Right now there's several things that could be done with this that
I can think of. Like Claus said, a tool could be created that
takes regular zip files and adds checksum info without damaging
compatibility.
I already have a class ready that correctly parses a ZIP archive..
Stay tuned!
Cheer
This may be a simple question, but I just came across it and found it
strange...
Is there a reason to wrap "this" in parentheses?
(this).foo
vs.
this.foo
Thanks,
-Danro
It makes only sense if you're a Lisp fan :)
Nicolas
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strange...
Is there a reason to wrap "this" in parentheses?
(this).foo
vs.
this.foo
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Really sorry:(
The code is intended for drawing elliptical orbits not arrows...sorry
again :( :(
best regards
RaviKiran Marella
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The following code worked for me perfectly:
onClipEvent (load) {
speed = 5;
radius = 100;
xcenter = 250;
ycent
The following code worked for me perfectly:
onClipEvent (load) {
speed = 5;
radius = 100;
xcenter = 250;
ycent
The next meeting will be 14th August and we'll be continuing our study
of MXML with Dynamically Repeating Controls and Containers and
Representing Data (see
http://www.flashdev.org.au/program for topic references).
At the meeting, the moderator will lead discussion and with questions
about the to
Okay, that last example wasn't very good, I've always got an Apache
server running on my computer, but that's probably just me. There's a
better example set up here...
http://tinyurl.com/sywqc
Also, it seems Flash isn't picky about zlib compression levels or
anything else, as long as the file is
I donno if itz really helpful 4 u but this link contains a package which
has different tools that include a arrow tool also...
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn110#loc=en_us&vie
w=sn106&viewName=Exchange%20Search%20Details&authorid=17863263&page=0&sc
rollPos=0&subcatid=0&snid=
Sorry guys the last URL..i donno wat the problem is..yahoo has closed my
site...please check this link...
In that on the top frame, therez a link called "RotatingMenu"...its the
zip file...
http://www.geocities.com/flywithoutwings_4350/
As u can see in the bottom frame I've used the same component
> I've just downloaded the Adobe Flash 9 Public alpha and used it to compile
> one of my old kiosk
> projects. As far as I can see it has none of memory leak issues which
> affected Flash 8 and stopped
> it being suitable for kiosks. This is great
This is very interesting. Is it just a matter of
Cheers Jeroen - works great!
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Oh, sorry, i switched 2 lines, the explanation is about
Anthony Lee wrote:
At any rate - when i create my thumbnails, all works fine the first
time, but after they have been wiped out, and I recall my method to
re-draw the thumbnails, for some reason my buttons are not working.
Now I did a bunch of tracing tests to see if:
Hi dnk,
This may not b
Ditto- thx I wasn't using the style method before and was having trouble
with safari, HG's version works well :)
http://build.lab-media.com/mpvs/
Cheers all!
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At any rate - when i create my thumbnails, all works fine the first
time, but after they have been wiped out, and I recall my method to
re-draw the thumbnails, for some reason my buttons are not working.
Now I did a bunch of tracing tests to see if:
Hi dnk,
This may not be a proper answer to
Good explanation of how it works. The code is commented.
http://hossgifford.com/downloads.htm
Thanks for that Ryan.
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Hi Aaron,
There is an issue that occurs when users with smaller monitors (13"
macbooks) accessing 100% flash content. Say you do not want to scale the
content down to 13".
Agreed. I overcame this within Flash. It's just a mater of wrapping
Stage in a class that has min values set. In my applica
Matt,
hi tony. thanks for the response. i understand i can do it that way,
but can i get the jsession id from the response header?
Umm... because? If it's a session it's static to the page, so you only
have to write it once. ie. The simple way would seem to work best in
this case.
If you're l
Bart,
I think I will be forced to use the bitmap class of flash 8 to take a bitmap
of the imported assets and copy thos bitmaps on to the stage :-s
Serious monkey business ;)
Wouldn't it be easier to just import either the videos or the masks as
separate files rather than library items?
T
Spot on!
I read the code, beautiful example...
Of course flex2 and as3 changes this a bit :)
Regards,
Bjorn Schultheiss
Senior Flash Developer
QDC Technologies
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Especially a Flash guru ;)
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> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] print
Not to sound like a jerk, but you really should check google before
posting such beginner questions:
http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/27318
Peace
Chris
Flash guru wrote:
Hey,
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to print a swf?
this is what im thinking
var myPrinter = new Printer();
myPr
Hey,
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to print a swf?
this is what im thinking
var myPrinter = new Printer();
myPrinter.printFile("/swfs/plan1.swf");
Side questions?
Is something like that in existance?
Can you do this through the builtin classes?
thanks in advance
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The .zip isn't working...
