Re: [Flashcoders] setNewTextFormat() woes
Andreas, if i understood you correct, what you want is this:
var format1_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format1_fmt.font = Arial;
var format2_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format2_fmt.font = Courier;
var string1:String = Sample string number one.+newline;
var string2:String = Sample string number two.+newline;
this.createTextField(my_txt, this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 300, 200);
my_txt.multiline = true;
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
my_txt.text = string1;
var firstIndex:Number = my_txt.length;
my_txt.text += string2;
var secondIndex:Number = my_txt.length;
my_txt.setTextFormat(0, firstIndex, format1_fmt);
my_txt.setTextFormat(firstIndex, secondIndex, format2_fmt);
Rodrigo
On 4/21/06, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok i'm confused.
fmtOne = new TextFormat(Arial,20);
fmtTwo = new TextFormat(Arial,40);
blah = _root.createTextField(myField,10,0,0,100,100);
blah.autoSize = true;
blah.setNewTextFormat(fmtOne);
blah.text+=First ;
blah.setNewTextFormat(fmtTwo);
blah.text+=Second;
In my mind, based on what the docs say about setNewTextFormat and on
what i'm 99% sure i've done before in some circumstance, the text field
in this case should contain a small First and a larger Second.
Instead setNewTextFormat() is acting like setTextFormat, setting all the
text to fmtTwo. Is there a reason for this? If i try setting SPECIFIC
letters to a textformat with setTextFormat(from,to,format) it works fine.
I thought setNewTextFormat() only affects text added to the textField
AFTER it has been called, not the complete field at any time, anywhere.
As a better example of the kind of use i have for it; the actual problem
AS:
function sum() {
var count = 17;
var langCount = 4;
var searchString = A name;
var norm_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
norm_fmt.color = 0xFF;
norm_fmt.size = 16;
norm_fmt.font = ConduitNorm;
var bold_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
bold_fmt.color = 0xEFB21E;
bold_fmt.size = 18;
bold_fmt.font = ConduitBold;
sumField.text = ;
sumField.embedFonts = true;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(bold_fmt);
sumField.text += count;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(norm_fmt);
sumField.text += NameTones in ;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(bold_fmt);
sumField.text += langCount;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(norm_fmt);
sumField.text += different languages, was found on: ;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(bold_fmt);
sumField.text += searchString;
}
As above, all the text is set to bold_fmt, which is not cool
- Andreas
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Re: [Flashcoders] setNewTextFormat() woes
I was hoping i wouldn't have to do that.. But thanks Rodrigo, it'll do
fine :)
- A
MBDI ICSC Rodrigo E. Curiel Salazar wrote:
Andreas, if i understood you correct, what you want is this:
var format1_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format1_fmt.font = Arial;
var format2_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format2_fmt.font = Courier;
var string1:String = Sample string number one.+newline;
var string2:String = Sample string number two.+newline;
this.createTextField(my_txt, this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 300, 200);
my_txt.multiline = true;
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
my_txt.text = string1;
var firstIndex:Number = my_txt.length;
my_txt.text += string2;
var secondIndex:Number = my_txt.length;
my_txt.setTextFormat(0, firstIndex, format1_fmt);
my_txt.setTextFormat(firstIndex, secondIndex, format2_fmt);
Rodrigo
On 4/21/06, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok i'm confused.
fmtOne = new TextFormat(Arial,20);
fmtTwo = new TextFormat(Arial,40);
blah = _root.createTextField(myField,10,0,0,100,100);
blah.autoSize = true;
blah.setNewTextFormat(fmtOne);
blah.text+=First ;
blah.setNewTextFormat(fmtTwo);
blah.text+=Second;
In my mind, based on what the docs say about setNewTextFormat and on
what i'm 99% sure i've done before in some circumstance, the text field
in this case should contain a small First and a larger Second.
Instead setNewTextFormat() is acting like setTextFormat, setting all the
text to fmtTwo. Is there a reason for this? If i try setting SPECIFIC
letters to a textformat with setTextFormat(from,to,format) it works fine.
I thought setNewTextFormat() only affects text added to the textField
AFTER it has been called, not the complete field at any time, anywhere.
As a better example of the kind of use i have for it; the actual problem
AS:
function sum() {
var count = 17;
var langCount = 4;
var searchString = A name;
var norm_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
norm_fmt.color = 0xFF;
norm_fmt.size = 16;
norm_fmt.font = ConduitNorm;
var bold_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
bold_fmt.color = 0xEFB21E;
bold_fmt.size = 18;
bold_fmt.font = ConduitBold;
sumField.text = ;
sumField.embedFonts = true;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(bold_fmt);
sumField.text += count;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(norm_fmt);
sumField.text += NameTones in ;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(bold_fmt);
sumField.text += langCount;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(norm_fmt);
sumField.text += different languages, was found on: ;
sumField.setNewTextFormat(bold_fmt);
sumField.text += searchString;
}
As above, all the text is set to bold_fmt, which is not cool
- Andreas
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[Flashcoders] greek/math chars
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Re: [Flashcoders] greek/math chars
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Re: [Flashcoders] greek/math chars
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RE: [Flashcoders] Single giant bitmap vs Multiple smaller bitmaps -Performance Effects?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Single giant bitmap vs Multiple smaller bitmaps - Performance Effects?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Single giant bitmap vs Multiple smaller bitmaps - Performance Effects?
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[Flashcoders] WebService woes
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[Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Hi: We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe. The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system handles): FLA, SWF files BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files WAV files DOC files PDF files FM files (Framemaker) files PSD files Corel files We are looking for one system running on a server that would be able to house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning, check in / check out, etc. Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2 docs and tell what the differences are. However, this is a nicety, NOT a requirement. I appreciate any advice. Sincerely, Loren Elks ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Subversion and CVS are free and widely used. We use Eclipse as the front-end and it works really well - even for marketing documentation and proposals. Ron Loren R. Elks wrote: Hi: We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe. The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system handles): FLA, SWF files BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files WAV files DOC files PDF files FM files (Framemaker) files PSD files Corel files We are looking for one system running on a server that would be able to house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning, check in / check out, etc. Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2 docs and tell what the differences are. However, this is a nicety, NOT a requirement. I appreciate any advice. Sincerely, Loren Elks ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
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[Flashcoders] Managing Components and external .as files
Hi, I've started building a library of my own components for thing I reuse accross projects. I usually build stuff with external .as files, so I was wondering how I can have manage the library of components if each component will have it's own external as file. I don't want to copy the .as file into each project when I need to use it. What approach should I take? Thanks, - Kevin ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Our company tried using SourceSafe for a while, but gave up on it after it kept corrupting files, or locking them up and not allowing anyone to access them, without an admin's intervention. Also, we couldn't find a decent Mac client for it either. We switched to Subversion after that, and have been using it since. It's free, and is pretty easy to setup. We really haven't had any problems with it either, and the ones we have had were user related. I'd definitely recommend the SVN route. - Josh On Apr 21, 2006, at 8:32 AM, JesterXL wrote: Subversion. http://subversion.tigris.org/ A Windows client: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ You can install yourself on your own server, or hosted. I use these guys: http://avlux.net/subversion/host.php You will not be able to do a compare for binary files beyond Is this an exact match or not?. That's it. Since Word, Excel, FLA, ect. are binary, there is no such thing. However, ASCII files (text ones), like TXT, AS, MXML, HTML, CSS and the rest WILL do comparisons. You can track changes all types of files, and see who checked what in. Newer versions of Subversion also have the ability to lock a file so you cannot check something in (Visual Source Safe had this by default, but many people didn't like it). - Original Message - From: Loren R. Elks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 10:18 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed. Hi: We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe. The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system handles): FLA, SWF files BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files WAV files DOC files PDF files FM files (Framemaker) files PSD files Corel files We are looking for one system running on a server that would be able to house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning, check in / check out, etc. Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2 docs and tell what the differences are. However, this is a nicety, NOT a requirement. I appreciate any advice. Sincerely, Loren Elks ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Hello, I worked with a previous company that used Alienbrain for its non-text documents and files but it is commercial software... (http://www.alienbrain.com) Subversion and CVS are good open source alternatives like everyone else said. -beverly -Original Message- From: Loren R. Elks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 04/21/06 10:18 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed. Hi: We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe. The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system handles): FLA, SWF files BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files WAV files DOC files PDF files FM files (Framemaker) files PSD files Corel files We are looking for one system running on a server that would be able to house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning, check in / check out, etc. Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2 docs and tell what the differences are. However, this is a nicety, NOT a requirement. I appreciate any advice. Sincerely, Loren Elks ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Managing Components and external .as files
An SWC. Just make sure all of your components force the class into the SWF: import YourClass; var dependYourClass:YourClass; And then compile an SWC that merely does the above. Put the SWC into your library, and viola! ...it'll be hard to do syntax checking in AS only, or in MTASC without at least intrinsics, but if you don't want to port AS files around, well, that's the tradeoff. - Original Message - From: Kevin Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Managing Components and external .as files Hi, I've started building a library of my own components for thing I reuse accross projects. I usually build stuff with external .as files, so I was wondering how I can have manage the library of components if each component will have it's own external as file. I don't want to copy the .as file into each project when I need to use it. What approach should I take? Thanks, - Kevin ___ 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 ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Components redraw . Weird
Hello . Out of curiosity, does anyone had issues with flash 8 components having a redraw glitch on display ? I have a clip that is maybe 3 level deep. That clip contains comboBoxes and dateChoosers components. With Flash mx 2004 it was working fine, but with Flash 8, when the clip is displayed, for maybe half a second the outline of the components get double or blurry. Right now I mask it for a second before displaying it but it's pretty anoying. Does anybody had that problem and found a work-around ? thanks a lot Pat ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] Managing Components and external .as files
