Re: [Flashcoders] Junior Developer Flash/Flex Salary?

2006-06-20 Thread Rich Rodecker
30 k is pretty low...but yeah it depends on location. you say you have extensive IT experience, but do you have proven flash/flex expereince? that would make a big difference as well. On 6/20/06, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geography is a huge factor though - where is the job l

Re: [Flashcoders] The Delegate class ...

2006-06-16 Thread Rich Rodecker
the reason why it's better to use Delegate instead of using a reference like : var thisObj = this; // Set a reference to "this" mc.onRelease = function(){ thisObj.onRelease(); } is because that way is actually a hack, using the activation object: http://

Re: [Flashcoders] The Delegate class ...

2006-06-14 Thread Rich Rodecker
the Delegate class is useful whenever you are trying to control the scope of a method call. Normall, when you do something like: //code on _root my_mc.onPress = function(){ trace(this); } the onPress function is assigned to my_mc. this means that when you use "this" inside code inside the onP

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: anyone using mCom ?

2006-06-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
alrighty then, good thing i asked. the only reason i was considering them was because of their smaller footprint, since I feel like there's just too much bloat to ue the v2 comps on a "regular" web site (as opposed to an application). there's always the bit components, i guess. On 6/7/06, Sore

Re: [Flashcoders] anyone using mCom?

2006-06-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
.0.124. HTH, Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Rodecker Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:02 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] anyone using mCom? anyone out there have any experience with using the mCom compone

[Flashcoders] anyone using mCom?

2006-06-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
anyone out there have any experience with using the mCom component set from Metalliq? Just looking for some feedback...performance issues, comparison with v2, wierdness, extending, etc. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription o

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: good billing/invoicing apps?

2006-05-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
, check out iBiz. Very easy. -radley On May 31, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Rich Rodecker wrote: > can anyone recommend a good billing/invoicing app? i'm looking for > something on the simple/easy side. or, if you use project management > software that does invoicing, le

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: good billing/invoicing apps?

2006-05-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
thanks, i'll check that out. I'm thinking I'd liek to try soemthign web based, too. On 5/31/06, Aaron Silvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is off-topic, but iBiz on OS X has worked great for me. -a- On 5/31/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[Flashcoders] OT: good billing/invoicing apps?

2006-05-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
can anyone recommend a good billing/invoicing app? i'm looking for something on the simple/easy side. or, if you use project management software that does invoicing, let me know what you think of it. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] self published.

2006-05-30 Thread Rich Rodecker
ah, i think i am going to have to correct you mike. a LocalConnection is for allowint two swf's running in two separate windows on the same machine to talk to each other. On 5/30/06, Mike Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but it would be possible to make

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP 101: Is import really necessary?

2006-05-25 Thread Rich Rodecker
ok its early for me but I think you dont actually need to import if you provide the full classpath for your datatypes: private var myVar:com.blah.MyDataType will work just fine, without an import, i beleive. however, if you wanted to do: private var myVar:MyDataType; then you would need to te

Re: [Flashcoders] Can form based nested screens be delayed if not external

2006-05-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
you could probably change the loading frame for your classes in the export settings, so that they arent loaded in frame 1. On 5/22/06, Manuel Saint-Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is the only way to delay loading of child forms in an form based app-if the swfs are externally loaded? I have a

Re: [Flashcoders] formatted xml in a textarea component

2006-05-19 Thread Rich Rodecker
ML you want to show in a CDATA tag in the XML? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning & Organization Effectiveness Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Rodecker Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:59 PM To: Flashcoders ma

[Flashcoders] formatted xml in a textarea component

2006-05-19 Thread Rich Rodecker
is there an easy way to get formatted xml into a textarea component? right now I am setting the textarea's text property to xml.toString(), but that's just one long string. i could probably go through each node and add some tabs or something, but i probably don't want to do that.

