Re: [Flashcoders] PureMVC vs Cairngorm // who's better?
Huge vote for RobotLegs as well. jord -- Jordan L. Chilcott Sent from my iPhone... because I can On 2011-06-23, at 9:23 AM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Robotlegs +1 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
In this case, you just manipulate the time on the client side for the user's amusement (if they try to tamper with it, the next call will just reset the values, if it's not time yet). jord -- Jordan L. Chilcott Sent from my iPhone... because I can On 2011-03-15, at 1:06 PM, Kevin Holleran kdaw...@gmail.com wrote: I like that! Good call, much more efficient. The countdown is displayed so that date is important. I like the single call that way. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Why would you be relying solely on a user's clock? That is most easily manipulated simply by changing the date and time in their system preferences. No hacking experience required. jord -- Jordan L. Chilcott Sent from my iPhone... because I can On 2011-03-14, at 3:06 PM, Kevin Holleran kdaw...@gmail.com wrote: What is going to happen, is the application is going to hold a coupon. That coupon will be retrieved from a database and passed into the Flash application. I guess as I am writing this, the script will just check the date and if it is not correct, it can simply not return the coupon. My question revolved around a user manipulating the date passed into the flash application and causing the coupon to show up before the countdown is really up. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
If I'm getting this straight: You're asking for a date from the server which you're going to pass back for approval to show a coupon on the client side app. Why not just have the server store and send the coupon for the application to use? The client simply makes one call (two at most... but it can be handled in one call, letting the server do all the work - the client is a simple willing participant). No other data is passed back for the client to manipulate. jord -- Jordan L. Chilcott Sent from my iPhone... because I can On 2011-03-14, at 3:40 PM, Kevin Holleran kdaw...@gmail.com wrote: @Jord - The date will be passed in or retrieved from a script and would be the server date. My concern was that the date would be intercepted/modified in some fashion, but since the end result is retrieved from the server, the server script will just have a check to make sure the date is right to release it. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Getting Data into my SWF
Unless the client is actually displaying a countdown, it has no need for the data. All the client needs in this case is a polling mechanism to occur on a set interval, whether or not it intends to display any countdown down. No data needs to be pass back to the server. All the client is essentially asking is coupon?. Server either gives a coupon or something else that is of no use for anyone to manipulate. jord -- Jordan L. Chilcott Sent from my iPhone... because I can On 2011-03-14, at 4:08 PM, Kevin Holleran kdaw...@gmail.com wrote: The engine is a countdown from the current date/time to the date/time when the coupon becomes visible. So the date is used for the counter and then once the counter reaches zero, the coupon is retrieved from the server and displayed. Kevin ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic fonts and Tweens
Did you set your embed properties (either in the property control panel or with AS)? jord John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: Howdy all, Does anyone know of a solution to doing an alpha Tween on a movieclip that contains dynamic text field. This is AS2 CS3. I attach a linked mc from the library, populate that text field, myMc.mySecond_mc.myTextMc.text. The font family Tahoma is stored in a linked font symbol in my library. It attaches, populates and functions fine, but the _alpha Tween has no effect on the mc. Any suggestions? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Loading images at the same time, bugs in Flash AS3
My guess is that if it's iterating through a loop to load, I would imagine that the loader objects are being lost in the loop by getting de-referenced and are getting garbage collected. If this is what's happening, you would probably have to put your loader objects in a stack or array so they don't get de-referenced, and then do some housekeeping to remove them once they have been loaded. jord Anthony Pace wrote: Without looking through your code: * For alignment of the thumbnail container, you could be waiting until after everything has loaded inside before asking it to change it's y position. * For the thumbs not loading properly, that could be caused by your load order... Your downloads are racing each other. Things need to be loaded in sequence for stability; yet, you are, if I am not mistaken, downloading everything at once in a loop, not waiting until one thing downloads until you go to the next; yet, in your display, you are making it wait. Flash lets you send multiple requests at once and does not automatically que your requests, in the sense that only one can happen at a time; therefore, if something needs to load in sequence, you need to put safeguards in your code to ensure that things get loaded in order of priority. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Video
