Re: [Flashcoders] Creating a button class entirely in 2.0 with no symbol association, possible?

[Janis Radins]

No thats no a problem, you can do like this:

public function set _x(value:Number):Void {
mc._x = value;
}

2005/11/24, Boon Chew [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Thanks Janis.  The problem with doing it  below is that you cannot change _x, 
 _y directly on the mc like you can  with a regular movieclip.

   var b = new myButton();
   b._x = 200; -- won't work


 Janis Radins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  I'm doing this all the time I've 
 made tonns of different inputs fro
 diferent projects and finally I am planing to code some fullscale AS2
 only UI collection.

 Thats done like this:
 class myButton {
 private var mc:MovieClip;
 function myButton(host:MovieClip, level:Number){
 mc= host.createEmptyMovieClip(myButton+level, level);
 }
 }
 In this case all drawing is done by variable mc.

 2005/11/23, Ian Thomas :
  Oops, last line should be:
 
  var button:MyButton=MyButton(myTimeline.attachMovie(MyButton.symbolName,
  somRandomButton,
  myTimeline.getNextHighestDepth()));
 
  Assuming myTimeline is whatever you're trying to attach the button to...
 
  Ian
 
  On 11/23/05, Ian Thomas  wrote:
  
   Hi Boon,
 Can't remember where I got this solution - definitely not mine - but
   here's how to create a MovieClip-derived class that doesn't need an
   associated library symbol:
   --
   class net.something.MyButton extends MovieClip
   {
   static var symbolName:String = __Packages.net.something.MyButton ;
   static var symbolOwner:Function = MyButton;
  
   public function MyButton()
   {
   }
  
   static var symbolLinked=Object.registerClass(symbolName, symbolOwner);
  
   }
   --
   To create it, use attachMovie:
  
   import net.something.MyButton;
  
   var button:MyButton=MyButton(myTimeline.attachMovie(MyButton.symbolName,
  
   somRandomButton,getNextHighestDepth()));
  
   HTH,
 Ian
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Re: [Flashcoders] Creating a button class entirely in 2.0 with no symbol association, possible?

[Ian Thomas]

On 11/24/05, Boon Chew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks Janis.  The problem with doing it  below is that you cannot change
 _x, _y directly on the mc like you can  with a regular movieclip.

   var b = new myButton();
   b._x = 200; -- won't work


Boon,
   You're quite correct - however the solution I posted will work. It lets
you use the class in all cases like a normal MovieClip object.

HTH,
  Ian
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[Flashcoders] _x and _y repositioning for child, child, child mc (Flash MX 6.0)

[Jay Lepore]

Hello,

I have a very complex form with many
mc\childMc1\childMc2\childMc3\childMc4\childMc5... Type clips within it.

I often have a need to line up the _x and _y of a deeply nested childMC
with one of the other earlier childMC's

For instance

if the mc8 is the last child

_level0.mc1.mc2.mc3.mc4.mc5.mc6.mc7.mc8 

And I need it to be repositioned at say mc4's x,y position
what is the best technique.

The linked .FLA file makes it obvious if you wish to download it:
www.flashbomb.com/files/localToGlobal_test.fla

In that example, I want to press the button and have the clips line up
at the top.

I have spent all day today trying to come up with a quick solution using
localToLocal and a variety of other relative positioning techniques and
functions but have failed.

It's 1:32AM on Thanksgiving Eve!  In case of emergency, call the
flashcoders group!


What sayeth the group?

Jay
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Re: [Flashcoders] _x and _y repositioning for child, child, child mc (Flash MX 6.0)

[Danny Kodicek]

I have a very complex form with many
mc\childMc1\childMc2\childMc3\childMc4\childMc5... Type clips within it.

I often have a need to line up the _x and _y of a deeply nested childMC
with one of the other earlier childMC's

For instance

if the mc8 is the last child

_level0.mc1.mc2.mc3.mc4.mc5.mc6.mc7.mc8

And I need it to be repositioned at say mc4's x,y position
what is the best technique.


Without trying it, I'd say: find localToGlobal(mc4's pos). Then find 
GlobalToLocal(this value) in mc7's reference frame, and move mc8 to it.


Best
Danny 


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Re[2]: [Flashcoders] _x and _y repositioning for child, child, child mc (Flash MX 6.0)

[iashido]

senocular rules :)

http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=630



Thursday, November 24, 2005, 11:53:54 AM, you wrote:

 I have a very complex form with many
 mc\childMc1\childMc2\childMc3\childMc4\childMc5... Type clips within it.

 I often have a need to line up the _x and _y of a deeply nested childMC
 with one of the other earlier childMC's

 For instance

 if the mc8 is the last child

 _level0.mc1.mc2.mc3.mc4.mc5.mc6.mc7.mc8

 And I need it to be repositioned at say mc4's x,y position
 what is the best technique.

DK Without trying it, I'd say: find localToGlobal(mc4's pos). Then find
DK GlobalToLocal(this value) in mc7's reference frame, and move mc8 to it.

DK Best
DK Danny 

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Re: [Flashcoders] Distort bitmap in flash 8?

[franto]

try search google  distortImage flash
some french made DistordImage class...

it can be done byt Matrix math... also DisplacementMapFilter as well

if you will not find anything, i can send you my soruces for this, I
have made this already (going on lunch now :)

maybe try www.senocular.com there as flash 8 examples and i think
there is distortion with source :)

I hope it helps
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Re: [Flashcoders] Distort bitmap in flash 8?

[Mark Burvill]

Brilliant!
That's what I'm after. Thanks Franto.

Here's the link for any others that are interested:
http://dev.media-box.net/sandy/index.php/2005/11/01/7-distordimage-the-way-to-distord-bitmaps-by-code


franto wrote:


try search google  distortImage flash
some french made DistordImage class...

it can be done byt Matrix math... also DisplacementMapFilter as well

if you will not find anything, i can send you my soruces for this, I
have made this already (going on lunch now :)

maybe try www.senocular.com there as flash 8 examples and i think
there is distortion with source :)

I hope it helps
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Re: [Flashcoders] Attaching combobox inside of class

[Paul Evans]

On 23 Nov 2005, at 22:11, Dan Wade wrote:

It seems like the component is currupted


in what way?

If you are seeing the first item only, and it doesn't drop down, I'd  
suggest the problem may be that you are attempting to set the  
dataprovider before the combobox has initialised.


(A 'setinterval' method of waiting for initialisation to complete is  
described in Chpt13 of Essential ActionScript 2.0 : Colin Moock)


another pointer...

http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/htdig/flashcoders/2003-April/ 
070222.html


Having said that, I would have thought both your samples would fail.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Distort bitmap in flash 8?

[franto]

yes, this is the link I wanted to give you :)

You're welcome.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Spinning wheel

[Jim Berkey]

Here's a google link you might find some useful info at:
http://int.cysd.k12.pa.us/mummert/wof/wof.swf
http://int.cysd.k12.pa.us/mummert/wof/wof.fla


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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Spinning wheel


u could even use the motion tween prototypes (http://laco.wz.cz/tween/) or
fuse (http://www.mosessupposes.com/Fuse/) to get the rotation motion and use
one of the robert pernner easing equation in order to ease out the rotation
of the wheel.

mind u motion tween will bump up ur file size by 6k straight away and fuse
will bump it up by ~14k.

check out those 2 packages they are pretty handy.

good luck


On 11/24/05, Eric E. Dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Don't think I need Flade to pull this off. Although its nice.

What I whipped up so far:

import Timer;

function randomize( min:Number, max:Number ):Number {
var generator = Math.random()*(max-min);
generator = Math.round(min+generator);
return generator;
}

function spin():Void {
// Spinning time between 10 and 20 seconds
var nTime = randomize( 1, 2 );
var newTimer = new Timer();
var friction = nTime/200;
wheel.onEnterFrame = function(){
this._rotation += friction;
friction -= friction/30;
if (!newTimer.end){
newTimer.wait( nTime );
} else {
//trace( nTime/1000 +  secs passed!);
trace(this._rotation);
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}

spin();

Now, the divisions are merely magic numbers - they seem to work
fairly well... but I don't think this is the right way to do it.

