RE: [Flashcoders] CSS and flash

2009-05-05 Thread Cor
There is a nice tutorial on www.focusonflash.com.

HTH

Cor

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[Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi, I am working with Martin Legris's great Youtube API class and  
wondered what this was

( _data.gd$rating )
What does the dollar symbol do?
Here is a link to the particular class-
http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ca/newcommerce/youtube/data/VideoData.as
This is the getter-
public function get rating():RatingData
{
return new RatingData(_data.gd$rating);
}

PS I looked at Adobe's online help but could not find a reference to it.
Thanks Steve
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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Sidney de Koning

Hi Steve,

It is just a way of naming variables. The Adobe docs say this about it:

Variable names can only contain letters, numbers, and dollar signs  
($). Do not begin variable names with numbers. Variables must be  
unique and they are case-sensitive in Flash Player 7 and later. 


If you look further in his code you see he also uses it for the  
comments:

_data.gd$comments
_data.gd$comments.gd$feedLink
_data.gd$comments.gd$feedLink.countHint

Hope this helps you,

Sid

On May 5, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi, I am working with Martin Legris's great Youtube API class and  
wondered what this was

( _data.gd$rating )
What does the dollar symbol do?
Here is a link to the particular class-
http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ca/newcommerce/youtube/data/VideoData.as
This is the getter-
public function get rating():RatingData
{
return new RatingData(_data.gd$rating);
}

PS I looked at Adobe's online help but could not find a reference to  
it.

Thanks Steve
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[Flashcoders] Re: Looping flv streams seamlessly

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen Matthews

Re: Looping flv streams seamlessly

I have done it. Thanks. :)
If anyone is interested in how, and what the project is -
please email me with the subject line,
legend_rock_band_media_mashup,
and I will point you to it, because it's good.

I will post how I did it here too, but at the moment i am still in a  
rush - sorry!


Thanks

Steve

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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Muzak

What does the dollar symbol do?


It shows that the developer broke the underscore key on his keyboard :)
And that he's most likely a PHP developer.. or both.

gd$rating -- gdRating -- gd_rating

And I assume gd stands for Google Data -- Google Data API
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/apis/gdata/overview.html

gd is also a namespace in the GData XML in the YouTube Data API
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#GData_elements_reference


- Original Message - 
From: Stephen Matthews st...@gingerman.co.uk

To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?


Hi, I am working with Martin Legris's great Youtube API class and  
wondered what this was

( _data.gd$rating )
What does the dollar symbol do?
Here is a link to the particular class-
http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ca/newcommerce/youtube/data/VideoData.as
This is the getter-
public function get rating():RatingData
{
return new RatingData(_data.gd$rating);
}

PS I looked at Adobe's online help but could not find a reference to it.
Thanks Steve


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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Glen Pike
I have seen people using the $ symbol in ActionScript to denote 
private variables, but this does not seem to be the case...


Agree with Muzak - probably a confused PHP developer, at least they are 
not trying the transition from Basic (can't wait to see those comparison 
vs assignment bugs :))


Muzak wrote:

What does the dollar symbol do?


It shows that the developer broke the underscore key on his keyboard :)
And that he's most likely a PHP developer.. or both.

gd$rating -- gdRating -- gd_rating

And I assume gd stands for Google Data -- Google Data API
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/apis/gdata/overview.html

gd is also a namespace in the GData XML in the YouTube Data API
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#GData_elements_reference 




- Original Message - From: Stephen Matthews 
st...@gingerman.co.uk

To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?


Hi, I am working with Martin Legris's great Youtube API class and  
wondered what this was

( _data.gd$rating )
What does the dollar symbol do?
Here is a link to the particular class-
http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ca/newcommerce/youtube/data/VideoData.as 


This is the getter-
public function get rating():RatingData
{
return new RatingData(_data.gd$rating);
}

PS I looked at Adobe's online help but could not find a reference to it.
Thanks Steve


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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Ivan Dembicki
Hello,

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions#CodingConventions-Property(variableandgetter%2Fsetter)names

and you can find other $ symbols in this document.

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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Glen Pike

Ivan Dembicki wrote:

Hello,

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions#CodingConventions-Property(variableandgetter%2Fsetter)names

and you can find other $ symbols in this document.

  

That's the one!!
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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Muzak

Not really..
The guidelines specify to prepend a getter/setter with a dollar sign if it 
overrides an inherited getter/setter.

quote
If a class overrides a getter/setter and wants to continue to expose the base getter/setter, it should do so by implementing a 
property whose name is the base name with a $ prepended. This getter/setter should be marked final and should do nothing more than 
call the supergetter/setter.