Depends on how you want to slow it down. If you want to Flash to play an already slowed down movie, you can generate that in either Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro or iMovie and then either convert it FLV or H264. If you are wanting to slow it down in Flash, you'll have to set up an interval to use a BitmapData to take a snapshot of the video and display that, as videos in Flash play at full speed, regardless of the frame rate. You may want to encode the video at the full 30fps in order not to lose too much when playing it back this way. jord On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Lehr, Theodore M (N-SGIS) wrote: I have a .mov file that I want to import into a movie and then slow it down (slow motion). Any way to do this? Ted Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 Fax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:jchilc...@interactivityunlimited.com http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Skype: bear-faced-cow SightSpeed: jchilc...@interactivityunlimited.com Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] unexpected result with linked classes in embedded swfs
If your source and linked file are importing the same AS2 class, the first one imported gets put into the global class tables. Flash sees that the class from the imported link is within the same namespace and considers it already in existence. This is not so unexpected behaviour. If you are going to have your class used throughout various linked swfs, then keep it in your main movie and exclude the class from the links swfs when compiling (using an exclude xml file). jord Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm working in AS2. The skin-swf that I am embedding into my main movie contains symbols that are linked to classes. Objects in my main movie make calls to some of the classes that are defined in the skin. In order to get nice code-hinting in Flash Develop and compile-checking, I import these same classes into some of the objects in my main-movie. If I make change to the AS file for a symbol defined in the skin-swf, but ONLY recompile the main-movie and not the skin-swf, I wouldn't expect the changes made to take effect, but they do. Does this make sense to anyone? For example: if I add a new function to a class that is linked to a symbol in the skin-swf, and I call that function from the main-movie. I would expect to have to recompile both the skin-swf and the main-movie. However, what I've found is that I only have to recompile the main-movie. It seems that if the class is imported into the main-movie, then those instructions override the instructions compiled into the skin-swf. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] unexpected result with linked classes in embedded swfs
Know the feeling! We have about 20 files using the same class files. It makes more sense for us to keep them in a central core file and simply compile one file. The skin swf will reference the classes from your main file as if they were compiled into the swf. The only noticeable change should be a slightly smaller size for your skins as the AS2 code is not compiled. jord Andrew Sinning wrote: Jordan, Mark et all advised: If you are going to have your class used throughout various linked swfs, then keep it in your main movie and exclude the class from the links swfs when compiling (using an exclude xml file). Thanks! This is really helpful. It seems so stupid of me to program the skins this way, and having to keep recompiling them (as I thought I had to) was really becoming a pain. My skins take a lot longer to compile than main movie, even though they contain much less AS. Must be the graphics So, in my library in the skin, I will link the symbols to the external AS in the same way, but then I'll use an exclude file to prevent them from actually getting compiled into the swf? Then when the skin-swf gets loaded into the main the symbols will find their classes? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 known? bug with _yscale property when class extends MovieClip
Are you dealing with anything that may represent a scoping issue? Where are you setting your _yscale? jord Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm using AS2 and I have a symbol linked to a class that extends MovieClip. There's a place in the class where the mc gets scaled. Because it extends MovieClip, I didn't bother to use this, as in this._yscale = 90. I simply typed _yscale = 90. Curiously, without the this, the command causes the _root movie to be scaled. Seems like a bug. Is this a known issue? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Simple ActionScript Project OOP Question
Add the child to your Website sprite, rather than the stage.
jord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a package that I know works. It displays an Audio Player on
the stage. I moved it from src/ to a folder for packages. The
project builds no sweat. However, I do not see the AudioPlayer on
the stage. The package is AudioBuilder. Here is my AS for my
Actionscript Project. Any idea why I do not see my AudioPlayer?
