Re: [Flashcoders] playheadUpdate
Thanks for your help! I ended up embedding the video which is not the best thing to do but if the client is breathing down your neck, you do just about anything, right? It's weird that the performance of the Flash player is now worse on a PC then on a Mac. It used to be the other way 'round. S I did a little test with an flv on a remote server. win xp sp 2 with Opera 9, IE 7 and FF Gran Paradiso ( beta ). Everything went smooth. Can you pass the link of the online flv so I can check if it occurs with your flv ? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] playheadUpdate
I am... but the client isn't. Are you using the debug player on your windows machine ? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] playheadUpdate
Hey all, Does anyone have a clue why the FLV playback component's playheadUpdate event gives different results on PC and Mac? I have this FLV that I need to sync to an MC frame by frame so I'm using the playheadUpdate event to get the playheadTime and calculate the correct frame my MC needs to be on. This works PERFECT on Mac (FireFox + FP9) but on PC (also Firefox +FP9) the result is totally wrong. I found that while tracing the playheadTime from the playheadUpdate event, this goes really fast on a Mac but on a PC there are numerous hickups. Anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks, Serge PS: Nothing else is happening in the movie. It's just an FLV and an MC playing. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay
With the risk of starting a rant, Adobe should really fix shared libs... These seem to be totally useless in a real life environment... The idea is great but how do you explain that a simple graphic loaded with no actions whatsoever can cause my script to stop working...? We started this project with a shared lib for our fonts and graphics and now that we come across this problem, will have to kick out the shared lib. We already kicked out the shared fonts 'cause those just didn't work at all. I should add that the designer in this project is on a PC and that I, the developer in this project, work on a Mac. But really... This shouldn't matter... right? Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay
Unbelievable... I've found the devil child... There was a preloader-graphic (just graphics, no actions) in my swf that was being loaded from a shared library. I took it out of the shared lib and embedded it in the swf and now it works... Really unbelievable... Thank you all for your suggestions! After copy- pasting everything to a new file, I ended up finding this one with switching every single layer to guide layers, exporting and enabling every single layer and exporting... And then I found it... Thanks again, Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay
That almost got my hopes up... but sadly... no... The only MC with a linkage ID gets loaded in the first frame... Just a long shot then.. :-D Might it be that you have a mc using lickage with the "load on first frame" option off.. but forgot to preload it differently? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay
I've just seen that a file with similar functionality is 62k instead of the 24k of the troubled file... So I'm going to officially call this a messed up file... Even tho I already tried renaming it, "save-and-compacting" it and oh yeah... all frames I call do have frame labels. I've even tried copying everything after frame 75 to another scene (even tho I don't like to use them) but even then, I can not seem to get beyond that frame 34... So weird... ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay
Also... the file is only 24k ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay
Interesting... but I'm on a Mac using Firefox and Safari... Are you using MoveClipLoader within IE? If so it's listeners behave eratically with different content caching settings - this could be the problem, your main swf would think the content was loaded in and ready, when in fact it wasn't. M ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay :: Am I losing my mind?
It's getting worse... :-/ It works like it should inside the IDE. But not in a browser. Now you could think that my main.swf is causing this swf to mess up but I'm doing the exact same thing with another swf and that one works perfect... The troubled swf is being loaded with a MovieClipLoader and I just play it once it's loaded in. I think I'm just going to build this file from scratch 'cause other than a messed up file, I can't come up with anything that may cause this... :-/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay :: Am I losing my mind?
Sorry... That should have been "@Prakaz"... Really embarrassing... :-/ There is absolutely no function that is going to that frame 34... There is no onEnterFrame besides my debugging onEnterFrame function to check the currentframe... When I put a "gotoAndStop(75)" in my onEnterFrame, it still passes through frame 34 before going to 75... gotoAndStop(16) works. gotoAndStop(40) goes back to 34 I am really losing it... I'm just taking a wild guess but I'd say this file is somehow messed up or something. I honestly have no clue why it just keeps going back to that frame... :/ Appreciate the help! Serge @Prazac: I've had a few mojitos last night... But a local colleague also took a look and it's not my hangover ;-) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay :: Am I losing my mind?
