[Flashcoders] Flashloaded.com Service

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

I'm thinking about purchasing some items from Flashloaded and I'd like to
hear what everyone has to say about their work and their support.

 

Any comments welcome.


Cheers,

 

!k

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RE: [Flashcoders] Space Clips in Circle

[Kevin Aebig]

Absolutely perfect. Thanks a lot for helping with this...

Sincerely,

!k

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helen Triolo
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Space Clips in Circle

3 days with no success sounds way too familiar...  but I can do clips on 
a circle, I think.  With a clip in the library, this will attach it n 
times (starting at depth d) around a circle of radius r centered at x, y:

function placeOnCircle(n:Number, r:Number, x:Number, y:Number, 
clipid:String, attachTo:MovieClip, d:Number) {
// get # of radians for each segment
var segment:Number = 2 * Math.PI / n;
for (var i=0; ihttp://flash-creations.com
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Kevin Aebig wrote:

>Hey all,
>
> 
>
>My goal is to space 12 clips in a circle evenly based on a radius. I'm
>officially stumped after messing around with it for 3 days with no success.
>
> 
>
>Any help or insight appreciated.
>
> 
>
>Cheers,
>
> 
>
>!k
>
>  
>


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[Flashcoders] Space Clips in Circle

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

My goal is to space 12 clips in a circle evenly based on a radius. I'm
officially stumped after messing around with it for 3 days with no success.

 

Any help or insight appreciated.

 

Cheers,

 

!k

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RE: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed

[Kevin Aebig]

Of you could try the CF-Jobs list over at houseoffusion.com 

!k

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed

UPDATED:
The Web Developer develops, implements, and maintains web applications
for a government agency in Washington DC using Cold Fusion.  Work will
include development of new modules, conversion of conventional database
applications and troubleshooting active modules on the internet and
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  Bachelor's degree in a related area and a minimum of 4 years web
development experience required. 
   
  Additional Requirements:
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  *Strong understanding of automated process development and the ability to
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  *Demonstrated ability to program javascript, Oracle, VB, SQL and Section
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RE: [Flashcoders] Re: simulating mouse clicks

[Kevin Aebig]

I'm assuming that you have something other than the pointer acting like it
has control in the same way as the cursor.

I've done this before for some specific circumstances and it required hit
collision detection and checking for every possible scenario.

- Check for onPress and onRelease and onClick (custom handler)
- Check for dispatchEvent
- Add either a listener to the mouse, or to UIEventDispatcher

It's not a complete solution, but generally it should take care of a lot of
circumstances.

!k

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vishal Kapur
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:16 PM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: simulating mouse clicks

I'll ask the question a different way: what are all the ways that a
mouse click event can be handled in a flash movie?  (other than
defining an onPress/onRelease callback)

-- Vishal


On 10/17/06, Vishal Kapur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to solve the problem of generically simulating mouse clicks
> in a running flash movie.   So, I'd like to be able to write a
> function that when invoked with the targetPath of the flash object to
> be clicked, would be able to simulate a mouse click on that object as
> if a user had actually clicked it.  I should also mention that the
> technique needs to work with arbitrary 3rd-party flash movies (so I
> don't have control to change the code).
>
> The simplest thing to try is just to try to invoke the
> onPress/onRelease callbacks on the target object.  This works
> sometimes.  However, in some cases it doesn't quite simulate a real
> mouse click.  In particular, I seem to have trouble simulating clicks
> on components (in a List component, for example, the selected row will
> get highlighted but the handler that does further processing and
> refreshes the UI doesn't seem to get called).
>
> Currently I am (sort of) working around this by getting the
> coordinates of the center of the target object and using the Win32
> api's to move the mouse pointer and simulate the windows mouse down/up
> events.  As you can imagine this is not truly generic (doesn't handle
> scrollbars, movielclips obscured by other objects, etc).
>
> Any thoughts on this?  Anyone with previous experience with this or
> ideas on a better way to generically simulate a click event in flash?
>
> Thanks,
> Vishal
>
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RE: [Flashcoders] >> Flashsql component

[Kevin Aebig]

Even though you probably don't want to be using _level##, you can create a
global reference.

_global.flashsql = _root.flashsql;

!k

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CUCHET
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:32 AM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] >> Flashsql component

Hello

I use flashsql component a component to manage database

I meet a bug with it and impossible to make it works at another level than
_level0

If you are at _level0 its ok with :

on (release) {
flashsql.Execute("SELECT * FROM client", "pros", "", "", "",
"myComboBox");
}

If you lad the swf at _level40 it doesnt work ...

I try this without success :

on (release) {
_level40.flashsql.Execute("SELECT * FROM client", "pros", "", "", "",
"_level40.myComboBox");
}

Yhanks for your reply
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RE: [Flashcoders] Scripted Angled Motion

[Kevin Aebig]

Hi Alain,

Thanks for your reply. It seems like after looking for 2 days, I can only
find the answer after hitting send.

Thanks though for clarifying everything,

!k

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Rousseau
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:22 PM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Scripted Angled Motion

Hi Kevin,

It's quite simple actually. If you know the angle (it need to be in radians)
all you need after that is the speed of motion. To know the movement in the
x axis it's the cosine of the angle, for the y axis, it's the sine of the
angle so you will have the following :

mc._x = Math.cos(angle)*speed;
mc._y = Math.sin(angle)*speed;


And here is a quick example for that :

import mx.utils.Delegate;

var object:MovieClip = this.object;
var angle:Number = 45;
var DEGtoRAD:Number = Math.PI/180;
angle *= DEGtoRAD;
var speed:Number = 5;
object.onEnterFrame = Delegate.create(this, moveObject);

function moveObject():Void {
object._x += speed*Math.cos(angle);
object._y += speed*Math.sin(angle);
var leftBorder:Number = object._x-object._width;
var rightBorder:Number = object._x+object._width;

var topBorder:Number = object._y-object._height;
var bottomBorder:Number = object._y+object._height;

var initY:Number = -object._height;
var initX:Number = -object._width;
if (leftBorder >= Stage.width) {
object._x = initX ;
} else if (rightBorder <= initX) {
object._x = Stage.width + object._width;
} else if (bottomBorder <= initY ){
object._y = Stage.height + object._height;
} else if (topBorder >= Stage.height) {
object._y = initY;
}
}


In this code you can use Degree angles and then convert them to radians.
This will give you some kind of asteroids game type of motion.

HTH


Alain
-----Original Message-
From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 12 octobre 2006 14:43
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: [Flashcoders] Scripted Angled Motion

Hey all,

 

I'm trying to do something, but the mathematics of it are messing with my
head.

 

I've got a clip that I want to move in a specific direction (angle) without
giving an end target. When the clip is offstage, I'll simply reset it and
trigger it again accordingly. 

 

I don't need for it to ease or anything fancy, just move on a designated
angle.

 

Thanks,

 

!k

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[Flashcoders] Scripted Angled Motion

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

I'm trying to do something, but the mathematics of it are messing with my
head.

 

I've got a clip that I want to move in a specific direction (angle) without
giving an end target. When the clip is offstage, I'll simply reset it and
trigger it again accordingly. 

 

I don't need for it to ease or anything fancy, just move on a designated
angle.

 

Thanks,

 

!k

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RE: [Flashcoders] RE: Profanity - (to

[Kevin Aebig]

Not to mention that it's unprofessional.

Someone on this list might see your resume one day...

!k

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Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Profanity - (to 


Agreed...
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 10:01:07 -0400
From: "eric dolecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Profanity - (to Lieven especially)
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

I respect Jason's comments. He isn't being paranoid, he's simply being
polite.

- e.

On 9/29/06, Cedric Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>living in paranoid land ?
>
> >>> Same s***.
> >
> > Could we keep the language on this list down a tad?  That's the second
> > time you've said that in your current thread today.  Some of us are on
> > large corporate networks that get monitored, and I don't really want
> > that word associated in any way on any report with my e-mail activity.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jason Merrill
> > Bank of America
> > Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions


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RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

[Kevin Aebig]

Not even close. I think you don't quite get what I mean and for some reason
seem to think that not being "passionate about programming" is negative.

!k

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank
williams
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:12 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

But it sounds like you consider having a family or other committments
mutually exclusive to "passion" or even continued learning. My
definition of passion did not require neglecting family though
certainly after hours work is generally an indicator of passion.

Personally, I know of several programmers that have a wife and kids
and who dedicate time to them, that I would consider passionate
programmers, though our definitons may be diverging. Personally, I
consider being a well rounded person useful in the context of
developing software for human beings. And though, right now I am
chained to my computer in a crunch to release a product, I dont
consider "having a life" to be a detriment to being passionate about
anything - programming included.

Hank

On 9/18/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just so we're clear, I don't mean they simply enjoy their jobs. I'm
talking
> about the guys who constantly learn, adapt and take their work home with
> them on a regular basis. The guys who eat, breathe and sleep their jobs.
>
> I've found that there are many guys fresh out of school who are like this
> for the first 6 months to a year and than taper off. Than it's simply 9 to
5
> and everything else is a waste.
>
> If you know a lot of them, than you're living in a pretty unique place
> compared to where I'm from. I'm pretty rigged into the industry here and
> generally most of the guys couldn't even do that if they wanted to. They
> have families or other commitments that infringe on their time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> !k
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank
> williams
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position
>
> Thats interesting. I dont know many computer programmers that arent
> passionate - degree or not. Of course I am not a useful statistical
> sample, but obviously have had a different life experience.
>
> On 9/18/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Of course, but it's quite rare. I'm not saying all non-graduates are
> > passionate about learning their trade either. More often than not being
> > passionate about what you do for a living is pretty rare...
> >
> > !k
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank
> > williams
> > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:57 AM
> > To: Flashcoders mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position
> >
> > Are both not possible?
> >
> > On 9/18/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I hear what you mean, as that has bit me in the ass a few times. I
> > honestly
> > > believe though that the people who learn out of passion, instead of
> > > requirement, end up with a better understanding in the end anyhow.
> > >
> > > !k
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave
> Watts
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:41 PM
> > > To: Flashcoders mailing list
> > > Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position
> > >
> > > > Exactly, and I'm skeptical of anyone who requires a CompSci
> > > > degree for a Flash position because there isn't a single
> > > > college degree for Flash programming.  ;)
> > >
> > > Comp Sci isn't about Flash programming, or Java programming, or
{insert
> > > language flavor of the week} programming. It's not even about
> programming.
> > > My personal observation, however, is that people who have a comp sci
> > > background tend to make better programmers than those who don't. The
> best
> > > Flash programmers I've met, personally, have comp sci backgrounds, for
> > what
> > > that's worth.
> > >
> > > Personally, I don't have that background, unfortunately, and I have
> > > certainly felt its absence at times; there are a bunch of things I've
> had
> > to
> > > learn the hard way as a result.
>

RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

[Kevin Aebig]

Just so we're clear, I don't mean they simply enjoy their jobs. I'm talking
about the guys who constantly learn, adapt and take their work home with
them on a regular basis. The guys who eat, breathe and sleep their jobs. 

I've found that there are many guys fresh out of school who are like this
for the first 6 months to a year and than taper off. Than it's simply 9 to 5
and everything else is a waste.

If you know a lot of them, than you're living in a pretty unique place
compared to where I'm from. I'm pretty rigged into the industry here and
generally most of the guys couldn't even do that if they wanted to. They
have families or other commitments that infringe on their time.

Cheers,

!k

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank
williams
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:27 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

Thats interesting. I dont know many computer programmers that arent
passionate - degree or not. Of course I am not a useful statistical
sample, but obviously have had a different life experience.

On 9/18/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, but it's quite rare. I'm not saying all non-graduates are
> passionate about learning their trade either. More often than not being
> passionate about what you do for a living is pretty rare...
>
> !k
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank
> williams
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:57 AM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position
>
> Are both not possible?
>
> On 9/18/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I hear what you mean, as that has bit me in the ass a few times. I
> honestly
> > believe though that the people who learn out of passion, instead of
> > requirement, end up with a better understanding in the end anyhow.
> >
> > !k
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave
Watts
> > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:41 PM
> > To: Flashcoders mailing list
> > Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position
> >
> > > Exactly, and I'm skeptical of anyone who requires a CompSci
> > > degree for a Flash position because there isn't a single
> > > college degree for Flash programming.  ;)
> >
> > Comp Sci isn't about Flash programming, or Java programming, or {insert
> > language flavor of the week} programming. It's not even about
programming.
> > My personal observation, however, is that people who have a comp sci
> > background tend to make better programmers than those who don't. The
best
> > Flash programmers I've met, personally, have comp sci backgrounds, for
> what
> > that's worth.
> >
> > Personally, I don't have that background, unfortunately, and I have
> > certainly felt its absence at times; there are a bunch of things I've
had
> to
> > learn the hard way as a result.
> >
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RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

[Kevin Aebig]

Of course, but it's quite rare. I'm not saying all non-graduates are
passionate about learning their trade either. More often than not being
passionate about what you do for a living is pretty rare...

!k

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank
williams
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:57 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

Are both not possible?

On 9/18/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hear what you mean, as that has bit me in the ass a few times. I
honestly
> believe though that the people who learn out of passion, instead of
> requirement, end up with a better understanding in the end anyhow.
>
> !k
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Watts
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:41 PM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position
>
> > Exactly, and I'm skeptical of anyone who requires a CompSci
> > degree for a Flash position because there isn't a single
> > college degree for Flash programming.  ;)
>
> Comp Sci isn't about Flash programming, or Java programming, or {insert
> language flavor of the week} programming. It's not even about programming.
> My personal observation, however, is that people who have a comp sci
> background tend to make better programmers than those who don't. The best
> Flash programmers I've met, personally, have comp sci backgrounds, for
what
> that's worth.
>
> Personally, I don't have that background, unfortunately, and I have
> certainly felt its absence at times; there are a bunch of things I've had
to
> learn the hard way as a result.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
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RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

[Kevin Aebig]

I hear what you mean, as that has bit me in the ass a few times. I honestly
believe though that the people who learn out of passion, instead of
requirement, end up with a better understanding in the end anyhow. 

!k

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Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:41 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

> Exactly, and I'm skeptical of anyone who requires a CompSci 
> degree for a Flash position because there isn't a single 
> college degree for Flash programming.  ;)

Comp Sci isn't about Flash programming, or Java programming, or {insert
language flavor of the week} programming. It's not even about programming.
My personal observation, however, is that people who have a comp sci
background tend to make better programmers than those who don't. The best
Flash programmers I've met, personally, have comp sci backgrounds, for what
that's worth.

Personally, I don't have that background, unfortunately, and I have
certainly felt its absence at times; there are a bunch of things I've had to
learn the hard way as a result.

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RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

[Kevin Aebig]

Well said...

!k

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks
| BLITZ
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:09 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

> The fact that you can name the pioneers (and I know who they are) is
> an indication of how small the group is. A few hundred, heck even a
> few thousand, is a **VERY** small number.  There are hundreds of
> thousands (or perhaps millions) of people that are serious programmers
> in Java that have been doing it for many years.

Just because you've got a degree doesn't mean you know what you're
doing.  There are thousands of "serious" programmers out there with
degrees that are just mediocre.  That piece of paper doesn't mean what
it used to.  

That list of names isn't just a list of Flash pioneers, but talented
hard-working developers who continue to be some of the most influential
people in the business.  Some of them had no previous programming
experience before Flash and now they're some of the best Flash
developers in the world all without a piece of paper that says they sat
in a classroom on some campus for years and without knowing so-called
"real" programming languages.

Saying AS1 isn't real programming is, IMO, unfair.  Somebody programmed
a graphic adventure game in Flash 3 with inventory, etc. using a
turing-machine movieclip schema.  It must have been quite a challenge to
code but it indeed was programming, and probably smarter and better than
many people who code in AS2 today are capable of.

I don't have a CompSci degree. I only ever took one programming class; a
one semester course for Director 3 at a community college taught by a
guy who wanted me to do everything in the score because he didn't really
understand Lingo.  The rest I've learned by doing, reading and, luckily,
being mentored.  If an employer doesn't want me because I don't have a
CompSci degree, it's their loss, not mine, because I know Flash better
than many people who claim to be Flash developers out there simply
because nobody told me what its limits or capabilities were, I found
them out for myself in order to "make the impossible possible" for
clients.  :)
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RE: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

[Kevin Aebig]

I understand what you mean in regards to AS2 application development. Until
MX 2004, Flash as a common mainstream application was pretty unheard of by
the general public. That's not to say it didn't happen though...

I definitely disagree with the first thing you mentioned about there not
being a lot of guys who used Flash as an application platform before AS2. I
can look at a lot of guys on this list who've been here for a long time and
helped pave the way for the modern Flash Platform. 

Claus, Grant, Dave, Samuel, Jesse, Brandon etc. have been on this list since
I first joined up 6 or 7 years ago and posted several examples of
applications over the years to demonstrate the abilities of Flash. Heck even
I did a single large app with Flash 4 (Whatta pain!), 4 more with Flash 5,
and than a ton since with every other version...

The one thing that I do find somewhat laughable is the necessity to state
that a CompSci background is important. For all intents and purposes, by
education I'm a designer. I spent a considerable amount of time and money
teaching myself programming theories and best practices. To say that I'm
unqualified is somewhat insulting considering the effort it took and the
passion it shows.

Cheers,

!k


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank
williams
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 11:58 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Software Development Position

I am all for job postings, but I gotta tell ya, sometimes they just
say silly things.

4 years developing flash.
must know AS1 and AS2
Software development person (programmed before flash I presume)
Background in other languages and systems
Familiarity with design patterns
Good understanding of basic database issues
Not a position for an artist or designer.
Must be willing to relocate to Detroit area.

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.

So in my mind, they are looking for the tiny pool of people that
studied computer science but were also interested in animation and so
dabbled in flash before it was "real programmer ready" and are willing
to move to one of the most depressed metropolitan areas in the US. And
I bet they wanna pay like 70-80k. Why cant people write intelligent
job specs. Oh and by the way I am not looking for a job I just find
this annoying that neither I nor any of the excellent programmers I
know (and I know quite a few) would qualify for this job.

I really wonder where some of these job specs come from.

Hank


On 9/15/06, swfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> iDashboards is one of the hottest software companies within Business
> Intelligence dashboards (www.iDashboards.com). Our customers include
> NASA, US Navy, Lockheed Martin, Johnson Controls and GE. We have an
> immediate position for a Senior Flash Developer with 4+ years of
> experience.
>
> If being part of a leading edge and innovative software company
> excites you, we have an excellent opportunity. We are seeking an
> experienced Software Developer who has a strong background in
> Flash/ActionScript. This is not a position for a Flash
> artist/designer, but for a software development person. Must have a
> thorough understanding of ActionScript 1 and 2, and how to write
> efficient code. Should have a background in other programming
> languages and systems as well. Should be comfortable with
> multi-person development projects, and working with other people's
> code.
>
> Must be reasonably well-versed in object-oriented software. Needs an
> understanding of XML, and its interface to ActionScript. Should be
> familiar with SQL and have a good understanding of basic database
> issues. Familiarity with design patterns is a plus, as is an
> understanding of user interfaces.
>
> OPPORTUNITY
> You will be part of our world-class Software Team:
> - Develop cutting edge enhancements to the existing software
> - Work with other Flash developers and Server-side Development team
>
> REQUIREMENTS
> - Must have 4+ years experience in Flash/ActionScript and object
> oriented programming
> - Must have developed database driven rich-media Flash applications with
XML
> - BS degree preferred and good work references
>
> The compensation plan is lucrative with a competitive base salary,
> bonus and stock options. The company also offers excellent medical
> and dental coverage along with

RE: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application

[Kevin Aebig]

I'm personally a fan of InnoSetup (a la Google). It's well supported with
lots of example, the mailing list is extremely helpful and looks like
InstallShield setup's.

!k

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julien
Vignali
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:56 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application

Céline,
Take a look at the Nullsoft Installer (http://nsis.sourceforge.net) 
which is a powerful & professional scriptable install system. I've been 
using it several times and it works like a charm.
I'm almost sure that you can use it to deploy your .exe zinc app and 
silently install the certificate too ;-) Plus, you can use an 
eclipse-based environnement (EclipseNSIS) which will help you to test & 
polish youur scripts before going to production!

Good luck :)
Julien


Céline Nguyen a écrit :
> Yes I am trying to figure out how to do this.  Any ideas ?
> Do you know why a browser window running the application displays the 
> security pop-up windows whereas the flash player nor the zinc .exe does 
> not displays the same security pop-up, and don't even reach the https 
> server ? (I trace an httpStatus <100 meaning flash error)
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message - From: "Kevin Aebig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Flashcoders mailing list'" 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 1:49 PM
> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application
> 
> 
> I'd look at doing an installer. That would probably be on of the easiest
> routes and would be guaranteed to work.
> 
> !k
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Céline
> Nguyen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:11 AM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a strange certificate problem with Flash8.
> I am building a flash app that runs on local computers. The app uses
> LoadVars and sendAndLoad methods to send and load parameters to a distant
> php page in HTTPS.
> I have configured the global security panel of the flash player to add the
> entire folder of my flash application, and I have added a cross domain
> policy file on the https servers that says allow-access-from domain='*'
> When I run the application within a browser, the security pop-up appears
> asking to trust the https location and once it's done, but when I run the
> .exe file created with ZINC, no pop-up appears and the http status sends a
> flash error message.
> I have dicovered that I must install the certificate on my computer in 
> order
> 
> for my application to work properly.
> But can I ask every end user to manually install the certificate ? I think
> it's not really secure to let them know about the https adress nor elegant
> to make them do this.
> 
> My questions then are :
> Is there a way in Actionscript to make the security pop-up appear within 
> the
> 
> exe application ? Or is there a way to build an installer with ZINC and
> configure it so that it installs a certificate (.cer) on the destination
> computer ? or is there a more simple solution ? Will the registration of 
> the
> 
> https location solve my problem ?
> 
> Best,
> Celine
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RE: [Flashcoders] does actionscript have something like sql's IN orLIKE ?

[Kevin Aebig]

Considering that index of will match all possible situations, I prefer to
split the string into an array using an empty space as the delimiter, than
loop over the results to check for an exact match.

The performance of this can be very good or very bad depending on the amount
of text you have to look into.

!k

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patricia
Britt
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:10 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] does actionscript have something like sql's IN orLIKE
?

hello all,
  i have been lurking for about a month and I must say I am extremely
impressed and sometimes overwhelmed by the vast amount of knowledge on this
list.
   
  I have been searching for about a week for a simple solution to search
within a string for one word or two words.  I am working on a quiz with
several fill in the blanks and I am sure my users will have a wide
assortment of correct answers but I am looking to see if they for example
input either "cover" or "time" in any of the text input boxes.
  Stuff I have tried so far
   
  substr - problem because i am checking for either I have resorted to the
below
   
  this.opened_btn.onRelease=function(){
 myVar=open1.substr(0,4).toUpperCase();
 myVar2=open2.substr(0,4).toUpperCase();
 if
((myVar=="TIME"||myVar=="COVE"||myVar=="DATE")&&(myVar2=="TIME"||myVar2=="CO
VE"||myVar2=="DATE")) {
 gotoAndStop("quizend");
 } else {
  gotoAndStop("quizend");
}
}
  I have also tried indexOf but I don't think I understood it because it
would pull any of the letters and make it a true condition(I left my
comments in this one so you could see what I don't understand)
   
  this.opened_btn.onRelease=function(){
 // toUpperCase() coverts the text instance to upper case
 myVar=open1.toUpperCase();
 myVar2=open2.toUpperCase();
 //indexOF allows you to pull from the string and -1 allows the word to be
pulled from 
 //within anywhere in the string  if you used 0 that would mean the string
would have
 //to start with whatever is enclosed in the parenthesis
if
((myVar.indexOf("TIME")==-1||myVar.indexOf("COVER")==-1||myVar.indexOf("DATE
")==-1)&&(myVar2.indexOf("TIME")==-1||myVar2.indexOf("COVER")==-1||myVar2.in
dexOf("DATE")==-1)) {
 trace(myVar);
 trace(myVar2);
 trace("success");
 gotoAndStop("quizend");
 } else {
  gotoAndStop("quizend");
trace("failure");
}
}
  any help would be greatly appreciated.  I have an assortment of fill in
the blanks and some of them are phrases and I would like to allow for some
user differences.
  Sincerely,
   
  Patricia Britt


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RE: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application

[Kevin Aebig]

I'm guessing that the call is getting captured silently within those
sandboxes.

What browser are you using? Have you tried both IE and Firefox?

!k

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Céline
Nguyen
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:29 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application 

Yes I am trying to figure out how to do this.  Any ideas ?
Do you know why a browser window running the application displays the 
security pop-up windows whereas the flash player nor the zinc .exe does not 
displays the same security pop-up, and don't even reach the https server ? 
(I trace an httpStatus <100 meaning flash error)



- Original Message - 
From: "Kevin Aebig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Flashcoders mailing list'" 
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application


I'd look at doing an installer. That would probably be on of the easiest
routes and would be guaranteed to work.

!k

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Céline
Nguyen
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:11 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application

Hello,

I have a strange certificate problem with Flash8.
I am building a flash app that runs on local computers. The app uses
LoadVars and sendAndLoad methods to send and load parameters to a distant
php page in HTTPS.
I have configured the global security panel of the flash player to add the
entire folder of my flash application, and I have added a cross domain
policy file on the https servers that says allow-access-from domain='*'
When I run the application within a browser, the security pop-up appears
asking to trust the https location and once it's done, but when I run the
.exe file created with ZINC, no pop-up appears and the http status sends a
flash error message.
I have dicovered that I must install the certificate on my computer in order

for my application to work properly.
But can I ask every end user to manually install the certificate ? I think
it's not really secure to let them know about the https adress nor elegant
to make them do this.

My questions then are :
Is there a way in Actionscript to make the security pop-up appear within the

exe application ? Or is there a way to build an installer with ZINC and
configure it so that it installs a certificate (.cer) on the destination
computer ? or is there a more simple solution ? Will the registration of the

https location solve my problem ?

Best,
Celine

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RE: [Flashcoders] {OT} Job Postings?

[Kevin Aebig]

I completely agree as well, but the initial problem remains: Finding someone
with those talents. 

I consider myself extremely talented in those areas, but won't relocate.
Employers should definitely consider giving remote workers a chance to prove
themselves through contract work if they really want to get the best
qualified person they can find.

It's frustrating all around these days as finding a good company to work for
is becoming more and more difficult. I've turned down 3 job offers in the
past year because the companies either didn't seem like they were on the up
and up or I didn't feel like it was positive place to work.

!k

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:56 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] {OT} Job Postings?

I would agree with all that's been said - I couldn't have said it better

Finding the "type" of person has become the focus.  We designed some
questioning that really helped us weed through the people that would "most
likely" be good candidates for coming up to speed.   Then you get into work
ethic, personality etc.  But at least you have someone through the door that
might work out.


On 9/12/06, DannyT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I completely agree with Johannes approach. Knowledge of the ins and outs
> of
> flash/flex/actionscript isn't half as important as an ability to pick up
> new
> technologies, follow best practices and work effectively as a member of a
> team.
>
> I think if you ask if they can do something, and they can't that's fine,
> it's how they'll find out how to do it that's key.
>
> Dan
>
> On 12/09/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > paul barnes-hogget had an argument about supply and demand in the
> > flex/flasharena which i thought is very apt. he stated that as flex and
> > flash is such a hot technology the demand is very high, thus with normal
> > market factors wages tend to rise. big companies want to use the
> > technology,
> > but due to the cost and lack of supply they struggle to use it, thus
> > making
> > them consider other alternatives.
> >
> > personally we have started hirring developers who are skilled in other
> > areas, upskilling them into this one via peer programming and code
> reviews
> > in order to try and meet some of this demand, this unfortunatly is a
> slow
> > process, but one most companies have to do if they want to expand.
> >
> > On 9/12/06, Zeh Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >> I have been on this list for years and have seen all the job
> postings
> > > and
> > > >> have posted some myself. I am looking to hire 5 Flex 2.0 and 3
> flash
> > > >> developers. I have tried posting on dice and monster and have yet
> to
> > > get
> > > >> resumes that come close to the qualifications that I need. So I
> have
> > to
> > > >> ask
> > > >> where are people finding flash and flex guru's? If you are a flash
> or
> > > >> flex
> > > >> guru please email me your resume, we pay well!
> > >
> > > I live in another world, but I can say the same about our (Brazilian)
> > > market
> > > aswell. There's an absurd lack of competent people, and trying to find
> > > someone with the level you expect and that you can trust is an
> exercise
> > in
> > >
> > > frustration. I have to refuse almost daily, and inevitably I have to
> > > repeat
> > > the same choir over and over again - "No, I can't do your specific job
> > but
> > > thanks, and no, I don't know anyone who could that I can point you at,
> > I'm
> > >
> > > sorry, that's the truth". I get baffled replies at best; people
> usually
> > > think I'm bullsh*tting them.
> > >
> > > Unfortunatelly it seems much of this is due to the nature and the
> > history
> > > of
> > > Flash. Sure, there's a lot of people working with Flex and Flash from
> > all
> > > the walks of the design/IT life, but differently from other
> technologies
> > > like, say, Java, the technology isn't seen as being integral part of a
> > > dedicated field. Take as an example the school (university) I go to:
> we
> > > have
> > > design/interface design/multimedia bachelor degrees, as well as
> computer
> > > science degrees. On the computer science courses, they learn C, C++,
> > > Python,
> > > Java, and stuff like that; on the other design courses, they learn
> basic
> > > Flash (and I mean, *really* basic flash).
> > >
> > > Sure, I'm not the one to trust blindly in school degrees (I've worked
> > for
> > > 12
> > > years and never had a degree) and I sure hope someone will come out of
> > > graduation with 100 design patterns memorized. But the fact that no
> > > university course around here sees Flash as a 'serious' programming
> > field
> > > speaks a lot when you see the absense of good professionals on the
> > market.
> > > You usually have a lot of 'hacks' that come from, say, the
> > creative/design
> > >
> > > area, and think they're good because they can

RE: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application

[Kevin Aebig]

I'd look at doing an installer. That would probably be on of the easiest
routes and would be guaranteed to work.

!k

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Nguyen
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:11 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] certificate problem in a desktop application 

Hello,

I have a strange certificate problem with Flash8.
I am building a flash app that runs on local computers. The app uses 
LoadVars and sendAndLoad methods to send and load parameters to a distant 
php page in HTTPS.
I have configured the global security panel of the flash player to add the 
entire folder of my flash application, and I have added a cross domain 
policy file on the https servers that says allow-access-from domain='*'
When I run the application within a browser, the security pop-up appears 
asking to trust the https location and once it's done, but when I run the 
.exe file created with ZINC, no pop-up appears and the http status sends a 
flash error message.
I have dicovered that I must install the certificate on my computer in order

for my application to work properly.
But can I ask every end user to manually install the certificate ? I think 
it's not really secure to let them know about the https adress nor elegant 
to make them do this.

My questions then are :
Is there a way in Actionscript to make the security pop-up appear within the

exe application ? Or is there a way to build an installer with ZINC and 
configure it so that it installs a certificate (.cer) on the destination 
computer ? or is there a more simple solution ? Will the registration of the

https location solve my problem ?

Best,
Celine

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RE: [Flashcoders] {OT} Job Postings?

[Kevin Aebig]

I completely agree. I've seen hundreds of good job postings that I was
extremely interested in, but didn't apply because I have no need to
re-locate.

The fact that I worked at home (Canada, eh!) for a company in Chicago for
over two years really proved it to me. They got the type of geek they were
looking for and the US exchange rate made it cheaper for them and meant a
better salary for me.

I actually miss working under those conditions. Less distractions and no
office politics...

!k

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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] {OT} Job Postings?

one thing I've been trying to champion is to embrace more telecommuters and
take an aggressive stance on it where they go after people not wanting to
relocate.  I think when companies finaly come to grips with letting people
work from home, and learn how to filter out bad eggs (people who get lazy at
home), they'll probably have one of the strongest flash dev teams around.

with Breeze, and other solutions, you can very easily interact with
coworkers.  I've been doing it for 2+yrs now and I've been 100x's more
productive without all the distractions etc.

Somebody ( an agency ) will do it and I think it'll be very succesfull.  Who
that'll be is still to be seen ;)


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> > and
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> > >>developers. I have tried posting on dice and monster and have yet to
> > get
> > >>resumes that come close to the qualifications that I need. So I have
> > to ask
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RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Strange error'Enhanced fill not supported in current player version

[Kevin Aebig]

I'm guessing that you copied the artwork from an Illustrator file and that
you're outputting to version 7 or less. Open the artwork, select all and
change the lines to fill in the Modify>Shape menu.

!k

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:31 AM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Q: Strange error'Enhanced fill not supported in
current player version

Hi
I'm creating some banner ads with some simple gradient fills and targeting
FP7.

When publishing I get the following error:
Enhanced fill not supported in current player version

Even if I cut and paste the same gradient from a FLA that does not give me
this error I still have problems


Any ideas??


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RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 4 documentation

[Kevin Aebig]

I'm not sure where you could find it, but considering the lowest common
denominator is Flash 5, maybe you could make like a little easier on
yourself... =]

!k

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash 4 documentation

Hi there, I'm looking for a Flash 4 documentation.
I'm also thinking that is it free of charge now, can I download it 
anywhere ?

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RE: [Flashcoders] yahoo map api example site

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey Helen,

Sorry I missed the original post. If you have any questions about it, let me
know.

Cheers,

!k

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Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:32 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] yahoo map api example site

many thanks, Richard!

richard carr wrote:

> Here ya go
> Richard
>
>
> Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to Flashcoders
> More options  Jul 31With a pretty good fight, you can really customize 
> the
> yahoo maps component.
>
> http://www.oceancityguide.com/hotels/more.cfm?guideID=321


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RE: [Flashcoders] Interactive Map Examples

[Kevin Aebig]

With a pretty good fight, you can really customize the yahoo maps component.

http://www.oceancityguide.com/hotels/more.cfm?guideID=321 

!k 

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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 6:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Interactive Map Examples

Hi Matt

> i'm looking for examples of interactive flash maps. i'm trying to  
> see what else is out there as i build out my application...which  
> will be a map of the US.


I'm still very much a beginner myself with this map stuff, but you  
are welcome to have a peep at this, and I'll do my best to answer any  
questions you have...
http://www.pixelpump.co.nz/photo_map.swf


> what i'd like is that a user can click a state and that state will  
> be the prominent viewpoint from which a user can select a county.


It might be similar in that here the main view is New Zealand, and  
you can click a button to see one particular region. It's still got a  
long way to go though, but I'm making progress.

Cheers

David
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RE: [Flashcoders] XP Components?

[Kevin Aebig]

I've used the charting components before and found the creator, Robert
Edgar, to be very helpful. Make sure you take a close look at a lot of the
examples as a vast majority of what I needed was found dispersed between
most of them.

Cheers,

!k

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Walveranta
Sent: June 13, 2006 11:59 AM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] XP Components?

Arguments aside whether using components is a good idea in the first place
:-) I wanted to ask if there are XP Components users in Flashcoders? I'm
trying to figure out how they're used from within Actionscript only, and am
having trouble in lack of examples. The documentation of XP Components is
pretty, uh, light and while it may be sufficient for someone very familiar
with component use, for someone who's not extremely familiar with them, some
examples would have come handy. 

 

If someone here uses them, and happens to have handy a piece of code where
XPC interface components are instantiated from code, preferably without use
of forms (is that possible in the first place - they seem to heavily
advocate use of forms based design), it would be really helpful to see an
example.

 

Thanks!

 

Ville

 

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[Flashcoders] Aliased Dynamic Text in 2004

[Kevin Aebig]

Hi all,

 

Maybe it's just one of those days, but I can't seem to get dynamic text to
show aliased. I've included the font, than tried embedding the font outlines
as well as toggling on the "Alias Text" button in the properties panel to no
avail.

 

In fact, when I try to include font outlines, nothing shows up.

 

Can anyone club me on the head with the solution?

 

!k

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RE: [Flashcoders] How do real developers do key handling?

[Kevin Aebig]

Well the code that your friend is suggesting is pretty straightforward and
you could port it over to AS2 if you wanted. Instead of a hashMap, why not
just use an associative array? I'm pretty sure that I've seen a hash class
ripping around from either Brandan Hall or Samuel Wan based off of an
associative array.

All in all, the code could be ported over with minimal effort... but there
would be some area's that you would need to be creative with.

Cheers,

Kevin

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Sent: June 6, 2006 4:09 PM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How do real developers do key handling?

I have 10 apps that will controlled with a TV remote control (no mouse).
There are only 12 keys on the remote, so the app that has focus will will
have to do very different things with a given key press, depending on
context. 

A java dev. friend suggested an approach using a hashMap, but we don't have
hashMap in AS 2.0. And I'm a bit confused by his sample code:

public class ChannelInputTest {
  public static void main(String argv[]) {

// Create a new ChannelInput object and add a few keys to its map
ChannelInput ci1 = new ChannelInput();
ci1.addKey("1", new SimpleKeyHandler());
ci1.addKey("2", new AnotherSimpleKeyHandler());

// Now handle some keys with this puppy
ci1.processKey("1");
ci1.processKey("2");

// Create a SECOND ChannelInput object, and add some different
keys/handlers
ChannelInput ci2 = new ChannelInput();
ci2.addKey("3", new AnotherSimpleKeyHandler());
ci2.addKey("4", new SimpleKeyHandler());

ci2.processKey("3");
ci2.processKey("4");

// Finally - should get an error if a ChannelInput gets unmapped key
ci2.processKey("1");
  }
}

import java.util.HashMap;

public class ChannelInput {
  private HashMap handlerMap = null;

  ChannelInput() {
handlerMap = new HashMap();
  }

  public void addKey(String key, KeyHandler handler) {
handlerMap.put(key, handler);
  }

  public void processKey(String key) {
KeyHandler handler = (KeyHandler) handlerMap.get(key);

if (handler == null) {
  System.out.println("ERROR: null handler for key \"" + key + "\"");
} else {
  handler.handleKey(key);
}
  }

public class SimpleKeyHandler implements KeyHandler {
  public void handleKey(String key) {
System.out.println("SimpleKeyHandler Key " + key + " was pressed");
// Action for this key goes here
  }
}

interface KeyHandler {
  public void handleKey(String key);
}

<><><>
Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps if you told us what you're
trying to accomplish, we could offer
suggestions around it, but as far as catching specific keys, I'm pretty sure
you're doing it the only way possible.

!k

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Sent: June 6, 2006 3:01 PM
To: flash Coders
Subject: [Flashcoders] How do real developers do key handling?

How do real actionscript developers do key handling? If you have several
(like 10) apps that are loaded into MCs in 'Main.swf'... What's a good way
to code the key handling?  Right now I'm drowning in multiple key.GetCode()
switch statements that all live in my 'Main.as'. How do smart people do
this??

Any suggestions, sample code, links to tutes etc., very greatly appreciated.

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RE: [Flashcoders] How do real developers do key handling?

[Kevin Aebig]

Perhaps if you told us what you're trying to accomplish, we could offer
suggestions around it, but as far as catching specific keys, I'm pretty sure
you're doing it the only way possible.

!k

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Sent: June 6, 2006 3:01 PM
To: flash Coders
Subject: [Flashcoders] How do real developers do key handling?

How do real actionscript developers do key handling? If you have several
(like 10) apps that are loaded into MCs in 'Main.swf'... What's a good way
to code the key handling?  Right now I'm drowning in multiple key.GetCode()
switch statements that all live in my 'Main.as'. How do smart people do
this??

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RE: [Flashcoders] Embedding a SWF using base64 and Data: URI scheme

[Kevin Aebig]

Does anyone else find it funny that even though IE doesn't support this,
Outlook does? I've received all kinds of stupid emails with encoded sounds,
images and other objects from relatives...

!k

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Sent: June 2, 2006 3:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Embedding a SWF using base64 and Data: URI scheme

Tom Lee wrote:

> In the original Microsoft list of workarounds for the Eolas patch, one of
> the possible workarounds was to base64 encode your swf and embed the data
> inline in your object tag.  The original page has since been removed, and
> the only evidence I can now find of this is at
> http://www.mustardlab.com/developer/flash/standards/, a page being kept
> around for archival reasons (see the "official fixes" section).  Though I
> don't need this technique as an Eolas workaround, I'm still really curious
> about it.  Is it possible to base64 encode a swf file and include that raw
> data in your web page instead of hosting a separate swf file on your
server?

> 
> Anyone have experience with the Data: URI Scheme?  I find it odd that
> Microsoft would include it in their list of workarounds if their browser
> didn't support it, but then again, maybe that's why the page was removed.
> I'd like to at least get this working in Mozilla browsers.

Tom,

Hey, it's Mustard Lab--that's us.  I actually work with Sean Christmann, 
the author of the page that you referred to, and would refer you to him, 
but he's out until Monday so I'll take a stab at elaborating on this.

The very short answer to your question is that that the data: URI scheme 
(RFC 2397) is not supported by Internet Explorer.  It does, however, 
work with most other browsers on the market, including Firefox, Opera 
and Safari.  As such, it is not helpful in terms of working around the 
recent change in IE to bring it into compliance with the Eolas patent.

To answer your second question, yes it is possible to use this technique
to encode a SWF file within a containing HTML page.  A while back, I 
actually managed to write out a second SWF to a HTML page from another 
SWF with a bit of Javascript. You can see a working example with source 
code here:  http://dev.psalterego.com/datauri/.

Originally, I was experimenting with using the data URI scheme as a 
possible means to obfuscate SWFs encoded within an outer wrapper SWF to 
make it slightly more difficult for relatively unskilled "script 
kiddies" to quickly recover and decompile the bytecodes for the inner 
SWF via a simple attack with a decompiler.  However, as such a scheme 
would result in the inner "protected" SWF being completely inaccessible 
to Internet Explorer users, I never pursued this idea further.

Keep in mind that this technique is not particularly efficient in terms 
of file size, particularly if the base 64 encoded data is stored in 
HTML.  There are also limitations on the maximum possible length of a 
URL supported by each browser that effectively limit the size of the 
data that you can include via a data URI scheme.

Jim



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[Flashcoders] Flash ActiveX Wrapper

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

I've got a project that involves an application that contains a browser
control in it (IE) and has specific ActiveX access to allow local file
system access in a secure way. I'm looking to use Flash as my front-end, but
still have access to the file system.

 

Is there any tools / examples / tutorials / advice anyone can provide in how
to wrap the Flash ActiveX with more functionality as a new ActiveX? I'd
prefer to not to use 2 and deal with inter-process communication.

 

Thanks,

 

!k

[k e s   g e e k]

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] when is a new line not a new line?

[Kevin Aebig]

Chances are you need to do both.

Cr = Carriage Return
Lf = Line Feed

Try to split on "\r\n"

!k

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Sent: May 19, 2006 8:49 AM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] when is a new line not a new line?

hello all,

i'm getting xml data via http, this is being formatted as actionscript 
objects using sepiroths XML2Object class, now, when i try and split some 
of this data on "\n" it doesn't work, neither does "\r". now the guy who 
has done the backend stuff in his asp code uses vbCrLf to put in the 
breaks, which is ascii 10 or 13, the same as \r or \n.

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RE: [Flashcoders] WSE securing Web services

[Kevin Aebig]

I took a crack at it, but it wasn't a good implementation. We ended up just
using HTTPS based calls instead and using webservice authentication. If you
find anything, please let me know.

!k

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Subject: [Flashcoders] WSE securing Web services

Anybody have any success structuring WebServices to support WSE?

Maybe the algorithm that creates the token and injecting it into the
header ?

Cheers
Robert

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RE: [Flashcoders] Wacom Tablet

[Kevin Aebig]

I was using my wacom tablet with Flash 5. Works really well with the brush
tool once you get the hang of it.

!k

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Wacom Tablet

Does anyone know if Flash supports pressure sensitive feedback from  
Wacom tablets?  This would allow for really smooth drawing tools to  
be made that better represent the artists intentions.
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RE: [Flashcoders] > Input filtering

[Kevin Aebig]

You need to explain the situation a little better. It shoulds like a good
old fashioned hash array would do the trick, but I'm unsure whether I
understand your problem or not.

!k

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Subject: [Flashcoders] > Input filtering

Hello,

I am currently working on a school project, whereby we use a keyboard as
the main input. Now we use the keys of the keyboard as buttons. Currently,
I am staring blind on a problem with this input device, I really hope
someone of you guys can share some great ideas.

The thing is that the buttons are used as sensors, meaning that we use the
buttons to detect if some block is available (i.e. item isn't removed from
his stationary) now we want to be able to reorder this four block
elements. Only I am not sure how I can detect if the order, is a expected.
Because of the continous key events.

Does anyone happen to have a solution, it would be greatly apperciated.
Probably really simple to solve... Probably to tired :(

Yours,

Weyert de Boer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
innerfuse*

http://www.innerfuse.biz/
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RE: [Flashcoders] tabIndex problems

[Kevin Aebig]

Though I'm not sure whether or not it's been fixed with Flash 8, with 2004
MX, tabbing was an absolute nightmare. It didn't work properly in anything
but absolutely simple scenarios.

!k

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Sent: May 9, 2006 3:02 PM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] tabIndex problems

Hey there,
I have been having some problems using the tabIndex feature with Flash 8
Pro. You can view the file here: http://132.162.36.103/albert/MUTH/ The
problem is that, though I am confident that I have properly indexed all of
the objects, the tabbing does not follow the index I provided. For instance,
on the first page of the actual exam (this is a placement exam for a Music
Theory course) the first question follows the index properly. The second
question, however, insists on going across rather than down first. The
similar problems occur on question 4 where the second part of the answer is
selected, then the first. All of the objects that I have placed in the index
are editable objects, and they all seem to get selected, just not according
to the index I layed out. The only oddity is the "Submit" button which is a
single object which exists across all of the frames. I dealt with this by
just giving it the highest index on any frame in the hope that it would just
work. I didn't see anything in the documentation which would suggest that
this won't work, though I'm not really holding my breath. All other objects
are in their frame alone and do not last across frames (or layers for that
matter). Any suggestions would be appreciated... I'm wondering if there is
some global setting I don't have on to use the tabIndex?? Didn't see
anything in the documentation suggesting that, but thought it was possible.

Chris
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RE: [Flashcoders] Enourmous data Transfer by Flash.

[Kevin Aebig]

Even though Flex is a solid answer, you can still do this directly with
Flash by breaking up the various pieces into a "wizard" type app and using
remoting.

Cheers,

!k

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Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:15 PM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Enourmous data Transfer by Flash.

Hi guyz,

I have been assigned a Inhouse project to be developed in Flash.Its a online
registration of resume from the applicant and to searching the posted resume
in different catogory by the Manager to sort out the resume.this project is
almost like a application with nearly 20 tables and more forms and enormous
amount of data to be passes in and out of Database.

Is it feasible to develop a appication like this in flash.if so what
kind of method i should adopt for the best result to develop the application
in Flash.

I really need u r help before i start this project.thank u in advance.

Regards,
S.Hidayath.
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RE: [Flashcoders] percent loaded?

[Kevin Aebig]

There used to be an old problem that might be the cause of your troubles.
When a movie starts, sometimes the getBytesLoaded returns a value before
getBytesTotal has finished. So your condition of bLoaded < tBytes is
rendered inadequate. You could add "&& tBytes > 8" to make sure that
totalBytes has actually loaded something...

Cheers,

Kevin

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Hotchkiss
Sent: March 16, 2006 10:42 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] percent loaded?

i guess that my code is being deleted on each enter frame. once it loads
completely, the text finally shows up, and then the next frame shows up
also. why doesnt this one frame preloader, second frame website preloader
work??? this is really bugging me, that i have to put code on a movieclip,
and i cant do it 100% AS. 


function preloadMe() {
 _root.onEnterFrame = function() {
 tBytes = _root.getBytesTotal();
  bLoaded = _root.getBytesLoaded();
  percent = Math.round((bLoaded/tBytes)*100);
  if (bLoaded < tBytes) {
   _root.preloader_mc.preloader_txt.text = "loading site: " + percent;
   gotoAndPlay(1);
  } else {
   _root.preloader_mc.removeMovieClip();
   _root.preloader_mc.preloader_txt.removeTextField();
   gotoAndStop(2)
  };
 };
};
// -
drawPreloader();
preloadMe();
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[Flashcoders] Yahoo Maps

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

Has anyone successfully created a custom marker by inheriting from the
existing classes? If so, could you shed some light as to why a simple test
is bombing on me and won't attach anything.

 

//

-

import com.yahoo.maps.markers.CustomPOIMarker;

class com.keslabs.marker.KESPOIMarker extends
com.yahoo.maps.markers.CustomPOIMarker

{

//var up, over, rolloverState, locked, _width, _height, rating, styleSheet,
target, trueWidth, _parent, _xmouse, _x, _ymouse, _y, borderWidth, _visible,
//originalDepth, trueHeight, index, title, description, finishInterval,
maxWidth;



static var className = "com.keslabs.marker.KESPOIMarker";

static var symbolOwner = com.keslabs.marker.KESPOIMarker;

static var symbolName = "com.keslabs.marker.KESPOIMarker";

//

function KESPOIMarker()

{

super();

} // End of the function

}

//

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Cheers,

 

!k

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RE: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion

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 [mailto:flashcoders-
>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johannes Nel
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:24 PM
>>>>>> To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i am contracting to large company and we are doing stuff using
> flex2,
>>>> so...
>>>>>> i don't quite agree with your argument. also note what he says,
> they
>>>> want to
>>>>>> move an existing app to flex2 and his concern is that it will
> change
>>>>>> radically from beta 1 to final product. the very fact that beta 2
> is
>>>> coming
>>>>>> out means that things are relatively stable and well along the
> path. i
>>>> think
>>>>>> starting now will be a good idea. but thats just my opinion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/14/06, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wouldn't bet any project on a beta personally - unless I had
>>>> insiders
>>>>>>> at Adobe, but even then...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jason Merrill   |   E-Learning Solutions   |  icfconsulting.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -Original Message-
>>>>>>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> [mailto:flashcoders-
>>>>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Aebig
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:35 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The company I work for is interested in moving one of our
> large
>>>>>>> applications
>>>>>>>>> over to Flex when the new version comes out. Is it worthwhile
> or
>>>> even
>>>>>>>>> feasible to begin porting it over with the Beta release or are
> we
>>>>>>> wasting
>>>>>>>>> our time considering that quite a bit of it could change
>>>> beforehand.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'd hate to put in a lot of time into this only to find out
> that
>>>> my
>>>>>>> source
>>>>>>>>> files are rendered obsolete when the new version is finally
>>>> released.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your input,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> !k
>>>>>>>>>
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RE: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion

[Kevin Aebig]

Thanks for everyone's input and suggestions. I appreciate hearing from the
new Mother ship, so thanks for chiming in David.

I think we'll slowly begin migrating our app and deal with the issues as
they arise...

Thanks,

Kevin

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Mendels
Sent: March 14, 2006 11:10 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion

Hi,

I am from Adobe, let me give some perspective.

A) It is always risky to build on a beta.  I feel quite confident in
where we are and hitting our schedule, but I have to be realistic that
there is always some risk.  You need to judge your tolerence for risk.  

B) There has been an API scrub between beta 1 and beta 2.  The results
are I think great--clarity and consistancy--but it will mean some
migration from Beta 1 to beta 2. Most beta 1 apps will require some
changes to run in beta 2.  That said, we don't expect to need to do this
again.  Beta 3 and final could require some changes in your code, but if
they do, it should be minor.  Again, we can't make guarantees and you
might have to make changes again before we ship.  

C) The advantages of Flex 2 are (IMO) enourmous and very valuable
(performance, productivity, maintainability).  We aren't going to be
reachitecting the Player, framework, language, again for a long long
time.  If you can go straight to Flex 2/Player 8.5 that will save you
the effort at some point of migrating, but it does carry risk until we
ship.

I know this isn't a absolute answer, but I hope it helps,

David

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> Of Johannes Nel
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:24 PM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion
> 
> i am contracting to large company and we are doing stuff 
> using flex2, so...
> i don't quite agree with your argument. also note what he 
> says, they want to move an existing app to flex2 and his 
> concern is that it will change radically from beta 1 to final 
> product. the very fact that beta 2 is coming out means that 
> things are relatively stable and well along the path. i think 
> starting now will be a good idea. but thats just my opinion.
> 
> On 3/14/06, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I wouldn't bet any project on a beta personally - unless I had 
> > insiders at Adobe, but even then...
> >
> > Jason Merrill   |   E-Learning Solutions   |  icfconsulting.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >>-Original Message-
> > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:flashcoders- 
> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Aebig
> > >>Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:35 PM
> > >>To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
> > >>Subject: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion
> > >>
> > >>Hey all,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>The company I work for is interested in moving one of our large
> > applications
> > >>over to Flex when the new version comes out. Is it worthwhile or 
> > >>even feasible to begin porting it over with the Beta 
> release or are 
> > >>we
> > wasting
> > >>our time considering that quite a bit of it could change 
> beforehand.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>I'd hate to put in a lot of time into this only to find 
> out that my
> > source
> > >>files are rendered obsolete when the new version is 
> finally released.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Thanks for your input,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>!k
> > >>
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RE: [Flashcoders] Loading several images with one progressbar?

[Kevin Aebig]

Instead of showing the progression of how many bytes loaded, you should just
show how many images are loaded.

So if you have 13 images loading, each time a image is loaded, increment the
progress bar 7.69 percent:

var nPercent:Number = (numberOfImagesLoaded / totalNumberOfImages)*100;

Cheers,

!k

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sascha
Balkau
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 3:07 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading several images with one progressbar?

Hi Adrian,

thanks for the idea but this approach will not work in my case because the 
images are loaded sequencially. If one image is finished loading, my class 
starts loading the next and so on, one after one. And the amount of images 
varies (the image filenames are fetched from a XML file).
I'm now defining a segmentWidth by dividing the full progressbar width by 
the amount of images that are going to be loaded. That gives me the 100% for

one image on the whol bar. I just haven't figured out yet how to make it 
work so that the bar doesn't start from 0 at every image. Any other idea?

Sascha





- Original Message - 
From: "Adrian Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading several images with one progressbar?


Say you have 3 images loading, use something like this:

var bytesLoaded:Number = 0;
var bytesTotal:Number = 0;

bytesLoaded += image1.getBytesLoaded();
bytesTotal += image1.getBytesTotal();
bytesLoaded += image2.getBytesLoaded();
bytesTotal += image2.getBytesTotal();
bytesLoaded += image3.getBytesLoaded();
bytesTotal += image3.getBytesTotal();

var percentageLoaded:Number = (bytesLoaded/bytesTotal) * 100;

There may be ways to optimise this code depending on your circumstances 
(e.g.
just calculate bytesTotal once and reuse it) but this shows the basic idea.

Adrian P.


On 3/11/06, Sascha Balkau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> this is probably an old hat but I can't get it right. I want to display
> the
> load progress of several images with one progress bar. How do I calculate
> the percentage of the bar?
>
> Thanks alot,
> Sascha
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RE: [Flashcoders] test

[Kevin Aebig]

test

-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Éric
Thibault
Sent: March 14, 2006 2:10 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] test

Is it online now?
Dave Watts wrote:

>test
>
>Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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[Flashcoders] Test

[Kevin Aebig]

Test

 

!k

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[Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

The company I work for is interested in moving one of our large applications
over to Flex when the new version comes out. Is it worthwhile or even
feasible to begin porting it over with the Beta release or are we wasting
our time considering that quite a bit of it could change beforehand. 

 

I'd hate to put in a lot of time into this only to find out that my source
files are rendered obsolete when the new version is finally released.

 

Thanks for your input,

 

!k

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RE: [Flashcoders] Math, Maps and problems...

[Kevin Aebig]

It's all about conversion of units. If the map represents from the left to
right 7.65 to 9.34 and the width of the map is 200, than each pixel is
0.00845 units. Of course with Flash's poor floating point math, you might
want to convert it to whole numbers before you perform your calculations.

!k

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Sent: March 10, 2006 2:28 PM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Math, Maps and problems...

Hi,
I have to make an app that, given a bitmap of a Map (a photo of a city),  
and given the georeferences of the upper-left corner and lower-right  
corner of that photo, take any group of latitudes/longitudes and draw on  
the map that coordinates.

I´ve tried using the Mercator projection formula, but for some reason it  
doesn´t work. Probably because i need to "interpolate" the whole world  
size from the given map.

Ideas? Formulas?

Thanks in advance!,


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RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

[Kevin Aebig]

Does that make your boss' title "Splinter"?

!k aka AstroOptimusSpeedRacerBoy

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Sent: March 10, 2006 1:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

JesterXL
Ninja Turtle

- Original Message - 
From: "Kevin Aebig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Flashcoders mailing list'" 
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?


In the past 5 years I've been:

Senior Business Systems Analyst
Senior Software Engineer
Software Architect
Head of Development

It's all the same thing at the end of the day. There's no standard job
description or title. Why don't you just go with Flash Consultant or
Architect. That would at least get people asking you why and you could
explain it... =]

!k

-Original Message-
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Sent: March 10, 2006 1:09 PM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

Hello everybody,

Here's a non-technical question: what is your job title?

For a long time I've been telling people "Flash Developer", although
that shortchanges the consultation and on-the-fly design I do.
Also, people outside the industry have no freaking idea what it means.

Typically, if I'm not the designer, I work to help make the design more
feasible for Flash.
When it comes time to build I'm often making up the behaviors and
adding special touches here and there.

Anyone have any suggestions for a title that encompasses these ideas?

thanks,
Kirk


.

Kirk Roberts

Fine Design Group

(415) 552-9300 ext. 16

http://www.finedesigngroup.com/

.

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RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

[Kevin Aebig]

In the past 5 years I've been:

Senior Business Systems Analyst
Senior Software Engineer
Software Architect
Head of Development

It's all the same thing at the end of the day. There's no standard job
description or title. Why don't you just go with Flash Consultant or
Architect. That would at least get people asking you why and you could
explain it... =]

!k

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Roberts
Sent: March 10, 2006 1:09 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

Hello everybody,

Here's a non-technical question: what is your job title?

For a long time I've been telling people "Flash Developer", although 
that shortchanges the consultation and on-the-fly design I do.
Also, people outside the industry have no freaking idea what it means.

Typically, if I'm not the designer, I work to help make the design more 
feasible for Flash.
When it comes time to build I'm often making up the behaviors and 
adding special touches here and there.

Anyone have any suggestions for a title that encompasses these ideas?

thanks,
Kirk


.

Kirk Roberts

Fine Design Group

(415) 552-9300 ext. 16

http://www.finedesigngroup.com/

.

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RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

[Kevin Aebig]

+=e.d=+ you bugger...

Ok.. for some odd reason, that works. 

This doesn't:
newClip.intervalid = setInterval( newClip, "doSomething", 1000 );

But this does:
var intID =setInterval( newClip, "doSomething", 1000 );

Really friggin' weird. Thanks for all the suggestions guys...

Cheers,

!k

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eric dolecki
Sent: February 24, 2006 2:04 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

var vItemCount:Number = 2;
var newName = "test";

this.createEmptyMovieClip("work", 1);
work.createEmptyMovieClip(newName, vItemCount);

var newClip = work[newName];

newClip.doSomething = function(arg){
   trace("I just did something... yay! "+arg);
}

var intID =setInterval( newClip, "doSomething", 1000, "say this" );



On 2/24/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I gave it a try and it didn't fire. I even added a trace statement to make
> sure that the function wasn't firing and not functioning properly.
>
> !k
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ettwein,
> Josh
> Sent: February 24, 2006 12:29 PM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip
>
> How about... Note I added some dummy values to vars to get it to work in
> my environment. The last param is optional, but I figured I'd throw that
> in there in case you weren't aware of that one.
>
> var rootRef =_root;
> var vItemCount =1;
> var newName ="test";
>
> rootRef.work.createEmptyMovieClip(newName, vItemCount);
> var newClip = rootRef.work[newName];
>
> newClip.doSomething = function(arg){
> trace("I just did something... yay! "+arg);
> }
>
> var intID =setInterval( newClip, "doSomething", 1000, "say this" );
>
> HTH,
>
> Josh
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
> Aebig
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip
>
> Nope... didn't work. This is weird because a call to
> newClip.doSomething() works exactly as expected...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron
> Canfield
> Sent: February 24, 2006 11:01 AM
> To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip
>
> newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip.doSomething, 200);
>
>
> --
> Byron "Barn" Canfield
>
>
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I'm looping through a structure adding movieclips along the way for
> each
> > element. I need to setup a separate interval inside each new clip. If
> I
> > call
> > the function directly, I need this to be constantly updating without
> an
> > onEnterFrame.
> >
> >
> >
> > _root.work.createEmptyMovieClip( newName, vItemCount );
> > //
> > var newClip = _root.work[newName];
> > //
> > // this function redraws the line
> > newClip.doSomething = function(){
> > // {.}
> > }
> > // I've tried all of the following
> > // newClip.intervalid = setInterval(this, doSomething, 200);
> > // newClip.intervalid = newClip.setInterval(doSomething, 200);
> > // newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip, doSomething, 200);
> >
> > Any insight or help is appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > !k
>
>
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RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

[Kevin Aebig]

I'm finishing off a XML to diagram component. It uses recursion and
unfortunately, I can't post anymore than I already have. I tried keeping
references, but in the end that would be worse than using onEnterFrame so I
axed that idea pretty quick.

Cheers,

Kevin

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim
Sent: February 24, 2006 2:11 PM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

Give me more of the code, what exactly are you trying to do? Can you
keep all of the crated mc's in an array & have a function that loops
through them & changes what you need? 

Jim

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Aebig
Sent: 24 February 2006 20:00
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

Nope... still won't go. 

I actually decided to do a little test and when I set the function to be
onEnterFrame instead of doSomething, it performs well. The only problem
is
that I'm unsure how many clips could be running at the same time and I
don't
want a performance hit...

!K

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick
Gerig
Sent: February 24, 2006 12:10 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

maybe:

newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip,"doSomething", 200);



Kevin Aebig wrote:

>Nope... didn't work. This is weird because a call to
newClip.doSomething()
>works exactly as expected... 
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kevin
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron
>Canfield
>Sent: February 24, 2006 11:01 AM
>To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip
>
>newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip.doSomething, 200);
>
>
>  
>




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RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

[Kevin Aebig]

Nope... still won't go. 

I actually decided to do a little test and when I set the function to be
onEnterFrame instead of doSomething, it performs well. The only problem is
that I'm unsure how many clips could be running at the same time and I don't
want a performance hit...

!K

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Gerig
Sent: February 24, 2006 12:10 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

maybe:

newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip,"doSomething", 200);



Kevin Aebig wrote:

>Nope... didn't work. This is weird because a call to newClip.doSomething()
>works exactly as expected... 
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kevin
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron
>Canfield
>Sent: February 24, 2006 11:01 AM
>To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip
>
>newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip.doSomething, 200);
>
>
>  
>




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RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

[Kevin Aebig]

I gave it a try and it didn't fire. I even added a trace statement to make
sure that the function wasn't firing and not functioning properly.

!k

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Josh
Sent: February 24, 2006 12:29 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

How about... Note I added some dummy values to vars to get it to work in
my environment. The last param is optional, but I figured I'd throw that
in there in case you weren't aware of that one.

var rootRef =_root;
var vItemCount =1;
var newName ="test";

rootRef.work.createEmptyMovieClip(newName, vItemCount);
var newClip = rootRef.work[newName];

newClip.doSomething = function(arg){
trace("I just did something... yay! "+arg);
}

var intID =setInterval( newClip, "doSomething", 1000, "say this" ); 

HTH,

Josh

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Aebig
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:27 AM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

Nope... didn't work. This is weird because a call to
newClip.doSomething() works exactly as expected... 

Cheers,

Kevin

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Canfield
Sent: February 24, 2006 11:01 AM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip.doSomething, 200);


--
Byron "Barn" Canfield


> Hey All,
>
> I'm looping through a structure adding movieclips along the way for
each
> element. I need to setup a separate interval inside each new clip. If
I
> call
> the function directly, I need this to be constantly updating without
an
> onEnterFrame.
>
>
>
> _root.work.createEmptyMovieClip( newName, vItemCount );
> //
> var newClip = _root.work[newName];
> //
> // this function redraws the line
> newClip.doSomething = function(){
> // {.}
> }
> // I've tried all of the following
> // newClip.intervalid = setInterval(this, doSomething, 200);
> // newClip.intervalid = newClip.setInterval(doSomething, 200);
> // newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip, doSomething, 200);
>
> Any insight or help is appreciated.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> !k


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RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

[Kevin Aebig]

Nope... didn't work. This is weird because a call to newClip.doSomething()
works exactly as expected... 

Cheers,

Kevin

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron
Canfield
Sent: February 24, 2006 11:01 AM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip.doSomething, 200);


-- 
Byron "Barn" Canfield


> Hey All,
>
> I'm looping through a structure adding movieclips along the way for each
> element. I need to setup a separate interval inside each new clip. If I
> call
> the function directly, I need this to be constantly updating without an
> onEnterFrame.
>
>
>
> _root.work.createEmptyMovieClip( newName, vItemCount );
> //
> var newClip = _root.work[newName];
> //
> // this function redraws the line
> newClip.doSomething = function(){
> // {.}
> }
> // I've tried all of the following
> // newClip.intervalid = setInterval(this, doSomething, 200);
> // newClip.intervalid = newClip.setInterval(doSomething, 200);
> // newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip, doSomething, 200);
>
> Any insight or help is appreciated.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> !k


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[Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey All,

 

I'm looping through a structure adding movieclips along the way for each
element. I need to setup a separate interval inside each new clip. If I call
the function directly, I need this to be constantly updating without an
onEnterFrame. 

 

_root.work.createEmptyMovieClip( newName, vItemCount );

//

var newClip = _root.work[newName];

//

// this function redraws the line

newClip.doSomething = function() 

{

// {.} 

}

// I've tried all of the following

// newClip.intervalid = setInterval(this, doSomething, 200);

// newClip.intervalid = newClip.setInterval(doSomething, 200);

// newClip.intervalid = setInterval(newClip, doSomething, 200);

 

Any insight or help is appreciated.

 

Cheers,

 

!k

 

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] XML Data visualization

[Kevin Aebig]

Very cool. Thanks for the link!

!k

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave
matthews
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:27 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] XML Data visualization

hi Kevin,

  Try poking around  http://www.2GoTo.com

  It's an experimental data visualization system based on an infinitely 
large, non-distorting hyperbolic plane that imports .swf files as content.

  It zooms from 2% to 28000% and can display hundreds of different .swf 
files at the same time, from many different servers at the same time.

later,
Dave_Matthews

Message: 23
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:06:28 -0600
From: "Kevin Aebig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] XML Data visualization
To: "'Flashcoders mailing list'" 
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I understand what you mean in regards to design patterns, and have used MVC
and MVP patterns before in other projects.

I also have a very good understanding of the inner workings of the Tree
component, but am looking for something more "experimental". The yugop tree
is a good example of something I'd be interested in seeing. I already have
this "bounce" style tree menu's source from a different party, but it seems
bulky and the implementation isn't clean enough.

Basically I'm trying to re-think how data can be viewed intelligently, but
artistically. I assume I'm not the first... =]

Cheers and thanks for suggesting the ARP framework. I'd heard about it, but
maybe it's time I play around for a bit...

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RE: [Flashcoders] XML Data visualization

[Kevin Aebig]

I understand what you mean in regards to design patterns, and have used MVC
and MVP patterns before in other projects.

I also have a very good understanding of the inner workings of the Tree
component, but am looking for something more "experimental". The yugop tree
is a good example of something I'd be interested in seeing. I already have
this "bounce" style tree menu's source from a different party, but it seems
bulky and the implementation isn't clean enough.

Basically I'm trying to re-think how data can be viewed intelligently, but
artistically. I assume I'm not the first... =]

Cheers and thanks for suggesting the ARP framework. I'd heard about it, but
maybe it's time I play around for a bit...

!k

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Sent: January 31, 2006 3:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] XML Data visualization

I see what you mean, but it seems like the the examples you've given utilize
a Model View Controller ( commonly referred to as MVC ) design pattern. This
pattern is designed for different views of the same data model, however, it
can be used in many different applications. The MVC pattern is built on
other other design patterns, I would suggest learning these first.

I would also recommend checking out the ARP
Framework<http://osflash.org/arp>,
which is a framework designed to streamline and facilitate pattern
implementation.

As for your request for an example that renders XML type data, the version
2.0 Tree component that comes in Flash MX Professional 2004 ( and later
versions ) would suit well. This type of view best represents heirarchical
data models in my opinion. The source code can be viewed where Flash is
installed, relatively: en\First Run\Classes\mx\controls\Tree.as

I hope this helps,

M.

On 1/31/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well a couple good examples are from Samual Wan:
>
> http://samuelwan.com/downloads/treemap/Sample_Treemap_Renderer.html
>
>
http://www.samuelwan.com/flashmx_repository/xilhouette/XilhouetteEditor.html
>
>
> http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
>
> Here are some good examples, but not all are flash:
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/research/visualization.shtml
>
> Cheers,
>
> !k
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Flash guru
> Sent: January 31, 2006 12:18 PM
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>
> Wat do you mean by data visualization. Can you be a little more precise?
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RE: [Flashcoders] XML Data visualization

[Kevin Aebig]

Well a couple good examples are from Samual Wan:

http://samuelwan.com/downloads/treemap/Sample_Treemap_Renderer.html
http://www.samuelwan.com/flashmx_repository/xilhouette/XilhouetteEditor.html


http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ 

Here are some good examples, but not all are flash:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/research/visualization.shtml 

Cheers,

!k

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Wat do you mean by data visualization. Can you be a little more precise?
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[Flashcoders] XML Data visualization

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

I've seen some pretty cool examples of data visualization, but I'm looking
for some example sources to play with. Specifically for XML typed data, but
I can always port other types across.

 

Thanks,

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Site Statistics RIA

[Kevin Aebig]

It's not the same, but it's still along the right lines. Thanks John, I had
given up hope...

Cheers,

!k

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Sent: January 26, 2006 1:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Site Statistics RIA

Kevin Aebig wrote:
> About a month ago, I saw a blog post from one of the guru's talking about
a
> great RIA for website statistics. It was a real minimalist application,
but
> well thought out and built. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or can
> provide a link?

Could it have been Shaun Inman's Mint?
http://www.haveamint.com/

jd




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RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Site Statistics RIA

[Kevin Aebig]

Nope... that's not it, but thanks anyways. I'm pretty sure it was CF
backended. 

Cheers,

!k

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the only one i've ever seen was this one:

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/amfphp.html

i'm pretty sure that is not going to be the one you're looking for
though..it's pretty old school.



On 1/26/06, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> About a month ago, I saw a blog post from one of the guru's talking about
> a
> great RIA for website statistics. It was a real minimalist application,
> but
> well thought out and built. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or can
> provide a link?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Kevin
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[Flashcoders] Flash Site Statistics RIA

[Kevin Aebig]

About a month ago, I saw a blog post from one of the guru's talking about a
great RIA for website statistics. It was a real minimalist application, but
well thought out and built. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or can
provide a link?

 

Cheers,

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] > Artificial Life flash resources

[Kevin Aebig]

Well I did a small example a looong time ago. I think it can still be
found under my old site.

I'll dig a couple examples up and post them...

Cheers,

!k

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Sent: December 29, 2005 9:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] > Artificial Life flash resources

Hi Ron,
> Are we talking about what effect programming in Flash has on your 
> social life or something else?
Well,the artificial life one part of the Artificial Intelligence subject.
> Can you be more specific about what kind of life and what sort of 
> behaviour you are hoping to exhibit.
Well, I would like to make a simple educative flash movie about 
Artificial Life -- plant life would be easy, if you mean something
like some basic particles effect. I was interested in making something 
with plants or animals which are able to breed new life which is 
improved of the other ones. ;=)
> Plant life is pretty easy to model unless the wind is blowing.
> Talking humans are pretty easy unless you want them to wander around 
> at the same time.
> A tank full of realistic tropical fish is a bit harder.
> An interactive animated model of the World Cup football finals is 
> going to take you a while.
>
> Ron
>
> Weyert de Boer wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here know some nice examples and/or resources about 
>> Artificial Life and Flash?
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RE: [Flashcoders] Scrolling Landscape by Mouse position

[Kevin Aebig]

Thanks guys, but I just told him I needed another day and created it from
scratch. Much obliged anyhow... =]

Cheers,

Kevin

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http://www.ericd.net/main20_test.html

but the base source was @ flashcoders.

edolecki

On 12/21/05, Duncan Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Maybe a little late here as your deadline was EOD yesterday but it might
> help out in the archives for later...
>
> It kinda sounds like your looking for a parallax scroller, if so
>
> there is a chapter from an FOE book here:
> http://www.friendsofed.com/books/1590592212/2212.pdf
>
> or an old source from flashkit:
>
>
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effects/Eye_Candy/Parallax-Ashley_W-6442/inde
x.php
>
> I also believe Eric Dolecki had one on his old site a while back...
>
> Dunc
>
>
> On 12/20/05, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I've seen a few examples of a scenic landscape that is "scrolled" to
> view
> > more by the mouse cursor and can't seem to find any references to them a
> > la
> > google. Does anyone have a clue where to find these sources or have an
> > example handy?
> >
> >
> >
> > I've just gotten pinned by my boss to have this done by the end of the
> > day,
> > or I'd do it from scratch.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Kevin
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loader component doesn't work in 8 on desktop

[Kevin Aebig]

Do you still have Flash 7 installed? Sometimes on my laptop the lowest 
version installed gets used when run locally.


Cheer,

Kevin
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Loader component doesn't work in 8 on desktop



- Loader component works in Flash 8 IDE.
- Loader component works loading Flash 8 SWF in Flash 7 Player.
- Loader component works in Flash 8 projector (EXE).
- Loader component does not work in Flash 8.

If you've ever run a Loader component in Flash 6 or 5, it'll do the same
thing; it'll show the black box with green outline; this basically means 
the

component doesn't work in the version of Flash you are playing in.

What I don't get is why the hell is it doing this in 8?  I thought it was
local file security, but choosing both, remote and local, as well as for 
the

SWF it's loading, does squat.

LoadMovie works just fine.  Anyone know what the heck is wrong with the
Loader component when used in a Flash 8 SWF running in the Flash 
Player.exe?


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[Flashcoders] Scrolling Landscape by Mouse position

[Kevin Aebig]

Hey all,

 

I've seen a few examples of a scenic landscape that is "scrolled" to view
more by the mouse cursor and can't seem to find any references to them a la
google. Does anyone have a clue where to find these sources or have an
example handy? 

 

I've just gotten pinned by my boss to have this done by the end of the day,
or I'd do it from scratch.

 

Cheers,

 

Kevin

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RE: [Flashcoders] Someone knows about strange behaviour of windowcomponent on internet explorer?

[Kevin Aebig]

I had a similar problem. To get around it I put a 500 ms interval to "pause"
the script execution before proceeding...

!K

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windowcomponent on internet explorer?

well,

seems that nobody had that problem before.
than i will post a bug to macromedia.

its frustrating because that problem had occured on flash mx 2004 and  
is not fixed in flash 8.

eugen



Am 30.11.2005 um 15:19 schrieb eugen pflüger:

> Hi list,
> could this be a flash bug on internet explorer?
>
> I have a movieclip with a lot of buttons that create different  
> windows with different content. The swfs loaded into the windows  
> have an onLoad method where more components are initialized. The  
> problem is as follows:
>
> When loading the swf, the window component is shown as a small  
> window until the swf loads inside (then the window gets resized),  
> so I added a "complete" event listener so when the window reports  
> finalized the loading process I can make the window visible.
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> and not before as it should be (the event is generated before the  
> swf has finished loading), the result is the window appearing  
> before it is supposed to, showing uninitialized components in a  
> very "buggy" way..
> this problem occurs only in internet explorer on pc (not in firefox  
> or safari or netscape on mac)
>
> has somebody encountered this too? or does someone has an bugfix /  
> workaorund?
> i always thought that the flash player runs stable on all  
> systems...sigh
>
>
>
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RE: [flashcoders] Q for the Pro's: How did you learn flash?

[Kevin Aebig]

Well I think there's a lot of guys here who started using Flash before it
was really that complicated. I personally started with Flash 3 and just kept
learning new techniques as the versions progressed...

My suggestion to anyone is to learn the basics, than patiently progress up.
I think a lot of new folks believe if they jump into more advanced
Actionscript that they can learn it through sheer willpower and
unfortunately they end up quitting before they even get started.

It also helps that there are a lot of resources available to help you along
the way too...

Cheers,

Kevin

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Subject: [flashcoders] Q for the Pro's: How did you learn flash?

Hi All. I'm an advanced beginner, i know the basics, how the application
works, a bit of actionscript... Now I was wondering how did the
pro's/advanced users evolve from here?
Did you use a book(s) or just a lot of tutorials and experimenting? (What
book(s)?)

Another big question is when to use actionscript and when not to? Are sites
like: www.ricksdesign.com 
www.notrics.nl
www.h3omedia.co.uk 
www.clusta.comheavily based on actionscript?
I'm still so confused how to achieve certain
effects etc and apply them in a site. My goal is to create these kind of
sites, hopefully in the future as a job.

Can anyone give advice?

greets,
Lowen
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Re: [Flashcoders] callback?

[Kevin Aebig]

Please don't change the subjects of your posts if you're replying to a 
thread. It causes chaos within most mail clients and nobody will understand 
what you're talking about.


Kevin

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Subject: [Flashcoders] callback?



sorry but what do you mean by a callback?

i tried setting a boolean on _root called scriptPaused and then an if 
statement at the start of all functions to see if scriptPaused was  true 
and if not then run the function but that didn't do anything


here is a trace list from it running now

trace ==

-> order 3.0 :: show array list
-> order 1.0 :: loadMenu
-> order 2.0 :: setCurrentPage
setCurrentPage.setSection is news
-> order 1.1 :: loadMenu.XMLVars.onLoad
-> order 1.2 :: parseNews

loading news.xml
i is 0 // --> from loadMenu()

-> order 1.3 :: parseText
loading about.txt
i is 1 // --> from loadMenu()

-> order 1.3 :: parseText
loading how.txt
i is 2 // --> from loadMenu()

>>parsing not yet written <-- will parse something not yet wriiten

-> order 1.3 :: parseText
loading contact.txt
i is 4 // --> from loadMenu()

-> order 1.3 :: parseText
loading vacancies.txt
i is 5 // --> from loadMenu()

>>parsing not yet written <-- will parse something not yet wriiten

news content success <-- in the onLoad function of parseNews
text content success <-- in the onLoad function of parseText
text content success <-- in the onLoad function of parseText
text content success <-- in the onLoad function of parseText
text content success <-- in the onLoad function of parseText

/trace ==

the order :: x.x shows which order it should have fired in so i guess  my 
attempt didn't work



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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:38:00 -0800
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Perhaps insert a callback from within the for loop and a pause until
the other method finishes before continuing the mentioned for-loop.

Cheers,

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RE: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex

[Kevin Aebig]

Amen brother... Testify!

!K

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Admittingly, something needs to be done.  Hopefully either Blaze (Flash 9) 
can be made to have integration extensions with FlexBuilder2, made to be 
basically a glorified library asset manager, or somethihng.

The current alternatives really suck.  A Singleton classe that holds all 
linkageID's, an images folder that contains both production graphics and 
source graphics... while I love having all of this open and accessible 
instead of buried deep in a binary FLA, at least Flash was damn good at 
managing it.

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> you can create an ActionScript 3 project in Flex Builder that never goes
anywhere near the Flex Framework.

That's the reason I was soothsaying about FlexBuilder 2 becoming the defacto
development environment and the Flash IDE evolving into a tool for design.
Eclipse will "eclipse" the Flash IDE (rim shot).

> I have spent a good portion of the last 2 years writing plugins for
Eclipse

I wonder if one could be written to manage the Library. Then I'd never have
to open the Flash IDE.


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Re: [Flashcoders] Job Offer :: employee search

[Kevin Aebig]

Than perhaps you should start a new thread by sending the list and new email 
with a new subject.


Cheers,

Kevin

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I'm sorry I'm not addressing your question, but I have one of my
own. On the t8design web site there is an article entitled "Flash
Player 7" dated 5.12.05 that says:

For years Macromedia's Flash has been the only other industry
standard in website development next to HTML. With over 98% of
the world's computers having the Flash 4 player and below, many of
our clients ask why we require that users have the Flash 7 player to
view our websites.

98% have the Flash player 4 and below? Does this not contradict
Macromedia's claims a bit? Is it true?

-A
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RE: [Flashcoders] Macromedia unveiling Flex 2 and Flash 9 :communication or cacophony ?

[Kevin Aebig]

Well... at least I don't feel alone in my opinions.

Cheers,

Kevin

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Macromedia unveiling Flex 2 and Flash 9
:communication or cacophony ?

It was with a mixture of interest and irritation that I read Macromedia's 
announcements about Flex and Flash Player 8.5 and the ensuing reactions.

The valid assertion that "Flex is a tool for building RIAs (Rich Internet 
Applications)" is gradually becoming widely interpreted as "If  you want to 
do 'rich' (fantastic, impressive or professional?) things with Flash you 
need to buy Flex."  Many of the people who have been fortunate enough to be 
able to play with Flex since it was released are now self-declared RIA 
experts, most of whom are extremely pleasant, incredibly easy to reach and 
deal with others with the utmost humility and modesty. (I am really going to

miss our Iteration 2 friends in this respect...)

We could begin by debating the concept of RIA and the fact that it is the 
new Grail of the present-day Internet. By no means am I sufficiently 
familiar with the subtleties of the English language to fully understand the

nuances of the adjective 'rich'. By 'rich' I understand 'souped up', 
'brimming over' (with functions and information), 'complex' in terms of 
interactions, and I would imagine that it quite expensive, etc.

Personally, I prefer 'sexy', 'shrewd', 'fluid', 'educational' or 
'intelligent' to 'rich'.

Actually, most Flex applications have this characteristic compartmentalized 
appearance, like a 1970s living room bookcase, with cabinets, drawers, 
framed photographs, multitudes of lists and datagrids which provide a 
talking point. On the subject of sobriety, are you familiar with Google 
Maps?

I started using Flash quite a long time (almost eight years) ago because it 
was fast, powerful, visually appealing and there was no need to buy server 
software for 15,000 dollars to produce dynamic maps. All you had to do was 
connect to a good old database. At the time it performed miracles. These 
days we have to fight through a myriad of increasingly large and unwieldy 
component libraries. I have never been able to start using V2 components 
because my Internet clients do not want any files larger than 100 KB for a 
public-access website.

When Flash MX2004 was released in its basic and professional versions, I 
immediately bought the professional version because I really wanted to feel 
like a true professional. When someone pointed out that a really serious 
Flash development was being made in OOP and integrally in external classes, 
without putting any objects or drawings at all on the scene, I gritted my 
teeth and continued regardless. I fiddled around a bit:  mycb._y=8? too 
high. mycb._y=15: oops, too low!  I used the Event Dispatcher function like 
there was no tomorrow and put Delegate.create everywhere in my code. It 
looked fantastic and I felt really free!

Of course, I bought Flash 8 Pro, which I use mainly as a compiler and 
debugger. I have now learned that using Flash 8 IDE for compiling purposes 
is rather old-fashioned. I was told I should use MTASC and, of course, Flex 
builder. I will soon be able to throw my Flash 8 Pro away. Do I need Flash 
9?

Lastly, the story of the Flash Player 8.5 has completely worn me out. You 
fight for major tenders, explaining that Flash is now a mature, stable 
product that works with all browsers and operating systems, and that we are 
waiting until the latest version has spread everywhere before switching to 
the new one. And one month after Flash 8 is released, there are more and 
more announcements and no one understands anything any more. Yesterday, a 
smart aleck computer specialist who is always abreast of new developments 
said to me "So, that's it. If we take your Macromedia Flash, will we need to

buy the Flex for 15,000 dollars in a year's time?"

- The first demo that I assemble for a client using Flash 8 makes all his 
browsers crash, although I had vigorously assured him that Flash never 
crashes. I had made the mistake of trying to impress him with contextual 
menus.
- I was not immediately aware that Windows NT4 and a few other environments 
were not supported.
- I shouted it from the rooftops that the Flash/JavaScript communication was

now reinforced; yet unfortunately it only works with really up-to-date 
browsers. I congratulate Mike Chambers and Christian Cantrell for their kit.

It is a great initiative but what is the status of this investment with 
Macromedia? What is Macromedia's obligation to truly consolidate this Flash 
integration in the browser, also for Flash 7 and IE 5.5, etc.?
- It is a good idea to have bitmap functions, but Flash's original 
contribution is vectors and there is still not the slightest function for 
editing a shape after Actionscript has been used. If you wan

RE: [Flashcoders] financial analysis :: PVIF, FVIF, FVIFA,

[Kevin Aebig]

Sure... I might have some spare time to work with it.

Cheers,

Kevin

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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] financial analysis :: PVIF, FVIF, FVIFA, 

keven... I want to place this into subversion and start working with 
you on it? Is this something that you would be interested in? Others?

Wade

Wade



On Oct 14, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Kevin Aebig wrote:

> Tsk Tsk... o yee of little faith.
>
> http://sample.fundnet.ca/kevin/financial_as.zip
>
> Kevin
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ryanm
> Sent: October 4, 2005 12:13 AM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] financial analysis :: PVIF, FVIF, FVIFA,
>
>> I posted awhile back checking to see if anyone had written a complex
>> financial formula's class for flash.
> I think you'll be uinlikely to find such a thing, largely due to 
> the
> fact that those sort of calculations are a) imprecise in client-side
> languages, and b) usually involve information that requires security. 
> Due to
>
> both of those, these sort of calculations are much more likely to be 
> done on
>
> the server side. I'll bet you can find libraries of those kinds of
> calculation in ASP/VBScript, VB/C#.NET, C++, Java, and all kinds of 
> other
> languages that are more precise and more common in application 
> development.
> Converting an existing class from Java or C# wouldn't be difficult, 
> but it
> would require some tweaking to maintain precision (mostly multiplying
> numbers by 1000 before doing arithmatic on them and then dividing again
> before returning results, to avoid imprecise floating point 
> calculations).
>
> ryanm
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RE: [Flashcoders] financial analysis :: PVIF, FVIF, FVIFA,

[Kevin Aebig]

Tsk Tsk... o yee of little faith.

http://sample.fundnet.ca/kevin/financial_as.zip 

Kevin

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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] financial analysis :: PVIF, FVIF, FVIFA, 

>I posted awhile back checking to see if anyone had written a complex 
>financial formula's class for flash.
I think you'll be uinlikely to find such a thing, largely due to the 
fact that those sort of calculations are a) imprecise in client-side 
languages, and b) usually involve information that requires security. Due to

both of those, these sort of calculations are much more likely to be done on

the server side. I'll bet you can find libraries of those kinds of 
calculation in ASP/VBScript, VB/C#.NET, C++, Java, and all kinds of other 
languages that are more precise and more common in application development. 
Converting an existing class from Java or C# wouldn't be difficult, but it 
would require some tweaking to maintain precision (mostly multiplying 
numbers by 1000 before doing arithmatic on them and then dividing again 
before returning results, to avoid imprecise floating point calculations).

ryanm 

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Re: [Flashcoders] I.E. Security Alert When Playing Flash Locally

[Kevin Aebig]

This is because of IE's internal security saying "You're running an activeX 
plugin locally, which could be dangerous, watch out!"... It'll scream the 
same thing with any other plugins, if run locally.


Cheers,

Kevin

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From: "Marc Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Flashcoders Submissions" 
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 10:16 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] I.E. Security Alert When Playing Flash Locally


This alert pops up when I use I.E. to locally play the html and .swf that 
Flash publishes:


"! Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on 
this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly. OK"


If I put this on a web server, it plays fine. It also works locally in 
Netscape 4.71.


Is this a result of security restrictions in Flash 8? If so, how do I 
override them?


thanks,

Marc


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