Where does the viola come into it? How do musical instruments relate to Flash SWC's??? I'm confused ;-) Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: 21 April 2006 15:46 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Managing Components and external .as files An SWC. Just make sure all of your components force the class into the SWF: import YourClass; var dependYourClass:YourClass; And then compile an SWC that merely does the above. Put the SWC into your library, and viola! ...it'll be hard to do syntax checking in AS only, or in MTASC without at least intrinsics, but if you don't want to port AS files around, well, that's the tradeoff. - Original Message - From: Kevin Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Managing Components and external .as files Hi, I've started building a library of my own components for thing I reuse accross projects. I usually build stuff with external .as files, so I was wondering how I can have manage the library of components if each component will have it's own external as file. I don't want to copy the .as file into each project when I need to use it. What approach should I take? Thanks, - Kevin ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Use Subversion everyday - its awesome, its just right-clicking away on files, its much faster than WinCVS (I think), its updated quite a lot, its diff is quick, graphing is good, etc. I love it. - e.dolecki ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Hi, We have been evaluation AlienBrain, it is not free but the versioning and source control is excellent. There are plugins for Photoshop and MAX (have only used these two) which integrate directly with the database making the whole process quick and painless. You may want to at least take a look at it www.alienbrain.com one nice feature is the ability to view images directly in the client and compare them before checking out. Hope this helps, Regards, Peter Witham www.evolutiondata.com On Apr 21, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Loren R. Elks wrote: Hi: We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe. The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system handles): FLA, SWF files BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files WAV files DOC files PDF files FM files (Framemaker) files PSD files Corel files We are looking for one system running on a server that would be able to house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning, check in / check out, etc. Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2 docs and tell what the differences are. However, this is a nicety, NOT a requirement. I appreciate any advice. Sincerely, Loren Elks ___ 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 Peter Witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.evolutiondata.com ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
I believe subversions diff can actually handle binary files. Anyway, here's some great articles for you to check out. Article on using subversion with Flash: http://www.ivantodorov.com/blog/?p=28 Also, BLITZ's directory structure and file name conventions are worth reading too: http://www.ivantodorov.com/blog/?p=24 - Kevin On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:53:52AM -0400, eric dolecki wrote: Use Subversion everyday - its awesome, its just right-clicking away on files, its much faster than WinCVS (I think), its updated quite a lot, its diff is quick, graphing is good, etc. I love it. - e.dolecki ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
The comments about AlienBrain have a good point. AlienBrian was originally marketed as a gaming industry source control system since creating games consisted of thousands of media assets. Subversion on the other hand was created out of a need to have something better than VSS and CVS that was open source for code. Considering the types of media formats you are looking at it, I'd have to concur with Peter and others that you should probably gander at AlienBrian as well. - Original Message - From: Peter Witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed. Hi, We have been evaluation AlienBrain, it is not free but the versioning and source control is excellent. There are plugins for Photoshop and MAX (have only used these two) which integrate directly with the database making the whole process quick and painless. You may want to at least take a look at it www.alienbrain.com one nice feature is the ability to view images directly in the client and compare them before checking out. Hope this helps, Regards, Peter Witham www.evolutiondata.com On Apr 21, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Loren R. Elks wrote: Hi: We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe. The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system handles): FLA, SWF files BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files WAV files DOC files PDF files FM files (Framemaker) files PSD files Corel files We are looking for one system running on a server that would be able to house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning, check in / check out, etc. Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2 docs and tell what the differences are. However, this is a nicety, NOT a requirement. I appreciate any advice. Sincerely, Loren Elks ___ 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 Peter Witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.evolutiondata.com ___ 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 ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] Multidimensional Array
Chris, I see you posted the same question on Flashnewbies too (tsk tsk)
- so I will reply here as well:
So as an alternative, how about using object arrays instead?
Personally, I like that so I can use dot syntax to get my data.
Multidimensional arrays have there uses, but they can also get real
messy and confusing real easy. Objects with a hierarchy of properties
binds related data together.
var people:Array = [
{firstname:Chris, lastname:Kennon, age:39, location:CA},
{firstname:Alice, lastname:Miller, age:24, location:WA},
{firstname:Margie, lastname:Johnson, age:36, location:MI}
];
//Then, to acesss:
trace(people[0].firstname) //traces Chris
trace(people[1].firstname)//traces Alice
trace(people[1].age) //traces 24
trace(people[2].location) //traces MI
...etc.
This way, the data sets stay associated with themselves. You can
easily loop through the data to find all the people who have the last
name of Miller and live in CA that way. I.e. to find all the names of
people who live in Michigan:
//data set:
var people:Array = [
{firstname:Chris, lastname:Kennon, age:39, location:CA},
{firstname:Alice, lastname:Miller, age:24, location:WA},
{firstname:Lucy, lastname:Adams, age:36, location:MI},
{firstname:George, lastname:Miller, age:24, location:AZ},
{firstname:Margie, lastname:Johnson, age:55, location:MI},
{firstname:Jim, lastname:Johnson, age:31, location:MI}
];
//find index function:
function findIndex(dataset:Array, findProperty:String,
findString:String):Array{
var resultsArray:Array = new Array();
for(var i=0; idataset.length; i++){
if(dataset[i][findProperty] == findString){
resultsArray.push(i);
}
}
return resultsArray;
}
//find indexes of people in Michigan:
var MichiganPeople:Array = findIndex(people, location, MI);
//show names of people in Michigan:
for(var i=0; iMichiganPeople.length; i++){
trace(people[MichiganPeople[i]].firstname+
+people[MichiganPeople[i]].lastname);
};
Hope that helps,
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RE: [Flashcoders] WebService woes
It's in their WS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 10:15 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] WebService woes In the IDE, this works fine, and i have gotten no security sandbox warnings. In the SAplayer or browser, i get this: FAULT Unable to load WSDL, if currently online, please verify the URI and/or format of the WSDL I've verified the URI, as it works in the IDE, but not outside. Is this a problem on my end or theirs (i didn't do the webservice)? - Andreas ___ 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 ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Hi Loren I Use sourcesafe for (amongst others) Flash files (.bmp/.jpg/.as/.fla/.swf/.etc) and experience not problems at all. I use eclipse with the sourcesafe plugin when developing flash. Although it is not free and the free alternatives are at least just as good as sourcesafe, if you *have* to use sourcesafe because it is the only version controller in your environment, you shouldn't expect any problems. Grt, Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loren R. Elks Sent: vrijdag 21 april 2006 16:18 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed. Hi: We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe. The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system handles): FLA, SWF files BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files WAV files DOC files PDF files FM files (Framemaker) files PSD files Corel files We are looking for one system running on a server that would be able to house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning, check in / check out, etc. Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2 docs and tell what the differences are. However, this is a nicety, NOT a requirement. I appreciate any advice. Sincerely, Loren Elks ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
They can: Is this file the same as this file or not? While that is helpful in knowing if the file I am checking in is newer than yours, it doesn't tell me if my Symbol in the library is different, if something has changed on frame 2, etc. - Original Message - From: Kevin Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed. I believe subversions diff can actually handle binary files. Anyway, here's some great articles for you to check out. Article on using subversion with Flash: http://www.ivantodorov.com/blog/?p=28 Also, BLITZ's directory structure and file name conventions are worth reading too: http://www.ivantodorov.com/blog/?p=24 - Kevin On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:53:52AM -0400, eric dolecki wrote: Use Subversion everyday - its awesome, its just right-clicking away on files, its much faster than WinCVS (I think), its updated quite a lot, its diff is quick, graphing is good, etc. I love it. - e.dolecki ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Thanks, Kevin N. Geoff Stearns wrote: setting display:none won't stop anything from loading, so it will load twice. (or load part way and then load again, etc.) On Apr 21, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Kevin Newman wrote: I change it so that it might work on all Objects. :-) http://www.unfocus.com/projects/PatentMagic/ I took care of that loading forever bug too. Does anyone know if setting display:none on an object prevents it from loading? If not, then double loading is the only thing left to take care of. Nice coding btw. Kevin N. elibol wrote: I've modified it to transfer FlashVars http://anticipatechange.com/huseyin/patentMagic/ On 4/20/06, Kevin Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I'm doing to try and keep the objects from loading is defining all objects with display:none - is there a more reliable way to prevent objects from loading in the background? I took a quick look on msdn for some ActiveX magic method, but wasn't able to find anything. It looks like it does loose the values of some of the params unfortunately. If there is a way around that, I'd be happy to implement it. Kevin N. elibol wrote: It doesn't seem to Geoff, I tested it with a 100%x100% object: http://anticipatechange.com/huseyin/shifty.html The object tag has noscale params, there is one problem though, it seems as if the replaced objects appear to still be loading from the browsers perspective. Besides this, seems like a reliable exploit so far. Nice job Kevin. M. On 4/20/06, elibol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it make sense for this to work with all Active X Objects? The idea is to override object activation by rewriting the objects after the document is loaded? Is this a hole in the activation process, where it will only force activation when the page is being initialized? Objects written after the page is loaded slip through? M. On 4/20/06, Kevin Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't want to have to redefine all the stuff that has already been defined in the html object. So I made this: :-) http://www.unfocus.com/projects/PatentMagic/ A super tiny js file include and a stylesheet takes care of all object activation. It's a bit brute force, but it should get the job done if you are looking for a quick fix and are using static embedded html. If anyone has any ideas on how to make this more robust, please let me know. :-) Kevin N. Geoff Stearns wrote: you could do this with flashobject really easily. just call fo.write() whenever you want and it will replace the object you target with your flash movie. On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Kevin Newman wrote: I prefer solutions that try to hide IE's lack of conformity, like Dean Edwards's IE 7 script: http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ There are just too many installations to realistically ignore them. Speaking of hacking on IE, is there a way to prevent an object from loading? By that I mean, I want to use Object tags to embed a Swf, but I don't want it to download or load in the background until I tell it to via a script interaction (vbscript or javascript). Will hiding it via css do the trick, or will I need to take further steps to keep it from loading? Thanks, Kevin N. ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Adobe Licensing - FAO John Dowdell, Mike C hambers et al.
