Re: [Flashcoders] JavaFX released
Anthony Pace wrote: Sure for the corporate environment, or cell phones, or tv, javaFX wil kick flashes ass until adobe gets smart and gets rid of licensing drawbacks Good morning: http://www.openscreenproject.org/ Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Zipping in AS3
Hey Claus, one of the reasons I can't use it is because of its inability to work with a .zip file created on Mac OSX. The other reason, is that I've attempted to use it to write out a .zip file, and I can't get it to produce a valid .zip file. I've even tried loading in a .zip, and then saving it out directly, and that doesn't seem to work. I have only tested this with AIR, so I assume I don't need to be testing this with a .zip file that contains the Adler32 checksum. Do you have a working example of this working with FZip? If so, I'd love to take a look at it. Thanks! It is true that FZip can't read ZIPs created with the MAC OS X Archive utility, or any ZIP that makes us of data descriptors. For your other problem, i created a very simple Flex AIR app that tests roundtripping (creates a ZIP and loads it back in): http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/examples/RoundTrip.mxml Works here.. And yes, in AIR the Adler32 limitation doesn't apply, so you should be able to load any ZIP (minus those that make use of data descriptors). You only need the injection hack if you use FZip in the plugin (and if i recall right Flash Player 10 is going to fix that but i didn't find the time to check). Cheers, Claus. http://codeazur.com.br/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Zipping in AS3
Mac Angell wrote: Hey everyone! I'm trying to find a solid zip/unzip library for AS3. I've done some testing with both FZip and AS3 Zip, and I've been running into problems with both. So I'm wondering if there are any others out there that anyone knows about that have been tested extensively. Or if any of you know of any applications/sites that use FZip or AS3 Zip that I could see a demo/source code of, that might help me get over some hurdles as well. What's your problem with FZip? Cheers, Claus. http://codeazur.com.br/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Whatever happened to C++ conversion?
I think this is the latest: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2008-08/ See last presentation in list. Cheers, Claus. ben gomez farrell wrote: Hey, I'm on the papervision3D list, and was just discussing what physics engines to use. A guy named Andy on there was talking about how Box2DAS3 is great, and orginally started out as a C++ project. Box2D then went on to becoming Bullet, a 3D engine, and Box2DAS3 hasn't followed yet. Then I thought back to Scott Petersens C++ to AS3 conversion utility they were demoing at MAX last year. If I remember right, they took the Quake code and ported it over to AS3. Does anybody know the status on that? Can you and I use this conversion stuff today? thanks! ben ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] A Question that I've been asking for years!!
An example is worth a thousand words.
public interface IBounce {
function bounce():void;
}
public class Balls implements IBounce {
public function bounce():void { }
}
public class Boobs implements IBounce {
public function bounce():void { }
}
var balls:Balls = new Balls();
var boobs:Boobs = new Boobs();
doSomethingWith(balls);
doSomethingWith(boobs);
function doSomethingWith(bouncyObject:IBounce):void {
bouncyObject.bounce();
}
Cheers,
Claus.
Omar Fouad wrote:
This could seem weird...
But what the hell is an interface!!! I've read lots of books and
posts without getting the answer. I bought "Essential AS3" to read about
interfaces and he says that helps for multi inheritance. In other places I
read that it is a "deal" to ensure that a class has some methods and so on.
But what is the real benefit that I can come out with using interfaces
Maybe that is stupidity or I am not smart enough to get the concept but
believe me... its is been two years now!!
Please Help!!!
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Re: [Flashcoders] Object vs *
Also, mind this:
var a:*;
trace(a);
// undefined
var b:Object;
trace(b);
// null
An Object can't be undefined.
Cheers,
Claus.
Ian Thomas wrote:
'*' means "discard type checking"
'Object' means 'treat it as type Object'
If you have functions:
public function getThing():*
{
return new Bucket();
}
public function getAnotherThing():Object
{
return new Bucket();
}
then this will compile:
var someVar:Bucket=getThing(); // Ignores type checking
And this won't:
var someVar:Bucket=getAnotherThing(); // Tries to assign Object to
Bucket. Compile-time error.
(while this will - with a cast:
var someVar:Bucket=getAnotherThing() as Bucket;
)
HTH,
Ian
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Dave Segal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the difference between typing an instance as "*" and typing it as
"Object"?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Firefox popup blocker and flash 9
Dan Wade wrote:
Turning on popup blocker shouldn't block user initiated clicks that call a
js function to open a new window. Or, popup blocker should allow for a
simple getURL("url", "_blank"). I'm finding these calls are being blocked
some cases in Firefox on PC's with flash player 9.
The Flash Player is a browser plugin (and presumably looks like a black
box to the browser), so when e.g. Firefox gets a request to open a new
window from the Flash Player, it probably can't tell whether this
request is user initiated (thus legit) or not, so the blocker kicks in
and blocks it. At least that's my theory (i definately don't know the
technical details), so someone please correct me if i'm wrong.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Open Screen!