Also, if I pick random points on the circle surface, how do I know
which is closest to the top (say the little pointer as centered top
above the wheel)?

edolecki



On Nov 23, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Alias wrote:

 Check out Flade:
 http://www.cove.org/flade/default.aspx

 HTH
 Alias


 On 11/23/05, Eric E. Dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 before i code one up myself - does anyone have the basic math for a
 wheel of fortune type of spinning wheel? if it had a flapper that
 would be a bonus. otherwise i can just randomize the total time of
 spin, and let er rip, slowing the rotation down over time. random
 number of possible hits on the wheel.

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[Flashcoders] EVENT DISPATCHER BUG IN FLASH 8 - MACROMEDIA SHOULD FIX THIS

[Matt Muller]

I thought I better post this incase someone else is having similar issues,
awhile ago I made a post that flash 8 was crashing on FLV events in Flash 8.
Finally I tracked it down, its not the media crashing it, its event
dispatcher, I'm listening for the same event in my super class, like this...

Im just putting the methods in here...

addEventListener(onVideoComplete, this);

public function onVideoComplete (e:Object) :Void
{

}

pretty standard stuff, but then Im also doing this...

private function addVideoHandler (label:String, method:Function) :Function
{
var handler:Function = Delegate.create(this, method);
eventHandlers[label] = handler;
addEventListener(onVideoComplete, handler);
return handler;
}

private function removeVideoHandler (label:String) :Boolean
{
if (eventHandlers[label] == undefined) {
return false;
}
else
{
var handler:Function = eventHandlers[label];
delete eventHandlers[label];
removeEventListener(onVideoComplete, handler);
return true;
}
}

this is done so I can just add and remove handlers, actually later I found
an even better way of doing this, but i wont go into that now.

these methods get called from the child class, it seems in flash 8, because
its a lot faster these can both be called concurrently, causing intermittent
crashing.
I'd just like to thank macromedia for the hell ive been through, and for
absolutly no technical support. You should really look into asynchronous
locking.

goodnight :)

MaTT
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[Flashcoders] flow chart layout issue

[Andreas Rønning]

Ok, i'm tired and my head hurts, and this problem is making me itch 
horribly.


I have a bit of xml in this format:

node
   text plainText=First topic/
   node
  text plainText=Subtopic/
   node
   node
  text plainText=Subtopic/
  node
  text plainText=SubSubtopic/
  /node
  node
  text plainText=SubSubtopic/
  /node
  node
  text plainText=SubSubtopic/
  /node
  node
  text plainText=SubSubtopic/
  /node
   node
   node
  text plainText=Subtopic/
   node
   node
  text plainText=Subtopic/
   node
/node

In short, there's one topic at the bottom of the tree, which branches 
out into 4 sub-topics. Then one of those subtopics has 4 subtopics under 
that again, and any one of those subtopics could branch further.
The problem here is that the vertical scale of the visual representation 
of one of these topics grows with every addition to any tree under them. 
So for instance the second subtopic, which has 4 more topics nested, 
would push the first, third and fourth subtopic up and down by about 
half the height of its own tree.


For an illustration, check out http://andreas.rayon.no/temp/tree.jpg

Now how the hell do i get the scale of a tree like that. The first topic 
could be 20 px high, but has 2 topics nested, making it 40 px tall 
(since they spread vertically and horizontally). Then one of those 
topics again could have 3 topics nested, and one of those could have one 
nested, and then that could have 8 nested again. How do i go through the 
tree to get the height and align like that? I've never had to work with 
xml with this depth before and it's really tearing at my head.

Anyone done anything like this before?

- Andreas
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Re: [Flashcoders] local swf access to network

[franto]

As far as I know, you should be able to read data from network, if y
ou run it  locally.
But this I've never tried. I have opposite problem. Load local file
from network.

Best luck
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Re: [Flashcoders] flow chart layout issue

[Mark Winterhalder]

hi Andreas,

recursion is your friend. this isn't tested, so let me know if there
are any problems:

var countSubNodes = function ( node:XMLNode ):Number {
  var children:Array = node.childNodes;
  var numSubNodes:Number = 0;
  for( var i:String in children ) {
if( children[ i ].nodeName == node ) {
  // recursion: call the same function on each childnode, add their children
  // to the number of subchildren of the current one before returning
  numSubNodes += arguments.callee( children[ i ] );
}
  }
  node.attributes[ numSubNodes ] = numSubNodes;
  node.attributes[ isLeafNode ] = numSubNodes ? false : true;

  return numSubNodes;
}

just pass it the root node, after that they all should have an
attribute with the total number of sub nodes.

hth,
mark


On 11/24/05, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ok, i'm tired and my head hurts, and this problem is making me itch
 horribly.

 I have a bit of xml in this format:

 node
 text plainText=First topic/
 node
text plainText=Subtopic/
 node
 node
text plainText=Subtopic/
node
text plainText=SubSubtopic/
/node
node
text plainText=SubSubtopic/
/node
node
text plainText=SubSubtopic/
/node
node
text plainText=SubSubtopic/
/node
 node
 node
text plainText=Subtopic/
 node
 node
text plainText=Subtopic/
 node
 /node

 In short, there's one topic at the bottom of the tree, which branches
 out into 4 sub-topics. Then one of those subtopics has 4 subtopics under
 that again, and any one of those subtopics could branch further.
 The problem here is that the vertical scale of the visual representation
 of one of these topics grows with every addition to any tree under them.
 So for instance the second subtopic, which has 4 more topics nested,
 would push the first, third and fourth subtopic up and down by about
 half the height of its own tree.

 For an illustration, check out http://andreas.rayon.no/temp/tree.jpg

 Now how the hell do i get the scale of a tree like that. The first topic
 could be 20 px high, but has 2 topics nested, making it 40 px tall
 (since they spread vertically and horizontally). Then one of those
 topics again could have 3 topics nested, and one of those could have one
 nested, and then that could have 8 nested again. How do i go through the
 tree to get the height and align like that? I've never had to work with
 xml with this depth before and it's really tearing at my head.
 Anyone done anything like this before?

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RE: [Flashcoders] local swf access to network

[James]

Brilliant it works, thanks so very much

James

At 12:51 24/11/2005, you wrote:

You shouldn't have a problem if you're setting the SWF as network-only.
The key, as you've pointed out is the crossdomain.xml file.

Here's the file you would need:

?xml version=1.0?
!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM
http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd;
cross-domain-policy
   allow-access-from domain=* /
/cross-domain-policy

You have to allow for * domain (all domains).  Based on MM docs.


Derek Vadneau


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Hi

/*(I've had a brief look through the list archive and can't find anything
on this, but am really pushed for time, so many apologies if I missed
it..also apologies for the stupidity of this idea, it wasn't
mine)*/



I am trying to create a .swf file which will be emailed as an attachment.

Thus. it will be run *locally* on the end users machine.

and the swf must access some online data about oil prices, which will be
on
*my webserver*.

so, it works unless in flash player 8.


1. What I have already done: set the Local Playback Security to Network
Only (in publish settings)

2. What I can't figure out: if I have to write a cross-domain-policy file,
and how can I permit from any potential user.


I'm hoping someone has done this if not I am going to tell the client
it can't be done in 2 days!!!

Thanks in advance, and Thanks even if you don't know but read this
far..