AFAIK PPC and WIN CE aren't the same architecture? Surely Win Ce stuff has to be compiled specifically for a porcessor? Pocket PC (or more accurately, Windows Mobile) is a specialized version of Windows CE. Primarily, it constrains hardware controls and interface elements within Windows CE. Nowadays, all Pocket PC devices use ARM or ARM-compatible processors, so if your Windows CE device also uses ARM, you should be all set. If it uses something else, you're probably out of luck - to the best of my knowledge, there is only a Windows Mobile version of the Flash Player. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Hi Figured I'd chime in with my 2 cents worth. I've not used AlienBrain so I can't comment on that. I have used VSS, StarTeam, CVS and another home rolled source control system. By far the absolute best system I've ever used is StarTeam (from Borland). It had the best feature set in terms of checking out/checking in, locking and unlocking files, keeping you appraised of who had what file checked out, when files were newer, what files you had on your machine that were modified etc.. When I was forced to convert to StarTeam from VSS, I was a bit pessimistic but it didn't take long to see that StarTeam had a much more sensible UI (although I'm not a fan of their latest icons) and actually made sense to more people. We used it for almost all our assets: fla, swf, as, psd, etc.. as well as documents (Word, Excel, PP, Project etc) and we had artists, project managers, senior managers, programmers, qa etc.. all using it and all understanding it. Now I will be upfront and state clearly that I don't neccessarily believe that StarTeam has done a lot on the to minimize binary file growth other then to apply compression to the file. What I mean by that is if you were to say take a text file in CVS and look at how it stores it. It does so by saving all the changes into a single text file and uses a markup and indexing system to track what the latest version should be and who made all the individual changes up to that point. Something that can be easily done in text files is not something that can be so easily done with a binary file. As Jester points out, all version control systems to date cannot tell you what changed between saves of an fla or for that matter a swf. This means when you go to check a file in to a version control system, a binary file is often saved as a copy, the more check-ins the more copies of the file. My understanding is the Subversion was supposed to be doing something to minimize this affect on binary files. That they had or were working on some kind of change system like that used by CVS for text files although I haven't done enough research to prove that statement. If one is not careful, you can rapidly fill a version control system with small binary files (those smaller then the cluster size (is that the correct term?) of a hard drive - ie. 4kb for Windows NT) because they take up more HD room then the file size. So when looking for a version control system you want to study how they save files, especially binary files, and make sure that they do something to minimize the affect. Some systems might take all the changes for a given file and put them into a single compressed archive thereby minimizing growth to some extent. From my experience, no matter what version control system you use, you absolutely need a solid backup system for your version control system. And you need to test it frequently enough to ensure it is successfully backing up. I have seen first hand a group who used a version control system, failed to backup the database and vault correctly and eventually the db failed. While all the files were still in the vault there was no way to retrieve them because all the references were stored in the now defunct database. If you grow to rely on a version control system to be the repository for all files, you are dealing with a single point of failure and thus you need to make sure that you have armour plated backup/restore system. Just before I left my previous employer, we began to switch from StarTeam to CVS, because CVS was cheaper (aka free) and therefore so much better. While there are a number of GUI interfaces to CVS we never found one that really satisfied our needs like StarTeam did. We also found CVS to be rather wanting in terms of features and we had a lot of issues with synchronization. We tried the SmartCVS and WinCVS interfaces as well as Tortoise interface. Each interface had some feature that worked better then others but none worked quite that way we wanted it to work and we lost countless hours of screwing around and trying to work around its limitations. A good point to take away from that experience would be to look beyond the price tag. While CVS is a good repository system for some people it might not work that well for others. I haven't used Subversion to see if it is any better. Good version control systems are well worth their weight in gold. Glancing at the price tag of AlienBrain it is rather expensive, as is StarTeam (although I think StarTeam is slightly cheaper) and I believe VSS is also fairly pricey. There are two things to look at: cost of the server software and cost of individual client licenses. I would advise that you sit down and calculate how many man hours it would take to pay for a client license of one (or all) of the better source control systems. Take those numbers and then sit down and begin to evaluate which system works for you. If you start to see major quirks
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Is AS2Unit a joke?
I have not been able to get AS2Unit to report anything useful other
than the number of tests. It always reports OK no matter how
impossible or bogus my test is. It never finds anything wrong or fails.
Case in point are the simple Name class below and its companion
tester (NameTester) class. Notice the last method in the tester
(testTestFails) is designed to fail.
Drop a AS2Unit instance on the stage, add the following code to the
first frame:
import NameTester;
var classes:Array = [NameTester];
and run...
I get:
...
Time: 0.001 seconds
OK (3 tests)
!!!
Now, perhaps I am not doing things right do to the fact that there is
NO DOCUMENTATION for AS2Unit that I could find other than the article
on FlashMagazine in which the methods to use for assertions are
enumerated... without argument signatures!!!
Anyone know how to get this suite to work, is it reliable?
Isaac
Class to test:
class Name {
private var firstName:String;
private var lastName:String;
private var middleInitial:String;
public function Name(firstName:String, middleInitial:String,
lastName:String) {
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
if(middleInitial == null) middleInitial = ;
if(middleInitial.length 1) middleInitial = middleInitial.substring
(0, 1);
if(middleInitial.length == 1) this.middleInitial = middleInitial +
.;
else this.middleInitial = ;
}
public function getFirstName():String {
return this.firstName;
}
public function getLastName():String {
return this.lastName;
}
public function getMiddleInitial():String {
return this.middleInitial;
}
public function hasMiddleInitial():Boolean {
return this.middleInitial.length == 2;
}
public function equals(other:Object):Boolean {
if(other == null) return false;
if(!(other instanceof Name)) return false;
var that:Name = Name(other);
if(this.getFullName() == that.getFullName()) return true;
return false;
}
public function getFullName():String {
return this.firstName + ((this.middleInitial.length == 2) ? ( +
this.middleInitial + ) : );
}
public function toString():String {
return getFullName();
}
}
Tester Class:
import Name;
import as2unit.framework.TestCase
class NameTester extends TestCase {
private static var FIRSTNAME:String = Isaac;
private static var MIDDLEINITIAL:String = ;
private static var LASTNAME:String = Rivera;
private static var CONTROLNAME:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME,
MIDDLEINITIAL, LASTNAME);
public function NameTester() {}
public function testGettersReturnCorrectValues():Void {
var testName:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME, MIDDLEINITIAL,
LASTNAME);
assertNotNull(testName);
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME);
assertNotNull(testName.getFirstName());
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME.getFirstName());
assertNotNull(testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME.getMiddleInitial());
assertNotNull(testName.getLastName());
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME.getLastName());
assertEquals(FIRSTNAME, testName.getFirstName());
assertEquals(MIDDLEINITIAL, testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertEquals(LASTNAME, testName.getLastName());
assertFalse(testName.hasMiddleInitial());
}
public function testEqualsWorksCorrectly():Void {
var testName:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME, MIDDLEINITIAL,
LASTNAME);
assertNotNull(testName);
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME);
assertEquals(CONTROLNAME.getFirstName(),
testName.getFirstName());
assertEquals(CONTROLNAME.getMiddleInitial(),
testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertEquals(CONTROLNAME.getLastName(), testName.getLastName());
assertTrue(testName.equals(CONTROLNAME));
}
public function testTestFails():Void {
var testName:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME, MIDDLEINITIAL,
LASTNAME);
assertNotNull(testName);
assertEquals(Carlos, testName.getFirstName());
assertEquals(Vizcarondo, testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertEquals(M., testName.getLastName());
assertTrue(testName.equals(new Object()));
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Sorry to reply to myself, but I was thinking that if it is possible to detect when an object is added to the dom tree, then I could just replace the object before it gets a chance to load, so I guess I wouldn't need to disable it. So now I guess the question is if it is possible to detect when an object is added... Kevin N. Kevin Newman wrote: Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Is AS2Unit a joke?
never mind...
adding a methodName:String arg to the constructor solved the issues.