Ravi Marella wrote:
> Hi list,
> I've got a problem while packaging a component I've developed..it's a
> rotating menu component which will display any number of menu item
> around a circle, the fla is working properly but when I package it to
> .mxp the menu is not rotat
Hi Chuck,
Thank you very much for giving this idea.Even our designer had the same
thought and we got it working now.We are having a catch-all movie clip
and textinput on them and all the small movie clips(for textinputs) are
behind this big movie clip...and it is working grea.!!!
I
Hi there - I have two methods in a class - one that creates a bunch of
thumbnails, and one that wipes them out to be redrawn again at a later
time (due to requiring a different number of thumbnails).
At any rate - when i create my thumbnails, all works fine the first
time, but after they have
>>maybe this post could be TRIMMED a bit girls?
We girls are sorry Mom.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
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Bingo! I've put together a hack that shows this is possible. I tried
doing this with Python, but then I noticed php has the same features
and I'm no good with Python.
Here's how to do it. Make a php file that uses "gzcompress", something
like this...
header('Content-Type: application/octet-strea
Would creating a catch-all full screen invisible MC work for you?
Similar to the invisible clip you are using now, just have the full
screen clip on a lower layer catch the onRollOver and destroy the
tooltip.
Just a thought.
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Hi chris,
I got an idea and when I implemented it worked very good(except for
small bugs).
I added a movieclip(invisible) behind the textinput and and used
rollover and rollout by using the coordinates of the movie clip.
It is working good as I could see the rollover and enter the data and
also
Good explanation of how it works. The code is commented.
http://hossgifford.com/downloads.htm
Also email me off-list and I can give you a proof of concept I did based
on this that is really simple and easy to figure out.
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JBCharles is working with a client who has asked for assistance in having us
recruit for a Senior Software Engineer with ActionScript and Flash
experience for a contract-to-hire position. I'm having a tough time
networking with the right type of people in this area (I'm finding more Web
Developers)
I´ve got one .but it didn´t provide any special upgrade to me, but it
sounds good when you use it as a reference to someone else, but I have spend
some time explaining that I´m not a designer -)
2006/8/10, Kevin Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I was also interesting in hearing some responses to
removeMovieClip (MovieClip.removeMovieClip method)
Removes a movie clip instance created with duplicateMovieClip(),
MovieClip.duplicateMovieClip(), MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip(), or
MovieClip.attachMovie().
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ryanm wrote:
To me, the most useful thing would be a a standardized implementation,
so that it could be compressed at runtime or in advance, so that it
can be used with packages like you were describing, or individual
(possibly dynamic) files compressed by the server. Something
like that will
In AS2.0, the Remotinng Connection object has an "onStatus" method which can be
overridden. If the server is unreachable, the onStatus method will get called.
See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15173267
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I'm not sure, I actually just found this solution through playing around
with some ideas. Which is why I haven't been able to get it to work for
safari yet. But have tested modern IE, FF, on osx and xp to work ok.
Luckily the adverse of this not working will still allow users to interact
with the
Personally the ideal situation for me would be a customized version of
something like gzip, only one that provided the proper checksums that
Flash wants. Expecting the server to compress this might be too much,
all i had in mind were pre-compressed files. Choosing whether or not
to compress them i
Aaron Buchanan wrote:
Hi Bjorn,
There is an issue that occurs when users with smaller monitors (13"
macbooks) accessing 100% flash content. Say you do not want to scale the
content down to 13". You also do not want to write a flash scroller, because
the browser has excellent support and performa
I have this old one from Jason M. Batchelor if you google it perhaps you
find something newer
function writeFlash() {
// Jason M. Batchelor
// [EMAIL PROTECTED]
// Determine what client we're using...
NS4=(document.layers);
// The only reason we have to do th
Hi guys,
i hope you are on vacations but if you are reading this you are not so...
what i want to do with jsfl is look into my fla and automatically embed the
font used in textfields (static text for kerning/ printing/selection
reasons).
the problem is i can't figure out how to replicate the featu
Arul Prasad M L wrote:
If its mx.core.UIObject's destroyObject that you are talking about,
destroyObject takes the instanceName of the object, not the instance
reference. you'll just have to pass the instance name as a string.
I did in fact realize that this morning once I read up more on th
Hi Bjorn,
There is an issue that occurs when users with smaller monitors (13"
macbooks) accessing 100% flash content. Say you do not want to scale the
content down to 13". You also do not want to write a flash scroller, because
the browser has excellent support and performance for this, and Flash
Hi Tony,
I am using it on a site I am doing now, http://build.lab-media.com/mpvs
Cheers!
