDispatcher.addEventListener("onEvent", myListener);



then later in your code you can trigger the event on a button click like 
this :


   myBtn.onRelease = function() {
  sendEvent();
   };

   function sendEvent():Void {
   var eventObject:Object = {target:myDispatcher, type:'onEvent'};
   myDispatcher.dispatchEvent(eventObject);
   }


This is how you should use events in Flash 8, read the docs, look for 
tutorials and you'll see similar examples or better


Hope this helps

Alain

Amir Cicak wrote:

Hello, after upgrading to flash 8 following line does not dispatch event 
anymore:

dispatchEvent({type:"klik", target:this, link:Tekst});
It works ok in flash 7. Anyone knows what could be the problem? I made 
component and this code is in components class. Are there some new things I 
need to watch out for in flash 8 related to event dipatching, initialising 
dispatcher, class, component, linkage, etc.? Thank in advance...


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Re: [Flashcoders] .onLoad works in AS1, breaks in Flash 7

[Alain Rousseau]

Hi Miles, as Rahul stated, you should try to put the L of Load to 
lowercase load, also it would be best to put your url in a variable :

var myUrl:String = "http://"+host+"feed_issuedates.php";;
varGetDates.load(myUrl);

it's cleaner and you can reuse myUrl variable anytime you want, instead 
of writing down the whole thing.


as for local to network testing goes, Flash 7 is not as severe as Flash 
8, but it is good to set your crossdomain.xml, it often blocks your code 
from linking to outside sources.


Try changing the case of the 'L' and see where this gets you ... 
sometimes it's just a small syntax error that takes your project down !


good luck,
Alain

Rahul wrote:


Hi Alain,

It's not working in Flash 7 b'cos u r using upper case 'L' in Load method.
Try using this "varGetDates.load( "http://"; + host +
"feed_issuedates.php");" a lower case 'l' for Load and this should work in
both the versions of Flash.

Regards,
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Miles Thompson wrote:


Alain,

I've adapted the code somewhat, to the extent it closely mimics the 
examples whown in the docs. For example varGetDates = New LoadVars; is 
changed to var varGetDates:LoadVars = new LoadVars();, and I've added 
type declarations to the other variables declared in the very first 
frame.


"success" is not declared anywhere, though now it has ":Boolean" added 
to it.


I've also added the crossdomain.xml file, my thinking being that the 
data was not being returned because I was doing a debug test on my 
local machine, but the data and scripts are at www.allnovascotia.com.


I'm finding this very puzzling, and of course had assumed it would be 
a simple "save as Flash 7, compile and we're done" scenario.


Thanks for responding - Miles


At 11:24 PM 10/18/2005, Alain Rousseau wrote:


Have you verified that you compiled in Flash 7 using AS1 and not AS2 ?
if not you might need to adapt your code a little to work with AS2 
compiler.


Miles Thompson wrote:


This code works in AS1 (Flash 6) but "success" never occurs in Flash 7.
What could I be doing wrong?

function getIssueDates()
{
varGetDates = new LoadVars();
//varGetDates.cacheKiller = new Date().getTime();
varGetDates.Load( "http://"; + host + "feed_issuedates.php");
varGetDates.onLoad = function( success )
{
if (success)
{
_root.issuedates = varGetDates.issuedates;
} else
{
// provide today's date
today = new Date();
issuedates = string( today.getFullYear() ) +"-";
issuedates = issuedates + string( today.getMonth() + 1) 
+ "-";

issuedates = issuedates + string( today.getDate() );
} // if(success)
  etc., etc.
 }
}

Note: Host is set in the first frame through an inclusion: #include 
"settings.as". Host shows up in the degugger variables window as 
"www.allnovascotia.com/test/"  What is passed to varGetDates.Load is 
"http://www.allnovascotia.com/test/feed_issuedates.php";


A trace( varGetDates.issuedates) inserted immediately before 
"if(success)" returns an empty string. Same statement, following the 
if(success) is never evaluated.