Re: [Flashcoders] datagrid inside an accordian

2006-05-17 Thread Rich Rodecker
own accordian. Randy Troppmann On 5/17/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an mc that i add to an accordian via accordian.createSegment(); > the mc I attach has a datagrid inside of it, but there's two problems > with it: > > 1. none of the items can be sele

[Flashcoders] datagrid inside an accordian

2006-05-17 Thread Rich Rodecker
I have an mc that i add to an accordian via accordian.createSegment(); the mc I attach has a datagrid inside of it, but there's two problems with it: 1. none of the items can be selected in the datagrid...no rollover events even. 2. the cell renderer I am using for one of the columns does not lo

Re: [Flashcoders] scrollpane, dynamic forms, and refreshPane issues

2006-05-15 Thread Rich Rodecker
hmm still stuck with this little weirdness...anyone have any idea? On 5/13/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i should say i am using flash 8, but exporting to flash 7. On 5/13/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > im using flash 8. i am embedding the f

Re: [Flashcoders] scrollpane, dynamic forms, and refreshPane issues

2006-05-13 Thread Rich Rodecker
i should say i am using flash 8, but exporting to flash 7. On 5/13/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: im using flash 8. i am embedding the fonts by doing a setStyle() on the TextInput's global style definition, and exporting the font in the text field on the stage.

Re: [Flashcoders] scrollpane, dynamic forms, and refreshPane issues

2006-05-13 Thread Rich Rodecker
im using flash 8. i am embedding the fonts by doing a setStyle() on the TextInput's global style definition, and exporting the font in the text field on the stage. On 5/12/06, Steven Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: refreshPane reloads the content of the pane. This is different than it used

[Flashcoders] scrollpane, dynamic forms, and refreshPane issues

2006-05-12 Thread Rich Rodecker
I am building a dynamic foom inside of a ScrollPane. I am actually using ScrollPane.contentPath and setting it to a blank clip from the library, and then targeting that blank clip to build the form in by using ScrollPane.content. So I build the forms fields and assign some default text for the T

Re: [Flashcoders] anyone know mProjector?

2006-04-20 Thread Rich Rodecker
ah sorry jesse, saw your email one too late, i think i got it covered. On 4/20/06, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm familiar with it; what's up? > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Rich Rodecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "F

[Flashcoders] anyone know mProjector?

2006-04-20 Thread Rich Rodecker
i have someone looking for a quick fix to an exisiting project, need to tweak a couple of lines of code and expot an exe from mProjector. anyone interested? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: h

Re: [Flashcoders] XML->PHP->FLASH

2006-04-20 Thread Rich Rodecker
well, yes i would recommend you look at amfphp, but while it's great and I use it often, sometimes that could be overkill depending on your needs. the thing with sending xml to flash is that you have a nicely structured object to deal with (as opposed to sending flash a url-encoded string and pars

[Flashcoders] images not loading on japanese site

2006-04-18 Thread Rich Rodecker
check out these two urls: http://steve.buzznet.com/user/syndflash/ - US site (works) http://steve.buzznet.jp/user/syndflash/ - Japanese Site (doesn't work) the sites are pulling in an rss feed, http://steve.buzznet.com/user/rss10.xml http://steve.buzznet.jp/user/rss10.xml I added the dom

Re: [Flashcoders] Thinking about upgrading to Flash 8

2006-04-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
now that you bring it up, i do remember some sort of new functionality concerning frame labels in flash 8, but I cant remember what it was...but as far as I can tell it wasnt a label list. On 4/11/06, Zeh Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A quick question before taking the plunge. > > Has

Re: [Flashcoders] server-side convert to flv

2006-04-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
i beleive VideoZilla has a server side component as well: http://www.videozilla.net/ On 4/11/06, Duncan Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I recently setup ffmpeg on a shared host, i use Dreamhost, i believe it's > Debian. It took me a couple days to track down all the information an

[Flashcoders] off topic: good interactive demo reels?

2006-04-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
i know this is pretty off topic, but i was wondering if anyone know of some sites that had some good demo reels of interactive work? like this one: http://www.exopolis.com/home/reels.php ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription o

[Flashcoders] assigning a function in the property inspector for a component

2006-04-08 Thread Rich Rodecker
I have an inspectable field in my component where I want the user to be able to enter the name of a function to execute when a certain event occurs. Since I would need to let the user enter a string, how can I let the user enter any path and still call the function? I figure its gotta have someth

Re: [Flashcoders] can a dataset be a memebr of a nonvisual class

2006-04-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
thats col, iw as thinking about doing something verys imilar...i think it may be that the dataset component needs to be int he library, not necessarily on stage, but im not sure about that. On 4/7/06, Manuel Saint-Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a class that is nonvisual - a ProjectMode

Re: [Flashcoders] Recommendation on good AS 2.0 framework code?