/quote

gd$comments
gd$rating
gd$feedLink

AFAIK, those have nothing to do with that.
If they did, they would be:

$gdComments
$gdRating
$gdFeedLink

indicating overriding inherited properties: gdComments, gdRating, gdFeedLink

Again, my guess is they want to indicate they represent the GData API xml ellements which 
use the gd namespace.
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#GData_elements_reference

I haven't looked at the YouTube API at all by the way, so I'm just guessing :)

regards,
Muzak

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Hello,

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions#CodingConventions-Property(variableandgetter%2Fsetter)names

and you can find other $ symbols in this document.

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[Flashcoders] Recommendation for AS3 decompiler?

2009-05-05 Thread Gerry Beauregard
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good tool for decompiling SWFs  
(and if possible SWCs) written in ActionScript 3?  Must run on MacOS  
10.5.  I was considering buying the SoThink SWF Decompiler for Mac,  
but unfortunately it often crashes when I select an SWF I just built  
with Flex Builder 3, and even when it doesn't crash, the trial version  
doesn't display ActionScript code.


Incidentally, I have no intention of ripping off anyone else's  
ActionScript code.  Quite the contrary, I'm developing new code, and  
want to see what people using a decompiler would be able to figure out  
if I don't use obfuscation. If I conclude that obfuscation is  
necessary at all, I'll need a decompiler to evaluate obfuscation  
options...


-Gerry
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[Flashcoders] TextBlock and HTML Text?

2009-05-05 Thread Matt Gitchell
Hi,
Anyone have any experience using Flash 10 and the TextBlock/TextElement
classes?
I was hoping I could use an implementation of it to solve the age-old
superscript problem, but can't find a way to attach a stylesheet to it.
Barring experience, does anyone have any good resource links?

--Matt
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Re: [Flashcoders] Recommendation for AS3 decompiler?

2009-05-05 Thread Anthony Pace
When I have deleted the fla, I only have my swf, and I need to reuse a 
bit of code, sothink has come to the rescue quite a few times; however, 
I am on windows.


If it has to be a mac, even though it crashes, I think sothink is your 
best bet.



Gerry Beauregard wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good tool for decompiling SWFs 
(and if possible SWCs) written in ActionScript 3?  Must run on MacOS 
10.5.  I was considering buying the SoThink SWF Decompiler for Mac, 
but unfortunately it often crashes when I select an SWF I just built 
with Flex Builder 3, and even when it doesn't crash, the trial version 
doesn't display ActionScript code.


Incidentally, I have no intention of ripping off anyone else's 
ActionScript code.  Quite the contrary, I'm developing new code, and 
want to see what people using a decompiler would be able to figure out 
if I don't use obfuscation. If I conclude that obfuscation is 
necessary at all, I'll need a decompiler to evaluate obfuscation 
options...


-Gerry
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Karl DeSaulniers

I am an avid MAC user and was thinking of getting a new one?
So I don't want to run into that problem myself. Good to know.
I always had trouble with older postscript fonts and newer apps but  
occasionally a true type would throw a monkey wrench.


Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com

On May 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote:

Cheers for the heads up Steve. I got to the bottom of this CS4  
crash issue on my G5 last night. The culprit - FONTS.


I went through every single fonts I had in my machine (god knows  
how many - some of them were originally installed on my various  
ancient Macs before even you were born) in Font Book and deleted  
all the fonts did not pass the validation test.


That was it. After got lid of all the dodgy fonts and duplicates,  
CS4 runs on my G5 as it should do - no crash whatsoever.


Just to let you know I did save the FLA as CS3, just in time before  
CS4 crashes (I had about 20 seconds to play before the crash) but  
noticed my FLA didn't compile in CS3 because of ColorMatrix etc not  
available in CS3. Not a workaround there.


Funny thing is the same set of fonts have no issues on my Quad  
Intel Mac.


Kenneth

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Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi mate,
You sound as stressed as me.
I am sure that CS4 was designed to be run better on Intel Macs.
I would reinstall CS3 and back-save your flash files to CS3 if you  
are on a deadline.

Also the online help is not online on CS3 - which is much better.
You'll probably get better performance out of CS3 on a G5 anyway.
If this is not an option - turn off Spaces.
Try and work locally and back up stable versions regularly.
Make sure your hard drive has at least 10-15GB free - that always  
affects me.
I wish you good luck and fortune. From a fellow flash coder who is  
also going through hell. :(

Regards
Steve M

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[Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
Cheers for the heads up Steve. I got to the bottom of this CS4 crash 
issue on my G5 last night. The culprit - FONTS.