FWIW, Adobe is also going to open the .fla file format: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/03/flash_moving_to.html Cheers, Claus. Cutter (FlashRelated) wrote: All well said. One other nugget to add to this conversation: Adobe is not open sourcing these proprietary formats, but rather removing certain licensing restrictions and opening the format itself to certain selected partners for the improvement and advancement of the platforms. For more on this topic: http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/developers/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XPath
Ricky Bacon wrote: Claus Wahlers wrote: Merrill, Jason wrote: Curious why not use AS3 instead? I don't speak for the OT here, just a comment to your earlier comment that AS3 made XPath obsolete. This is not really true. It is true that with E4X you have almost the same functionality as XPath, but E4X fails badly if your query comes from an external source, like if your application needs to deal with arbitrary XML and the queries are dynamic in nature (for example provided by a user, etc). Curious about this: like using eXist or doing interactive queries? In my particular case it's about rendering XForms, which relies a great deal on XPath for data binding (E4X can't help me there) http://www.w3schools.com/xforms/xforms_xpath.asp Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XPath
Merrill, Jason wrote: I don't speak for the OT here, just a comment to your earlier comment that AS3 made XPath obsolete. This is not really true. It is true that with E4X you have almost the same functionality as XPath, but E4X fails badly if your query comes from an external source, like if your application needs to deal with arbitrary XML and the queries are dynamic in nature (for example provided by a user, etc). OK, so I'll concede AS3 only 98% makes it obsolete. :) For you, maybe. For me it'd be more like 25%. Although i think "obsolete" is a somewhat binary term, like "pregnant", no? Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XPath
Merrill, Jason wrote: Curious why not use AS3 instead? I don't speak for the OT here, just a comment to your earlier comment that AS3 made XPath obsolete. This is not really true. It is true that with E4X you have almost the same functionality as XPath, but E4X fails badly if your query comes from an external source, like if your application needs to deal with arbitrary XML and the queries are dynamic in nature (for example provided by a user, etc). Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac
Claus Wahlers wrote: Dunno if that has been mentioned, but if you are NOT a command line guy, like me, and want a kick ass non-CLI SVN client, by far the best option is TortoiseSVN, which afaik is only available for Windows and beats the crap out of everything else i've seen. This one tiny software is the main reason i stick to Windows (XP) for now. I have three machines here (XP, OSX and Ubuntu), and the XP machine is my main dev machine, because i don't wanna miss TortoiseSVN. Oh, and FlashDevelop, of course. Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac
Dunno if that has been mentioned, but if you are NOT a command line guy, like me, and want a kick ass non-CLI SVN client, by far the best option is TortoiseSVN, which afaik is only available for Windows and beats the crap out of everything else i've seen. This one tiny software is the main reason i stick to Windows (XP) for now. I have three machines here (XP, OSX and Ubuntu), and the XP machine is my main dev machine, because i don't wanna miss TortoiseSVN. Otherwise, i'm very, VERY unreligious about operating systems, because i frankly think they all suck in one way or another. Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] dictionary vs array
Dwayne Neckles wrote: can anyone say why dictionary is better than array.. Im seeing it used in alot of papervision examples and i dont get why? I will research this on my own as well.. Keys in an Array can be numeric, strings, or both: var a:Array = []; a[0] = something; a["hello"] = something; // associative Array Keys in a Dictionary can theoretically be of any type: var d:Dictionary = new Dictionary(); d[0] = something; d["hello"] = something; var c:SomeClass = new SomeClass(); d[c] = something; An associative Array behaves similar to a Dictionary. I might be wrong but i remember seeing that if you want to store data with string keys, Dictionary is performing slightly better. A word of caution if you plan to use E4X XML nodes or function references as Dictionary keys: this appears to be buggy. Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] dictionary vs array
Claus Wahlers wrote: An associative Array behaves similar to a Dictionary. (if you are using string keys) Cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] writing as for components
Pedro Kostelec wrote:
Thanks, but there is still the other error
1120: Access of undefined property letters.
var randomIndex:uint=Math.floor(Math.random()*letters.length);
This code works for me:
var letters:Array= ["A","B","C","D","E","F",
"G","H","I","J","K","L",
"M","N","O","P","Q","R",
"S","T","U","V","W",
"X","Y","Z",];
function getRandomLetter():String {
var randomIndex:uint=Math.floor(Math.random()*letters.length);
return letters[randomIndex];
}
import fl.controls.Button;
var i:uint=0;
var j:uint=0;
var posX:uint=0;
var posY:uint=0;
var buttonSize:uint=25;
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var letter:Array This should be var letters:Array Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] XML loading and parsing problem
Using Delegate is just one of those "best practices" and should be used at all times, even if it "kinda works" without. +1 Also, Omar *might* want to refactor his code later. Using Delegate he likely won't run into any trouble. Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] XML loading and parsing problem
import mx.utils.Delegate;
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = Delegate.create(this, onLoadXML);
xmlData.load("gallery.xml");
function onLoadXML(success) {
if(success) {
trace("xml Loaded");
proceed();
} else {
trace("xml Not Loaded");
}
}
function proceed() {
totalPics = xmlData.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes.length;
trace(totalPics);
}
// xml Loaded
// 4
Cheers,
Claus.
Omar Fouad wrote:
Fruber this code is still not working.. :(
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlData.onLoad = function (success) {
if(success) {
trace("xml Loaded");
proceed(this);
}else{
trace("xml Not Loaded");
}
}
xmlData.load("gallery.xml");
proceed = function (gallery:XML) {
totalPics = gallery.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].length;
trace(total);
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.
Apparently the flash 9 cs3 compiler uses the same compiler so I dont see why this couldnt be done to integrate parts of the flex framework components into flash. That would be awesome. That's not as easy as it sounds. Base classes work differently, styling works differently, etc pp, Flash doesn't have a System Manager, etc, etc, etc. Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] there is a problem plz help
to find greater no. from the array whats the problem with this algo.
please help
int arr[15]={17,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15};
int greater=0;
for(int i=0; i<15;){
if(arr[i++]>greater){
greater=arr[i];
}
}
First of all, it's C.