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
gt; > Stay well, > Honeyghan > > On 3/30/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > there are a few "extensions" to arp that make it a little easier, my > > favortie being Grant Davies system controller/command controller > > extensi

Re: [Flashcoders] Recommendation on good AS 2.0 framework code?

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
there are a few "extensions" to arp that make it a little easier, my favortie being Grant Davies system controller/command controller extension: http://theresidentalien.typepad.com/ginormous/2005/10/extending_arp.html also you would probably want to search the archives for 'ModelLocator', which

Re: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip for flash player 7

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
by the way: >Peviously in flash7 i used to always attachMovie with an empty mc in the >library, which i'll continue to do, thats the same exact result as creating an empty movie clip on stage with createEmptyMovieClipexcpet with attach movie you have to make sure that you have the symbol in t

Re: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip for flash player 7

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
no,createEmptyMovieClip has always returned a reference to the newly created clip. createTextField didn't, and it confused a lot of people, maybe thats where you are getting caught up? On 3/30/06, Peter O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > createEmptyMovieClip shouldn't return a mc for Flash Pl

Re: [Flashcoders] Multiuser A/V Chat ? Which Server?

2006-03-26 Thread Rich Rodecker
its not a server per se, but maybe you can check out some of the solutions over at userplane.com On 3/26/06, Julien Vignali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may try the open source Red 5 stream server : > "Red5 is a server that not only streams content to the Flash plugin, but > it can push calls

Re: [Flashcoders] save as bitmap

2006-03-24 Thread Rich Rodecker
http://sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/print_screen/ On 3/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > there is the possibility to save a movie as a Bitmap? > > Something like printAsBitmap but that permit to save as image or to copy > as > image? > > Thanks,Riccardo > _

Re: [Flashcoders] Wherefore the evils of _global?

2006-03-23 Thread Rich Rodecker
yeah its yuck, though i use it myself here and there for the cheap hack that it can be. i think generally most programming languages (or the prgrammers using those languages) look down upon global vars. i think the idea is that it pretty much destroys encapsulation and object-oriented principles.

Re: [Flashcoders] Using Flash with Ruby on Rails

2006-03-23 Thread Rich Rodecker
i remember some talk somewhere that Patrick Mineault was working on something that combined cake (the php framework) and amfphp...i dont know if anything is coming of that though. On 3/23/06, Ettwein, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, a RoR port of remoting would be dope. Hmm... > >

Re: [Flashcoders] bubbling up

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
maybe this would help?: http://www.helpqlodhelp.com/blog/archives/000144.html theres a few posts there on that subject. On 3/22/06, Cole Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone gotten bubbling up functionality to work? as2. > > I am sure someone has. > > Dispatching a msg from a buried

Re: [Flashcoders] Re:Global search-and-replace for Linkage/ComponentDefinition?

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
d (fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[i].linkageClassName); } } } } } init (); On 3/22/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there is also jsfl script on jessewarden.com that you can grab and > modify to change the linkage names. It doesnt include the component

Re: [Flashcoders] Multiuser - which backend?

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
the only one I have played with is ElectroServer, and I can recommend that one. It was easy to set up and get started working with. Afew people recommended oregano...i dont think red5 is that far along yet. On 3/22/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/06, Ian Thoma

Re: [Flashcoders] Multiuser - which backend?

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
On 3/22/06, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > Partly as something of an experiment, but mainly as a testbed and > proof-of-concept for something else entirely, I'm looking at throwing > together a (non-commercial) multi-user game with a Flash interface. > > It should be fairly

Re: [Flashcoders] Re:Global search-and-replace for Linkage/ComponentDefinition?

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
there is also jsfl script on jessewarden.com that you can grab and modify to change the linkage names. It doesnt include the component name, but frm the looks of it it should be pretty easy to figure out. it looks like his site is down at the moment though... On 3/22/06, Keith Takayesu <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Flashcoders] How soon do Flashvars become available ?