I went through every single fonts I had in my machine (god knows how 
many - some of them were originally installed on my various ancient Macs 
before even you were born) in Font Book and deleted all the fonts did 
not pass the validation test.


That was it. After got lid of all the dodgy fonts and duplicates, CS4 
runs on my G5 as it should do - no crash whatsoever.


Just to let you know I did save the FLA as CS3, just in time before CS4 
crashes (I had about 20 seconds to play before the crash) but noticed my 
FLA didn't compile in CS3 because of ColorMatrix etc not available in 
CS3. Not a workaround there.


Funny thing is the same set of fonts have no issues on my Quad Intel Mac.

Kenneth

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http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi mate,

You sound as stressed as me.

I am sure that CS4 was designed to be run better on Intel Macs.

I would reinstall CS3 and back-save your flash files to CS3 if you are 
on a deadline.

Also the online help is not online on CS3 - which is much better.
You'll probably get better performance out of CS3 on a G5 anyway.

If this is not an option - turn off Spaces.
Try and work locally and back up stable versions regularly.

Make sure your hard drive has at least 10-15GB free - that always 
affects me.


I wish you good luck and fortune. From a fellow flash coder who is also 
going through hell. :(


Regards

Steve M

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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Karl DeSaulniers

Are they True Type fonts?

Karl DeSaulniers
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http://designdrumm.com

On May 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote:

Cheers for the heads up Steve. I got to the bottom of this CS4  
crash issue on my G5 last night. The culprit - FONTS.


I went through every single fonts I had in my machine (god knows  
how many - some of them were originally installed on my various  
ancient Macs before even you were born) in Font Book and deleted  
all the fonts did not pass the validation test.


That was it. After got lid of all the dodgy fonts and duplicates,  
CS4 runs on my G5 as it should do - no crash whatsoever.


Just to let you know I did save the FLA as CS3, just in time before  
CS4 crashes (I had about 20 seconds to play before the crash) but  
noticed my FLA didn't compile in CS3 because of ColorMatrix etc not  
available in CS3. Not a workaround there.


Funny thing is the same set of fonts have no issues on my Quad  
Intel Mac.


Kenneth

Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi mate,
You sound as stressed as me.
I am sure that CS4 was designed to be run better on Intel Macs.
I would reinstall CS3 and back-save your flash files to CS3 if you  
are on a deadline.

Also the online help is not online on CS3 - which is much better.
You'll probably get better performance out of CS3 on a G5 anyway.
If this is not an option - turn off Spaces.
Try and work locally and back up stable versions regularly.
Make sure your hard drive has at least 10-15GB free - that always  
affects me.
I wish you good luck and fortune. From a fellow flash coder who is  
also going through hell. :(

Regards
Steve M

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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Glen Pike

Hi,

   Is there any way of testing the validity of fonts on PC's?

   I ask as we have a similar problem with Adobe Premiere Pro 2 where 
fonts are causing the program to crash...  Not sure how you validate 
on a Mac, but if there is some kind of tool to do this...


   Googling shows what looks like a lot of complaints about Adobe stuff 
suffering from dodgy font crashes - it seems ironic that a company 
dealing mainly in graphics software can't seem to write a program that 
fails gracefully when something graphical goes wrong ;|


   Any tips on fonts are most appreciated as we have about 700 or more 
installed (and never used...)


   Glen

Kenneth Kawamoto wrote:
Cheers for the heads up Steve. I got to the bottom of this CS4 crash 
issue on my G5 last night. The culprit - FONTS.


I went through every single fonts I had in my machine (god knows how 
many - some of them were originally installed on my various ancient 
Macs before even you were born) in Font Book and deleted all the fonts 
did not pass the validation test.


That was it. After got lid of all the dodgy fonts and duplicates, CS4 
runs on my G5 as it should do - no crash whatsoever.


Just to let you know I did save the FLA as CS3, just in time before 
CS4 crashes (I had about 20 seconds to play before the crash) but 
noticed my FLA didn't compile in CS3 because of ColorMatrix etc not 
available in CS3. Not a workaround there.


Funny thing is the same set of fonts have no issues on my Quad Intel Mac.

Kenneth

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http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi mate,

You sound as stressed as me.

I am sure that CS4 was designed to be run better on Intel Macs.

I would reinstall CS3 and back-save your flash files to CS3 if you 
are on a deadline.

Also the online help is not online on CS3 - which is much better.
You'll probably get better performance out of CS3 on a G5 anyway.

If this is not an option - turn off Spaces.
Try and work locally and back up stable versions regularly.

Make sure your hard drive has at least 10-15GB free - that always 
affects me.