package {
// Flash Packages
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
// My Packages
import com.Audio.AudioPlayer;
// Setup the SWF Properties
[SWF(backgroundColor=#FF, frameRate=30, width=1000,
height=600, quality=HIGH)]
public class Website extends Sprite {
public function Website():void {
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
var _container:Sprite = new Sprite();
var _MusicPlayer:AudioPlayer = new AudioPlayer();
stage.addChild(_MusicPlayer);
}
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0
I don't know if I could agree with the statement below. I have no real use for Flex as I can get everything I need from Flash, and can take it down as granular as I want. Flash's failure, IMHO, is providing a proper coding IDE for just plain ol' AS3, sans Flex. Thank goodness for things like FlashDevelop stepping in (and even on a Mac it still does me well in a virtualized Windows environment). jord Kerry Thompson wrote: It IS two apps. Flash and Flex. More and more of us hard-core coder types are using Flex for heavy-duty development. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0
I'm in the same boat here (been working with Flash since v4 came out, but have been coding for 25 years). Most of the stuff that has been iterated in this thread somewhat echo my opinions. I particularly agree with the one statement down below: AS3 is easier to use. The stigma is that AS2 coders have to learn a new way if you want to start coding with AS3. IMHO, it's a more proper way and more functional and far less confusing to the next person who has to look at an FLA and maintain it. The article seemed a bit whiny as a refusal to change. There's nothing in those changes that are more difficult to implement than their predecessors. If anything, I half agree with the unloading issue. All objects when discarded should be garbage collectable, timeline or not. To the garbage collector, it is just dereferenced object and not discarding it is definitely a bug more than anything else. However, I don't agree for a simple unload movie... that could break OOP logic structures if one were to simply unload without dereference. Again, we're talking a more structured language and despite its simplicity, there is a responsibility on the part of the person writing code. I don't apologize for being rather unforgiving towards this. AS2 was an excuse for allowing a lot of bad habits, and now AS3 has addressed those bad habits. Adobe shouldn't have to go back to appeasing those bad habits as much as they should be showing more how to implement things the AS3 way. jord Romuald Quantin wrote: Well, I've coded years with AS2 and I have to say, except for the problem with loaded SWF, which will probably be solved soon: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/07/additional_info.html, I'm not missing AS2 at all!! I'm not from another language but AS3 is a lot cleaner, nothing to compare. So yes, I guess it is easier to use. Probably because I'm not using a lot the flash IDE, but I can understand that for people who are using it or to make quick dirty test, some old AS features can be missed. Romu ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0
I'm on the other side of this... I hardly agree with any of these points. jord Brian Mays wrote: Awesome. Thanks. This reinforces some points I've been making to so colleagues. Brian Mays On 7/15/08 3:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i just published an article called Charges Against ActionScript 3.0 covering the things people don't like about ActionScript 3.0. it's posted on O'Reilly's InsideRIA, here: http://www.insideria.com/2008/07/the-charges-against-actionscri.html The article discusses the following issues: 1. The removal of on()/onClipEvent() from Flash CS3 makes creating simple interactivity hard. 2. Getting rid of loaded .swf files is hard. 3. Casting DisplayObject.parent makes controlling parent movie clips hard. 4. The removal of getURL() makes linking hard. 5. The removal of loadMovie() makes loading .swf files and images hard. 6. ActionScript 3.0's additional errors make coding cumbersome. 7. Referring to library symbols dynamically is unintuitive. 8. Adding custom functionality to manually created text fields, to all movie clips, or to all buttons is cumbersome. 9. The removal of duplicateMovieClip() makes cloning a MovieClip instance (really) hard. if you have comments, please leave them on the article so i can respond if necessary. colin ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0
Let me rephrase this: I hardly agree with MOST of the issues. jord Matt S. wrote: Even the garbage collection and unload movie issues? .m ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0
Let's be fair: I'm not looking to argue. I have a wife for that. :) I intend to state my issues, but it may have to wait a couple of days because I'm sure most, if not all, of you are in a working situation and faced with some slimy brown stuff rolling downhill towards you. I was going to type a whole thing before this happened, but let me just start for now by saying that having programmed in Flash among other things, that a lot of things I have issues against were, in my mind, the cause of a lot of programming deficiencies and obstacles within Flash. I intend to elaborate further... and keep in mind that this is, again, just my opinion. jord Kerry Thompson wrote: Jord wrote: Let me rephrase this: I hardly agree with MOST of the issues. Fair enough. It would be a valuable contribution to the discussion if you told us which issues you have, ahem issues with, and why. I personally am not in a position to argue with Colin Moock, but I do enjoy a good debate, as long as it illuminates issues. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] filmmering FLV playback - why and how to fix that
What is the source frame rate? I have seen Flash encounter some stuttering on drop frame rates. For that size video, you are probably best to drop the frame rate down to about 15fps. It will probably still look good for the net and will most likely play a lot better. jord *Jordan L. Chilcott, President* Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 Fax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Skype: bear-faced-cow SightSpeed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video Martin Klasson wrote: I used 400kbit on a 694x440 movie, with 96kbps audio in stereo, on2vp6. frame rate same as source, and automatic keyframes. How does it stutter, as it is buffering and than resumes - or does the video has strange lines appearing like it the video doesnt perform well. I think it is very strange, and I cant understand that I havent heard about this issue before! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] navigateToURL or getURL and pop-up blocking
You should be fine using navigateToURL( yourURL.html, _blank ). Pop-up blockers don't go after this (it's often user initiated). Even if you put a javascript in as the URL, it should be okay. jord On Oct 20, 2007, at 1:23 PM, John Olson wrote: I have a client Flash AS3 project where I need to open a new window from within Flash. I won't have any control over the html wrapper for the SWF so I can't use javascript within the HTML page. I've read suggestions about using Javascript:window.open but seems that will get blocked as well. Any suggestions? Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 Fax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Skype: bear-faced-cow SightSpeed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] load 500 by 500 from db in flash
If you want to limit the number of your results, add LIMIT(0, 500) at the end of your statement. jord On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:29 AM, CARABUS-Plus wrote: Im using FLASHSQL to load data in flash from php db Theres is too much data to load, how can I do to load 500 by 500 result ? Thank you myFlashSQL.Execute(SELECT * FROM NP_socs_nancy WHERE soc_09 = \+categ_var+\ ORDER BY soc_01); Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 Fax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Skype: bear-faced-cow SightSpeed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Yahoo MAps Flash API and Get Driving Directions
Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn't support driving directions in their API. This is something I have asked them about numerous times. jord On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finished a prototype using Google Maps API and a 3rd party solution only to discover there is no built in support for geocoding AND driving directions. Yahoo Maps Flash based API DOES have support for geocoding, but does anyone know if driving directions are easilly implemented? Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 Fax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Skype: bear-faced-cow SightSpeed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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] Returning a String fails
Aside from the fact that this is not as simple a method as doing a
String.split() and then joining each array element, your method
didn't keep the return value after each recursion. I added a local
var for clarity.
function eliminateSpaces(phrase:String):String {
var testString:String = phrase;
var finalResult:String;
var foundSpace = testString.indexOf( );
if (foundSpace != -1) {
testString = String(testString.substring(0, foundSpace) +
testString.substring(foundSpace + 1));
if (testString.indexOf( ) != -1) {
testString = eliminateSpaces(testString);
} else {
trace(output: + testString);
}
}
return testString;
}
var s:String = eliminateSpaces(moe and larry and curly);
trace(s);
jord
On Jul 24, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
I've written a simple routine to eliminate spaces from a user entered
string. But, it won't return the string. I'm sure it's something
silly. Can anyone shed light?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Seeking Experienced Developer for Connecting Flash to Databases with Java
Why not just use openAMF and Hibernate to connect to your J2EE app database from Flash using Flash remoting. Hibernate will do all of the talking to Oracle (as long as you're not using BLOBs... that needs to be coded using JDBC alone at the moment). jord On Jul 7, 2007, at 2:22 AM, Phil Dupré wrote: So if I'm making the flash application in AS3, how difficult would it be to let it talk to the Oracle db? Do you think you'd be available for this integration? -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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] FLV (like youtube)
We use the Flix Engine for one of our clients. http://www.on2.com/developer/flix-engine-sdk/ jord On 4/4/07, Tom Huynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, A project requires me to create an app that enables people to upload .avi and mov's. These movies must be visible in the frontoffice. Does anybody know how to convert .avi and .mov into FLV? Or is there a better alternative? Kind regards, Tom ___ 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 -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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] command-line mpeg to flv conversion tool?