James


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[Flashcoders] Better flash to Learn

[knly browne]

Am a flex developer..started back using 1.0 when it first came out beautiful
framework verywell done.
But alot of things are abstracted.. i don't really have an idea of the lower
workings of Flash.. So i took it upon myself to start learning flash...
Which should i learn flash 8 or Flash mx2004 Professional

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[Flashcoders] localtoglobal/globaltolocal and getBounds

[Martin Klasson]

Hi Coders.

As you see in the subject.. that is what I want to learn more about. 
I have been in the help and read about it, but it is still very
confusing how they work.

Are there any great pages that you have spotted somewhere, online, in
which really can describe them and how they can be used and so on?

I have googled, but these are not so oftenly used, though they really
should be handy sometimes. Thanks.

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Re: [Flashcoders] flow chart layout issue

[Mark Winterhalder]

hi again,

thinking about it some more, it wouldn't work that way. first of all,
i forgot to increment numSubNodes in the loop (so it always will be
0). but that's not really the problem, because it's the number of leaf
nodes (nodes without children) that interests you.

you could get that information if you modify
   return numSubNodes;
to
return Math.max( numSubNodes, 1 );

then change everything numSubNodes to numSubLeafNodes, to get the
naming corrected.

if you base your layout on that, every leaf node is at a distinct row.
this isn't the most space efficient layout possible, but it's a start,
about like the example image you posted. being more efficient would
make it pretty complicated, but maybe somebody here has some ideas.

mark



On 11/24/05, Mark Winterhalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hi Andreas,

 recursion is your friend. this isn't tested, so let me know if there
 are any problems:

 var countSubNodes = function ( node:XMLNode ):Number {
   var children:Array = node.childNodes;
   var numSubNodes:Number = 0;
   for( var i:String in children ) {
 if( children[ i ].nodeName == node ) {
   // recursion: call the same function on each childnode, add their 
 children
   // to the number of subchildren of the current one before returning
   numSubNodes += arguments.callee( children[ i ] );
 }
   }
   node.attributes[ numSubNodes ] = numSubNodes;
   node.attributes[ isLeafNode ] = numSubNodes ? false : true;

   return numSubNodes;
 }

 just pass it the root node, after that they all should have an
 attribute with the total number of sub nodes.

 hth,
 mark


 On 11/24/05, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Ok, i'm tired and my head hurts, and this problem is making me itch
  horribly.
 
  I have a bit of xml in this format:
 
  node
  text plainText=First topic/
  node
 text plainText=Subtopic/
  node
  node
 text plainText=Subtopic/
 node
 text plainText=SubSubtopic/
 /node
 node
 text plainText=SubSubtopic/
 /node
 node
 text plainText=SubSubtopic/
 /node
 node
 text plainText=SubSubtopic/
 /node
  node
  node
 text plainText=Subtopic/
  node
  node
 text plainText=Subtopic/
  node
  /node
 
  In short, there's one topic at the bottom of the tree, which branches
  out into 4 sub-topics. Then one of those subtopics has 4 subtopics under
  that again, and any one of those subtopics could branch further.
  The problem here is that the vertical scale of the visual representation
  of one of these topics grows with every addition to any tree under them.
  So for instance the second subtopic, which has 4 more topics nested,
  would push the first, third and fourth subtopic up and down by about
  half the height of its own tree.
 
  For an illustration, check out http://andreas.rayon.no/temp/tree.jpg
 
  Now how the hell do i get the scale of a tree like that. The first topic
  could be 20 px high, but has 2 topics nested, making it 40 px tall
  (since they spread vertically and horizontally). Then one of those
  topics again could have 3 topics nested, and one of those could have one
  nested, and then that could have 8 nested again. How do i go through the
  tree to get the height and align like that? I've never had to work with
  xml with this depth before and it's really tearing at my head.
  Anyone done anything like this before?
 
  - Andreas
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Re: [Flashcoders] _x and _y repositioning for child, child, child mc (Flash MX 6.0)

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I usually use something like this:

function getY(mc:MovieClip):Number {
   var y:Number = mc._y;
   if (mc._parent != undefined)
  y += this.getY(mc._parent);
   return y;
}

but of course that takes it all the way back to _root. shouldn't be too
hard to check against another movie clip instead of undefined.

andreas


Jay Lepore wrote:

Hello,

I have a very complex form with many
mc\childMc1\childMc2\childMc3\childMc4\childMc5... Type clips within it.

I often have a need to line up the _x and _y of a deeply nested childMC
with one of the other earlier childMC's

For instance

if the mc8 is the last child

		_level0.mc1.mc2.mc3.mc4.mc5.mc6.mc7.mc8 


And I need it to be repositioned at say mc4's x,y position
what is the best technique.

The linked .FLA file makes it obvious if you wish to download it:
www.flashbomb.com/files/localToGlobal_test.fla

In that example, I want to press the button and have the clips line up
at the top.

I have spent all day today trying to come up with a quick solution using
localToLocal and a variety of other relative positioning techniques and
functions but have failed.

It's 1:32AM on Thanksgiving Eve!  In case of emergency, call the
flashcoders group!


What sayeth the group?

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[Flashcoders] Flash jobs in london

[Aaron Haines]

Atticmedia requires a good Actionscript 2 developer for cutting edge work on
new BBC projects.

 

Atticmedia is one of the leading new media suppliers to the BBC and has a
number of large, high profile interactive BBC projects in progress. You will
be working on cutting edge multimedia alongside some of the best programmers
and designers in the industry. Your portfolio will never look the same
again! And you'll be working in a friendly, exciting, team-centred and
challenging environment. We like to think we're one of the best agencies to
work for and this is borne out by the fact employees hang around or come
back after leaving.

 

We are looking for someone who has a minimum of 3 years Actionscripting
experience and can hit the ground running.

 

The successful candidate will be solid in the following areas: 

 

- In-depth knowledge of Actionscript 2

 

- Object oriented code (OOP)

 

- Server interaction via XML

 

- Game programming

 

 

 

If you think this sounds an exciting opportunity then contact
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with examples of your work and a full CV. Applications will not be
considered without examples of your work. 

 

Contract status: Permanent or contract position. 

 

Location: London - near Angel tube station. Must work on site.

 

Salary: Generous and negotiable depending on experience.

 

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[Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

[Danny Kodicek]

A friend of mine is trying to send a Flash christmas card in an email and is 
finding that everyone's Outlook is blocking it for security reasons. I know 
this is generally considered a no-no anyway, but his company want to do it 
and it's for internal emails anyway, so can anyone recommend a reliable way 
to embed a swf in a mail? If it needs to be included as an attachment, 
that's fine, but reading it off the server would be better, obviously.


Best
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RE: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

[Nick Weekes]

Bad idea whichever way you look at it.  Flash on PC = ActiveX = disabled by
default, and there aint nuthin you can do about it.

Standard practice is to put a link in the email pointing to the swf.


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Subject: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

A friend of mine is trying to send a Flash christmas card in an email and is
finding that everyone's Outlook is blocking it for security reasons. I know
this is generally considered a no-no anyway, but his company want to do it
and it's for internal emails anyway, so can anyone recommend a reliable way
to embed a swf in a mail? If it needs to be included as an attachment,
that's fine, but reading it off the server would be better, obviously.

Best
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Re: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

[Daniel Cascais]

The most reliable way to have the recipient actually view the
Christmas card (only if he/she wants to) is to have a link to it.

I had to do it like so last Christmas, and I believe most companies
that use flash for their email greeting cards do it this way.

Daniel

On 11/24/05, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 A friend of mine is trying to send a Flash christmas card in an email and is
 finding that everyone's Outlook is blocking it for security reasons. I know
 this is generally considered a no-no anyway, but his company want to do it
 and it's for internal emails anyway, so can anyone recommend a reliable way
 to embed a swf in a mail? If it needs to be included as an attachment,
 that's fine, but reading it off the server would be better, obviously.

 Best
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Re: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

[Danny Kodicek]

Bad idea whichever way you look at it.  Flash on PC = ActiveX = disabled 
by

default, and there aint nuthin you can do about it.