I wish you good luck and fortune. From a fellow flash coder who is 
also going through hell. :(


Regards

Steve M

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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
I have in my Trash: Font Suitcase, PostScript Type 1, Windows TrueType, 
Datafork TrueType (even these were fucked)


Let me reiterate that only Flash CS4 on Leopard on PPC complained about 
my (then) font collection. Neither Flash CS4 on Tiger on PPC, nor Flash 
CS4 on Leopard on lintel had any issues with my fonts ever.


Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

Are they True Type fonts?

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com

On May 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote:

Cheers for the heads up Steve. I got to the bottom of this CS4 crash 
issue on my G5 last night. The culprit - FONTS.


I went through every single fonts I had in my machine (god knows how 
many - some of them were originally installed on my various ancient 
Macs before even you were born) in Font Book and deleted all the fonts 
did not pass the validation test.


That was it. After got lid of all the dodgy fonts and duplicates, CS4 
runs on my G5 as it should do - no crash whatsoever.


Just to let you know I did save the FLA as CS3, just in time before 
CS4 crashes (I had about 20 seconds to play before the crash) but 
noticed my FLA didn't compile in CS3 because of ColorMatrix etc not 
available in CS3. Not a workaround there.


Funny thing is the same set of fonts have no issues on my Quad Intel Mac.

Kenneth

Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi mate,
You sound as stressed as me.
I am sure that CS4 was designed to be run better on Intel Macs.
I would reinstall CS3 and back-save your flash files to CS3 if you 
are on a deadline.

Also the online help is not online on CS3 - which is much better.
You'll probably get better performance out of CS3 on a G5 anyway.
If this is not an option - turn off Spaces.
Try and work locally and back up stable versions regularly.
Make sure your hard drive has at least 10-15GB free - that always 
affects me.
I wish you good luck and fortune. From a fellow flash coder who is 
also going through hell. :(

Regards
Steve M



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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
Font Suitcase as in .suit (FFIL) like AGaramond-Semibold.suit. I 
am not referring to Extensis product.


Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

You had trouble with SUITCASE!
The program or just a Font Suitcase?
I'm in trouble if its the program then. lol

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com

On May 5, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote:

I have in my Trash: Font Suitcase, PostScript Type 1, Windows 
TrueType, Datafork TrueType (even these were fucked)


Let me reiterate that only Flash CS4 on Leopard on PPC complained 
about my (then) font collection. Neither Flash CS4 on Tiger on PPC, 
nor Flash CS4 on Leopard on lintel had any issues with my fonts ever.


Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

Are they True Type fonts?
Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com
On May 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote:
Cheers for the heads up Steve. I got to the bottom of this CS4 crash 
issue on my G5 last night. The culprit - FONTS.


I went through every single fonts I had in my machine (god knows how 
many - some of them were originally installed on my various ancient 
Macs before even you were born) in Font Book and deleted all the 
fonts did not pass the validation test.


That was it. After got lid of all the dodgy fonts and duplicates, 
CS4 runs on my G5 as it should do - no crash whatsoever.


Just to let you know I did save the FLA as CS3, just in time before 
CS4 crashes (I had about 20 seconds to play before the crash) but 
noticed my FLA didn't compile in CS3 because of ColorMatrix etc not 
available in CS3. Not a workaround there.


Funny thing is the same set of fonts have no issues on my Quad Intel 
Mac.


Kenneth

Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi mate,
You sound as stressed as me.
I am sure that CS4 was designed to be run better on Intel Macs.
I would reinstall CS3 and back-save your flash files to CS3 if you 
are on a deadline.

Also the online help is not online on CS3 - which is much better.
You'll probably get better performance out of CS3 on a G5 anyway.
If this is not an option - turn off Spaces.
Try and work locally and back up stable versions regularly.
Make sure your hard drive has at least 10-15GB free - that always 
affects me.
I wish you good luck and fortune. From a fellow flash coder who is 
also going through hell. :(

Regards
Steve M



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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto

I thought about this last night - I use PC as well, you see :)

Leopard's Font Book is great that you can verify fonts. On PC I'd do the 
usual: remove half the fonts, restart, test, then remove another half, 
restart, test, etc, etc.


Get a Mac :P

Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Glen Pike wrote:

Hi,

Is there any way of testing the validity of fonts on PC's?

I ask as we have a similar problem with Adobe Premiere Pro 2 where 
fonts are causing the program to crash...  Not sure how you validate 
on a Mac, but if there is some kind of tool to do this...