Second, try incrementing i inside the for statement, otherwise the
algorithm reports the wrong value:
for(int i=0; i<15; i++)
The Actionscript equivalent would be something like this:
var arr:Array = [17,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15];
var greater:Number = 0;
for(var i:Number = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
if(arr[i] > greater) {
greater = arr[i];
}
}
trace("greater is " + greater + "\n");
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Re: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area of a masked SWF
I'd like to be able to find the VISIBLE height and width of those SWFs; however _width and _height return the size of ALL the masked content. Can't you just check the width/height of the mask? Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ ___ 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] eolas fix for IE7
Matthew Ganz wrote: actually, all of a sudden it's not working again. It seems your Flash Player install in IE7 is corrupt. See this blog post for details: http://tinyurl.com/y9lvas I had the same problem a while back, and uninstalling/reinstalling the Flash Player did the trick. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ ___ 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] The great CS3 Swindle
Andy Jones wrote: Ok - so it's actually cheaper to fly to the States, stay in a hotel for a few days and order your US copy (bearing in mind the exchange rate) than buying a copy in the UK. Joy! I'll recommend it to my boss :) You could as well fly to Brazil, stay at the beach for three weeks, and buy a copy on the streets for US$ 2.50. Kidding, of course! Am I? More seriously, and not that i even remotely understand this policy, but this price gap has always been there (see comments): http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2004/08/mm_store_firefo.cfm Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ ___ 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] stageHeight issues AS3
var _sprite:Sprite = new Sprite(); addChild(_sprite) trace (_sprite.stage.stageHeight) give me null object reference... even after it's been added to the display. Are you sure that the DisplayObjectContainer the above code resides in is added to the display list already? And its parents? Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ ___ 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] Erasing areas with the drawing API?
David Ham wrote:
Does anyone know how to erase part of an area that was created with the
drawing API? I need to be able to draw a polygon, and then draw another
polygon inside it and "punch" it out. For example, I need to draw a
square and then punch a square hole in it. Anyone ever done this before?
graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x00);
graphics.beginFill(0xff);
graphics.moveTo(10, 10);
graphics.lineTo(90, 10);
graphics.lineTo(90, 90);
graphics.lineTo(10, 90);
graphics.lineTo(10, 10);
graphics.moveTo(30, 30);
graphics.lineTo(70, 30);
graphics.lineTo(70, 70);
graphics.lineTo(30, 70);
graphics.lineTo(30, 30);
graphics.endFill();
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: tabbing in flash
Jah wrote:
but can it be modified?
i want an indicator... just something more akin to the feel of the
app... as opposed to some thick yellow boundingbox
You may want to look into making your form elements UIComponents. Check
out the FocusManager class, it turns off the standard yellow focusRect
and displays a custom one.
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Re: [Flashcoders] HTML Browser In Flash
Kalani Bright wrote:
Ok, I see by your face you think I'm crazy.
But I wandered across this project called DENG today:
http://deng.com.br/examples/xhtml/table.php
It is able to render all types of content (including tables!) and SVG
inside of Flash. I think the SVG rendered came from somewhere else.
Anyway. Its for flash MX. And I'm using Flash 9. Is anyone aware of
something more recent.
I'm working on DENG 2.0 (Actionscript 3). It might take quite a while
yet though..
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern?
the way he ran Flashcoders in the early days
Can you elaborate?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Senior Developer Posisition
If you got paid $80K USD per year in San Francisco, another expensive city in the US Interesting that San Francisco ranks at #34 together with São Paulo. Uh? So, say if a senior Flash dev earns an average of US$ 80k, so should a senior Flash dev in São Paulo, right? That'd be R$ 168k, or about R$ 13k a month (13 salaries per year). I'm living in São Paulo, but i'm not working for local companies, so i might be wrong, but from what i hear senior Flash devs here rarely make more than R$ 5k a month, i even heard of Flex devs here that make less than R$ 3k. R$ 5k a month would roughly translate to US$ 31k a year. Never trust statistics that you didn't fake yourself. ;) Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ ___ 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] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?
Rasmus wrote: Ok.. But what if you have around 100-200 files, let's say external JPG's. Wouldn't the zip file become huge? The reason I'm asking is, I'm making a photographers portfolio where the idea is to load thumbnails first - then start loading the high-res pictures in the background. when I need a file ASAP (..to display it to the user) I just bump it to the top of the loadQueue.. Or is something like this already built into AS 3? You MAY have a point there. Although, browsers usually support two simultaneous HTTP connections so you could just load the hires image while the thumbnail zip is still loading. The disadvantage is that the hires images loads slower (probably at half speed). However, zipping thumbnails has the big advantage that you save a lot of overhead. 200 successive GET requests are no fun. Loading a zip is way faster as you only need to do one request to the server. And with FZip you have access to files while the zip is still loading. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ ___ 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] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?
I've found that LoadQueueManager is excellent for loading multiple external files in sequence.. It also gives you the possibility to pause loading, rearrange loading order etc. etc. http://blog.bittube.com/2006/10/27/loadqueuemanager-update/ Hope to see an AS 3 version of this soon! For AS3 i'd recommend to just zip your assets and load that zip directly into Flash. No more annoying loading queues. http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/ I've also started working on a low/midlevel AS3 HTTP library, that you could use to utilize persistant connections and pipelining over HTTP 1.1. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ ___ 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] Load HTML page in Flash
I want to load a html page in Flash. I tried to load using XML in a textArea, but didn't work because Flash didn't recognized all tags. Can anyone give me a solution, please? You might want to give DENG a try. It doesn't load HTML but wellformed XHTML, and isn't perfect yet (not feature complete, not very fast), but it might satisfy your needs. http://deng.com.br/ Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] Stage Height Bug?
