Re: [Flashcoders] View images in local folder
Flash doesn't have access to the local file system. If teh pictures were on a server you could do something with a PHP script to get the file names, but on the client, not. Unless you want to get into the new Adobe Air API, but that's a whole other ball of wax, not to mention a bit of a learning curve On 7/25/07, Norman Cousineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use Flash to make an image browser...without an XML file. In other words, just view the images in any given local folder. Regards, Norm C ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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] Backend compiled Java or scripted PHP?
Wow, this seems to be one of those topics where everyone has strong but differing opinions, Atila java over PHP. Just few points why: Nice comparative overview HermitIt seems to depend on what you will be using it for ultimately. BINGO, we have a winner folks... Ron, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, AXIS and Java is a pretty nice toolkit. I agree wholeheartedly, but is it the most productive way to handle the small stuff. I don't have the luxury of having server drones (apologies to the server drones) taming the backend, so quick and dirty is a development paradigm for me. Muzak Flash/Flex + Coldfusion + Flash/Flex Remoting. I've seen the big increase in traffic on all things Coldfusion, but I seemed to have missed the reason why (been under a rock). I usually try to avoid proprietory stuff when I can and have always ignored Coldfusion for it's limited hosting etc... I'll have to research what all the recent traffic is about and if there's a need to revise this opinion. Flashcoders has once again provided an interesting, informative, and balanced overview. What I get from it is, in general (with untold exceptions), - professional programmers in general prefer the structure of Java. The majority here. I've had enough formal training to appreciate this. - PHP seems to be preferred by the home grown just get it done programmers who are, like me, spawned by opportunities inherent on the internet. As a one man operation I sympathize - the dividing line seems to be scale. (How big is the project, how much traffic will it generate, how computationally expensive and or complex). There are many situations that don't affect the scalability or maintainability of a site, scripting is too useful a tool not to have available. That being said, while more complex things can and are built with PHP, there's a point at which the advantages of Java overcome it's disadvantages (taming tomcat, longer development times, etc...). The big question is where do you draw the line? Weldon Best is good. Better is best. Lisa Grunwald ___ 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] Backend compiled Java or scripted PHP?
I've been using ActionScript for a while now, but my next project will require a lot more server side work. In the past I've used PHP, but only in a pidgin kind of way. alternatively, I have some Java skills, though not specifically for the web. Either way I have to spend some time developing an appropriate skill level, the question becomes, which skills. The times I've used PHP, it seemed straight forward enough, and from what I've read Java is a little trickier to implement on the web (correct?). On the other hand, PHP is a pretty specific niche whereas Java has a much wider usefulness (correct?) There are a lot of strong opinions out there. Andreessen: PHP succeeding where Java isn't http://news.com.com/2100-1012-5903187.html?tag=tb and in response, How they can compare PHP with Java at all? (most people who are praising PHP are either bad programmers or they are not programmers at all) http://news.com.com/5208-1012_3-0.html?forumID=1threadID=10712messageID=78718start=0 PHP is faster to develop, java is faster to run, or is that runs faster? PHP is harder to maintain, and Java has more tools ...etc... What's a guy to beloieve? Any opin... any more opinions? ___ 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] Re: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 19, Issue 46
Does Red5 and/or electroserver support Flex2 applications? ie AS3 Weldon Red5. http://osflash.org/red5 Red5 is a server that not only streams content to the Flash plugin, but it can push calls and information to the Flash client! It can also receive video/audio/data from a flash client and either save or rebroadcast that content. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Weldon MacDonald Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:27 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] WhiteBoard app I have to do an application that requires a shareable interface, like a smartboard. There are may options to do this in Falsh, but this app practically begs to be written in Flex2. My problem is what do I have to have to write it? My clients dont expect thousands or even hundreds of users and they can't afford the full blown FDS. The free version may be adequate, but if it's not, they don't have scalability without paying a high price. Are there any alternatives to using FDS? I have to talk price with these people soon and this is the only point I don't have a handle on. I talked them into publishing to Fash 9, but if I can't solve this issue they may want to stick to Flash 8 so I can use AS2 alternatives. Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Message: 14 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:38:28 -0400 From: Jayson K Hanes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] WhiteBoard app To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://www.electro-server.com/Examples/whiteboard/whiteboard.html 20 User trial of the server is at no cost with no limitations. ___ 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] WhiteBoard app
I have to do an application that requires a shareable interface, like a smartboard. There are may options to do this in Falsh, but this app practically begs to be written in Flex2. My problem is what do I have to have to write it? My clients dont expect thousands or even hundreds of users and they can't afford the full blown FDS. The free version may be adequate, but if it's not, they don't have scalability without paying a high price. Are there any alternatives to using FDS? I have to talk price with these people soon and this is the only point I don't have a handle on. I talked them into publishing to Fash 9, but if I can't solve this issue they may want to stick to Flash 8 so I can use AS2 alternatives. Weldon MacDonald ___ 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] Array Empowerment