There is absolutely no function that is going to that frame 34... There is no onEnterFrame besides my debugging onEnterFrame function to check the currentframe... When I put a "gotoAndStop(75)" in my onEnterFrame, it still passes through frame 34 before going to 75... gotoAndStop(16) works. gotoAndStop(40) goes back to 34 I am really losing it... I'm just taking a wild guess but I'd say this file is somehow messed up or something. I honestly have no clue why it just keeps going back to that frame... :/ Appreciate the help! Serge @Prazac: I've had a few mojitos last night... But a local colleague also took a look and it's not my hangover ;-) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] simple gotoAndPlay :: Am I losing my mind?
What's going on here...? I have this one file where frame 75 is named "noPix". I load some vars and tell it to gotoAndPlay("noPix") if some var is false. I end up in frame 34. I tell it to gotoAndPlay(75); I end up in frame 34. I check if framesloaded >=75. It returns true. I rename the frame to make sure I'm not using the same name somewhere. I still end up in frame 34... In all cases, it jumps directly to frame 34. There is no frame name in frame 34, there are no actions on that frame. I put the gotoAndPlay action in a seperate function. Still end up in frame 34 I'm going nuts here... I don't suppose anyone has a clue? Thanks, Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] jsp - Flash
Did you already have a look at Flash Remoting: http://www.adobe.com/ devnet/flashremoting/java_jsp.html You can buy it from Adobe or try this open source alternative: http:// www.osflash.org/openamf Serge I need to build som kind of serverside solution in jsp to connect with Flash (and sql on the serverside). XML.sendAndLoad from Flash would be nice, but some other solution may work better. Anyone knows some good tutorials on this? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash-based audio editor?
They're doing this sort of thing in Odeo Studio: http://studio.odeo.com Well... not the editing part but that should indeed be possible with some serverside script. FFMPEG can crop and resample so theoretically it should be possible. Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player standalone universal binary or alternative
Thanks for the replies guys... I was able to solve this with Screenweaver HX which makes universal binaries and uses the Firefox plugin and since that is officially released for the MacIntels, the application is now running great. Big thanks to Edwin Van Rijkom for helping me out with SWHX! Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Flash player standalone universal binary or alternative
Hey guys, Sorry to bother the list with this but I was wondering if anyone has any word on a Universal Binary standalone Flash player? Or maybe have an alternative? Like maybe a fullscreen cocoa app that loads an html page without all the chrome...? I have to deliver an application for a museum which has to run on a MacIntel Mini. The app works great in a browser window but I haven't found a way to export a projector from it. I thought Zinc was already up for the job but it turned out it isn't. Hopefully someone has already worked out a (temp) workaround. Thanks, Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Help Loading and Displaying XML
Hi Aaron, Put a crossdomain.xml in the root of the server and it will all work out... The file should look like this: http://www.macromedia.com/xml/ dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd"> Serge I have a menu constructed from XML and I am parsing it in Flash to create my site navigation. However, I am having a problem loading the xml so that it is parsed and displayed on my website when accessed directly (as in http://whitehorsemedia.com) and when accessed using www.whitehorsemedia.com (using the preceding www). Here is the code I am using to load my xml: menu_xml.load("http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/ menu.xml"); If you go to http://www.whitehorsemedia.com the navigation displays fine. But if you go to http:whitehorsemedia.com the navigation does not display at all. If I change the code to: menu_xml.load("http://whitehorsemedia.com/inc/navigation/menu.xml";); I get the opposite effect. How can I get the navigation to display at both addresses? Thanks in advance, Aaron Roberson ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Webcam color tracking