Aaron
On 8/9/06 9:26 PM, "Anthony Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> use javascript to resize the swf's object
>> height attribute, so that when your user opens a section that will increase
>> your stag
I was also interesting in hearing some responses to this question, or
even if Adobe/Macromedia certification is useful in general. Anyone?
Thanks,
Kevin N.
André Goliath wrote:
Hello List,
I´m thinking about becoming a certifed Macromedia(?) Flash MX04 Developer,
but I wonder if this qualif
Yeah, I tried a lot of methods to attempt to get the tooltip to
disappear and ran into just too many problems. I'm sure there's a way
tho using some ridiculous workaround. If you find the answer, please
post it!
And, perhaps I should've mentioned this earlier, but I do have a ToolTip
class av
Hi guys,
I searched the archives for some code but it's all outdated, like people
appending functions for String.prototype and such.
I was wondering if there is any code as2 that validates form fields?
Thank you,
M.
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this advice is all crazy talk.
the proper way to do it is to use CDATA tags.
On Aug 9, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Ryan Potter wrote:
Another way that works pretty well is to do a join on the child nodes.
So your trace would look like this:
trace(newsNode.childNodes[i].childNodes.join(""));
As lon
Oh, sorry, i switched 2 lines, the explanation is about the .target
property, not the .success property.
Jeroen Beckers wrote:
> You can use the EventDispatcher.
>
> import mx.utils.Delegate;
> //import the EventDispatcher class
> import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
> class myClass
> {
>
> pri
If its mx.core.UIObject's destroyObject that you are talking about,
destroyObject takes the instanceName of the object, not the instance
reference. you'll just have to pass the instance name as a string.
So, your code should look somethng like:
function killElements()
{
for (var i:Number = 0; i
Hi people,
anybody know how to write AS of drawing arrow.
if anybody has can anybody tell me how?.
thanks
Rutul Patel
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You can use the EventDispatcher.
import mx.utils.Delegate;
//import the EventDispatcher class
import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
class myClass
{
private var myxml:XML;
//declare the functions
private var dispatchEvent:Function;
public var addEventListener:Function;
public v
Andy Stone wrote:
Have you tried...
this._targetMc.destroyObject(eval("slidemenu.theThumb" + i));
Sometimes I find eval works when [] doesn't. -Andy
I have not tried that - I will give it a go in a few hours.
Thanks!
d
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Super!
That was the function i´m searching for!!!
Never used the a split.join combo before :]
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Are you seeing the "\r" in the text field? I´ve never worked with amfphp,
but maybe try to re-escape the string such as
input_str = input_str.split("\\r").join("\r");
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That´s how my trace look like
onGetRecordsResult
Beck´s\rFrisch. Pur. Beck´s.
Beck´s\nFrisch. Pur. Beck´s.
Normally you don´t see the characters only a linebreak like this
Beck´s
Frisch. Pur. Beck´s.
Hmmm?
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Wat is the easiest way to report back success or failure at the time the
class (myClass) is instantiated?
Since doSomething() has taken control of the load handling, I cant pass a
value back via the constructor function of load success. Any help would be
appreciated.
import mx.utils.Delegate;
cl
I tried it before, but doesn´t work also.
Gave me the same ouptut like the \n thing!
Becks ist nur zum testen da :]
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Hey chris,
Thank you very much for your help and time.I have good news about this
program. focusIn and focusOut events worked and now as long as I am not
using onRollOver, onROllOut, onPress, onRelease the program is working
fine. But there is one problem when I use focus in and out..i.e when I
cl
try \r instead of \n
Normalerweise unterstütze ich ja keine Bierwerbung ;)
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Hello. I don't think it's possible, but just in case I'm wrong, I'm taking a
chance and posting it.
I have a Web Service that is used as an interface to an API. Some of the
methods of the web service requires as parameters some classes defined as
public in the web service.
I doubt it's doab
Hi list,
i want a linebreak in my flashapplication but it doesn´t work.
In my Database i have the following string "Back´s\n.Pure frische. bla bla
bla",
i have the escape sequenz (\n) in there to force a linebreak in my flash
textfield,
but it doesn´t work.
I get the data via amfphp newest v
hi tony. thanks for the response. i understand i can do it that way, but can
i get the jsession id from the response header?
thanks. -- matt.
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maybe this post could be TRIMMED a bit girls?
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:58:44 +0100
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Zlib (Flash) uses an ADLER32 checksum, see RFC 1950 [1], whereas zip
uses CRC-32 [2]. The checksum is calculated over the uncompressed file
so imho it's impossible to uncompress a file in a 3rd party created zip
archive (you don't have the ADLER32 checksum that Flash needs - the dog
bites its tail
You can fake in with _xscale/_yscale changes...
var inc = 3;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
vStar_Object._x =
(Math.cos((vStar_Object.circlePos/180)*Math.PI))*160+vStar_Object.centerX;
vStar_Object._y =
(Math.sin((vStar_Object.circlePos/180)*Math.PI))*160+vStar_Object.centerY;
Check out the '3d Carousels' tutorials
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
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>I have written some code to move some stars in a circle.