Thought so, but I had to ask.



Standard practice is to put a link in the email pointing to the swf.


Except that in my experience, no one ever clicks on them. Hey ho, thanks 
anyway.


Best
Danny 


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Re: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

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include a gif in the e-mail. design it right and perhaps you can get a 
few more clicks than from a regular text link.


andreas


Danny Kodicek wrote:


Bad idea whichever way you look at it.  Flash on PC = ActiveX = 
disabled by

default, and there aint nuthin you can do about it.


Thought so, but I had to ask.



Standard practice is to put a link in the email pointing to the swf.


Except that in my experience, no one ever clicks on them. Hey ho, thanks 
anyway.


Best
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Re: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

[Danny Kodicek]

Same as folks... Put a link.
But if you're friends can abolutly not do that, try  to embed the swf 
publish in flash 5 format.


Cunning. I'll suggest it to him, thanks.

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Re: [Flashcoders] emoticons in a chat component

[Toon Van de Putte]

On 11/22/05, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

1. Unembedded, it looks nice and crispy, but embedded there's a fuzziness to
 it, even with anti-aliasing switched off (in fact that looks even worse).
 Verdana didn't produce any better results. Should I use a different font,
 perhaps?


I know that up until MX 2004, pixel fonts have to be perfectly aligned with
the pixel grid not to anti-alias.
This means that your textfield should be positioned on an integer pixel
position, as seen from _root (ie x300 y400 and not x299.5 y400.2).
When your textfield is buried deep inside other symbols, trying to get this
figured out can be tricky, the solution that works best for me is to
dynamically create all text fields that need exact positioning.

In Flash 8, this problem no longer exists, thankfully.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

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Cunning. I'll suggest it to him, thanks.


Not sure its work...
You know it some kind of Somebody say to me that somebody say to him 
that it try that


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Re: [Flashcoders] Swfs embedded in an email

[Toon Van de Putte]

On 11/24/05, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Standard practice is to put a link in the email pointing to the swf.

 Except that in my experience, no one ever clicks on them. Hey ho, thanks
 anyway.


That depends entirely on the rest of the copy of the e-mail. If you can
incorporate a personalised message into the swf file and hint at that in
your text mail, you'll get a lot more clickthroughs. The more personal and
'unspanny' it looks and feels, the more clicks you'll get

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[Flashcoders] Flvs fail to stream on an older pc

[Karina Steffens]

Hi List,
 
I'm on the last stages of development of an educational CD-Rom in FlashMX
2004. The application uses a v2 media component loads flvs from the CD-Rom.
It's been developed on a pc (XP) and then zipped over and burned on the Mac
(OSX) and set to the client. 
 
The client has an old mac and an even older PC (which still uses windows
98...). The CD-Rom loads on both, but the flvs seem to work on her mac but
not on the pc (except for one or two). She also says that an earlier version
of the CD-Rom that I sent her does work, which is puzzling. Also, there is a
little test utility just for the Flvs on the CD-Rom, and that also works. My
application loads various swfs into a base swf file, and the flvs are loaded
to that, so it could be a memory thing.
 
I can't run any of the tests myself, because I'm based in Dublin and she is
in London, so I don't know what to do. I tried to tell her that her PC is
just too old for the software, and I still haven't got any data from her
about how much memory it has. She's not very technical.
 
Does anyone have any ideas, solutions or minimum specs for this problem?
 
Thanks,
Karina
 
 
 
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[Flashcoders] AS 3.0 - stage.focus and keyboard event scopes

[John Mark Hawley]

What's the 'right' way to handle keyboard input in AS 3?  I can see how 
one class at a time can handle keyboard events as long as stage.focus is 
set to it, but what happens when that object loses focus?  Is there a 
way to ensure all keyboard events are going to make it to an object? An 
Object that isn't descended from Sprite and clan?


(I'm putting together a keymapping utility for a few games -- all input, 
mouse and keyboard, needs to filter through it, where it figures out 
what command was meant. Then it calls the appropriate factory method to 
build the command blah blah blah.)

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Re: [Flashcoders] Cutting an image up into tiles using masks

[Hans Wichman]

duplicateMovie will not duplicate any loaded images or stuffd drawn throuh 
the api.

basically you'd have to load the image lots of times as well.

At 04:58 PM 11/24/2005, Paul Steven wrote:

I am trying to make a Slider Puzzle (game whereby an image is cut up into
tiles and one tile is removed then the tiles are rearranged and the aim is
to rearrange the pieces of the picture)

Anyway I was trying to do this using purely code and nothing in the library.

So what I have done is create several empty movie clips
i.e the tile, the mask and a movie clip to load the image in

I then wanted to duplicate this tile but it does not seem to work.

Here is what I have tried

Tile_Size = 55;
How_Many_Tiles_Across = 4;
How_Many_Tiles_Down = 4;

createEmptyMovieClip(tile_mc, 10);

tile_mc.moveTo(0,0);

tile_mc.beginFill(0xFF);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,0);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,0);
tile_mc.endFill();

tile_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(loader_mc, 2);

createEmptyMovieClip(mask_mc, 3);

mask_mc.moveTo(0,0);

mask_mc.beginFill(0x00);
mask_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,0);
mask_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,Tile_Size);
mask_mc.lineTo(0,Tile_Size);
mask_mc.lineTo(0,0);
mask_mc.endFill();

tile_mc.setMask(mask_mc);

loadMovie(sugababes_1.jpg, tile_mc.loader_mc);

tile_mc.duplicateMovieClip(tile1_mc,11);

tile1_mc._x = Tile_Size;
tile1_mc._y = 0;


The second tile appears but it does not appear to show the image.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I will obviously run through a loop to do all 16 tiles once I have worked
this mask malarkey out.

Thanks in advance

Paul

btw this needs to be published flash 7 as2 max so can't use Flash 8
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RE: [Flashcoders] emoticons in a chat component

[Karina Steffens]

Hi Toon,

Thanks for the advice. I tried to move everything to integer pixels, but
there was no change. It's probably because I'm using TextArea instead of a
TextField, and it's possible that the component itself is not very well
aligned. 

Thanks,
Karina  

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 From: Toon Van de Putte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: 24 November 2005 15:54
 To: Flashcoders mailing list
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] emoticons in a chat component
 
 On 11/22/05, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 1. Unembedded, it looks nice and crispy, but embedded there's 
 a fuzziness to
  it, even with anti-aliasing switched off (in fact that 
 looks even worse).
  Verdana didn't produce any better results. Should I use a different 
  font, perhaps?
 
 
 I know that up until MX 2004, pixel fonts have to be 
 perfectly aligned with the pixel grid not to anti-alias.
 This means that your textfield should be positioned on an 
 integer pixel position, as seen from _root (ie x300 y400 and 
 not x299.5 y400.2).
 When your textfield is buried deep inside other symbols, 
 trying to get this figured out can be tricky, the solution 
 that works best for me is to dynamically create all text 
 fields that need exact positioning.
 
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RE: [Flashcoders] localtoglobal/globaltolocal and scale issue

[Martin Klasson]

I got my thing to work now with localToGLobal/globalToLocal.

As long as the clip is at 100% in _yscale and _xscale, then it all works.
But when those values are modified, the localToGlobal will not be accurate any 
longer. Is there an easy fix for this?