We've used the Flix Engine for a few clients. I believe it should handle what you are looking for. jord On 3/16/07, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have suggestions or links to any command-line video converters? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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 and Yahoo map geocode service question
Is it possible that it could be a cross-domain policy situation here? What would happen if you called it from a back-end (I'd best guess that it would probably work)? jord On 3/8/07, Helen Triolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 (works): From a browser, this returns valid XML with geocode information: http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?state=MDcity=Derwoodstreet=16101%20Frederick%20Roadappid=anyid (doesn't seem to care what appid is used) 2 (works): Testing within the Flash 8 IDE, I can use loadVars to call that script (with those parameters set) and an XML onload routine to retrieve them -- works fine. 3 (doesn't work): When I publish and run it from a swf in an html page in the browser, I get an XML read error (the parameter passed to my xml onload routine is false). What could be causing the XML read/parse error in 3? (doesn't work with a valid appid either) -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic video buttons
There are plenty of ways to go about 5 6. You could set it up as an attribute within the XML node where if it sees a video attribute in the attributes property, then pop up a button that will point to your video (if that's what you're trying to do... or are you trying to pop up a button that plays a video - either way, the principle is somewhat the same). jord On 3/8/07, Wendy Marino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Francis, Thank you very much. Actually part of #5, and 6 was my only- question! 1-4 is no problem. I must not have been clear as I was just trying to explain the circumstance of my question, sorry and =Thank You= for your kind response. I will investigate soon!! Best Regards, Wendy -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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 and Yahoo map geocode service question
No probs... I deal with Yahoo Maps with Flash on a continual basis these days for one of our clients, so I find myself stumbling over many of the pitfalls with Yahoo Maps (one of them being their geocode still needs work -- and there's more :-P ). jord On 3/8/07, Helen Triolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks jord -- that was indeed the issue. If anyone else does Flash+Yahoo maps, the url to use instead (the one that has a cross-domain file in place) is http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode Helen new tute: http://flash-creations.com/notes/sample_yahoomap.php -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic video buttons
Seeing as you mentioned ColdFusion (you didn't mention that one before :-) ), you can also use Flash Remoting to get the information to and from Flash. Where there's a back-end language, there will probably be a database involved and in there will probably be a field for video records. As for placing the video, you can play video almost anywhere, so putting it in a button is a definitely possibility. jord On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Wendy Marino wrote: I will post as soon as I see which method works best for the situation (It's for a daily news broadcasts that will be posted on line). The server is running php and cold fusion and so I'll check that out. And Jordan, I figured this would be possible in an xml ( pop up a button that plays a video)...in a playeror points to it brining it into player. -both methods could work I guess so I'll see which will be best to implement. -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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: Pirated Books
Sorry... couldn't resist: On 3/1/07, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is not called piracy my little brave boy... as in i am not selling it. I was just considering you my lil brother, and than i decided to give you this book as any one gives something to his girlfriend.. IOW, your give your girlfriend stolen jewelry that someone else just happened to take for you? What I find even more humourous than this is your signature paraphrasing 1 Corinthians. Here's one from Exodus: Thou shalt not steal! jord -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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] How does YouTube convert all video formats to Flash format?
This can also be done with the Flix Engine. We have been using this with one of our clients with great success. jord 2007/2/8, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am working on a Flash project that requires the user to upload a video clip. Ideally they should not be restricted to a particular video format so I was hoping for some advice on how to convert different video formats online to flash format. I have seen this done on the YouTube website but have no idea what they are using - anyone know what they are using? Any advice much appreciated! -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (519) 837-8610 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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 Remoting onStatus in Flash Player 8
Use the Connection.call() method to call your routine with a callback to your object. Place your onStatus and onResult methods in your callback object. Your status information should be passed to your callback object. jord On May 23, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Rui Duarte Silva wrote: I'm having a strange problem that only occurs in Flash Player 8 and above. Apparently when I publish to Player 8, my Connection.onStatus ceases to function correctly. The method is still called, but the status information (normally passed as a Object) is undefined. Any ideas on this? -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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] Cuepoints not accurate
Try inserting the cuepoints programmatically and see if you get the same results? As well, what happens if you try a Q D encoding with the Flash 8 Video Encoder, adding the cuepoints there? jord On May 24, 2006, at 6:17 AM, Serge Jespers wrote: I know it's not really a coding issue but it's the only place I could think off to post this problem I'm having... I'm having a serious issue with cuepoints in VP6 FLV's. I've placed them in the FLV using Squeeze and placed them on the exact frame I want to trigger actions to. But when I play it, the action starts 3 to 6 frames too early... which pretty much messes up the whole video. I've tried placing the cuepoints a few frames later which works fine on my computer but on others it triggers too late... Anyone have an idea on this? -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source Author: Foundation Flash 8 Video ___ 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: Ensuring commercial is played before the video while keeping .FLV external
The best way you can ensure that your clients are seeing what you want them to see is to use a streaming server, as they can inject content into the stream. Thus, one stream can be comprised of two or more videos and the client doesn't know any better. jord On Feb 13, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Jamay Liu wrote: If advertisers are paying for a commercial, it'd be nice if the commercial were actually distributed. Also, it might not be a commercial but just a simple branding logo/animation that identifies the video as ours. The swf will also be a preloader for the video, so another purpose is to entertain viewers while the video is loading. -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source ___ 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] flv repeating?