>
>This is a snippet of the code:
>
>vStar_Object._x = (Math.cos((vStar_Object.
I have written some code to move some stars in a circle.
This is a snippet of the code:
vStar_Object._x = (Math.cos((vStar_Object.circlePos/180)*Math.PI))*160 +
vStar_Object.centerX;
vStar_Object._y =
(Math.sin((vStar_Object.circlePos/180)*Math.PI))*160 + vStar_Obj
Have you tried...
this._targetMc.destroyObject(eval("slidemenu.theThumb" + i));
Sometimes I find eval works when [] doesn't. -Andy
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Not sure why but uninstalling iTunes seems to have fixed it for now. I did
this because I read about a problem on macs with iTunes, and this is the
only app I have installed since the sound was working properly
Hmm
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Thanks Claus and Johannes - I can see some benefit in that.
A.
On 8/10/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
tend to use to underscrores to indicate private one to indicate protected
On 8/10/06, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > I've noticed many class authors prefix prop
Experiencing a weird problem with Flash 8 PC. When I open Flash 8, it
appears to stop all sound working on my PC such that when I close Flash 8,
no audio works in any app on my PC.
Anyone else experienced this problem and have any fixes?
Thanks
Paul
We tend to use them to specify private properties.
class MyClass
{
private var _something1:Number;
public var something2:Number;
}
Partly because it then makes replacing a public property with a
getter/setter pair easy:
class MyClass
{
private var _something1:Number;
private var _something2:
There is a helpful, and timely, post on the Adobe Accessibility blog
regarding this issue:
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2006/08/moving_screen_reader_focus_in.h
tml
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tend to use to underscrores to indicate private one to indicate protected
On 8/10/06, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noticed many class authors prefix property names with an
> underscore, or 2 underscores or none at all.
It's often used in concert with getter/setters to prev
I've noticed many class authors prefix property names with an
underscore, or 2 underscores or none at all.
It's often used in concert with getter/setters to prevent name collisions:
private var _myProperty:String;
public function set myProperty(value:String):Void {
_myProperty = value;
}
Hi list,
I've got a problem while packaging a component I've developed..it's a
rotating menu component which will display any number of menu item
around a circle, the fla is working properly but when I package it to
.mxp the menu is not rotating and also the component parameters are not
getting d
I've googled for some enlightenment on this but haven't really found many
answers...
I've noticed many class authors prefix property names with an underscore, or
2 underscores or none at all. I often see all three of these prefix 'styles'
in one class. I haven't been able to figure out what the c
On 8/9/06, jcanistrum http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders>> wrote:
/ I´m reading but I fell I´m going to have problems since I´d like to have and
/>/ app running as an .exe in the desktop loading these banners inside and the
/>/ way it was shown there the settings would hav
I think I will be forced to use the bitmap class of flash 8 to take a bitmap
of the imported assets and copy thos bitmaps on to the stage :-s
This has 2 big disadvantages:
- processor overkill, first load a movieclip into a container, take a bitmap
copy of that movieclip, create new movieclip, put
I want this because I want to separate code from viewing assets, and import
different templates.
I feel your pain Bart. Unfortunately it's a no can do:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=1519.html
Do a
I did it by getting the index in the textField, as you described, then
looping through every character in the html and counting the characters
that are not in tags. When (number of characters not in tags) == (the
index in the textfield) then you have your index in the html.
Mmm, nice!
;)
ryanm wrote:
Imagine compressing XML files to a tiny fraction
of their original size and decompressing them within flash!
No need, you can do this now. If you gzip a file and send it via post
response (sendAndLoad), the browser will decompress it for you
automatically
A possible use case:
Imagine compressing XML files to a tiny
fraction of their original size and decompressing them within flash!
No need, you can do this now. If you gzip a file and send it via post
response (sendAndLoad), the browser will decompress it for you automatically
(as long as the header says it's com
Tony,
> You just have to access them from the scope they where born to.
I can access them indeed in the scope where they are created. But the
problem is that I can't add other assets (movieclips) to that scope.
I want this because I want to separate code from viewing assets, and import
different
Hi there! I have a class in which a few objects are created from my library
(loader
component instances and a button instance). They were created sequenciually (IE
hit0,
hit1, hit2, etc) At any rate - I need to destroy them abd then recreate them.
I am having some issues finding the proper synta
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