/ martin


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Hi,

It really is annoying methods

_root.createEmptyMovieClip(somecontainer,0)
somecontainer.createEmptyMovieClip(mc1,0);
somecontainer.mc1.createEmptyMovieClip(mc2,0);

_root.somecontainer._x = 100;
_root.somecontainer._y = 50;

_root.somecontainer.mc1._x = 10;
_root.somecontainer.mc1._y = 20;

_root.somecontainer.mc1.mc2._x = 50;
_root.somecontainer.mc1.mc2._y = 40;

//localToGlobal:
//I want the coordinates of mc2 in the global space:

var p:Object = {x: _root.somecontainer.mc1.mc2._x, y:
_root.somecontainer.mc1.mc2._y};
_root.somecontainer.mc1.localToGlobal(p);

trace(p.x); // 160 (100 + 10 + 50)
trace(p.y); // 110 (50 + 20 + 40)

//globalToLocal:
//i want the global coordinates 300,300 in local mc2-coordinates.

var p:Object = {x: 300, y: 300};
_root.somecontainer.mc1.mc2.globalToLocal(p);

trace(p.x); // 140 (300 - 100 - 10 - 50)
trace(p.y); // 190 (300 - 50 - 20 - 40)

I don't know about getBounds

-martin



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Hi Coders.

As you see in the subject.. that is what I want to learn more about. 
I have been in the help and read about it, but it is still very
confusing how they work.

Are there any great pages that you have spotted somewhere, online, in
which really can describe them and how they can be used and so on?

I have googled, but these are not so oftenly used, though they really
should be handy sometimes. Thanks.

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RE: [Flashcoders] Cutting an image up into tiles using masks

[Paul Steven]

Thanks for the reply Hans

You say that duplicateMovie will not duplicate stuff drawn through the API

However the following code appears to do just that.

Tile_Size = 55;
Number_Of_Rows = 4;
Number_Of_Columns = 4;

// --
// Create Tile and fill it in with solid fill
// --

createEmptyMovieClip(tile_mc, 1);

tile_mc.moveTo(0,0);

tile_mc.beginFill(0xFF);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,0);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,0);
tile_mc.endFill();

Tile_ID = 1;

// 
// Create the grid of tiles
// 

for (var vRow_Index = 1; vRow_Index  Number_Of_Rows+1; vRow_Index++) {

for (var vColumn_Index = 1; vColumn_Index  Number_Of_Columns+1;
vColumn_Index++) {

var vClip_Ref = tile_mc.duplicateMovieClip(tile + Tile_ID +
_mc,100+Tile_ID);

Tile_ID++;
}
}


There does however seem to be a problem using the same mask on duplicated
movie clips.

Or perhaps I am misunderstanding ?

Thanks

Paul

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Sent: 24 November 2005 16:29
To: Flashcoders mailing list; Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Cutting an image up into tiles using masks


duplicateMovie will not duplicate any loaded images or stuffd drawn throuh
the api.
basically you'd have to load the image lots of times as well.

At 04:58 PM 11/24/2005, Paul Steven wrote:
I am trying to make a Slider Puzzle (game whereby an image is cut up into
tiles and one tile is removed then the tiles are rearranged and the aim is
to rearrange the pieces of the picture)

Anyway I was trying to do this using purely code and nothing in the
library.

So what I have done is create several empty movie clips
i.e the tile, the mask and a movie clip to load the image in

I then wanted to duplicate this tile but it does not seem to work.

Here is what I have tried

Tile_Size = 55;
How_Many_Tiles_Across = 4;
How_Many_Tiles_Down = 4;

createEmptyMovieClip(tile_mc, 10);

tile_mc.moveTo(0,0);

tile_mc.beginFill(0xFF);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,0);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,0);
tile_mc.endFill();

tile_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(loader_mc, 2);

createEmptyMovieClip(mask_mc, 3);

mask_mc.moveTo(0,0);

mask_mc.beginFill(0x00);
mask_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,0);
mask_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,Tile_Size);
mask_mc.lineTo(0,Tile_Size);
mask_mc.lineTo(0,0);
mask_mc.endFill();

tile_mc.setMask(mask_mc);

loadMovie(sugababes_1.jpg, tile_mc.loader_mc);

tile_mc.duplicateMovieClip(tile1_mc,11);

tile1_mc._x = Tile_Size;
tile1_mc._y = 0;


The second tile appears but it does not appear to show the image.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I will obviously run through a loop to do all 16 tiles once I have worked
this mask malarkey out.

Thanks in advance

Paul

btw this needs to be published flash 7 as2 max so can't use Flash 8
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RE: [Flashcoders] Flvs fail to stream on an older pc

[Nick Weekes]

Hmm...Windows 98 is a bit scary, but it depends if a) you want to play the
'minimum specs' card, or b) try and do a bit of handholding to get to the
bottom of the problem.

If A), then show her this:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/

If B) do you dispose of each flv once its been used?  Or are there objects
hanging around in memory that could cause an old PC to crumble?  Can you
create version6 or 7 fla's (without the v2 component) to see if it's anthing
to do with the component?  Are the flv's large (in file size)?  And last
question, what is the behaviour of 'not working'?  Hangs?  Crashes?   

One other thing, on your XP machine check how much virtual memory is being
used by the SAFlashPlayer.exe in task manager (assuming it is the standalone
flash player that's rendering your swf/flv's and not an IE window).  Could
be a useful number to compare against the Win98 memory available.

Cheers,

Nick


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Subject: [Flashcoders] Flvs fail to stream on an older pc

Hi List,
 
I'm on the last stages of development of an educational CD-Rom in FlashMX
2004. The application uses a v2 media component loads flvs from the CD-Rom.
It's been developed on a pc (XP) and then zipped over and burned on the Mac
(OSX) and set to the client. 
 
The client has an old mac and an even older PC (which still uses windows
98...). The CD-Rom loads on both, but the flvs seem to work on her mac but
not on the pc (except for one or two). She also says that an earlier version
of the CD-Rom that I sent her does work, which is puzzling. Also, there is a
little test utility just for the Flvs on the CD-Rom, and that also works. My
application loads various swfs into a base swf file, and the flvs are loaded
to that, so it could be a memory thing.
 
I can't run any of the tests myself, because I'm based in Dublin and she is
in London, so I don't know what to do. I tried to tell her that her PC is
just too old for the software, and I still haven't got any data from her
about how much memory it has. She's not very technical.
 
Does anyone have any ideas, solutions or minimum specs for this problem?
 
Thanks,
Karina
 
 
 
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creative  technical new media design
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RE: [Flashcoders] Cutting an image up into tiles using masks

[Paul Steven]

Sorry I missed a couple of lines of code

But if you cut and paste this into a new flash movie, it will create a 4 by
4 grid of tiles. Each tile being drawn using the drawing API

Tile_Size = 55;
Number_Of_Rows = 4;
Number_Of_Columns = 4;

// --
// Create Tile and fill it in with solid fill
// --

createEmptyMovieClip(tile_mc, 1);

tile_mc.moveTo(0,0);

tile_mc.beginFill(0xFF);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,0);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,0);
tile_mc.endFill();

Tile_ID = 1;

// 
// Create the grid of tiles
// 

for (var vRow_Index = 1; vRow_Index  Number_Of_Rows+1; vRow_Index++) {

for (var vColumn_Index = 1; vColumn_Index  Number_Of_Columns+1;
vColumn_Index++) {


var vClip_Ref = tile_mc.duplicateMovieClip(tile + Tile_ID +
_mc,100+Tile_ID);

tile_mc._x = (vColumn_Index - 1) * Tile_Size;
tile_mc._y = (vRow_Index - 1) * Tile_Size;

Tile_ID++;

}

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RE: [Flashcoders] [structure] Automatic callback

[Scott Hyndman]

You could have modules aware of their peers (like a graph or linked list 
structure) and eliminate TestSequence entirely...but it would be kind of odd.

Otherwise you could have modules dispatch a notification when complete, and 
have TestSequence observing the modules. This would make the most sense...and I 
wouldn't consider it an explicit callback, since the modules will have no 
knowledge of the sequence's existence.

Scott

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Subject:[Flashcoders] [structure] Automatic callback
Hi all,


I need an advice.

How could one create a structure that permit to automatically call a 
method based on the result of a process ?