Hey guyz, Thank you all for the replies. I've sorta hacked it... Before I do the getColorBoundsRect, I now do a threshold on the image to make the colors that are close to what my LED looks like, 100% red. I then do the getColorBoundsRect on the red and that works just fine. Now I'll try different colors of LEDs to see which works best and to make sure there's nothing else in the camera's eye that has the same color. It would indeed be great to see how Grant did his Mister Glove... But I'm guessing it's somewhere along the line of what I'm doing here... Grtz, Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Webcam color tracking
Well... I need to be able to track a LED light. I want to be able to track the position of the light to substitute a mouse... Serge depending on what you want to do, I've converted stuff to black and white (thank you keith peters) for easier tacking. Alias' suggestion is in the same vein of thought ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Webcam color tracking
Interesting... So you didn't use getColorBoundsRect? Did you 'walk through' all pixels then? Or how exactly do you search for the color? Serge Yeah, I've done some work with it. The trick is to apply some contrast filters to reduce the colour depth, and be a bit more picky about getting your source colour. You can do the getColourBoundsRect thing, but it's still pretty inaccurate though. Alias ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Webcam color tracking
"not the difference motion tracking that you see everywhere but tracking one particular color" Thanks tho... http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Webcam color tracking
So... euhm.. no one? Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone has already tried webcam color tracking inside Flash 8 or 9...? So not the difference motion tracking that you see everywhere but tracking one particular color. Or I should say "range of colors"... I started out with getColorBoundsRect but that doesn't seem to be accurate enough or I just picked the wrong color... So... 1) Has anyone done it before? And if so, do you have a source laying around that could get me on the right track? 2) How does one select the correct color? Thanks in advance for your massive replies ;-) Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Webcam color tracking
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone has already tried webcam color tracking inside Flash 8 or 9...? So not the difference motion tracking that you see everywhere but tracking one particular color. Or I should say "range of colors"... I started out with getColorBoundsRect but that doesn't seem to be accurate enough or I just picked the wrong color... So... 1) Has anyone done it before? And if so, do you have a source laying around that could get me on the right track? 2) How does one select the correct color? Thanks in advance for your massive replies ;-) Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Slighty OT: phone suggestions?
Bill Perry told me a while back that they were working on the FL2 player for S60 3rd edition phones (like the N80). Haven't heard back from him in a while though so I have no idea on where Adobe is with that at this point... Having an N80 myself (bought it for the Wifi capabilities), I really want this too... Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] MakingThings videoboard
Hey guyz, Just checking in to see if anyone here has ever worked with the MakingThings video board... I'm currently working with the video board, trying to get some camera movement detection but I can't seem to get a decent detection... I can't get a even near to decent/usable reading form this board +cam... I now have it pointed at an all white background with no moving subject whatsoever and the pointer still keeps jumping around like a crazy man... I've tried dynamic background, static background, every tolerance setting from 0 to 20, despeckle on or off... Due to a wrong delivery, I could only start on this 2 days ago and have to show something to the client today... Needles to say I'm not feeling very good right now... Have any of you ever tried this board? And what settings did you use to get a good detection on a white background...? Thanks in advance for your replies... Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] File upload : getting Flash to know the new name
Yeah... I see where you're going with that... Can also read the value from my database but I thought it must have been possible to have my upload.php return that new name to Flash. That would have made more sense, but I guess that's not possible then...? S Hi Serge, Maybe store the new name into the $_SESSION and request it when the onComplete event is dispatched? Or am I mis-understanding the situation? Greets, Jeroen Serge Jespers wrote: Hey guys, I'm doing a fileUpload in this project and in my PHP script, I rename the file (make an MD5 from it). I was just wondering how I can get Flash to understand this new filename... Is this possible at all? Thanks for your fast responses ;-) Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] File upload : getting Flash to know the new name