Your code is telling it to go back to the beginning once the video
has finished:
if(info.code == NetStream.Play.Stop) {
ns.seek(0);
}
The seek() will have the stream play once it has found your spot you
wish to seek to. If you didn't want it to play again, insert an
ns.pause(true); after your seek.
jord
On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Corban Baxter wrote:
Here is pretty much all I am doing and its hand coded...
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
theVideo.attachVideo(ns);
ns.setBufferTime(10);
ns.onStatus = function(info) {
trace(info.code);
if(info.code == NetStream.Buffer.Full) {
bufferClip._visible = false;
}
if(info.code == NetStream.Buffer.Empty) {
bufferClip._visible = true;
}
if(info.code == NetStream.Play.Stop) {
ns.seek(0);
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Can an object delete itself?
Legal or not, it's very unwise to let an object kill itself. Letting
an object commit suicide would leave the rest of a program in a lurch
as it wouldn't really know where to go from there. You haven't
officially returned back to the caller at that point. You are better
off sending out an event to a container object that will put you on
death row, so you can be properly disposed of when you are finished
executing.
jord
On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Mark Burvill wrote:
public function die():Void {
trace (deleting);
removeMovieClip (baddie_mc);
delete this;
trace (Am i still alive?);
}
The movieclip is successfully removed, but I would expect the
second trace Am I still alive NOT to appear as the object has
been deleted, but it does.
I read somewhere that it is illegal for an object to delete itself
- is this true?
Is there another easy way of doing this?
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Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData.draw and FLV's
I just tried it on my players as well as in Safari (Mac) as well as Firefox (PC) and it works fine (8.0.22). I'm wondering if there's an issue with your player, as I encountered the same situation with a wonky player with another person. I don't see anything overly peculiar with your code, although I usually attach the BitmapData object to a different level in the MC. jord On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:17 PM, John Grden wrote: I'm doing a progressive download of an FLV and I can't get it to draw. I was using the FLVPlayer component, and then I tried a generic video container with basic NetStream code. Just a white box is the result. The weird thing is, I did this same idea way back using copyPixels. It's playing FLVs loaded from the server and there's no issue. http://johngrden.blitzds.com/Puzzaz/8ball/Puzzaz.html If anyone cares to try it out with the test I'm running, here you go: http://www.acmewebworks.com/Downloads/BitmapData_FLVPlayer_Issue.zip Can anyone at Adobe alleviate my suffering and just tell me if this is or isn't possible? -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Length
The duration is located within the metadata of an FLV. Unless C# is able to read the metadata within an FLV, you can always read it within a Flash Player or browser and have it pass the info to C#. jord On Dec 14, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Jim Tann wrote: Does anyone know how to retrieve the length of an .FLV file with C#? -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] End of flv playback event
Why not add a listener object to the onStatus event of your NetStream. It will inform you when the playback has stopped. You can take action from there. jord On Nov 16, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Marlon Harrison wrote: Is there any special trick to accurately getting an end of flv playback event? -- Jordan L. Chilcott, President Interactivity Unlimited Guelph, Ontario - Tel: (519) 837-1879 eFax: (253) 276-8631 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interactivityunlimited.com iChat/AIM: j1chilcott Author: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX Author: Flash Professional 8: Training From the Source ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