Imagine that example :
I have a TestSequence which is a container of TestModules
Each TestModule has his special way to test a certain behavior.
There are black boxes of tests implementations.

I just want to batch sequentially each TestModule, and to get a 
callback called on TestSequence whenever the test is done.
Each one after the preceding : like a FIFO.

Is it possible to create this structure without calling explicitely 
TestSequence ?
I thought of Object.watch… but there must be other (design) pattern ?


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Re: [Flashcoders] [structure] Automatic callback

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Le 24 nov. 05, à 19:39, Scott Hyndman a écrit :

You could have modules aware of their peers (like a graph or linked 
list structure) and eliminate TestSequence entirely...but it would be 
kind of odd.


Otherwise you could have modules dispatch a notification when 
complete, and have TestSequence observing the modules. This would make 
the most sense...and I wouldn't consider it an explicit callback, 
since the modules will have no knowledge of the sequence's existence.


Yes, that's what I was thinking of.
But I still have to call the callback.

Here is what I was thinking of :

- TestSequence is composed with an FIFO Array, linked list, whatever…
- TestModule is a base class with only one method : endTest (b:Boolean)
- Each Test have to subclass it in order to call endTest when the 
implementing test is achieved.
The endTest method is not derived by the subclass (it should declared 
as final, but…)
- ITestElement is an interface that each Test have to implement in 
order to force 1 method : startTest()


Sequentially, TestSequence call each entry of its stack.
Each TestElement do its stuff and, when finishing or failing, calls 
endTest on the superclass.

endTest only do one stuff : calls the callback of TestSequence.
When receiving this message, TestSequence only has to go one stpe 
further.

And so on…

My goal is to abstract as much as possible the test implementation.
I'd like to be able to batch as much test as I want.

But, as I am lazy (!), I'd like not to call endTest at all.
Because I am not sure that I will remember that need in months.
So, it would be pretty better for me to find an automatic way of being 
called.


Follow me ?
Any idea ?


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RE: [Flashcoders] Cutting an image up into tiles using masks

[Hans Wichman]

Sorry paul, i was wrong, apparently duplicating clips with drawn code is 
possible.
Somehow i tried this in a project sometime ago and it failed, but still... 
loaded images wont.. im sure.. really ;))
And you are right the mask cant be shared as well, so you have to duplicate 
the mask as well.


greetz
Hans


At 05:52 PM 11/24/2005, Paul Steven wrote:

Sorry I missed a couple of lines of code

But if you cut and paste this into a new flash movie, it will create a 4 by
4 grid of tiles. Each tile being drawn using the drawing API

Tile_Size = 55;
Number_Of_Rows = 4;
Number_Of_Columns = 4;

// --
// Create Tile and fill it in with solid fill
// --

createEmptyMovieClip(tile_mc, 1);

tile_mc.moveTo(0,0);

tile_mc.beginFill(0xFF);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,0);
tile_mc.lineTo(Tile_Size,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,Tile_Size);
tile_mc.lineTo(0,0);
tile_mc.endFill();

Tile_ID = 1;

// 
// Create the grid of tiles
// 

for (var vRow_Index = 1; vRow_Index  Number_Of_Rows+1; vRow_Index++) {

for (var vColumn_Index = 1; vColumn_Index  Number_Of_Columns+1;
vColumn_Index++) {


var vClip_Ref = tile_mc.duplicateMovieClip(tile + Tile_ID +
_mc,100+Tile_ID);

tile_mc._x = (vColumn_Index - 1) * Tile_Size;
tile_mc._y = (vRow_Index - 1) * Tile_Size;

Tile_ID++;

}

}

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Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - parse file

[old9]

how to parse? would you mind sharing that?

2005/11/24, franto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 yes I know Jesse, but there is no source :) I've already ask Andre
 about sharing sources..

 but I've already know how to parse file (ByteArray), now the only
 problem is 3ds file format :))


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  Hi,
 
  i'm trying new AS3 features, and want to try parse file... e.g 3ds
 (3dmax)
  file
  but have no clue, how to do it
 
  im try URLLoader, URLStream, but do not know, what on which event I
  should listen.
  Can someone help me?
 
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Re: [Flashcoders] [structure] Automatic callback

[erixtekila]

 and have TestSequence observing the modules.


I don't like to use an observing scheme since I must validate a 
sequence of tests.

Observer make a 1 to many relation but asynchronisaly (…!)

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[Flashcoders] dynamic accordion header text

[Nick Appelmans]

How do I allow a user to dynamically change the label in the header of an
accordion component? I've used the labelPath.text property but this does not
allow me to adjust for text width so the number of characters in the new
label has to be = to the old label or it will get truncated in the header
display. I cannot set the width with labelPath.width either. Is this the
best way to change a label through user input?

 

myAccordion.header0.labelPath.text = myNewLabel;

 

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[Flashcoders] flash settings JSFL ?

[Patrick Matte]

Hi, is there a way to make all my graphics symbols to play once instead of
the loop default. Maybe with JSFL ? Where can I learn about this?

Also, I'd really like to make all my bitmap images to automatically not
smooth on stage. That smooth option is so useless... What's it for anyway?
Ive never used it, I always uncheck it.


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Re: [Flashcoders] [structure] Automatic callback

[erixtekila]

Le 24 nov. 05, à 20:27, Ian Thomas a écrit :

Why not just pass each module a callback function to call when it's 
done?

Then TestSequence can do all the work.

For example:

class TestModule
{
  public function runTest(callback:Function)
  {
// Do some testing...
// When done...
callback();
  }


Good point.
But I will be more lazy :)

class TestModule
{
  public function runTest (callback:Function)
  {
// Call an implemented method on subclass interface
beginSubclassTest ();
   // OK launch the TestSequence
callback ();
  }
}

BTW this process is only available for the stack sequence of functions.
Imagine that I need an asynchrone test in my sequence.
Something like evualuating the time for example and need to call the 
callback later…



Le 24 nov. 05, à 20:59, Scott Hyndman a écrit :

class ModuleBase {
  public function startTest() {
runTest();
endTest();
  }

  public function runTest() {
throw new Exception(implemented in subclasses);
  }

  public function endTest() {
dispatchEvent({type:end});
  }
}

Same here.


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RE: [Flashcoders] flash settings JSFL ?

[Julian Dolce]

Hi, is there a way to make all my graphics symbols to play once
instead of
the loop default. Maybe with JSFL ? Where can I learn about this?


Yes here is the sample from the help documentation under
symbolInstance.loop
fl.getDocumentDOM().getTimeline().layers[0].frames[0].elements[0].loop =
'single frame';


Also, I'd really like to make all my bitmap images to automatically not
smooth on stage. That smooth option is so useless... What's it for
anyway?
Ive never used it, I always uncheck it.

Yes, but if you use Flash 8 they import with smoothing set to false by
default.

Look under BitmapItem in the JSFL help documentation here is an example
fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[0].allowSmoothing = true;

I have a panel that really helps in setting multiple bitmap properties
to multiple bitmaps in the library at once. You can download it here

http://blog.fuelindustries.com/extensions/LibraryItems.mxp

Hope that helps

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Fuel Industries, INC
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Subject: [Flashcoders] flash settings JSFL ?

Hi, is there a way to make all my graphics symbols to play once instead
of
the loop default. Maybe with JSFL ? Where can I learn about this?

Also, I'd really like to make all my bitmap images to automatically not
smooth on stage. That smooth option is so useless... What's it for
anyway?
Ive never used it, I always uncheck it.


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Re: [Flashcoders] Flvs fail to stream on an older pc

[Søren Christensen]

Hi Karina

I have had similar problems like you.

My cd-rom in question had 2 videos (both external flvs to profit f7's
smaller memory footprint advantage over f6 regarding videos)
Both videos was rather big in pixel size and approx 3 mins length (about 30
megabytes each). So i knew they would demand a bit of 'juice'.