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
yeah they are available as soon as the movie loads, so you can grab them right away. On 3/22/06, Janis Radins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > flashVars are loaded before first frame, get vars start to in first frame > > > 2006/3/22, Robert Chyko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > You can use them right awa

[Flashcoders] activating the rollover/selection animations of a list row when using selectedIndex

2006-03-21 Thread Rich Rodecker
I am using a cell renderer in a DataGrid column, which contains an image that a user can click on to select that row. I can set the selected row using listOwner and selectedIndex, but doing that just sets the row to fully hilighted, no animation. Is there a way to activate that animation, and to

Re: [Flashcoders] Browse folders from flash

2006-03-21 Thread Rich Rodecker
as far as I know you cant just select a folder...flash needs to create a FileReference object for each file in a directory, and it will only do that for each individual item that the user selected. Why they couldnt just create one for every file in a directory I don't know, but I would imagine it

Re: [Flashcoders] Custom V2 Components - Compiled vs. StandardComponents.fla

2006-03-21 Thread Rich Rodecker
i just asked recently on this list about using the uncompiled component clips from the StandardComponents.fla instead of the compiled clips in my custom component (like it says to do in the documentation). the answer i got was to just use the precompiled clips anyway. I've been using them and hav

[Flashcoders] loading images into in cell renderer datagrid

2006-03-20 Thread Rich Rodecker
i have a datagrid that uses a cell renderer for one of the columns. This cell renderer uses a Loader component to an load image into it. For most of the rows in the dg, that works fine, but some rows just refuse to load the image...and it's always the same images. I thought that the images might

Re: [Flashcoders] AS IDE for OSX

2006-03-16 Thread Rich Rodecker
err i used "ad-esc" because I meant to bring up "addEventListener"... On 3/16/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yeah, i had the same list of requirements too for a mac text editor...then > i figured out that TextMate really handles all the st

Re: [Flashcoders] AS IDE for OSX

2006-03-16 Thread Rich Rodecker
yeah, i had the same list of requirements too for a mac text editor...then i figured out that TextMate really handles all the stuff, and really well. Some things might work a little differently than what youre used to, but once you get it it's really pretty slick. On top of that its really easily e

Re: [Flashcoders] When is destroyObject() actually done?

2006-03-16 Thread Rich Rodecker
i always thought it was code execute, update graphics... On 3/16/06, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that the GC needs a frame or two to go through and clean house. > Depending on your frame rate, a quick setTimeout could work. > > FYI - I think the runtime Flash cycle consists

Re: [Flashcoders] SEO for Flash .....

2006-03-15 Thread Rich Rodecker
have you tried google? On 3/15/06, Stephen Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any good links or advice for optimising Flash for search > engines. > > Please let me know if anyone can advise on this or if some research has been > done in this area. > > Thanks, > Stephen.__

Re: [Flashcoders] using onLoad() in components

2006-03-14 Thread Rich Rodecker
you are only using 1 component, then > screw it, just use onLoad as an internal method. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Rich Rodecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Flashcoders mailing list" > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:12 PM > Subject: [F

[Flashcoders] using onLoad() in components

2006-03-14 Thread Rich Rodecker
i tried posted this before but wanted to bump it now that the list is back up, im not sure it went through the first time: i have a component which is made up of other components. Right now, I have an onLoad() set up that will set up the main component to listen for some events of the subcomponent

[Flashcoders] using onLoad() in components

2006-03-14 Thread Rich Rodecker
i have a component which is made up of other components. Right now, I have an onLoad() set up that will set up the main component to listen for some events of the subcomponents. It works fine, but I'm just wondering if this is the preferred way of doing it.

[Flashcoders] Re: using onLoad() in components

2006-03-14 Thread Rich Rodecker
is flashcoders dead? On 3/12/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have a component which is made up of other components. Right now, I > have an onLoad() set up that will set up the main component to listen > for some events of the subcomponents. It works fin

Re: [Flashcoders] Contaminated list?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
really? I've got 5 emails in my spam folder from flashcoders right now. On 3/11/06, murder design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > never had a false positive regarding spam with gmail. always filters > PERFECT. dont even waste your time opening up the spam folder... > > -edward >

Re: [Flashcoders] advanced flash AS 2.0/3.0 book?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
heh well i guess that didnt work. On 3/11/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, you mentioned you were up on your components, so I don't know > how 'advanced' this book would be for you...but I am reading href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/o

Re: [Flashcoders] advanced flash AS 2.0/3.0 book?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
well, you mentioned you were up on your components, so I don't know how 'advanced' this book would be for you...but I am reading http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=richrodecker-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F1590595939%2Fqid%3D

Re: [Flashcoders] Contaminated list?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
> This list is archived online. I suggest that you use a gmail account > for all your lists. > how does that help? i do that and just get spam to my gmailstill have to deal with it. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription o

Re: [Flashcoders] The almighty duplicateMovieClip?