No conversion was followed, the previous Flash MX version was opened 
using Flash MX 2004, and then simply Save As'd to a new location; 
when warned that the file would no longer be openable in Flash MX I 
clicked on OK.


Have I missed something really basic?

I'm compiling as ActionScript 1 in the Publish settings.

A steer in the right direction will be greatly appreciated - Miles 
Thompson



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Re: [Flashcoders] .onLoad works in AS1, breaks in Flash 7

[Alain Rousseau]

Have you verified that you compiled in Flash 7 using AS1 and not AS2 ?
if not you might need to adapt your code a little to work with AS2 compiler.

Miles Thompson wrote:


This code works in AS1 (Flash 6) but "success" never occurs in Flash 7.
What could I be doing wrong?

function getIssueDates()
{
varGetDates = new LoadVars();
//varGetDates.cacheKiller = new Date().getTime();
varGetDates.Load( "http://"; + host + "feed_issuedates.php");
varGetDates.onLoad = function( success )
{
if (success)
{
_root.issuedates = varGetDates.issuedates;
} else
{
// provide today's date
today = new Date();
issuedates = string( today.getFullYear() ) +"-";
issuedates = issuedates + string( today.getMonth() + 1) + 
"-";

issuedates = issuedates + string( today.getDate() );
} // if(success)
  etc., etc.
 }
}

Note: Host is set in the first frame through an inclusion: #include 
"settings.as". Host shows up in the degugger variables window as 
"www.allnovascotia.com/test/"  What is passed to varGetDates.Load is 
"http://www.allnovascotia.com/test/feed_issuedates.php";


A trace( varGetDates.issuedates) inserted immediately before 
"if(success)" returns an empty string. Same statement, following the 
if(success) is never evaluated.


No conversion was followed, the previous Flash MX version was opened 
using Flash MX 2004, and then simply Save As'd to a new location; when 
warned that the file would no longer be openable in Flash MX I clicked 
on OK.


Have I missed something really basic?

I'm compiling as ActionScript 1 in the Publish settings.

A steer in the right direction will be greatly appreciated - Miles 
Thompson
 


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Re: [Flashcoders] FLASHCODERS IS BACK ONLINE!

[Alain Rousseau]

woot ! :)

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Re: [Flashcoders] Drop Shadow Rendering Issue

[Alain Rousseau]

You should approach drop shadows in Flash the same way you do in 
Photoshop (or similar).
It's allways best to put your shadow in a separate layer if you want to 
tweek it, move it, distort it, etc ...


Do the same in flash and you will have less problems !

Mike Britton wrote:


I went through the same thing and was disappointed to discover that for
dropshadows, we may be better off still using imported pngs. Glad you sorted
it out.

Mike
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Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with Key class in Flash 8

[Alain Rousseau]

It looks like the listener stops listening to the first pressed key and 
monitors the onKeyUp only for the second one. So it might not be the Key 
class that is concerned here ... maybe event handling ? I can't really 
tell, would have to know more on how these work together.


The thing is, that if 2 keys are pressed at the same time we would 
expect to see a trace output like this  (for those who don't want to or 
can't  try it themselves):


   CODE:

var myListener  = new Object();
myListener.onKeyDown = function() //change _myListener to myListener 
{

   trace("down: " + Key.getCode());
};
myListener.onKeyUp = function()
{
   trace("up: " + Key.getCode());
};
Key.addListener(myListener);


   Expected Output for key pressed A (65) and C (67)  where A is
   pressed first then C,  then A is released then C:

   down: 65
   down: 67
   down: 67
   up: 65
   down: 67
   down: 67
   up: 67



   but instead we get this in Flash 8

   down: 65
   down: 67
   down: 67
   down: 67
   down: 67
   up: 67

   works as expected in Flash 7


That's all I can say for now in this case ...

A


franto wrote:


Hi

I;ve problem with Key class in Flash 8
Please read about it on my blog [Example included]. Is it bug or
feature? Does someone know?

Here is address: http://www.franto.com/blog2/flash-8-key-class-bug-or-feature

Thanks
-
Franto

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http://www.flashcoders.sk
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