When testing with a 'raw' video test both a mac g4 500mhz (os9 and osx) and
a p3 600mhz (both win2k + win 98) worked fine with no performance  problems
playing from a cd.

But my version with the final design was demanding quite alot more cpu to
perform well.
What i found out was that the pure presence of bitmap graphics with alpha
information was decreasing the performance (demanding more cpu) - even
though the bitmap wasn't moving or something was moving over or under it.

I still couldn't optimize it fully to fit my 'raw' tests - but it put down
the performance needs to a acceptable level.
My minimum specs ended up at mac: g4 800mhz pc: p3 800mhz (both 64mb ram)

I had other strange problems like sound issues with some pcs - some dell
configurations with sound blaster live soundcards and a certain motherboards
and cd-rom drive for some reason distorted the sound. (similar to the sound
issues with flash 5 and soundblaster pci 64 and 128) but thing like this is
out of your hands.
But well with cd-rom productions there always are some odd hw configurations
that just give problems (although in theory it shouldn't).
Using director would just giver other issues (and make the production a lot
more expensive due to the lack of cross platform projector exporting back
then). Flash gave us the unique feature to distribute video cross platform
without being dependent of 3rd party media players.
All in all the cd-rom was a success and went into its 2 edition with a total
of 70.000 units.

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 I'm on the last stages of development of an educational CD-Rom in FlashMX
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 It's been developed on a pc (XP) and then zipped over and burned on the Mac
 (OSX) and set to the client.
  
 The client has an old mac and an even older PC (which still uses windows
 98...). The CD-Rom loads on both, but the flvs seem to work on her mac but
 not on the pc (except for one or two). She also says that an earlier version
 of the CD-Rom that I sent her does work, which is puzzling. Also, there is a
 little test utility just for the Flvs on the CD-Rom, and that also works. My
 application loads various swfs into a base swf file, and the flvs are loaded
 to that, so it could be a memory thing.
  
 I can't run any of the tests myself, because I'm based in Dublin and she is
 in London, so I don't know what to do. I tried to tell her that her PC is
 just too old for the software, and I still haven't got any data from her
 about how much memory it has. She's not very technical.
  
 Does anyone have any ideas, solutions or minimum specs for this problem?
  
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[Flashcoders] how to access Print from flash context menu?

[iashido]

any way to access Print from flash contextual menu without to right
click on flash and choose print from there?






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[Flashcoders] Dynamic variables in as3

[Phil Douglas]

Does anybody know of a way to create and reference dynamic variables in
as3. Specifically movie clips, but if there's a difference between them
and any other type of variables, that'd be good to know.

 

In as2 this would be

 

for(var i:Number =0; i  acRate; i++){
this.createEmptyMovieClip('p'+i,this.getNextHighestDepth())
this['p'+i]._x = i*10
this['p'+i]._y = i*10
}

 

However in as3 it would need to be something like

 

for(var i:Number =0;i  acRate; i++){
var ['p'+i]:MovieClip = new MovieClip()
this['p'+i].x = i*10
this['p'+i].y = i*10
}

 

Which doesn't work of course. Does anybody have a work around for this,
or is it no longer possible to create undeclared variables at run time.

 

Thanks all

 

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Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic variables in as3

[Johannes Nel]

push it into an array.

myArr.push(new MovieClip());

On 11/24/05, Phil Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Does anybody know of a way to create and reference dynamic variables in
 as3. Specifically movie clips, but if there's a difference between them
 and any other type of variables, that'd be good to know.



 In as2 this would be



 for(var i:Number =0; i  acRate; i++){
 this.createEmptyMovieClip('p'+i,this.getNextHighestDepth())
 this['p'+i]._x = i*10
 this['p'+i]._y = i*10
 }



 However in as3 it would need to be something like



 for(var i:Number =0;i  acRate; i++){
 var ['p'+i]:MovieClip = new MovieClip()
 this['p'+i].x = i*10
 this['p'+i].y = i*10
 }



 Which doesn't work of course. Does anybody have a work around for this,
 or is it no longer possible to create undeclared variables at run time.



 Thanks all



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[Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

[hbruyere]

Hi,

 

Here is a OOP newbie question.

 

I have a class (see below)..

 

Everything works fine. but the method handleIncoming can not access () or
maybe even find) the method parseMessages.

If I give the complete path to the instance of the OSC class (made in my fla
- for example _root.OSC_Obj.parseMessages (xmlIn); ) it works.

 

How should I code this to make it works ?

 

 

class OSC

{

 

var mySocket : XMLSocket;

//

//

public function OSC ()

{

connect ();

}

//

//

function connect ()

{

mySocket = new XMLSocket ();

mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;

}

//

//

function handleIncoming (xmlIn)

{

parseMessages (xmlIn);

 

}

//

function parseMessages (node)

{

actions..

}

}

 

Thanks for your attention,

 

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Re: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

[Andy Johnston]

import mx.utils.Delegate;

class OSC {
   var mySocket : XMLSocket;

   public function OSC () {
connect ();
   }

   function connect () {
mySocket = new XMLSocket ();
mySocket.onXML = Delegate.create(this,handleIncoming);
   }

   function handleIncoming (xmlIn){
parseMessages (xmlIn);
   }

   function parseMessages (node){

   }
}


Hi,



Here is a OOP newbie question.



I have a class (see below)..



Everything works fine. but the method handleIncoming can not access () or
maybe even find) the method parseMessages.

If I give the complete path to the instance of the OSC class (made in my fla
- for example _root.OSC_Obj.parseMessages (xmlIn); ) it works.



How should I code this to make it works ?





class OSC

{



   var mySocket : XMLSocket;

//

//

   public function OSC ()

   {

   connect ();

   }

   //

   //

   function connect ()

   {

   mySocket = new XMLSocket ();

   mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;

   }

//

//

   function handleIncoming (xmlIn)

   {

   parseMessages (xmlIn);



   }

//

   function parseMessages (node)

   {

actions..

}

}



Thanks for your attention,



//h

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RE: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

[Robin Burrer]

Just create reference to your class. You will need that a lot ...


function connect ()

{

mySocket = new XMLSocket ();
var _obj = this;

  mySocket.onXML = function ()
{
_obj.handleIncoming();
  }
}




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Hi,

The problem here is scope. When you call parseMessages, you doing it in
the
scope of the mySocket object (where the method doesn't exist.) 

There's a pretty simple workaround for this using the Delegate utility
that
comes with Flash.

At the top of your class file, do this : import mx.utils.Delegate;

Change this line: mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;
To this: mySocket.onXML = Delegate.create(this,handleIncoming);

And that should solve your problem. Basically you're creating a proxy
function on the XMLSocket object that then invokes the handleIncoming
function on your OSC object. There are other ways to do this, but I
think
the Delegate method is generally considered the best practice.

Hope that helps,

Jim

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Subject: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

Hi,

 

Here is a OOP newbie question.

 

I have a class (see below)..

 

Everything works fine. but the method handleIncoming can not access ()
or
maybe even find) the method parseMessages.

If I give the complete path to the instance of the OSC class (made in my
fla
- for example _root.OSC_Obj.parseMessages (xmlIn); ) it works.

 

How should I code this to make it works ?

 

 

class OSC

{

 

var mySocket : XMLSocket;

//

//

public function OSC ()

{

connect ();

}

//

//

function connect ()

{

mySocket = new XMLSocket ();

mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;

}

//

//

function handleIncoming (xmlIn)

{

parseMessages (xmlIn);

 

}

//

function parseMessages (node)

{

actions..

}

}

 

Thanks for your attention,

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

[hbruyere]

Thanks for all your helps.
The Delegate class makes it works like a charm...

On the other hand the self referencing is not working.

Would it work that way (The Delegate class solution) is an other OOP
language like Java or C++ ?