Isaac
On Apr 21, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Isaac Rivera wrote:
I have not been able to get AS2Unit to report anything useful other
than the number of tests. It always reports OK no matter how
impossible or bogus my test is. It never finds anything wrong or
fails.
Case in point are the simple Name class below and its companion
tester (NameTester) class. Notice the last method in the tester
(testTestFails) is designed to fail.
Drop a AS2Unit instance on the stage, add the following code to the
first frame:
import NameTester;
var classes:Array = [NameTester];
and run...
I get:
...
Time: 0.001 seconds
OK (3 tests)
!!!
Now, perhaps I am not doing things right do to the fact that there
is NO DOCUMENTATION for AS2Unit that I could find other than the
article on FlashMagazine in which the methods to use for assertions
are enumerated... without argument signatures!!!
Anyone know how to get this suite to work, is it reliable?
Isaac
Class to test:
class Name {
private var firstName:String;
private var lastName:String;
private var middleInitial:String;
public function Name(firstName:String, middleInitial:String,
lastName:String) {
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
if(middleInitial == null) middleInitial = ;
if(middleInitial.length 1) middleInitial =
middleInitial.substring(0, 1);
if(middleInitial.length == 1) this.middleInitial = middleInitial
+ .;
else this.middleInitial = ;
}
public function getFirstName():String {
return this.firstName;
}
public function getLastName():String {
return this.lastName;
}
public function getMiddleInitial():String {
return this.middleInitial;
}
public function hasMiddleInitial():Boolean {
return this.middleInitial.length == 2;
}
public function equals(other:Object):Boolean {
if(other == null) return false;
if(!(other instanceof Name)) return false;
var that:Name = Name(other);
if(this.getFullName() == that.getFullName()) return true;
return false;
}
public function getFullName():String {
return this.firstName + ((this.middleInitial.length == 2) ? (
+ this.middleInitial + ) : );
}
public function toString():String {
return getFullName();
}
}
Tester Class:
import Name;
import as2unit.framework.TestCase
class NameTester extends TestCase {
private static var FIRSTNAME:String = Isaac;
private static var MIDDLEINITIAL:String = ;
private static var LASTNAME:String = Rivera;
private static var CONTROLNAME:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME,
MIDDLEINITIAL, LASTNAME);
public function NameTester() {}
public function testGettersReturnCorrectValues():Void {
var testName:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME, MIDDLEINITIAL,
LASTNAME);
assertNotNull(testName);
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME);
assertNotNull(testName.getFirstName());
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME.getFirstName());
assertNotNull(testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME.getMiddleInitial());
assertNotNull(testName.getLastName());
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME.getLastName());
assertEquals(FIRSTNAME, testName.getFirstName());
assertEquals(MIDDLEINITIAL, testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertEquals(LASTNAME, testName.getLastName());
assertFalse(testName.hasMiddleInitial());
}
public function testEqualsWorksCorrectly():Void {
var testName:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME, MIDDLEINITIAL,
LASTNAME);
assertNotNull(testName);
assertNotNull(CONTROLNAME);
assertEquals(CONTROLNAME.getFirstName(),
testName.getFirstName());
assertEquals(CONTROLNAME.getMiddleInitial(),
testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertEquals(CONTROLNAME.getLastName(), testName.getLastName());
assertTrue(testName.equals(CONTROLNAME));
}
public function testTestFails():Void {
var testName:Name = new Name(FIRSTNAME, MIDDLEINITIAL,
LASTNAME);
assertNotNull(testName);
assertEquals(Carlos, testName.getFirstName());
assertEquals(Vizcarondo, testName.getMiddleInitial());
assertEquals(M., testName.getLastName());
assertTrue(testName.equals(new
[Flashcoders] LoadVars trpuble
I recently found that the problem with using LoadVars.send() inside an HTML frameset in MSIE 6.0 (among other versions, presumably) is that for some mysterious reason, the following HTTP header... Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded ...gets omitted from the resulting request, so despite all of the other headers and data being sent to the server, PHP is unable to automatically populate the $_POST variable, and it sounds like ASP runs into the same problem. Happily, since the data *does* get sent, with PHP anyway, if you set the always_populate_raw_post_data php.ini core directive to 1 (see http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php for details), the page handling the LoadVars.send() request can still access the data via the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable. I'm not as familiar with ASP, but perhaps there'd be a similar work-around there? Best, Rich ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Hi elibol,
Great job! And it seems that great minds think alike - yours is a similar
solution to the one I've been working on myself... I posted an earlier
version of my script on this list on Monday under the subject Active X and
Microsoft IE, but it got no comments.
I've done some more work on it since, and I'm including the new script for
comparison.
I also added a nifty flash detection - if you add a param with the name
flashVersion, the script will check if the installed flash version matches
the param's value (same or higher) and react accordingly.
The flash detection bit works with all browsers, the flash replacement bit
only with IE.
Karina
--
//Set to true if you want it to apply only to flash objects and/or objects
with the class objectH
//Otherwise this will apply to all objects. default: false.
var flashOnly = false;
//Check if the browser is InternetExplorer
var ie = (navigator.appName.indexOf(Microsoft) != -1)
//Add a stylesheet for the hidden/visible classes, to prevent a jump after
the object is replaced.
if (ie){
document.write (style object{visibility:hidden;} /style)
}
/*Replace all flash objects on the page with the same flash object,
by rewriting the outerHTML values
This bypasses the new IE ActiveX object activation issue*/
replaceFlash = function(){
//Get a list of all ActiveX objects
var objects = document.getElementsByTagName('object');
for (var i=0; iobjects.length; i++){
var o = objects[i];
//The outer html omits the param tags, so we must retrieve
and insert these separately
var paramList = o.getElementsByTagName('param');
var params = ;
for (var j = 0; j=paramList.length; j++) {
if (paramList[j] != null){
//Check for version first - applies to all
browsers
//For this to work, a new param needs to be
included in the object with the name flashVersion eg:
//param name=flashVersion value=7 /
if (paramList[j].name == flashVersion){
var hasFlash =
detectFlash(paramList[j].value)
if (!hasFlash){
stripFlash(o, paramList);
break;
}
}
params += paramList[j].outerHTML;
}
}
//Only target internet explorer
if (!ie){
continue;
}
//If flashOnly var is true then only flash objects and those
marked with objectH will be replaced.
if (flashOnly
o.outerHTML.indexOf(application/x-shockwave-flash) == -1
o.className.indexOf (replaceFlash) == -1){
continue;
}
//Get the tag and attributes part of the outer html of the
object
var tag = o.outerHTML.split()[0] + ;
//Add up the various bits that comprise the object:
//The tag with the attributes, the params and it's inner
html
var newObject = tag + params + o.innerHTML + /OBJECT;
//And rewrite the outer html of the tag
o.outerHTML = newObject;
}
//Make the object visible again
if (ie){
document.write (style object{visibility:visible;}
/style)
}
}
detectFlash = function(version){
if(navigator.plugins.length){
//Non-IE flash detection.
var plugin = navigator.plugins[Shockwave Flash];
if (plugin == undefined){
return false;
}
var ver = navigator.plugins[Shockwave
Flash].description.split( )[2];
return (Number(ver) = Number(version))
} else {
//IE flash detection.
try{
var flash = new
ActiveXObject(ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash. + version);
return true;
}
catch(e){
return false;
}
}
}
//Replace the object by a div tag containing the same innerHTML.
//To display a message for the user and a link to the flash installation
page, place it inside the object tag.
stripFlash = function (o, paramList){
var newHTML = o.innerHTML
newHTML = newHTML.replace (embed, span)
var d = document.createElement(div)
d.innerHTML = newHTML
Re: [Flashcoders] Multidimensional Array
Hi,
Sorry for the cross-post, this post was a mistake, but your reply is
still greatly appreciated.
CK
On Apr 21, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
Chris, I see you posted the same question on Flashnewbies too (tsk
tsk)
- so I will reply here as well:
So as an alternative, how about using object arrays instead?
Personally, I like that so I can use dot syntax to get my data.
Multidimensional arrays have there uses, but they can also get real
messy and confusing real easy. Objects with a hierarchy of properties
binds related data together.
var people:Array = [
{firstname:Chris, lastname:Kennon, age:39, location:CA},
{firstname:Alice, lastname:Miller, age:24, location:WA},
{firstname:Margie, lastname:Johnson, age:36, location:MI}
];
//Then, to acesss:
trace(people[0].firstname) //traces Chris
trace(people[1].firstname)//traces Alice
trace(people[1].age) //traces 24
trace(people[2].location) //traces MI
...etc.
This way, the data sets stay associated with themselves. You can
easily loop through the data to find all the people who have the last
name of Miller and live in CA that way. I.e. to find all the
names of
people who live in Michigan:
//data set:
var people:Array = [
{firstname:Chris, lastname:Kennon, age:39, location:CA},
{firstname:Alice, lastname:Miller, age:24, location:WA},
{firstname:Lucy, lastname:Adams, age:36, location:MI},
{firstname:George, lastname:Miller, age:24, location:AZ},
{firstname:Margie, lastname:Johnson, age:55, location:MI},
{firstname:Jim, lastname:Johnson, age:31, location:MI}
];
//find index function:
function findIndex(dataset:Array, findProperty:String,
findString:String):Array{
var resultsArray:Array = new Array();
for(var i=0; idataset.length; i++){
if(dataset[i][findProperty] == findString){
resultsArray.push(i);
}
}
return resultsArray;
}
//find indexes of people in Michigan:
var MichiganPeople:Array = findIndex(people, location, MI);
//show names of people in Michigan:
for(var i=0; iMichiganPeople.length; i++){
trace(people[MichiganPeople[i]].firstname+
+people[MichiganPeople[i]].lastname);
};
Hope that helps,
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[Flashcoders] Implementing GroupName for my own component
I would like to implement a radio-like component and provide a groupName for it (I don't use MM components because they do not fit my application). Is there a way to dynamically retrieve all siblings of the component's instance which have the same class (or subclass) of the component and the same groupName dynamically? Or will my best option be just implementing groupName as an accessor and refrencing dependent Radio buttons elsewhere? That is, if I have 5 instances of RadioCompnent inside a specific timeline, can I programmatically retrieve all of them? -- Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov please send all personal mail to me at julik.nl ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Hmm... I'm not sure if you can do that, but what about using an intermediate stub? Then you could communicate with and tell it when to load the main content. This might even work automatically, with one of the object replacement techniques. Or... Here's a thought - what if the style for the object starts with display:none for the object, and then changes to display:block when the page has loaded. display: none removes the element from the document's flow, while visibility:hidden simply makes it invisible. Do you think this might do the trick? Karina -Original Message- From: Kevin Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 18:48 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... Sorry to reply to myself, but I was thinking that if it is possible to detect when an object is added to the dom tree, then I could just replace the object before it gets a chance to load, so I guess I wouldn't need to disable it. So now I guess the question is if it is possible to detect when an object is added... Kevin N. Kevin Newman wrote: Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
I was looking for a way to load the html document into a string that was defined in a container style html file which would replace all the object tags with empty object tags and load the page this way, then after the page is loaded, it would replace the objects with their true content, however, I wasn't able to find a technique to get an external html document to load as a string or just a passive kind of document object. The closest thing I could find was loading the document as an XML file, but this does not work since documents have non compliant syntax. I'm not too familiar with the limitations of Javascript so some of my ideas may seem a bit far fetched... Another idea I had was to write the document before it was loaded with blank object tags, then rewrite it after it loaded with the original content, however, I don't think this makes very much sense since the actual document may just load after the write() invocation. It may be that I can't even grab the documents objects until they've loaded, or that write() can only be used after the document has loaded. I don't know the facts about either of these conditions. These are all attempts to solve the double loading problem. The idea was to have the user replace their original document with this other document and rename the original document with a special extension the other document would load in as a string. This would make it easier to pacify the patent. M. On 4/21/06, Kevin Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Good working with it Kevin, if this last piece can be solved then it should be very useful =] M. On 4/21/06, Kevin Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Hi Karina, Kevin Newman deserves the credit, I've just written some of the code. Great work though, I'm very happy to have a little team working on this problem now. I'm sure we will solve it soon enough. I think Geoff mentioned that display:none does not prevent the object from loading, Ryan further validates this by giving us a clear idea of how html documents function, so, we should continue under the assumption that if the object is defined in the original document then it will always load. M. On 4/21/06, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... I'm not sure if you can do that, but what about using an intermediate stub? Then you could communicate with and tell it when to load the main content. This might even work automatically, with one of the object replacement techniques. Or... Here's a thought - what if the style for the object starts with display:none for the object, and then changes to display:block when the page has loaded. display: none removes the element from the document's flow, while visibility:hidden simply makes it invisible. Do you think this might do the trick? Karina -Original Message- From: Kevin Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 18:48 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... Sorry to reply to myself, but I was thinking that if it is possible to detect when an object is added to the dom tree, then I could just replace the object before it gets a chance to load, so I guess I wouldn't need to disable it. So now I guess the question is if it is possible to detect when an object is added... Kevin N. Kevin Newman wrote: Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Again with the wmode
I know this has been asked and answered a kagillion times, but I can't seem to get a definitive answer in my searches: The whole DHTML layer, browser, and flash object wmode thing - we can get our DHTML layer to show over the top of our flash piece (which contains some solid background images with animations) in IE using wmode=transparent and Flash on layer1, but not Firefox, Netscape or Opera - I KNEW (or at least I thought I knew) this had been a problem already and that there hadn't been a workaround, but then I saw this article: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5141 It says, It's not uncommon to hear developers complaining that their DHTML menus, when triggered, have dropped behind the Flash movie below them. It's also not uncommon to hear, that's just how they work. Before Flash Player 6, that was true in many browsers. But nowadays, it's become urban legend With Flash Player 6, Macromedia introduced windowless mode for Netscape and Mac OS X So can we do it or not? And if so how? Right now we have to do some browser detection and then render out either the Flash or the image. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode
NEVERMIND - looks like we just needed to also add wmode to the embed tags as well... looks like our developer has it working now. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:21 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode I know this has been asked and answered a kagillion times, but I can't seem to get a definitive answer in my searches: The whole DHTML layer, browser, and flash object wmode thing - we can get our DHTML layer to show over the top of our flash piece (which contains some solid background images with animations) in IE using wmode=transparent and Flash on layer1, but not Firefox, Netscape or Opera - I KNEW (or at least I thought I knew) this had been a problem already and that there hadn't been a workaround, but then I saw this article: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5141 It says, It's not uncommon to hear developers complaining that their DHTML menus, when triggered, have dropped behind the Flash movie below them. It's also not uncommon to hear, that's just how they work. Before Flash Player 6, that was true in many browsers. But nowadays, it's become urban legend With Flash Player 6, Macromedia introduced windowless mode for Netscape and Mac OS X So can we do it or not? And if so how? Right now we have to do some browser detection and then render out either the Flash or the image. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic sound generation in 8.5?
Well... I wrote code to dynamically generate a .swf containing a simple sound, using a ByteArray. However, there's a problem: The flash player 8.5 b246 actually CRASHES when I run my simple program. I submitted a bug report, hopefully someone reads it and fixes it. -David R On 4/20/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone told me that there is a limitation with the byte array and sound object whereby you cannot reconstruct a sound object from a byte array. this is heresay, but from a knowledgable fellow. On 4/20/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any progress been made in the area of dynamic sound and/or music generation? A couple of months ago there was a couple of big threads, one on possible MIDI support in the flash player (which seemed to be largely ignored by Macromedia), another about the possiblity of dynamicaly creating a ByteArray which contains a simple SWF with uncompressed sound, and then using Loader.loadBytes() to load it. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/flash/display/Loader.html#loadBytes() Anyway, just wondering if anyone has experimented with these, or there has been any news about this topic (I've looked, haven't seen anything). -David R ___ 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 -- j:pn http://www.lennel.org ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Server-side animated GIF to SWF?
This does pretty much what you want: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000407.php However, it converts the gif by frames and not using timing I believe. -David R On 4/20/06, Rajat Paharia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Flash 7 content running at various framerates needs to load in Animated GIFs on the fly and show them with the proper timing. The best way I can think of to do this is to have a server proxy that actually requests the GIF and converts it into a SWF on the fly and returns it. I'd like to write this in PHP if possible, and I'd like the timing in the SWF to be interval-based instead of frame-based, so that the content will show at the proper speed regardless of the framerate of the hosting movie. Has anyone done something like this before? And pointers would be much appreciated. best, - rajat -- Rajat Paharia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bunchball.com http://www.rootburn.com ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] FP 8.5 MovieClipLoader bug?
On 4/20/06, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on an application where I am loading images into a clip using a MovieClipLoader. The SWF is embedded in Python. After about 100 images are loaded into the same clip (over time - about 1 every 1-2 seconds), the images fail to load. Sometimes it happens after about the 40th image, but its more around the 100+ mark. The images being loaded are being sized down to fit - but the original images being loaded aren't that large (k). All image paths are correct too. I am making sure that I unload the contents of that clip before loading a new one - just to try to be as tidy as I can. The application doesn't seem to balloon in terms of memory usage - it hovers around the same amount throughout. Is this a known bug of FP 8.5? I can't find any reason why all of the sudden the images fail to load into the clip. I don't have cacheAsBitmap set to true on the clip either. Its a strange thing I am trying to track down and fix, but I now think the problem is actually player-related and not code-related. Well, 8.5 still seems a bit buggy for me. I just posted another thread, where simply loading a empty flash 8 swf with one sound into a very simple as3 swf, causes the 8.5 player to crash. Hopefully they release another beta version with more bugs fixed soon. -David R ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic sound generation in 8.5?
can you post some code to recreate this? On 4/21/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... I wrote code to dynamically generate a .swf containing a simple sound, using a ByteArray. However, there's a problem: The flash player 8.5 b246 actually CRASHES when I run my simple program. I submitted a bug report, hopefully someone reads it and fixes it. -David R On 4/20/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone told me that there is a limitation with the byte array and sound object whereby you cannot reconstruct a sound object from a byte array. this is heresay, but from a knowledgable fellow. On 4/20/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any progress been made in the area of dynamic sound and/or music generation? A couple of months ago there was a couple of big threads, one on possible MIDI support in the flash player (which seemed to be largely ignored by Macromedia), another about the possiblity of dynamicaly creating a ByteArray which contains a simple SWF with uncompressed sound, and then using Loader.loadBytes() to load it. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/flash/display/Loader.html#loadBytes() Anyway, just wondering if anyone has experimented with these, or there has been any news about this topic (I've looked, haven't seen anything). -David R ___ 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 -- j:pn http://www.lennel.org ___ 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 ___ 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 -- j:pn http://www.lennel.org ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Best practice DLL Integration
I have a project that I am working on that requires an exe integrated player that can connect to a windows DLL. Has anyone done any flash to dll integration projects and have URL's to show examples and best practices. Also has anyone used in software programs that have aided in writing the dll interface? Thanks; Wade Arnold ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode
You can also try the alternative web standards solution, that does not require an embed tag at all to work with firefox and other non-ie browsers: object data=movie.swf type=application/x-shockwave-flash codebase=http://www.yourdomain.com; width=620 height=350 param name=movie value=movie.swf / param name=menu value=false / param name=wmode value=transparent / param name=quality value=best / pAlternative content if flash is not present/p /object There's an example on my home page: www.neo-archaic.net I've been using this a lot lately, as it also creates a lot more lightweight code. Karina -Original Message- From: Merrill, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 19:27 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode NEVERMIND - looks like we just needed to also add wmode to the embed tags as well... looks like our developer has it working now. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:21 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode I know this has been asked and answered a kagillion times, but I can't seem to get a definitive answer in my searches: The whole DHTML layer, browser, and flash object wmode thing - we can get our DHTML layer to show over the top of our flash piece (which contains some solid background images with animations) in IE using wmode=transparent and Flash on layer1, but not Firefox, Netscape or Opera - I KNEW (or at least I thought I knew) this had been a problem already and that there hadn't been a workaround, but then I saw this article: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5141 It says, It's not uncommon to hear developers complaining that their DHTML menus, when triggered, have dropped behind the Flash movie below them. It's also not uncommon to hear, that's just how they work. Before Flash Player 6, that was true in many browsers. But nowadays, it's become urban legend With Flash Player 6, Macromedia introduced windowless mode for Netscape and Mac OS X So can we do it or not? And if so how? Right now we have to do some browser detection and then render out either the Flash or the image. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode
Super. Thanks. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karina Steffens Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 3:32 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode You can also try the alternative web standards solution, that does not require an embed tag at all to work with firefox and other non-ie browsers: object data=movie.swf type=application/x-shockwave-flash codebase=http://www.yourdomain.com; width=620 height=350 param name=movie value=movie.swf / param name=menu value=false / param name=wmode value=transparent / param name=quality value=best / pAlternative content if flash is not present/p /object There's an example on my home page: www.neo-archaic.net I've been using this a lot lately, as it also creates a lot more lightweight code. Karina -Original Message- From: Merrill, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 19:27 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode NEVERMIND - looks like we just needed to also add wmode to the embed tags as well... looks like our developer has it working now. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:21 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode I know this has been asked and answered a kagillion times, but I can't seem to get a definitive answer in my searches: The whole DHTML layer, browser, and flash object wmode thing - we can get our DHTML layer to show over the top of our flash piece (which contains some solid background images with animations) in IE using wmode=transparent and Flash on layer1, but not Firefox, Netscape or Opera - I KNEW (or at least I thought I knew) this had been a problem already and that there hadn't been a workaround, but then I saw this article: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5141 It says, It's not uncommon to hear developers complaining that their DHTML menus, when triggered, have dropped behind the Flash movie below them. It's also not uncommon to hear, that's just how they work. Before Flash Player 6, that was true in many browsers. But nowadays, it's become urban legend With Flash Player 6, Macromedia introduced windowless mode for Netscape and Mac OS X So can we do it or not? And if so how? Right now we have to do some browser detection and then render out either the Flash or the image. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Dynamic sound generation in 8.5!
Ok, actually I made some changes, and got the code working now. It's a pretty 'brute force' method of doing it, and the sound is not real great either, but you can generate different tones now. Read about it here: http://blog.davr.org/2006/04/21/dynamic-sound-in-85/ I hope someone with more skills can take this and make it more generic / useful! -David R On 4/21/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you post some code to recreate this? On 4/21/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... I wrote code to dynamically generate a .swf containing a simple sound, using a ByteArray. However, there's a problem: The flash player 8.5 b246 actually CRASHES when I run my simple program. I submitted a bug report, hopefully someone reads it and fixes it. -David R On 4/20/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone told me that there is a limitation with the byte array and sound object whereby you cannot reconstruct a sound object from a byte array. this is heresay, but from a knowledgable fellow. On 4/20/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any progress been made in the area of dynamic sound and/or music generation? A couple of months ago there was a couple of big threads, one on possible MIDI support in the flash player (which seemed to be largely ignored by Macromedia), another about the possiblity of dynamicaly creating a ByteArray which contains a simple SWF with uncompressed sound, and then using Loader.loadBytes() to load it. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/flash/display/Loader.html#loadBytes() Anyway, just wondering if anyone has experimented with these, or there has been any news about this topic (I've looked, haven't seen anything). -David R ___ 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 -- j:pn http://www.lennel.org ___ 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 ___ 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 -- j:pn http://www.lennel.org ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Following my previous email, I thought of a better way to test display:none with flash. Display:none causes the object not to be rendered, but it is still instantiated in memory. The object exists and will begin loading, but but will not be displayed or consume any real estate on the page. The visibility style doesn't affect how the element is rendered, it only affects whether it is visible or not, so an invisible elemnt still takes up real estate on the page, you just can't see it. So if you have a table with display:inline that is invisible, the space will be reserved for the table, but it will not be rendered to the page. The display style sets the display mode of the element (inline, block, or none), and determines how page space is reserved for the element. It does not, however, tell the element anything at all about whether to begin loading, elements will load according to their defined behavior as soon as they exist on the page. ryanm ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
I'm no expert on this, there are many others here that should know the
answer but my guess is that the object is downloaded but not rendered. You
can test this by calling a javascript function from within your flash movie.
try getURL('javascript:alert(movie running);'); from within your movie.
I just tested this, http://anticipatechange.com/huseyin/patentMagic/
I added a link that runs the disable css code and only when it is clicked
the movie object renders.
I think there is a distinct delineation that must be made between whether
objects are downloaded and whether they are active/rendered/running.
I think that if the objects are just downloaded, it makes no difference. My
only concern was hit counting scripts like hit box that would make calls
from within flash, but if the flash movie is never activated, it should not
double hits.
Nice work Karina,
M.
On 4/21/06, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following my previous email, I thought of a better way to test
display:none
with flash.
http://www.neo-archaic.net/display.htm has a page similar to the index
page,
but instead of the replaceFlash.js script, it has a link to a script
called
display.js with the following code:
// JavaScript Document
document.write (style id='hide' object{display:none;} /style)
function show(){
document.getElementById(hide).disabled = true;
}
function hide(){
document.getElementById(hide).disabled = false;
}
Two links, show and hide, call the functions that control the display of a
growing tree animation.
What happens is that although the tree has had enough time to grow (you
can
wait all you want), it only starts growing after show() has been called,
so
that means it hasn't had the chance to load before, however long you wait
before clicking. When hide() is called, however, the animation stays
loaded, and does not reload again.
I think this proves that display:none prevents the flash from loading,
unless there's a better explanation?
Karina
PS: The homepage www.neo-archaic.net has the display.js script enabled, so
you can see it in action there.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Server-side animated GIF to SWF?
Awesome. Thanks David. - rajat On 4/21/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This does pretty much what you want: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000407.php However, it converts the gif by frames and not using timing I believe. -David R On 4/20/06, Rajat Paharia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Flash 7 content running at various framerates needs to load in Animated GIFs on the fly and show them with the proper timing. The best way I can think of to do this is to have a server proxy that actually requests the GIF and converts it into a SWF on the fly and returns it. I'd like to write this in PHP if possible, and I'd like the timing in the SWF to be interval-based instead of frame-based, so that the content will show at the proper speed regardless of the framerate of the hosting movie. Has anyone done something like this before? And pointers would be much appreciated. best, - rajat -- Rajat Paharia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bunchball.com http://www.rootburn.com ___ 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 ___ 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 -- Rajat Paharia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bunchball.com http://www.rootburn.com ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Forcing XML connection closed from SWF
I was wondering if anyone out there know how to force a XML connection closed once the onLoad has happened? The way it works currently is that if the webserver has keep-alives on, the connection to the server stays open. I am pretty sure that the browser controls this, but would love to hear any ideas on the topic. Thanks, Nate -- Nathanial Thelen Userplane LA: 323-938-4401 x203 www.userplane.com AOL: natethelen MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode
flash satay is bad news - it breaks your params sometimes (in older safari versions) and JAWS will ignore your flash content. you should use something like FlashObject instead*. or SWFObject, etc. etc. http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ On Apr 21, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Karina Steffens wrote: You can also try the alternative web standards solution, that does not require an embed tag at all to work with firefox and other non-ie browsers: object data=movie.swf type=application/x-shockwave-flash codebase=http://www.yourdomain.com; width=620 height=350 param name=movie value=movie.swf / param name=menu value=false / param name=wmode value=transparent / param name=quality value=best / pAlternative content if flash is not present/p /object There's an example on my home page: www.neo-archaic.net I've been using this a lot lately, as it also creates a lot more lightweight code. Karina -Original Message- From: Merrill, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 19:27 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode NEVERMIND - looks like we just needed to also add wmode to the embed tags as well... looks like our developer has it working now. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:21 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode I know this has been asked and answered a kagillion times, but I can't seem to get a definitive answer in my searches: The whole DHTML layer, browser, and flash object wmode thing - we can get our DHTML layer to show over the top of our flash piece (which contains some solid background images with animations) in IE using wmode=transparent and Flash on layer1, but not Firefox, Netscape or Opera - I KNEW (or at least I thought I knew) this had been a problem already and that there hadn't been a workaround, but then I saw this article: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5141 It says, It's not uncommon to hear developers complaining that their DHTML menus, when triggered, have dropped behind the Flash movie below them. It's also not uncommon to hear, that's just how they work. Before Flash Player 6, that was true in many browsers. But nowadays, it's become urban legend With Flash Player 6, Macromedia introduced windowless mode for Netscape and Mac OS X So can we do it or not? And if so how? Right now we have to do some browser detection and then render out either the Flash or the image. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e- mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
as i stated in another mail in another thread, using the 'object tag only' methods is very buggy and can cause lots of headaches... JAWS will not read the Flash content, and some older browser will ignore the param tags, so you can't use flashvars or specifiy wmode or other parameters. there's more info here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/accessibility/archives/2005/08/ in_search_of_a.cfm On Apr 21, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Karina Steffens wrote: Hiya, Great work to you and Kevin. I'm writing a little tutorial about my solution which I intend to place on my blog as soon as it's done. The version detection was the last bit that I wanted to get sorted first, and it seems to be working like a charm. Regarding the display:none issue - I've changed my code from visibility to display and noticed an interesting thing. Some background first: I'm using a standards compatible version of the object tag: object data=flash/home.swf type=application/x-shockwave-flash codebase=http://www.neo-archaic.net; width=620 height=350 param name=movie value=flash/home.swf / param name=menu value=false / param name=wmode value=transparent / param name=quality value=best / pAlternative content if flash is not present/p /object This works well on both ie and Mozilla based browsers without needing to use the embed tag. The downside is that the movie waits until it's loaded before it starts to play. On IE this results in a placeholder showing up briefly before the content is loaded. When I use the visibility:hidden style with the replaceFlash script and reload the page locally, I don't see the placeholder because it disappears before the content is replaced (the original object having loaded by then). But when I change it to the display:none style, it appears again before the movie starts playing. This could mean that display:none does prevent the flash from loading after all! What do you think? Karina -Original Message- From: elibol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 19:18 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... Hi Karina, Kevin Newman deserves the credit, I've just written some of the code. Great work though, I'm very happy to have a little team working on this problem now. I'm sure we will solve it soon enough. I think Geoff mentioned that display:none does not prevent the object from loading, Ryan further validates this by giving us a clear idea of how html documents function, so, we should continue under the assumption that if the object is defined in the original document then it will always load. M. On 4/21/06, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... I'm not sure if you can do that, but what about using an intermediate stub? Then you could communicate with and tell it when to load the main content. This might even work automatically, with one of the object replacement techniques. Or... Here's a thought - what if the style for the object starts with display:none for the object, and then changes to display:block when the page has loaded. display: none removes the element from the document's flow, while visibility:hidden simply makes it invisible. Do you think this might do the trick? Karina -Original Message- From: Kevin Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 18:48 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... Sorry to reply to myself, but I was thinking that if it is possible to detect when an object is added to the dom tree, then I could just replace the object before it gets a chance to load, so I guess I wouldn't need to disable it. So now I guess the question is if it is possible to detect when an object is added... Kevin N. Kevin Newman wrote: Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading? Yes, don't write it to the page until you are ready for it to load. HTML is stateless, it's either there or it isn't. If it's there, it will load, if it's not, it won't. Use DHTML to add the tag to the page when you are ready for it to start loading. ryanm
Re: [Flashcoders] Again with the wmode
Merrill, Jason wrote: [What browsers plugin versions support WMODE compositing?] I think IE/Win was the first to support it, with Flash Shockwave support following pretty quickly... maybe IE4 it was. Flash Player 6 Release Notes describe the first plugin invocation of the Mozilla API for such drawing: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/releasenotes/player/rn_6.html Karina Steffens wrote: You can also try the alternative web standards solution, that does not require an embed tag at all to work with firefox and other non-ie browsers: I'd recommend testing that really thoroughly, across the range of audience browser choices... the plugin-using browsers had a de facto standard of EMBED, but they still haven't documented their support of the later de jure standard OBJECT... WMODE on OBJECT tags haven't always taken without EMBED, and I think Geoff Stearns' comment section had some examples of this: http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/03/31/proper-flash-embedding-flashobject-best-practices/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Implementing GroupName for my own component
I think the best way to implement this would be to have a RadioGroup class that would instantiate through static functions of the RadioButton class. A static variable of the RadioGroup class would manage RadioGroup instances, it would add and remove RadioGroup instances through a static API. A static function of the RadioButton would take the RadioButton instances radioGroupID property and check if it exists, if it does it would add the instance to the radio group, if not it would instantiate a new radio group. Each radio button would have an instance of the radio group they belonged to, when they were selected, they would just call a select() style function of their own radio group and submit their index/id to be activated. You should handle activation and deactivation of radio buttons from the radio group class. You should also implement a die() method which derefrences radio buttons from radio groups so that radio group instances are destroyed when they no longer contain any radio buttons. Hope this helps, M. On 4/21/06, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to implement a radio-like component and provide a groupName for it (I don't use MM components because they do not fit my application). Is there a way to dynamically retrieve all siblings of the component's instance which have the same class (or subclass) of the component and the same groupName dynamically? Or will my best option be just implementing groupName as an accessor and refrencing dependent Radio buttons elsewhere? That is, if I have 5 instances of RadioCompnent inside a specific timeline, can I programmatically retrieve all of them? -- Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov please send all personal mail to me at julik.nl ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Forcing XML connection closed from SWF
On 4/21/06, Nathanial Thelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone out there know how to force a XML connection closed once the onLoad has happened? The way it works currently is that if the webserver has keep-alives on, the connection to the server stays open. I am pretty sure that the browser controls this, but would love to hear any ideas on the topic. Possibly you could use a php file (or whatever server scripting language you use ) on the server, which does only 2 simple things: 1. Send a HTTP header that indicates not to use keep-alive. Keep-alive: no or something? look up the exact command. This will tell the browser not to use that feature. 2. Print out the xml file, which will be received by flash. -David R ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Forcing XML connection closed from SWF
Thank you for the idea on that one. I am particularly looking for a browser side only solution in this case. Thanks, Nate On 4/21/06 2:57 PM, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/21/06, Nathanial Thelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone out there know how to force a XML connection closed once the onLoad has happened? The way it works currently is that if the webserver has keep-alives on, the connection to the server stays open. I am pretty sure that the browser controls this, but would love to hear any ideas on the topic. Possibly you could use a php file (or whatever server scripting language you use ) on the server, which does only 2 simple things: 1. Send a HTTP header that indicates not to use keep-alive. Keep-alive: no or something? look up the exact command. This will tell the browser not to use that feature. 2. Print out the xml file, which will be received by flash. -David R ___ 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 -- Nathanial Thelen Partner Userplane LA: 323-938-4401 x203 www.userplane.com AOL: natethelen MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Is the object tag only method the Flash Satay method? M. On 4/21/06, Geoff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as i stated in another mail in another thread, using the 'object tag only' methods is very buggy and can cause lots of headaches... JAWS will not read the Flash content, and some older browser will ignore the param tags, so you can't use flashvars or specifiy wmode or other parameters. there's more info here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/accessibility/archives/2005/08/ in_search_of_a.cfm On Apr 21, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Karina Steffens wrote: Hiya, Great work to you and Kevin. I'm writing a little tutorial about my solution which I intend to place on my blog as soon as it's done. The version detection was the last bit that I wanted to get sorted first, and it seems to be working like a charm. Regarding the display:none issue - I've changed my code from visibility to display and noticed an interesting thing. Some background first: I'm using a standards compatible version of the object tag: object data=flash/home.swf type=application/x-shockwave-flash codebase=http://www.neo-archaic.net; width=620 height=350 param name=movie value=flash/home.swf / param name=menu value=false / param name=wmode value=transparent / param name=quality value=best / pAlternative content if flash is not present/p /object This works well on both ie and Mozilla based browsers without needing to use the embed tag. The downside is that the movie waits until it's loaded before it starts to play. On IE this results in a placeholder showing up briefly before the content is loaded. When I use the visibility:hidden style with the replaceFlash script and reload the page locally, I don't see the placeholder because it disappears before the content is replaced (the original object having loaded by then). But when I change it to the display:none style, it appears again before the movie starts playing. This could mean that display:none does prevent the flash from loading after all! What do you think? Karina -Original Message- From: elibol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 19:18 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... Hi Karina, Kevin Newman deserves the credit, I've just written some of the code. Great work though, I'm very happy to have a little team working on this problem now. I'm sure we will solve it soon enough. I think Geoff mentioned that display:none does not prevent the object from loading, Ryan further validates this by giving us a clear idea of how html documents function, so, we should continue under the assumption that if the object is defined in the original document then it will always load. M. On 4/21/06, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... I'm not sure if you can do that, but what about using an intermediate stub? Then you could communicate with and tell it when to load the main content. This might even work automatically, with one of the object replacement techniques. Or... Here's a thought - what if the style for the object starts with display:none for the object, and then changes to display:block when the page has loaded. display: none removes the element from the document's flow, while visibility:hidden simply makes it invisible. Do you think this might do the trick? Karina -Original Message- From: Kevin Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2006 18:48 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... Sorry to reply to myself, but I was thinking that if it is possible to detect when an object is added to the dom tree, then I could just replace the object before it gets a chance to load, so I guess I wouldn't need to disable it. So now I guess the question is if it is possible to detect when an object is added... Kevin N. Kevin Newman wrote: Well yeah, that's what I would usually do, but that doesn't solve the specific problem I'm looking to solve here (I'm not concerned with the merits of this solution, I really just want to see if I can make it work). If I could figure out how to detect when a new object tag has been added to the dom (I have some ideas, but have not tested them), then use some method call to disable it completely, I'd be satisfied with that. There is a disabled property, but I don't think that stops it from loading, I think that just stops the interactivity - is that correct? If so, does anyone know of a way to completely turn off an embedded object in IE? Thanks, Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Do you happen to know of any way to either stop a loading activex or to prevent it from loading?
Re: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation
Sweet idea Jesse, real original. There is also the Yugo style from back in the days of Monocraft where you would create a movieclip that contained a textfield which would embody a single letter. You would tween this dynamic letter, and through external means, generate, kern, break lines and such manually to generate a neat effect. There is another method to do this too, with just dynamic textfields. You have to be creative though, I mean, the most basic form of this is to just run an onEnterFrame loop that populates a textfield with each letter in a string. I've written some things that combine both methods, where you would create a dynamic letter effect and destroy the movieclip and replace it with a letter in a text field once it was finished tweening. Here is a really old example of the first style I mention, it uses random positioning and rotation with the Yugo style, I wrote it in AS 1.0 from flash 5 days: http://anticipatechange.com/huseyin/letloose.html I really should rework that one, the text in the input field is not even embedded . Example of the latter is the dynamic type at the bottom on this page: http://anticipatechange.com/huseyin/wtf/ Don't be frightened, I'm just weird. Another example of the latter style is how Yugo handles type on his experimental site: www.yugop.com My two cents: I think it's important to try and be original if you have at dynamic type tweening. Hope this helps, M. On 4/20/06, Ettwein, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious... I haven't endeavored to use a 3p tool like this in years, so I'm wondering what, if anything people are using to generate text effects nowadays? Short of hand-animating it yourself, of course. Josh ___ 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 ___ 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
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Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Hi ryanm, I see what you are saying about the object node existing in the dom tree in IE's (or any browser's) memory, even if the object is set to display:none. I think the question as it relates to this hack is whether in IE's specific implementation is downloading and running the ActiveXObject if the object is hidden in this way. There are some ways to test this, as some other on here have done with promising results (and I'll add my own tests in a few), but it would be good to get a hold of some documentation that show's clearly whether or not IE is loading that content. Kevin N. ryanm wrote: Following my previous email, I thought of a better way to test display:none with flash. Display:none causes the object not to be rendered, but it is still instantiated in memory. The object exists and will begin loading, but but will not be displayed or consume any real estate on the page. The visibility style doesn't affect how the element is rendered, it only affects whether it is visible or not, so an invisible elemnt still takes up real estate on the page, you just can't see it. So if you have a table with display:inline that is invisible, the space will be reserved for the table, but it will not be rendered to the page. The display style sets the display mode of the element (inline, block, or none), and determines how page space is reserved for the element. It does not, however, tell the element anything at all about whether to begin loading, elements will load according to their defined behavior as soon as they exist on the page. ryanm ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
Hello guys,
I added a test here: http://www.unfocus.com/projects/PatentMagic/sound.html
The good news is that the sound doesn't play in if the object is hidden
with display:block. So this at least appears to work. I will add some
more thorough tests using other ActiveX types and some that ping the
server to see what's really happening.
It has been quite fun working with you guys on this. :-)
Thanks,
Kevin N.
elibol wrote:
I'm no expert on this, there are many others here that should know the
answer but my guess is that the object is downloaded but not rendered. You
can test this by calling a javascript function from within your flash movie.
try getURL('javascript:alert(movie running);'); from within your movie.
I just tested this, http://anticipatechange.com/huseyin/patentMagic/
I added a link that runs the disable css code and only when it is clicked
the movie object renders.
I think there is a distinct delineation that must be made between whether
objects are downloaded and whether they are active/rendered/running.
I think that if the objects are just downloaded, it makes no difference. My
only concern was hit counting scripts like hit box that would make calls
from within flash, but if the flash movie is never activated, it should not
double hits.
Nice work Karina,
M.
On 4/21/06, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following my previous email, I thought of a better way to test
display:none
with flash.
http://www.neo-archaic.net/display.htm has a page similar to the index
page,
but instead of the replaceFlash.js script, it has a link to a script
called
display.js with the following code:
// JavaScript Document
document.write (style id='hide' object{display:none;} /style)
function show(){
document.getElementById(hide).disabled = true;
}
function hide(){
document.getElementById(hide).disabled = false;
}
Two links, show and hide, call the functions that control the display of a
growing tree animation.
What happens is that although the tree has had enough time to grow (you
can
wait all you want), it only starts growing after show() has been called,
so
that means it hasn't had the chance to load before, however long you wait
before clicking. When hide() is called, however, the animation stays
loaded, and does not reload again.
I think this proves that display:none prevents the flash from loading,
unless there's a better explanation?
Karina
PS: The homepage www.neo-archaic.net has the display.js script enabled, so
you can see it in action there.
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[Flashcoders] Firefox, CSS overflow=scroll, flash buttons bug
So I am having a weird problem. I have a fullscreen flash displayed in on
html page using flashobject from this example:
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/fullpage.html
I wanted to have scrollbars appear in case it didn't fit the browser window.
So I changed my css as follow.
/*
html {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
To
html {
height: 100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
**/
In IE if you shrink the window, you can scroll the page and click any of the
flash buttons. In Firefox the buttons do not work. When you try to rollover
them, the cusor stays as an arrow and the buttons flicker. I believe this a
bug with firefox. Oh well.
MikeG
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[Flashcoders] this.selected
The standard button components support setting the toggle state of a button to true. Can I achieve the same result with a button I made? Or do I *have* to create a movieClip? I want the button to toggle between the frame 1 and 3 of the button. ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Implementing GroupName for my own component
Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote: That is, if I have 5 instances of RadioCompnent inside a specific timeline, can I programmatically retrieve all of them? What I would do is to create a class with static methods only as groups manager so you just need to register RadioButton components within that manager. It's quite obviously should be done in constructor. -- Michael Antares Klishin, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.novemberain.com Non progredi est regredi ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
I've enjoyed myself too. I'm pleased to meet those passionate coders.
M.
On 4/21/06, Kevin Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello guys,
I added a test here:
http://www.unfocus.com/projects/PatentMagic/sound.html
The good news is that the sound doesn't play in if the object is hidden
with display:block. So this at least appears to work. I will add some
more thorough tests using other ActiveX types and some that ping the
server to see what's really happening.
It has been quite fun working with you guys on this. :-)
Thanks,
Kevin N.
elibol wrote:
I'm no expert on this, there are many others here that should know the
answer but my guess is that the object is downloaded but not rendered.
You
can test this by calling a javascript function from within your flash
movie.
try getURL('javascript:alert(movie running);'); from within your
movie.
I just tested this, http://anticipatechange.com/huseyin/patentMagic/
I added a link that runs the disable css code and only when it is
clicked
the movie object renders.
I think there is a distinct delineation that must be made between
whether
objects are downloaded and whether they are active/rendered/running.
I think that if the objects are just downloaded, it makes no difference.
My
only concern was hit counting scripts like hit box that would make calls
from within flash, but if the flash movie is never activated, it should
not
double hits.
Nice work Karina,
M.
On 4/21/06, Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following my previous email, I thought of a better way to test
display:none
with flash.
http://www.neo-archaic.net/display.htm has a page similar to the index
page,
but instead of the replaceFlash.js script, it has a link to a script
called
display.js with the following code:
// JavaScript Document
document.write (style id='hide' object{display:none;} /style)
function show(){
document.getElementById(hide).disabled = true;
}
function hide(){
document.getElementById(hide).disabled = false;
}
Two links, show and hide, call the functions that control the display
of a
growing tree animation.
What happens is that although the tree has had enough time to grow (you
can
wait all you want), it only starts growing after show() has been
called,
so
that means it hasn't had the chance to load before, however long you
wait
before clicking. When hide() is called, however, the animation stays
loaded, and does not reload again.
I think this proves that display:none prevents the flash from loading,
unless there's a better explanation?
Karina
PS: The homepage www.neo-archaic.net has the display.js script enabled,
so
you can see it in action there.
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