Hey guys, I'm doing a fileUpload in this project and in my PHP script, I rename the file (make an MD5 from it). I was just wondering how I can get Flash to understand this new filename... Is this possible at all? Thanks for your fast responses ;-) Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] blank flash movie (what is this)
http://www.stairclimber-uk.com/images/video.flv not found Serge I have recently produced a simple movie that appears not to work. The movie is : http://www.stairclimber-uk.com/images/movie.html http://www.stairclimber-uk.com/images/movie.swf http://www.stairclimber-uk.com/images/movie.fla When I try to see that movie on my localhost - it looks fine. When I look at it on the above server, it is blank. Do you think that I have done something wrong with the flash? Or is it possible that it is the (Windows) server? -- Gavin Lilley. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] euro symbol fight
Does that font have the euro symbol? I think what you're describing could mean it doesn't have the font symbol... Serge thanks Bernard, but this is not the problem. I have a table in a database, where I write this text "this will cost you 50€". when I retrieve this info from AMFPHP I receive the whole text except for € which cames as a square. thanks, GaB ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] [URGENT] Flash effect/transition samples
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mc/archives/2006/04/ transition_and.cfm#more ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Cuepoints not accurate
Hey Jordan, Weird thing... I tried encoding it with the Flash 8 video encoder right after I sent the mail and for some reason, those cuepoints seem to be right on the spot. So that basically means that encoding FLV's in Squeeze is totally useless... Pretty weird for something you pay $250 for... Serge Try inserting the cuepoints programmatically and see if you get the same results? As well, what happens if you try a Q & D encoding with the Flash 8 Video Encoder, adding the cuepoints there? jord ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Cuepoints not accurate
Hi guys, I know it's not really a coding issue but it's the only place I could think off to post this problem I'm having... I'm having a serious issue with cuepoints in VP6 FLV's. I've placed them in the FLV using Squeeze and placed them on the exact frame I want to trigger actions to. But when I play it, the action starts 3 to 6 frames too early... which pretty much messes up the whole video. I've tried placing the cuepoints a few frames later which works fine on my computer but on others it triggers too late... Anyone have an idea on this? Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] problems loading an image into a movieclip
You probably don't see the image because you can't load BMP's in to Flash... Only SWF, JPEG, GIF or PNG if you're using Flash 8. When targeting for older Flash versions, you can only load SWF & JPEG's. Serge Op 22-mei-06, om 18:32 heeft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> het volgende geschreven: Hi, i have a movie with a button and a movieclip. I want that when i click the button an external image is visualized into the movieclip. I called the movieclip instance ic and in add this code to the button : on(click) { loadMovie("penguin.bmp",ic); } the problem is that the movieClip became white but the image is not visualized... Ehat's wrong? Thanks,Riccardo ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness
You're welcome... I mixup capitals all the time so it was the first thing I looked at ;-) Serge Unbelievable! Thanks a lot Serge, you're a lifesaver :> ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness
Could it be just a plain old typo? XPath is with capital X and capital P. In the perm_items line you wrote Xpath Serge These lines of code work: menu_root = XPath.selectNodes(this, "root/menu/item/@name"); trace('menu_root: ' + menu_root); These don't: perm_items = Xpath.selectNodes(this, "root/perm/item/@name"); trace('perm_items: ' + perm_items); ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Has an SWF file any influence over the file system??????
Not directly from the SWF but if you use something like Zinc (http:// www.multidmedia.com/) you can do a lot with Flash projectors. Serge Hi comunity, i'm looking for an answer. Is there any way to acces to my file system from "Flash" (an SWF) Thanks anyway. Jorge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Localconnection bug?