If i create a blank movie and post this scrit trace(Stage.height); it will
give 100 less than the actual size. but if you do this:
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
trace(Stage.height);
}
it will trace the true size after the first enterFrame.
This is a known issue. It may take up to two frames until Stage size is
reported correctly.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Job Opportunity at Gaia Interactive
Is there anyone who's ready to compete personally with ASV? Flasm should also do the job pretty well. If the price to win is high enough, i could even imagine evil hackers using a hex editor or a handcrafted program to get to the high score. They even hack multiplayer games written in C. Security always belongs on the server side. Aggressively use good encryption (public/private keys) and monitor the game progress, if the potential damage justifies it. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] why are my classproperty's strongtypingbeingignored?
You can't put strict typing like that in the timeline. ( >^^)
This works fine for me:
var emailBody:String = "> Strict typing is kind of an all or none thing.
If you only partially strict type, which I have done plenty of in the
past, then you'll only partially get compiler errors. However, in
preparation for AS3 where strict typing has a very noticable improvement
in speed, I am strict typing everything, and I mean everything.";
var emailSignature:String = "> HTH," + newline + "> Steven";
trace(emailBody + newline + emailSignature);
trace("Cheers," + newline + "Claus ;)");
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Re: [Flashcoders] why are my class property's strongtypingbeingignored?
emailBody:String = "Strict typing is kind of an all or none thing. If you only partially strict type, which I have done plenty of in the past, then you'll only partially get compiler errors. However, in preparation for AS3 where strict typing has a very noticable improvement in speed, I am strict typing everything, and I mean everything."; emailSignature:String = "HTH," + newline + "Steven"; **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 1: Syntax error. Cheers, Claus ;) -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] >> Undefined value
You have an incorrect not equal: !== There's just one equal sign: != !== strict inequality operator expression1 !== expression2 Tests for the exact opposite of the strict equality (===) operator. The strict inequality operator performs the same as the inequality operator except that data types are not converted. If expression1 is equal to expression2, and their data types are equal, the result is false. As with the strict equality (===) operator, the definition of equal depends on the data types being compared, as illustrated in the following list: Numbers, strings, and Boolean values are compared by value. Objects, arrays, and functions are compared by reference. A variable is compared by value or by reference, depending on its type. Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6 Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] Fwd: Help needed. Embeding fonts in Deng Modular Browser
Can any body help me about embedding fonts in Deng Modular Browser?
The official deng site is not having any link to this tutorial.
If anybody came across this...please help me...
Like this:
- embed your font in your main SWF and give it a linkage identifier
- DENG does not know that you embedded a font. You have to tell DENG
what embedded fonts you are using, by setting the components
"embeddedFonts" property. This property takes an array of Font Linkage
Identifiers, e.g.: deng_mc.embeddedFonts = ["my_embedded_font"];
- Now you are ready to use your embedded font(s) in your XML/XHTML
documents. In your CSS, just include the fonts Linkage Identifier in the
list of font families, like here:
div { font-family: "my_embedded_font", Arial, sans-serif; }
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Re: [Flashcoders] 1st message - Sound and byteArray
I fetch a mp3 files through a homemade process using sockets, and I have the binary in a byteArray somewhere. I have the data, and I'd like to play it, but the Sound() class only takes URLs. I don't see how i could play this mp3 from memory. Any ideas ? There's no easy way to do it. You need to create a SWF on the client that wraps your mp3, and then push it into Loader via loadBytes. This may get you started: http://www.flashcodersbrighton.org/wordpress/?p=9 Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] Grabbing data directly from the HTML page
Mike Keesey wrote: Ah, that works. The only thing is that it requires a double load of the page and the data isn't instantly available (although, with browser-caching, it should load in very quickly). Not huge concerns, but the double load could skew metrics. http://guipaganini.com.br/ -> view source Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] ExternalInterface & MySpace (Bug in Flash Player 9)
I read about a bug with using ExternalInterface with fp9...since this is a bug in an earlier version of fp9, I can't assume all users have upgraded... Has anyone found a workaround or should I scrap using ExternalInterface altogether? ExternalInterface will be of no use if you plan to let users embed your SWF into MySpace profiles, as MySpace prevents all Flash<->Javascript communication: enableJavascript="false" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] HTML display component for Flash?
I got one, which is Deng. But it takes a lot of time to render my content. I'm working on a AS3 version of DENG which should be 'a little' faster. However unfortunately it's gonna take a while yet to finish as i can only work on it in my free time. If more people are interested in an AS3 DENG, please let Adobe know. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] Create zip file through flash
He's talking about zipping up files on the local filesystem. Flash 9 can do that? Flash 9 has native filesystem access which would allow compressing files on your hard drive? Flash Player 9 can zip up files pretty easily, but of course can't access the local filesystem. Sorry for the noise. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] Create zip file through flash
Flash alone can't do that? Flash Player 9 can do it. We wrote an unzip class in AS3 some time back: http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/ Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] AS3 SVG embedding resources
63K for that monitor? And it's vector? That's useless. A bitmap would be way smaller... Why are svg's so bloated? And why the heck would you want to use them? Most likely the authoring tool is to blame. That SVG contains loads of gradient definitions (dunno if they are all absolutely needed, i would guess not), and a lot of injected metadata. I cleaned only the metadata and the resulting SVG is 52k. If you compress that, you end up with not even 5k. Not too much i guess, given that the SVG itself seems not very optimized. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] tinyurl swf loading
Is there a way that i can load a swf via its tinyurl? I think the issue that im having is that when the 'http://tinyurl.com/k23u4' resolves to 'http://blabla.com' the MovieClipLoader.loadClip() dies... TinyURL sends HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently Location: blabla.com So it seems the Flash Player can't resolve 301's. Can i manually eval 'http://tinyurl.com/k23u4' somehow? Maybe you could hand it over to JavaScript via ExternalInterface, and then in JavaScript do some Ajax magic (send a HTTP HEAD request) and send the real URL back to Flash? Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] SMIL xml parsing weirdness.