2006-03-10 Thread Rich Rodecker
right, that's referered to as "re-parenting" a movieclip...changing the parent of a clip. can't do that in AS1 & 2. the usual solution is to attach a clip from the library at the spot where the clip you were dragging is dropped. pretty much a slight-of-hand trick. On 3/10/06, Bob Leisle <[EMAIL

[Flashcoders] moving components on stage

2006-03-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
I have a bunch of components on stage. I'd like to be able to set their position on stage depending on some values. The way it looks like I have to do it now is add a listener to each component named "move", and then do a component.move(x,y) to move it...is this the simplest way? it looks like t

Re: [Flashcoders] components within custom components

2006-03-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
r you, so the user will never see it. > > Regarding assets, that is only to ensure that your components assets (images > & graphics) as well as the classes are exported into the SWF. If you are > not creating them dynamically, and actually using them on frame 1, there is > no reason for

Re: [Flashcoders] components within custom components

2006-03-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
ctually see it. > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Rich Rodecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Flashcoders mailing list" > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:53 PM > Subject: [Flashcoders] components within custom components > > > i posted this q on

[Flashcoders] components within custom components

2006-03-07 Thread Rich Rodecker
i posted this q on my blog, but wnated to ask here too: So, I'm taking my frist foray into building a legit flash component, and it uses some standard v2 components. I read in the documentation that you should use the component mc's instead of the compiled clips for the v2 components, but I didn't

Re: [Flashcoders] getting the actual width of a scaled child clip

2006-02-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
h, y: inner._y + > inner._height}; > > inner._parent.localToGlobal(topleft); > inner._parent.localToGlobal(bottomright); > > trace("inner from: " + topleft.x + "," + topleft.y + > " to: " + bottomright.x + "," + bottomright.y ); > /

[Flashcoders] getting the actual width of a scaled child clip

2006-02-22 Thread Rich Rodecker
wierd that i've never hit this before, but I'm running into an issue with getting the width of a clip's children after the parent clip has been scaled down. So, I say parent clip name "holder_mc". I create 4 movieclips inside holder_mc and load movie into them. Each of the loaded clips are 600 x

Re: [Flashcoders] Object copy

2006-02-21 Thread Rich Rodecker
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000148.cfm On 2/21/06, Aaron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > that didn't seem to work.. > > Sam Shrefler wrote: > > >Aaron: > > > >try changing a line in ObjectCopy.as > > > >its line 15...change it to: > > > >I know there was a change i made, I thi

Re: [Flashcoders] multiuser flash games

2006-02-16 Thread Rich Rodecker
s all been on a local network. > > > > Rich Rodecker wrote: > > >Jobe - sorry, I meant no more than 5 users at a time in a room..i would > >imagine that there would be more than 1 game being played at time. But > yeah, > >from what little experience i did have with e

Re: [Flashcoders] Autosave Feature in Flash?

2006-02-16 Thread Rich Rodecker
there already is one... http://www.flashguru.co.uk/extensions/ On 2/16/06, Dwayne Neckles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know JSFL but they say its good to create extensions with it. Is it > possible to create a feature that allows the files to be auto saved every or > 2 minutes.. > > I a

Re: [Flashcoders] multiuser flash games

2006-02-15 Thread Rich Rodecker
I am using it for a multi-user isometric rpg and so far so good! ;) > > > > Rich Rodecker wrote: > > >im considering making a multiuser game in flash, which involves multiple > >users (no more than 5 at a time probably) chasing each other around a > room. > >I ha

[Flashcoders] multiuser flash games

2006-02-15 Thread Rich Rodecker
im considering making a multiuser game in flash, which involves multiple users (no more than 5 at a time probably) chasing each other around a room. I have dabbled with electroserver before and liked it, but only for a simple turn-based game, but I'm not sure about how well any multiuser server wou

Re: [Flashcoders] > Using Cairngorm, good idea?

2006-02-13 Thread Rich Rodecker
yeah...i havent checked out cairngorm, but from what i hear its mostly directed towards flex apps. ARP is generally more for flash apps...though I dont know if there's anything stopping you from switching the two if you wanted. On 2/13/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would use A

Re: [Flashcoders] opportunity - paypal flash cart

2006-02-08 Thread Rich Rodecker
check out flashkart. On 2/8/06, stone larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking to hire someone for a fully functional apparel based flash > cart using paypal as the merchant. > > Key needs: XML powered, easily updateable. > > If interested please hit me back, I'm not looking to spend o

Re: [Flashcoders] Is podcasting possible with Flash MX 2004 Pro ?