//h

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I never have a use for self refencing.. maybe thats just me, feels like 
a dirty hack.

Just create reference to your class. You will need that a lot ...


function connect ()

{

   mySocket = new XMLSocket ();
   var _obj = this;

  mySocket.onXML = function ()
   {
   _obj.handleIncoming();
 }
}




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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim
Phelan
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2005 2:27 PM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

Hi,

The problem here is scope. When you call parseMessages, you doing it in
the
scope of the mySocket object (where the method doesn't exist.) 

There's a pretty simple workaround for this using the Delegate utility
that
comes with Flash.

At the top of your class file, do this : import mx.utils.Delegate;

Change this line: mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;
To this: mySocket.onXML = Delegate.create(this,handleIncoming);

And that should solve your problem. Basically you're creating a proxy
function on the XMLSocket object that then invokes the handleIncoming
function on your OSC object. There are other ways to do this, but I
think
the Delegate method is generally considered the best practice.

Hope that helps,

Jim

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hbruyere
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:19 PM
To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

Hi,

 

Here is a OOP newbie question.

 

I have a class (see below)..

 

Everything works fine. but the method handleIncoming can not access ()
or
maybe even find) the method parseMessages.

If I give the complete path to the instance of the OSC class (made in my
fla
- for example _root.OSC_Obj.parseMessages (xmlIn); ) it works.

 

How should I code this to make it works ?

 

 

class OSC

{

 

var mySocket : XMLSocket;

//

//

public function OSC ()

{

connect ();

}

//

//

function connect ()

{

mySocket = new XMLSocket ();

mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;

}

//

//

function handleIncoming (xmlIn)

{

parseMessages (xmlIn);

 

}

//

function parseMessages (node)

{

actions..

}

}

 

Thanks for your attention,

 

//h

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Re: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

[Andy Johnston]

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2001-09/01-qa-0914-delegate.html


Thanks for all your helps.
The Delegate class makes it works like a charm...

On the other hand the self referencing is not working.

Would it work that way (The Delegate class solution) is an other OOP
language like Java or C++ ?

//h

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Johnston
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:41 PM
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I never have a use for self refencing.. maybe thats just me, feels like 
a dirty hack.


 


Just create reference to your class. You will need that a lot ...


function connect ()

{

mySocket = new XMLSocket ();
var _obj = this;

mySocket.onXML = function ()
{
_obj.handleIncoming();
  }
}




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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim
Phelan
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2005 2:27 PM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

Hi,

The problem here is scope. When you call parseMessages, you doing it in
the
scope of the mySocket object (where the method doesn't exist.) 


There's a pretty simple workaround for this using the Delegate utility
that
comes with Flash.

At the top of your class file, do this : import mx.utils.Delegate;

Change this line: mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;
To this: mySocket.onXML = Delegate.create(this,handleIncoming);

And that should solve your problem. Basically you're creating a proxy
function on the XMLSocket object that then invokes the handleIncoming
function on your OSC object. There are other ways to do this, but I
think
the Delegate method is generally considered the best practice.

Hope that helps,

Jim

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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:19 PM
To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

Hi,



Here is a OOP newbie question.



I have a class (see below)..



Everything works fine. but the method handleIncoming can not access ()
or
maybe even find) the method parseMessages.

If I give the complete path to the instance of the OSC class (made in my
fla
- for example _root.OSC_Obj.parseMessages (xmlIn); ) it works.



How should I code this to make it works ?





class OSC

{



  var mySocket : XMLSocket;

//

//

  public function OSC ()

  {

  connect ();

  }

  //

  //

  function connect ()

  {

  mySocket = new XMLSocket ();

  mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;

  }

//

//

  function handleIncoming (xmlIn)

  {

  parseMessages (xmlIn);



  }

//

  function parseMessages (node)

  {

actions..

}

}



Thanks for your attention,



//h

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Re: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

[Andy Johnston]

Nothing is wrong with it. Just seems an ugly way to deal with 
differences in scope.


Why what's wrong about it? 


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I never have a use for self refencing.. maybe thats just me, feels like 
a dirty hack.


 


Just create reference to your class. You will need that a lot ...


function connect ()

{

mySocket = new XMLSocket ();
var _obj = this;

mySocket.onXML = function ()
{
_obj.handleIncoming();
  }
}




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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim
Phelan
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2005 2:27 PM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

Hi,

The problem here is scope. When you call parseMessages, you doing it in
the
scope of the mySocket object (where the method doesn't exist.) 


There's a pretty simple workaround for this using the Delegate utility
that
comes with Flash.

At the top of your class file, do this : import mx.utils.Delegate;

Change this line: mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;
To this: mySocket.onXML = Delegate.create(this,handleIncoming);

And that should solve your problem. Basically you're creating a proxy
function on the XMLSocket object that then invokes the handleIncoming
function on your OSC object. There are other ways to do this, but I
think
the Delegate method is generally considered the best practice.

Hope that helps,

Jim

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hbruyere
 


Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:19 PM
To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] OOP newbie question

Hi,



Here is a OOP newbie question.



I have a class (see below)..



Everything works fine. but the method handleIncoming can not access
   


()
 


or
maybe even find) the method parseMessages.

If I give the complete path to the instance of the OSC class (made in
   


my
 


fla
- for example _root.OSC_Obj.parseMessages (xmlIn); ) it works.



How should I code this to make it works ?





class OSC

{



  var mySocket : XMLSocket;

//

//

  public function OSC ()

  {

  connect ();

  }

  //

  //

  function connect ()

  {

  mySocket = new XMLSocket ();

  mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;

  }

//

//

  function handleIncoming (xmlIn)

  {

  parseMessages (xmlIn);



  }

//

  function parseMessages (node)

  {

actions..

}

}



Thanks for your attention,



//h

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[Flashcoders] Loading multiple images inside dynamic text field

[Sajid Saiyed]

Hi,
I was surprised to see this result.

I have a Dynamic text field on stage.
I am loading some XML data which contains HTML formatted text inside CDATA tag.

The content of CDATA is something like:

img alt=kp.jpg
src=http://www.ssdesigninteractive.com/blog/archives/kp.jpg;
width=450 height=348 /
p
img alt=amit.jpg
src=http://www.ssdesigninteractive.com/blog/archives/amit.jpg;
width=450 height=348 /

Now when I run the movie, the two images load BUT the spacing between
the two images is just a line break given by p.

Also the images overlap each other.

I expected the two images to load in line one fter another.

Anyone faced this problem before?

*** note: If you want to look at the actual problem, try this URL.
Scroll down a bit to the post called FRIENDS AT MACROMEDIA .

http://www.ssdesigninteractive.com/flashblog.html

This is my flash frontend for Wordpress, The archives and search links
are not working currently but you can explore otherwise.

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[Flashcoders] browsing Flashcoders archives on local PC

[Gregory_GOusable]

Hello Flashcoders,

I'm preparing for MM certification and would like to refresh my
Flash MX 2004 knowledge by reading Flashcoders archives (2003-2005).

They are downloadable as huge (4-5mb per month) text files.

Does someone have experience/tricks/ideas of how to browse them on local PC
(or Mac)?
  

-- 
Best regards,
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http://GOusable.com
Flash components development.
Usability services.


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Re: [Flashcoders] browsing Flashcoders archives on local PC

[Sajid Saiyed]

Download Google Desktop search.

Its the best way to search your PC as far as I know.

--Sajid

On 11/25/05, Gregory_GOusable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello Flashcoders,

 I'm preparing for MM certification and would like to refresh my
 Flash MX 2004 knowledge by reading Flashcoders archives (2003-2005).

 They are downloadable as huge (4-5mb per month) text files.

 Does someone have experience/tricks/ideas of how to browse them on local PC
 (or Mac)?


 --
 Best regards,
  Gregory_GOusable
 
 http://GOusable.com
 Flash components development.
 Usability services.


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