So I'm working on this site that uses a local connection between two swf's... I named that local connection "SergesHistoryKeeper"... It worked just fine on Mac (both Safari and Firefox) but not on PC (neither in IE or Firefox). After going completely nuts in checking the code over and over, I thought about changing the name... So I called it SergesHistory and tried it again... And guess what... It worked on both PC and Mac... So I started Googling to see if there was a limit for the size of the connection name or something like that but apparently the only limit of a local Connection is that you can only send 40k over it... But that was certainly not the case... So I'm guessing this is probably a bug... No? Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader :: onLoadInit
Yeah... I know they're inconsistent... But I mean... Why is this still the case...? I've now added a 200ms interval that executes the play command... That works... Serge Try moving the stop (and related content) down to frame 2. That usually clears up problems of stop + play (or stop + gotoAndPlay) not working at all or inconsistently. Helen ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader :: onLoadInit
Hey guys, I'm using this MovieClipLoader thing to load in some movieclips... And when they're loaded, I want them to play... Very simple, no? Well... For some reason, some are playing and some aren't... I was just wondering... We currently have stop() commands in the first frame of each loaded swf so they don't start playing before we want them to actually play so we can add some variables to it before it starts playing. Now, onLoadInit is called when the actions in the first frame of the loaded clip are executed, right? So if the first frame holds a stop(); command and onLoadInit is like this: mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) { // loading done // setting some vars here before we play it target_mc.play(); }; the loaded movieclip should start playing, no? Well... some are, and some aren't... :-( Any thoughts? Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Shared fonts nightmare
Hey guyz, I'm working on this project that has a shared library with some movieclips and fonts... It are those fonts that cause quite a bit of stress... The designer on this project is on a PC and I work on a Mac... Not that that should matter but I'm taking a wild guess this is the problem... The situation... Both his PC and my Mac have all the fonts... Same TTF files. However, if I use the shared fonts in the swf on the server, they come out looking like this: http://webkitchen.be/ downloads/sharedfonts.png Not really what was intended... If I make that library again, and use my shared lib instead of the one on the server, the text comes out right but is shifted down by quite a few pixels causing the design to be screwed up... So yeah... Should we just drop the shared fonts and thereby add a some 50k to each swf? Or is there something we may not have thought about? Thanks for your help, Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] attachMovie _alpha
Hey Cedric, Turns out I am really losing it... Forgot to embed the font... Man, do I feel stupid... again... Serge Hello Serge! what if you trace the nested mcs ? are they really nested when being attached ? hth, cedric Am I losin ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] attachMovie _alpha
Dear god... Am I losing it or what? I create an empty movieclip (let's call this holder_mc) in the stage and set it's alpha to 0. To that holder_mc, I attach multiple other mc's... Now, I would think these wouldn't be visible but they are... If I trace the holder_mc._alpha it does return 0 to me. Is that expected behaviour or am I really going nuts? Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Water transition
While I appreciate any leads, this is not really helping. Thanks though. I guess if no-one can help me, I'll have to try and clone myself somehow. ;-) Serge Google search for "ripple effect flash" 3rd result: http://www.freehandsource.com/_test/ripple.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Water transition
Hey guys, For a project on a way too tight deadline, I'm urgently looking for a Flash 8 watery transition between two (loaded) images. Transition should be like a waterdrop on img one and then in then transition in the waterripples to img two. Anyone of you can whip something up or have something laying around? Since there are a ton of other little details to tackle before the deadline, I can't start on it myself and thus am willing to pay for anyone who can do it in the next few hours ;-) Thanks for your help, Serge ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] "scribbling" an oval