2006-02-06 Thread Rich Rodecker
not sure exactly what you are asking. 'Podcasting' generally means using a special tag (i'm pretty sure the tag name is 'enclosure' but im not 100%) in an rss feed which indicate a path to a file (mp3 generally. Programs like itunes 'subscribe' to that rss feed (meaning they listen for new entrie

Re: [Flashcoders] serviceName property being added to Flash Remoting Data

2006-02-06 Thread Rich Rodecker
i beleive that is something internally in the flash player itself, and as far as I know there is no way to stop it. On 2/6/06, Sam Shrefler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone ever noticed when using PendingCall and Responder with Flash > remoting that an extra property: serviceName gets

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag

2006-02-03 Thread Rich Rodecker
nd," but computer people are notorious for turning any English word into a computer term. http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/prefix On 2/3/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >You could do it manually. Create a variable and prepend(not a word!) i

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag

2006-02-03 Thread Rich Rodecker
>You could do it manually. Create a variable and prepend(not a word!) it to all your loadMovie(), load() etc. calls. damn, i always thought prepend was a real word. anyway, I dont know of a way to set the BASE tag in actionscript, and this sounds like the solution i would go with. PREPEND all yo

Re: [Flashcoders] As2 Event Broadcasting for fp 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Rich Rodecker
does EventDispatcher not compile to fp 6? i thought it did. On 2/3/06, Giles Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > I'm trying to figure out the best way to do events in as2 published for > fp6.0. > Something like Brandon Halls EventBroadcaster would be perfect, but in > as2 obviously. >

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 Method for Resizing Screen

2006-01-29 Thread Rich Rodecker
well..for one, the error message is telling you exactly what is wrong with your code. the Stage object doesnt haave an event named 'addEventListener'..it's just 'addListener'. And since you are trying to delagate to a class's function, I'd imagine there would be no reason for the creation of a lis

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Encoders

2006-01-27 Thread Rich Rodecker
heh, yes they are, as flix is now being distributed by on2. On 1/27/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > does flix pro use the on2 codec? > > On 1/27/06, Duncan Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using Flix Pro

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Encoders

2006-01-27 Thread Rich Rodecker
does flix pro use the on2 codec? On 1/27/06, Duncan Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using Flix Pro and have no complaints so far, the interface isn't as > pretty as squeeze, it kind of reminds me of cleaner XL. I probably won't > go > back to Sorenson Squeeze, throughout the dot u

Re: [Flashcoders] component resource

2006-01-27 Thread Rich Rodecker
jesse warden's blog has some good info on working with components. he's pretty good at blogging about issues taht arise when working with stuff: www.jessewarden.com On 1/27/06, Greg Hamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The docs are good. > > Online at: > livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/index.h

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:OOP and ARP

2006-01-27 Thread Rich Rodecker
ARP is an mvc framework based on design patterns. You can apply it to all sorts of projects. I use it on websites frequently...at least the ones that connect to a remote backend(this is assumed when working with arp..that you will be connecting to a remote backend, though there are extension for w

Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-26 Thread Rich Rodecker
i believe thats been around since flash 7...can't load data from different subdomains. I wish they could have excluded www. from counting as a differetn subdomain, but this is one case where i really dont mind the extra security, it's kind of needed if flash is going to be taken seriously by the c

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Site Statistics RIA

2006-01-26 Thread Rich Rodecker
the only one i've ever seen was this one: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/amfphp.html i'm pretty sure that is not going to be the one you're looking for though..it's pretty old school. On 1/26/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About a month ago, I saw a blog post f

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: AMFPHP for commercial projects

2006-01-26 Thread Rich Rodecker
yeah that quote was from probably the very first apeparance of amfphp way back when. There was also a quote somewhere (it used to be a link on the old amfphp.org site, but its not there anymore) saying somethign to that effect that macromedia 'was aware' about it but had no plans to do anything ab

Re: [Flashcoders] [Fwd: AMFPHP Error]

2006-01-13 Thread Rich Rodecker
chek for any syntax errors in your script, and remove any spaces before and after the opening and closing php tags, see if that helps. On 1/13/06, David Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, anybody know why I have this error in NetDebugger console? > > exceptionStack (Array): > 0 (Object): >

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 and Rosetta -- MacIntel

2006-01-10 Thread Rich Rodecker
i would imagine it would...thats what the emulator is for. The mroe important question is will it run well? On 1/10/06, dls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know if Flash8 will run on the new Intel-based Macs? > > If you haven't heard the news, visit apple.com > --dan >

Re: [Flashcoders] site carching when loading a particular xml file

2006-01-06 Thread Rich Rodecker
which text isnt readable..the xml? yeah its not formatted to well. i've been copying the source into dreamweaver and doing a command->apply source formatting to read it. anyway, yeah i did try it in firefox 1.5 and its the same issue. On 1/6/06, Weyert de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi

[Flashcoders] site carching when loading a particular xml file

2006-01-06 Thread Rich Rodecker
got a wierd problem. this site we built, www.catherineledner.com, is crashing when we load a particular xml file into it, but only in firefox, and only on mac. If you check out the site, go to the "tears" section, and you browser will probably crash. We are actually loading a different xml file fo

Re: [Flashcoders] Any good 3rd party penetration numbers for v8 yet?

2006-01-06 Thread Rich Rodecker
I dont have any numbers, but have you thought about using the express install feature? then maybe you wouldnt have to wait for the penetration numbers. On 1/6/06, ryanm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have any references to 3rd party Flash 8 player > penetration > numbers? I have

Re: [Flashcoders] Files in directory?

2006-01-06 Thread Rich Rodecker
here's a sample from the php docs: you could just modify that to return the number instead of echoing a string. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php On 1/6/06, Mike Boutin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok thanks, I think ill give'er a try with php :) > > Ian Thomas wrote: > > >

Re: [Flashcoders] Stage.height Misreporting

2006-01-05 Thread Rich Rodecker
i've run into a simlar issue before: http://www.visible-form.com/blog/000190.html you might need to wait a few frames before getting the correct width and height properties. On 1/4/06, Jason Lutes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need some brain help this morning. I want to position a button ten

Re: [Flashcoders] Extending the XML class

2006-01-04 Thread Rich Rodecker
maybe looking at this class would help you out: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/11/xml2_updated_fo.html On 1/4/06, Rifled Cloaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jan, > > Thanks, but I'm not having any luck. I'm trying to force my EXML class to > create all of it's nodes of class EXML

Re: [Flashcoders] dataProvider questions

2006-01-02 Thread Rich Rodecker
A LOT; second, you can listen for modelChanged > without using hacks. > > DataSelector will do a bunch of things. Mainly: > - give your component dataProvider powers > - your component automatically implements the DataProvider API > - you get properties like selectedItem, selecte

[Flashcoders] dataProvider questions

2006-01-02 Thread Rich Rodecker
I'm having a little trouble with dataProviders. I'm trying to search around for info but I'm getting a little confused. I'm going to try and ask some q's... if anyone can help me out, that would be great. I used to work with it back in flash mx, but it looks like its changed a lot. First, does

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: calling a static method on dynamically namedclass?

2005-12-30 Thread Rich Rodecker
t; return inst; > } > > public function toString():String > { > return "[MyClass]"; > } > } > > import com.packageName.MyClass; > trace(MyClass.create()); > > > - Original Message - > From: "Rich Rodecker" &l

[Flashcoders] Re: calling a static method on dynamically named class?

2005-12-29 Thread Rich Rodecker
hmm i tried storing a reference to the class in a variable, like var myClass = com.packageName.MyClass > > myClass.create() and i got this message: Static members can only be accessed directly through classes there's gotta be a way to pull this off. On 12/29/05, Rich Rodec

[Flashcoders] calling a static method on dynamically named class?

2005-12-29 Thread Rich Rodecker
I know you can instantiate objects by doing: var myObj = new _global[className](); var className = "TestClass"; but is it possible to call a static method of a class in a similar way? Im trying these two ways, and its not working for me: _global[iconName].create() _global[iconName]().create()

Re: [Flashcoders] aseditor discussion

2005-12-27 Thread Rich Rodecker
I always have issues running SEPY on os x...actually it's been a while since ive tried it becasue i gave up on it. I think i remember hearing that there was a pretty new build out there for os x though. Anyway, you may want to try TextMate..that's not too bad. On 12/27/05, Mark Ribau <[EMAIL P

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