Googling shows what looks like a lot of complaints about Adobe stuff 
suffering from dodgy font crashes - it seems ironic that a company 
dealing mainly in graphics software can't seem to write a program that 
fails gracefully when something graphical goes wrong ;|


Any tips on fonts are most appreciated as we have about 700 or more 
installed (and never used...)


Glen

Kenneth Kawamoto wrote:
Cheers for the heads up Steve. I got to the bottom of this CS4 crash 
issue on my G5 last night. The culprit - FONTS.


I went through every single fonts I had in my machine (god knows how 
many - some of them were originally installed on my various ancient 
Macs before even you were born) in Font Book and deleted all the fonts 
did not pass the validation test.


That was it. After got lid of all the dodgy fonts and duplicates, CS4 
runs on my G5 as it should do - no crash whatsoever.


Just to let you know I did save the FLA as CS3, just in time before 
CS4 crashes (I had about 20 seconds to play before the crash) but 
noticed my FLA didn't compile in CS3 because of ColorMatrix etc not 
available in CS3. Not a workaround there.


Funny thing is the same set of fonts have no issues on my Quad Intel Mac.

Kenneth

Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Stephen Matthews wrote:

Hi mate,

You sound as stressed as me.

I am sure that CS4 was designed to be run better on Intel Macs.

I would reinstall CS3 and back-save your flash files to CS3 if you 
are on a deadline.

Also the online help is not online on CS3 - which is much better.
You'll probably get better performance out of CS3 on a G5 anyway.

If this is not an option - turn off Spaces.
Try and work locally and back up stable versions regularly.

Make sure your hard drive has at least 10-15GB free - that always 
affects me.


I wish you good luck and fortune. From a fellow flash coder who is 
also going through hell. :(


Regards

Steve M



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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
I always thought $ stands for scaler, which is basically a variable 
in PERL, which PHP inherited (PHP was originally a PERL module ?)


Kenneth Kawamoto
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Muzak wrote:

What does the dollar symbol do?


It shows that the developer broke the underscore key on his keyboard :)
And that he's most likely a PHP developer.. or both.

gd$rating -- gdRating -- gd_rating

And I assume gd stands for Google Data -- Google Data API
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/apis/gdata/overview.html

gd is also a namespace in the GData XML in the YouTube Data API
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-BE/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#GData_elements_reference 




- Original Message - From: Stephen Matthews 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?


Hi, I am working with Martin Legris's great Youtube API class and  
wondered what this was

( _data.gd$rating )
What does the dollar symbol do?
Here is a link to the particular class-
http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ca/newcommerce/youtube/data/VideoData.as 


This is the getter-
public function get rating():RatingData
{
return new RatingData(_data.gd$rating);
}

PS I looked at Adobe's online help but could not find a reference to it.
Thanks Steve

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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Watts
 (PHP was originally a PERL module ?)

I don't think that is correct. PHP was initially released as a binary,
or as source that would compile to a binary, implementing the CGI API.

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Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?

2009-05-05 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto

Yes you are right, Dave.

Lerdorf initially created these Personal Home Page Tools [in C] to 
replace a small set of Perl scripts he had been using to maintain his 
personal homepage. - Wikipedia


Kenneth Kawamoto
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Dave Watts wrote:

(PHP was originally a PERL module ?)


I don't think that is correct. PHP was initially released as a binary,
or as source that would compile to a binary, implementing the CGI API.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel

2009-05-05 Thread Muzak

I've used FontExpert in the past.
Great tool for managing installed and non-installed fonts.
Also allows you to temporarily deactivate installed fonts and alot more..
http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/


- Original Message - 
From: Glen Pike postmas...@glenpike.co.uk

To: kennethkawam...@gmail.com; Flash Coders List 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CS4 on non intel



Hi,

   Is there any way of testing the validity of fonts on PC's?

   I ask as we have a similar problem with Adobe Premiere Pro 2 where 
fonts are causing the program to crash...  Not sure how you validate 
on a Mac, but if there is some kind of tool to do this...


   Googling shows what looks like a lot of complaints about Adobe stuff 
suffering from dodgy font crashes - it seems ironic that a company 
dealing mainly in graphics software can't seem to write a program that 
fails gracefully when something graphical goes wrong ;|


   Any tips on fonts are most appreciated as we have about 700 or more 
installed (and never used...)


   Glen



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[Flashcoders] AS3: Inserting text into textInput field via code... can't do it?

2009-05-05 Thread Carl Welch

Hi,

I need to place some text into a input text field - the user needs to  
be able to edit some text (from a database) and submit it back to a  
database. So far, though, I've been unable to pass any vars to the  
input textfield like this: datatext.text = database_vars;


do I need to handle input textfields differently than a dynamic  
textfield?


thanks.
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805.403.4819





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