Yeah I also thought about doing pre-recorded paths but I though it was gonna look cooler if it were totally random :-) What sample are you referring to? 'cause my stuff is still online ;-) S The sample you originally posted is not accessible anymore, so my take on this might be off-base: http://www.motiondraw.com/md/as_samples/t/CatmullRomSpline/ scribbledOval.htm l This approach is more about 'scribbling' than Math - First several ovals are manually drawn with this tool http://www.motiondraw.com/md/as_samples/t/LineGeneralization/demo.html Now each time the mouse is clicked one of the pre-recorded paths is selected, some random is applied to its coordinates, it is smoothed again and finally it is rendered as Catmull Rom spline: http://www.motiondraw.com/md/as_samples/t/CatmullRomSpline/tween.html Post again if you need more details/code! HTH -- Andreas Weber motiondraw.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] "scribbling" an oval
It's supposed to be the drawing API ;-) Positioning an animated MC would be the easy way and I always seem to go for the not so easy way ;-) I got this far (ahum) > http://webkitchen.be/downloads/scribble.swf And now I need a mathematician to fix the coordinates :p Obviously, this is totally wrong ;-) but hey... at least I'm trying here ;-) Oh man... I can totally see my math-teacher laughing his ass off right now... makeOvalCoordinates = function (w, h, p) { if (p<=1) { nx = w/2; ny = h/2; } else { if (nx>= -w/2){ nx -= 10; } else { nx+=10; } if (ny>=-h/2){ ny -= 10; } else { ny+=10; } } return {x:nx, y:ny}; }; Are you trying to position an animated movieClip Serge, or use the drawing API to draw scribbles? Because it sound like the suggestions you're getting are the latter solution. S ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] "scribbling" an oval
Right... That does make sense except for the "draw the point"... Shouldn't that have an X and Y coordinate? Or am I reading this wrongly? Okay. In that case I think you're best off drawing an ordinary ellipse (or possibly a rounded rectangle) but adding some error factor. If you're starting from an ellipse, here's what I'd do: set a and b to the half-axes of the ellipse (I'm assuming the centre is (0,0)) set errorFactor to some small value set wobbliness to some very small value for q varying between 0 and some angle greater than 2*pi (yours seem to go round about three times, so q would go up to about 6*pi) set truePoint to (a*sin(q), b*cos(q)) set normal to (-a*cos(q), b*sin(q)) draw the point (truePoint + errorFactor * normal) set errorFactor to errorFactor + some number between -wobbliness and wobbliness I'll test it out, but that sounds like the right kind of idea to me. Danny ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] "scribbling" an oval
This is what I'm trying to accomplish: http://webkitchen.be/downloads/ scribble.jpg Thanks for your help, Serge Can you give us an example of the visual effect you're looking for? The simplest I can think of is a kind of 'ribbon' shape, like an oval but with two ends crossing over - this is a fairly classic way to show the kind of ring someone might draw around eg. a job ad. That wouldn't be too hard to describe mathematically. Danny ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] "scribbling" an oval
Hey guys, I'm kinda stuck here... so any help is appreciated. I'm on this project that has a menu that when you "mouse over" the currently selected menu item gets scribbled around. Since this is a variable menu, I thought I'd make that oval- scribbling dynamic and random. So now I'm trying to make a function that returns the next (random) coordinate for my oval shaped scribble but that's where I got stuck. I'm throwing the max width and max height to this function and it should just return the next coordinate and end up at a specified amount of time as a scribbled oval. Anyone have any suggestions? I really wish I paid more attention in math class now... Thanks guys, Serge ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Elastic ribbon
Sorry... had no intention of sending this 3 times... actually... I only sent it once... Must be a hick-up in the list I guess... So yeah... Still looking for input on this... Serge ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Elastic ribbon
Hey guys, I know I've seen this somewhere but obviously you can't find anything when you really need it. I'm creating an elastic ribbon type thing and I could really use some input (partly because I'm only working on half speed due to a serious lower back pain). So I was looking for this site that had this explained... Problem is that this has to be Flash 6 compatible and that the ribbon must hold a bitmap since it's part of something else. Any suggestions? Thanks, Serge ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET
Have a look at http://www.openamf.org Don't know if this can help you but it's also a third party remoting solution. I need to create a Flash application for a small non-profit can't afford the $999 price tag of MM's Flash Remoting gateway. Is there a third party remoting solution like AMFPHP that I could use? Essentially I need to read and write to an Access database on a Windows web host. Thanks for any suggestions and pointers to examples for this. Michael ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders