Re: [Flashcoders] Q:input textfield woes setting maximum lines

2007-03-12 Thread Sam Thorne
That's generally how I deal with text fields that have to be centered with localisable text. Attach a dummy textfield, enter the text, see how big it is then apply the positioning information to the real field and remove the dummy one. Adding/removing a field and getting the values out within 3 l

Re: [Flashcoders] Rates of pay in Europe...

2007-03-12 Thread Sam Thorne
Actually it's more us Brits. 'Europe' or 'The continent' is the name we use for the big landmass the other side of the channel... On 12/3/07 14:26, "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> My girlfriend and i are looking at getting out of the UK for >>> a bit - and moving to live and work

[Flashcoders] flv playback stalling

2007-01-31 Thread Sam Thorne
Hi All, I have an flv loading into an instance of flvPlayback, all of a sudden it has started freezing about 2 seconds into the playback, and just stalls. The rest of the ui is still interactive, and I can use buttons to jump to other sections of the site etc. so it's not that flash is

[Flashcoders] OT Don't reply to an old thread when you're creating a new thread!

2006-12-07 Thread Sam Thorne
Hi All, Just a suggestion, but perhaps people posting new threads could do so using a "new" email rather than a reply to an old thread and changing the subject. I don't know about you, but for me replying to an old thread and changing the subject results in broken message threading when I

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed

2006-11-28 Thread Sam Thorne
I've already contacted Flickr about it, and got this response, so we shouldn't get any more bounces: Hello, Flickr allows its users to upload photos via email to a secret email address tied to their account. These can be uploads from a cameraphone or other device, or a script, or a regular o

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed

2006-11-27 Thread Sam Thorne
Sorry list. (Though maybe someone can claim ownership? I keep getting these flickr bounces) On 27 Nov 2006, at 10:15, Sam Thorne wrote: Hi, I just replied to a mailing list i'm subscribed to and got this message from Flickr. I don't have a Flickr account and my email had no

[Flashcoders] Re: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed

2006-11-27 Thread Sam Thorne
Hi, I just replied to a mailing list i'm subscribed to and got this message from Flickr. I don't have a Flickr account and my email had no images and was addressed to flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com, so I'm not sure what's happened. Seems someone may have subscribed your upload address

Re: [Flashcoders] components are Evil?

2006-11-27 Thread Sam Thorne
I think the other important point about components is the usability factor. It's about having a consistent user experience across different Flash applications, which can only really happen we use the same components. Otherwise behaviours change from application to application and the user h

Re: [Flashcoders] Command line compile

2006-06-14 Thread Sam Thorne
example with me but will >> try >> to get one from home. I've used that trick a lot but it was over 6 >> years ago. >> >> A+ >> Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)2

Re: [Flashcoders] Command line compile

2006-06-14 Thread Sam Thorne
ped with a SU command (substitut user with the password). I don't have an example with me but will try to get one from home. I've used that trick a lot but it was over 6 years ago. A+ Sam Thorne a écrit : > Hi List, > > I'm working on a project where we're loo

[Flashcoders] Command line compile

2006-06-14 Thread Sam Thorne
wing environment? Is this something that Flex can do for us, or would we have to rewrite into mxml? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

[Flashcoders] Large video and the Camera class

2006-04-24 Thread Sam Thorne
ct to deal with large amounts of video, are there any limitations on the Camera object that might stop this? Could we fool flash into thinking the video stream it's getting is from a web cam? This seems like a possible work around, it'd be great if anyone could confirm it, than

Re: [Flashcoders] Duplicating a MovieClip that contains Sub-Clips

2006-04-13 Thread Sam Thorne
nks, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Reg

[Flashcoders] Duplicate Class errors

2006-04-07 Thread Sam Thorne
x27;t working now either. Unzipping a different copy somewhere else on his machine has also failed with the same error. Anyone got any idea what might be happening here? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)20

Re: [Flashcoders] large projects

2006-04-05 Thread Sam Thorne
subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http

Re: [Flashcoders] MTASC and spaces in classpath

2006-04-03 Thread Sam Thorne
fails to parse correctly through Flashout. With this shell script the problem is solved. Alain Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.c

[Flashcoders] MTASC and spaces in classpath

2006-03-30 Thread Sam Thorne
s to interpret the a directory name (such as Application Support, where the core classes are) as separate classes. I can't symlink because Eclipse sees a symlink as a file, and I can't use an alias because it isn't recognised as a folder even though I can browse into it.

Re: [Flashcoders] [OT] Sparx Enterprise Architecht generatingActionscript

2006-03-23 Thread Sam Thorne
w how to place an import statement into a class like: import com.something.MyClass; I see it can handle doing this as I have reverse engineered one of my projects and on regenerating the code the import statements are still there but I cannot see where it is in EA. Any help would be great. Jim

Re: [Flashcoders] Protecting Shared Objects

2006-03-22 Thread Sam Thorne
nd a real database. Just how icky does this sound to everyone? Anyone ever attempt something similar? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashcoders@chatty

Re: [Flashcoders] Save file from Mac / Pc Projector on CDROM to Harddrive

2006-03-21 Thread Sam Thorne
l Steven wrote: Thanks Sam Looks like you are opening the file tell application "Finder" open file targetFile end tell Is there an equivalent to just copy / save the file to the users hard drive? Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: [Flashcoders] Save file from Mac / Pc Projector on CDROM to Hard drive

2006-03-21 Thread Sam Thorne
emier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.c

Re: [Flashcoders] Un-HQX, Burn in Mac, make ISO in PC, and make copies in PC

2006-03-21 Thread Sam Thorne
com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax:

Re: [Flashcoders] AS IDE for OSX

2006-03-16 Thread Sam Thorne
hive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax:

Re: [Flashcoders] Timing Tweens Effectively

2006-03-15 Thread Sam Thorne
ons or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44

Re: [Flashcoders] Send to friend....Doesn't make sense.

2006-03-14 Thread Sam Thorne
ation process, not // hold the validation process in the scope of its onRelease. return(valid) } Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Web Browser Component

2006-03-09 Thread Sam Thorne
components don't have that capability, it seems. Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or searc

[Flashcoders] 9-slice bugs

2006-03-07 Thread Sam Thorne
ctable behaviour". Seems like the 9-slice implementation is totally messed up, anyone got any hints? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashcod

Re: [Flashcoders] Newbiew question AS3

2006-03-06 Thread Sam Thorne
y Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ Flashc

[Flashcoders] C# and ExternalInterface problems

2006-03-01 Thread Sam Thorne
the net). Has anyone come across this before and know of a solution? At the moment it looks like we'll have to wrap VB in the C# just to let C# call AS functions, which is pretty irritating. Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44