Everything comes across fine but that one attrubute. You probably did ".attributes.system-bitrate". Both ".attributes.system" and "bitrate" are undefined. The "-" then converts it into a Number, thus NaN. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] SMIL xml parsing weirdness.
Works for me:
var self:MovieClip = this;
var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
xml.onLoad = function(ok:Boolean) { self.doStuff(ok); }
xml.load("soap.xml");
stop();
function doStuff(ok:Boolean):Void {
var bitrate:String =
xml.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.firstChild.firstChild.attributes["system-bitrate"];
trace(parseInt(bitrate));
}
Cheers,
Claus.
Ryan Potter wrote:
Hello list.
I have been working on parsing a smil xml file so that I can detect
bandwidth for an flv player. I am getting the xml output from a PHP
script and I am using xml.sendAndLoad(). That all works just fine. I
can get the xml object back and I can parse through it and get the data
out with one strange exception.
When I try to parse the video node "system-bitrate" attribute I can't
get the value. I have tried to turn it into a number, or a string
(which it is). The weird thing is that if I trace it out it says it is
"NaN". If I look at the type it is "string". Then why won't it let me
read it???
The weird part is that if I change the name of the attribute to
"bitrate" or just about any other name it works. Is it the dash in the
attribute name?
Has anyone seen this behavior??
Thanks,
Ryan
Here is my smil file:
SMIL xml parsing weirdness.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Help Loading and Displaying XML
Aaron Roberson wrote:
I have a menu constructed from XML and I am parsing it in Flash to
create my site navigation. However, I am having a problem loading the
xml so that it is parsed and displayed on my website when accessed
directly (as in http://whitehorsemedia.com) and when accessed using
www.whitehorsemedia.com (using the preceding www).
If you're using Apache, create a .htaccess file in your doc root like
the one below, and from Flash only load assets from whitehorsemedia.com
(without the www).
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.whitehorsemedia\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://whitehorsemedia.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Alternatively, google for crossdomain.xml, or strictly use relative paths.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position
Ok, first of all, most people who have been doing flash for 4+ years are artists or designers. Almost no serious programming was even possible in flash before AS2 so by defining 4 years you are essentially insisting that someone *not* be someone who "has a background in other languages and systems". I'm not saying they don't exist at all, but it is such a silly requirement because it inappropriately limits the pool. Of course insisting that someone be an expert in AS1 is even more silly. Is this because their job will be fixing someone else's 5 year old spaghetti code? Then the kicker is that this person must be in the Detroit area or willing to relocate. I have a software developer background (mainly C/C++), was studying CS in university, and am doing Flash development for like six years now (that includes well structured OOP AS1 development). I know a bunch of people that are equally qualified. I honestly don't think they are *that* off with their requirements. They could have put that Detroit (or US/Canada) requirement in the subject though.. ;) (This is my first and last comment re: job postings on this list. Keep 'em coming, i don't mind) -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] BitmapData.getPixel() -> negative value ?
Oooops, you are right, I meant 0x00 Nevertheless, you had said, 0xff00 (solid black) ?? Yeah. Read the rest of my mail. ;) -16777216 is 0xff00 (solid black) I thought solid black was 0xff 16777215 That'd be white. 0 is black. The additional 'ff' in the highest byte is the alpha value (returned by getPixel32). -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] BitmapData.getPixel() -> negative value ?
Merrill, Jason wrote: -16777216 is 0xff00 (solid black) I thought solid black was 0xff 16777215 That'd be white. 0 is black. The additional 'ff' in the highest byte is the alpha value (returned by getPixel32). -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br ___ 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] BitmapData.getPixel() -> negative value ?
Number.toString() is a little borked. Meister Skinner explains it here: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/12/source_code_tra.html Cheers, Claus. Jeroen Beckers wrote: var n:Number = -16777216 trace(n.toString(16)); Gives me: -100 ? Claus Wahlers wrote: pixel = -16777216 -16777216 is 0xff00 (solid black) Try to trace pixel.toString(16) Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Introducing FZip... ZIP it up!
Did you ever write an image gallery or a game in Flash? Did it bother
you to write rather complicated load queues to load lots of small files
such as image thumbnails or game assets like tiles? Are you working with
big text files and need a reliable way to compress/uncompress them to
save valuable bandwidth?
I'm proud to announce FZip, a cute little Actionscript 3 class i've been
working on together with Max Herkender [1] that enables you to load
standard ZIP archives and extract contained files while the archive is
still loading.
Check it out:
http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/
ASDocs:
http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/docs/
FZip is released under OSI approved zlib/libpng license.
Sample usage:
public function YourApp() {
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("your.zip");
var zip:FZip = new FZip();
zip.addEventListener(FZipEvent.FILE_LOADED, fileCompleteHandler);
zip.load(request);
}
private function fileCompleteHandler(evt:FZipEvent):void {
var file:FZipFile = evt.file;
trace("File loaded: " + file.filename)
trace(" " + file.sizeCompressed);
trace(" " + file.sizeUncompressed);
}
[1] http://blog.brokenfunction.com/
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Re: [Flashcoders] 128 character limit in XML node?
In HTML enabled TextFields, the content of href in has a 128 (or something) character limit. Cheers, Claus. Aaron Hedquist wrote: Hello, I have a node that is being parsed by Flash, then used as a .url text link. However the link that opens up once you export the flash is being trimmed after 128 characters (it's about 151 characters). Is there any inherit limit to a node or a link in Flash? Using AS 2.0. I can look at the XML source, and it shows the full link, but I click on the same link in Flash, and it just stops after 128 characters... ?1 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] [OT] Friday Mental Break
http://www.dopelogik.com/flash/snakes_in_a_class/ this._snakes.push( snake ); // BUG! Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation
Gregory, The latest Flash IDE is the Flash 8 IDE. The latest Flash Player is Flash Player 9. The Flash 9 IDE is currently in public alpha test, and can be downloaded from http://labs.adobe.com/ (You need a valid Flash 8 IDE serial number to run it though). The new IDE is expected to be released early 2007 as far as i heard, and supports AS3 as well as AS1 and 2. Then there is Flex Builder 2 and the Flex 2 SDK, which were released recently. The Flex 2 SDK is free, you can download it from the Adobe site. It contains the Flex 2 framework, AS3 and MXML commandline compilers and a commandline debugger. The Flex Builder 2 is an Eclipse based IDE that allows you to develop in AS3 and in MXML (or a combination thereof). Both can't be used to develop in AS1 and 2. Flex Builder 2 and the Flex 2 SDK tend to target software developers, whereas the Flash 9 IDE tends to target designers (allthough the line is becoming blurry). Cheers, Claus. ps: seems labs.adobe.com is down at the moment, or is it just me? GregoryN wrote: Hello Flashcoders, I'm a bit confused with waterfall of all these new terms :-). Can't find all answers at the Adobe site so far... As far as I can judge, current Flash version is 8, but - on product and Version Penetration pages it's 8 - latest Flash Player offered is v.9 - you're discussing AS3 and even Flash 9 IDE here in the list So, can anyone clarify the current situation with Flash versions? What about expected in the nearest future (till the end of 2006)? Please excuse me if this question seems dumb for you. ___ 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] Uncompress a gzipped file
Right now there's several things that could be done with this that I can think of. Like Claus said, a tool could be created that takes regular zip files and adds checksum info without damaging compatibility. A quick progress report, just in case somebody is interested: We kinda got it working. See here for a rough demo: http://codeazur.com.br/stuff/fzip/ Flash Player 9 required, obviously. I grabbed the original ZIP from here: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ and use it as is. It contains 1002 icons in PNG format. Flash Player loads the ZIP via URLStream and decodes it on the fly. This works because the zipped PNGs are not being recompressed (PNG already uses compression). Max wrote a small Python script that unobtrusively injects Adler32 checksums into ZIPs, so very soon we'll be able to properly uncompress slightly modified, but still standard ZIP archives. Sources are going to be released soon, stay tuned. Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Uncompress a gzipped file
Right now there's several things that could be done with this that I can think of. Like Claus said, a tool could be created that takes regular zip files and adds checksum info without damaging compatibility. I already have a class ready that correctly parses a ZIP archive.. Stay tuned! Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Uncompress a gzipped file
ryanm wrote: To me, the most useful thing would be a a standardized implementation, so that it could be compressed at runtime or in advance, so that it can be used with packages like you were describing, or individual (possibly dynamic) files compressed by the server. Something like that will have to use the same CRC as the other common implementations of the same compression, so it will likely have to be entirely AS and not use the built in player compression. ZIP is extendable through the use of implementation specific 'extra fields', so you could define your own extra field that holds the additional ADLER32 checksum. If you compress at runtime in Flash, you'd just have to calculate the CRC-32 checksum. If you compress on the server, you'd just have to calculate the ADLER32 checksum. Then if you uncompress your ZIP files at runtime in Flash, you'd get the ADLER32 checksum for your file from the extra field. Any other ZIP tool should still be able to uncompress that archive as is. Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Prefixing property names with underscore - conventions?
I've noticed many class authors prefix property names with an
underscore, or 2 underscores or none at all.
It's often used in concert with getter/setters to prevent name collisions:
private var _myProperty:String;
public function set myProperty(value:String):Void {
_myProperty = value;
}
public function get myProperty():String {
return _myProperty;
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Uncompress a gzipped file
ryanm wrote: Imagine compressing XML files to a tiny fraction of their original size and decompressing them within flash! No need, you can do this now. If you gzip a file and send it via post response (sendAndLoad), the browser will decompress it for you automatically A possible use case: You need to load themes into your application at runtime. Those themes potentially consist of many assets of different type (xml, bitmap, swf, etc) and people should be able to create those assets using their favourite tools which may or may not include flash. In order to minimize requests to the server you could offer a way to pack them together accompanied by a catalog xml file (think swc). Again, users should be able to use their favourite zip tool to do that. As FP9 supports runtime un/compressing of ByteArrays, it is theoretically possible to let it load zip archives and uncompress the contained files at runtime, with minimal processor load. The problem however is that zip and zlib use different checksum methods, you thus can't uncompress files contained in zip archives created by 3rd party tools. You probably would have to write your own zip-like tool that uses either FP9 or a zlib library to compress files, and use ADLER32 checksums instead of the usual CRC-32 checksums. Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Uncompress a gzipped file
Max, not sure if this helps but it's worth a try. I was trying to uncompress files from zip archives a while ago. The most common compression method used in zip is deflate (as you already know) so theroretically it shouldn't be a problem to uncompress() files in a zip, BUT.. the thing is, although both Flash and the common 3rd party zip tools use the same compression method, they use different checksums. Zlib (Flash) uses an ADLER32 checksum, see RFC 1950 [1], whereas zip uses CRC-32 [2]. The checksum is calculated over the uncompressed file so imho it's impossible to uncompress a file in a 3rd party created zip archive (you don't have the ADLER32 checksum that Flash needs - the dog bites its tail there), which really is a pity. Please let me know if you find a way around that, i'd be very interested. I'll do the same. Maybe we should joint our efforts there. Cheers, Claus. [1] http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-zlib.html [2] http://tinyurl.com/an7mj Max wrote: Shouldn't there be more interest in this? Flash's compress() and uncompress() features use DEFLATE, which is the same algorithim used in zip files and png images. Imagine compressing XML files to a tiny fraction of their original size and decompressing them within flash! The uses are endless, especially when you start to think about compressing files within flash and sending them other places. My progress in this has stalled. I'm pretty confident now the last two bits in a ByteStream compressed with compress() are a checksum, and I'm almost completely sure it's a crc-16 checksum (although it's always off by one, I can't say I know why). Gzip actually includes a checksum, but it's crc-32, not crc-16. It's not as if you can know what the crc-16 checksum is without decompressing the file first. So basically, flash needs the checksum before it will decompress the binary data, and you don't have it with a normal gzip file. Now I'm starting to think gzip is a dead end and a custom format would probably be more useful. Anyway, making a custom format is out of my league it seems. I tried working something out with Python but I can't pull it off. Surely the throngs of people interested in this would figure something out, unless I'm alone... ___ 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] Possible Challenge: AS 3.0 Compiler :)
Doesn´t haXe www.haxe.org address this issues ? No, we're talking about a clientside ECMAScript interpreter/compiler written in AS3. Cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Possible Challenge: AS 3.0 Compiler :)
An AS3 SWF compiler, written in AS3 and available at runtime could be useful. E.g., you could then compile a SWF on the fly, put its data into a ByteArray and then load it from there using flash.display.Loader.loadBytes(). This technique could be perhaps used to bypass some Flash 9 limitations: e.g., it seems that (unlike in AS2 with duplicateMovieClip()) you can't completely clone a Sprite with its Graphics object (to which someting is drawn). You could also serialize the resulting swf and send it over a LocalConnection to another swf :) How about porting Rhino? http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Where to politely and appropriately discuss pricing issues
Rather, I meant making *my services* indispensible -- i.e. doing such a strong job that the client can't imagine doing the next project without me. I'm sorry Adam, i misinterpreted that. We're on the same page then :) cheers, Claus. ___ 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] Where to politely and appropriately discuss pricing issues
I made a decision to go with a low price point for specific reasons that may not apply in every case. Also, I'm not that worried about clients balking when I eventually raise rates. I'm pretty confident in my ability to make myself indispensible. :) Another thing I've done is offer a "New Client Discount". If the relationship with the client works out, this gives me the ability to get a slightly better rate on a future project without making it seem like I'm screwing them. That's interesting.. i usually do the exact opposite (of course, this is me, and probably doesn't apply to everyone and everything). I usually offer new clients my regular rate and offer discounts when i feel that my relationship to the client is good and of a potentially long term nature. Most of the time, the client continues to pay me my regular rate for follow up projects though. Also, apart from trying to do a good job and making the client happy of course, i never ever do anything to make myself indispensible. To the contrary actually. For a long term, good client relationship imho it's absolutely necessary to give the client assurance that if for whatever reason i might not be available to continue working on a project (e.g. i get ill), he can continue without much hassle with another similarly skilled developer. cheers, Claus. ___ 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 Chambers et al.
> As a thought, though. Is there anyone out there who even thinks they > have the skills to develop there own Flash player? The way I see it, so > long as it doesn't directly read the SWF format, there would be no > license infringement! And one could always create a third party file > converter ;) http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ As long as you don't accept Adobes license for the Flash Player File Format docs, you should be free to develop a Flash Player clone that reads SWF. But then again, i'm not a lawyer, but i would guess the GNU foundation consults lawyers to secure their projects. cheers, claus. ___ 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 Chambers et al.
> Still, I imagine a subscriber would require a very > good excuse as to why they required the source :-) Not really.. A subscriber requires to afford the licensing fee. ;) cheers, claus. ___ 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 Chambers et al.
> That's not true. You can license the Flash Player source code. PS, Mike, last time i researched Flash Player source licensing, Macromedia redirected me to Vibren Technologies: http://www.vibren.com/Eng_Solutions/macromedia_engineering.htm Maybe that helps, cheers, claus. ___ 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 Chambers et al.
> That I know of, there is absolutely no way to attain the > Flash player source. That's Macromedia's closely guarded secret, > which, along with their license depicting that no-one may create > their own, makes Flash theres alone! That's not true. You can license the Flash Player source code. cheers, claus. ___ 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] CSS with input text
> Wouldn't having full www support for html in Flash mean building in a > browser. Not too likely I think. > What about a component in Flash that allows the display of a web > browser window in a flash document, using the browsers functionality. > I wouldn't know where to start, but it would be cool. There still is DENG: http://osflash.org/deng/ Definately not comparable to Firefox and the likes, but a start cheers, c. ___ 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] Re: How does goowy do it? (HTML in Flash)
> I haven't seen the HTML > capability, but it's obviously possible to write a > browser, or a subset of a browser in actionscript. http://osflash.org/deng/ cheers, claus. ___ 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] XML Namespace Explanation in Simple Terms?
> xmlns="mystate" xmlns:556="anotherstate" etc (not really accurate here > as i could use both 555-2345-6789 and 2345-6789 to call my neighbor, > which afaik isn't possible in xml actually it should be possible, not sure: xmlns="mystate" xmlns:555="mystate" xmlns:556="anotherstate" cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XML Namespace Explanation in Simple Terms?
> 555-1234-5678 (me) > 556-1234-5678 (somebody else) > > that code would be a namespace prefix in xml terms > > somewhere i'd have to define where and what 555 really is. that'd be > my namespace declaration. there's also a "default" namespace. if i call my neighbor i can omit the state code because my neighbor lives in the same state as me, so my state's telcom defines the code of my state as default: xmlns="mystate" xmlns:556="anotherstate" etc (not really accurate here as i could use both 555-2345-6789 and 2345-6789 to call my neighbor, which afaik isn't possible in xml, but your marketing folks will get the idea) cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XML Namespace Explanation in Simple Terms?
> I need to explain XML namespaces to several marketing people think phone numbers my phone number is 1234-5678 in a different state though, this phone number may belong to somebody else so, i put a code in front of it to distinguish it from same numbers in other states 555-1234-5678 (me) 556-1234-5678 (somebody else) that code would be a namespace prefix in xml terms somewhere i'd have to define where and what 555 really is. that'd be my namespace declaration. it's not exactly the same, but very similar to the concept of xml namespaces hth, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Search engine indexable Flash content; anyone with insight please help!
> Is there any way to index Flash content without that risk? http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/seffs-to-flash-or-not-to-flash/ cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash
> RegEx + E4X means insanely fast custom parsing and conversion, plus > insanely fast searches and filters for XML. The need for XPath is about to > be a thing of the past (whenever they get around to releasing 8.5, that is). I did some benchmarks comparing fp8 XML vs fp8.5 flash.xml.XML vs fp8.5 E4X (recursive traversal of an xml document) where the fp8.5 version turned out to be 20x faster than it's fp8 counterpart while the E4X version was only twice as fast. I also did benchmarks comparing RegExp vs char-by-char parsing on my CSS parser and char-by-char appeared to be faster. Now these may not be common cases, but they show that there is no such thing as an ultimate way to do things. If i need comfort and ease of use i'd go for E4X or RegExp, if i need speed i do it the oldschool way, and if i need to be less language dependent and don't care much about speed i stick with XPath. In fact i'd love to see a solid XPath processor written in AS3. cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Singleton as associative array - yucky icky?
> Wrong? Dude, wtf? Why don't you drink some coffee and take a look at > what the hell VB is doing (ASP, whatever). roffle. it's 4am and i might have smoked some funny cigarettes already. anyways, at least it feels wrong. but then.. vbscript.. ehrm.. ok.. *ducking* cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Singleton as associative array - yucky icky?
> > __resolve?
>
> nope...
>
> not unless there's some super-secret way of using __resolve outside of
> the "normal" way.
>
> even with a __resolve function in-place in my class, you still get the
> dreaded "Left side of assignment operator must be variable or
> property." when calling:
>
> session("foo") = "bar";
ah yes of course:
non-singleton-version:
var session:Session = new Session();
session("foo") = "bar";
this makes no sense.
maybe:
session.foo = "bar";
in combination with __resolve?
or maybe even let getInstance return a method of the singleton rather
than the instance itself? hmm no then the :Session type would be
invalid.. i guess the only way to do that is using the standard
dot-notation and __resolve.
sorry can't test as2 stuff right now, but maybe it helps somehow ;)
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> var session:Session = Session.getInstance();
> session("foo") = "bar";
>
> which would set the item "foo" equal to "bar". i can't see that
> there's a way to do this kind of non-method calling of the class
> instance.
__resolve?
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Re: [Flashcoders] HTML markup for highlighted text...
> I'm working on a chat, and what I want to do is "highlight" text that is > whispered. But the background-color style property doesn't work on spans, > does anyone know of a good way to set the background color of text in an > HTML text field? Is it even possible? Not possible, without using ugly hacks (eg. layer Movieclip under Textfield, draw background shape yourself). This is one of the features i'd LOVE to see implemented in FP8.5 (and, borders on spans, etc - or even: access to a mini DOM within HTML Textfields, with a native way of mapping x/y coords to elements of that mini DOM). The inline box model of FP's Textfield always sucked, and is continuing to suck as far as i can see. cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FP8: file upload and server response
thanks ryan and don for your help! i need to upload a binary file from a local flash 8 app to a 3rd party server (webservice, fixed api, takes a mix of post/get data and returns xml) so i guess i'm at a dead end here.. cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] FP8: file upload and server response
hi folks, i'm currently playing with the flash player 8 FileReference stuff. i'm uploading a file to a server script (works fine). the server script returns an xml with info about the uploaded file. is there any way i can access the server response? tia, cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] AS3: Stage stuck in lower-right corner!
> I used this.stage.stageWidth and this.stage.stageHeight to get the > dimensions of the window. Am I doing this right? How do I get the > dimensions of the movie? put this in your constructor: stage.scaleMode = "noScale"; stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT; stage.stageWidth and stage.stageHeight should work fine then.. cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT:Converting shapefile (.shp) > SVG > SWF
> I found the "ogis2svg" command line tool quite straightforward but now > am stuck trying to convert the SVG output to SWF using the svg2swf > tool mentioned above. > I've googled it and haven't found many "respectable" tools for this purpose. Have you tried Adobe Illustrator for SVG to SWF conversion? I have experimented with SHP parsing myself in the past and am quite familiar with it btw, if you need something, feel free to drop me a line cheers, claus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