That's the real source of sloppiness, Java has eliminitaed these discussions by the simple expeditent of requiring that the conditional resolves to a boolean, nothing wlse will do. THe real question to me is does AS3 change this behavior? On 7/27/06, ryanm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me it has always seemed more logical to use if this.length == 0 for the very reason of explicitness that you stated; and thus, using the alternative !this.length was less enticing. I speculated (wrongly) after reading your post that there might be some sort of speed optimization inherent to checking if something is false than actually checking for a specific length defined explicitly in your code. I don't know why I thought that, and obviously I am wrong for the various reasons stated earlier. Further, !this.length is very likely slower. Conditions are meant to resolve to a boolean, but the implicit cast is to a string, which means walking the prototype to find the property, and if it exists (!=undefined), casting it to a string, and then recasting it to a boolean. Meanwhile, this.length==0 resolves directly to a boolean, and, as such, should be a bit faster. It wouldn't be a noticable difference in speed in a single condition, but in a recursive loop where it might be evaluated thousands of times, it could make a significant difference. ryanm ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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] Led into temptation with promises of preformance
I've been steadfastly ignoring all the talk about AS3 since I don't like to publish in a flash player until it's been around for 8 to 10 months. Now though I have an app to write and all the talk about the preformance increase has got me wondering if I don't have to make the move to AS3. The app isn't scheduled to launch until the end of the year, so I have time to climb the learning curve, but I'd like to know what the feeling is on publishing AS3 to Flash 9 that early. Does it make sense, or am I asking for a world of trouble with my client over lack of exposure of Flash 9 Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 for forums
I'll have to take your word for it, I never use the things. I've decided to go with an existing forum, p2pbb or vbulletin, customized with a flash header. Thanks On 6/26/06, Mick G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The highly important and common feature for Forums is the ability to paste HTML, perform clean and efficient searches, insert images from other sites/URLs, embed flash animations, right-click to open links posted links in new tabs/windows, paste code, harcore forum users even cherish their custom footers. Most of these functions wouldn't be as effective in a flash front-end. On 6/25/06, Count Schemula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on a few vBulletin powered forums and they work very well. Bulletin boards are far superior to e-mail lists in almost everyway. I've been on e-mail lists since before there was a web, and, really, there is no comparison to how much more useful 100,000 threaded conversations are in a bulletin board compared to an e-mail list. On 6/24/06, Josh Santangelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vBulletin's current version has many AJAXy features which enable interactions similar to what you describe. It's not free, but it's not expensive either. http://vbulletin.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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 for forums
I've never liked forums, mostly because the I find navigating around in most forums is pretty clunky, give me an email list every time, but, as so often happens, the universe has decided to get a little revenge. I have a client who wants a forum. I've just spent the morning researching forum software and there are many good products out there, but none that give the navigational convenience I would like. I can see a forum with a flash front end that would be a dream to use, let' s say, a tree of threads with subjects; hover over one and see a preview; click and see a list of responses; click on a response and get a preview, all in one window without a page change. Posts are written in a new window and don't require 3 or 4 pages generations per response. That's a little simplistic, but I hope you get the idea. What ever I use it has to be customized to the look and feel of the site. Has anyone seen such a forum? Or, a forum with documentation that would allow the relatively easy implementation of a flash front end. Weldon MacDonald ___ 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] cake decorating app
A cake decorater is asking about a web based app for designing cakes. It's a drawing app with a twist. He's found a desktop app in C# that he wants to port to Java for the web. I'm trying to convince him that Java for this is overkill and he should Actionscript. Am I right, or would it be relatively easy to port C# to Java. Are there any examples of this type of drawing app he could look over? Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 Eclipse setup question
I probably got it from you, lol. I've read things by so many people it's hard to keep track! On 6/8/06, erixtekila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the ctrl+Enter, I managed to set this up in ANT. My build file has an exec tag to open the stand alone player, or you could use your default browser, and I set up the hotkey in WindowprefGeneralKey and in the dialog... set the Catagory to Run/Debug and the Name to Run Ant Build, then set the keystroke and your good to go I use exactly the same. Souvenirs nostalgiques… Cheers. --- erixtekila http://blog.v-i-a.net/ ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 Eclipse setup question
Welcome to open source. I'm in the same process and it's a bit of a
struggle. If you find a step by step anything, please send it along to
me. As for the ctrl+Enter, I managed to set this up in ANT. My build
file has an exec tag to open the stand alone player, or you could use
your default browser, and I set up the hotkey in
WindowprefGeneralKey and in the dialog... set the Catagory to
Run/Debug and the Name to Run Ant Build, then set the keystroke and
your good to go
I don't know of a way to direct it to the swfviewer in ASDT.
the target in Ant is
target name=display description=displays swf in flashplayer
exec executable=${flashplayer}
spawn=true
arg value=${build.dir}/${targetswf}/
/exec
/target
Where ${flashplayer} is the path to the FlashPlayer of your chioce.
${build.dir}/${targetswf} are the path adn file name of the swf.
Good Luck.
On 6/8/06, iestyn lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey List,
I've been using SEPY + Flash for a long time, and it's extremely
useful to be able to press CTRL+Enter to export the movie.
I've now installed Eclipse and ASDT, and it would be great if I can do
this..is it possible? I've been having a look around, and i dont see
an easy way of doing it..
Can someone offer me advice on this?
In fact, are there any step-by-step guides to setting up Eclipse to
work with AS2? I wont be using MTASC yet[1], just Flash for the
moment! :)
Cheers,
Iestyn
[1] I will soon, as it looks like it's the way forward..
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Re: [Flashcoders] XML Parsing
If your data is that consistent and all you need is to transfer it to arrays, then why do you need xpath, you could write your own parser, using while loops, to do this in very little time. I'm not an experrt, but it seems to me that xpath is more useful for dynamic access to the xml. Is that not correct? If I am correct, an interesting question is; what is more efficient, transferring to arrays and using the arrays, or dynamically accessing the xml directly? On 6/5/06, Sajid Saiyed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an XML like this: root totalLayers number5/number /totalLayers LayerOne asset namesomename0.bmp/name width20/width height10/height xPos50/xPos yPos30/yPos /asset asset namesomename1.bmp/name width20/width height10/height xPos50/xPos yPos30/yPos /asset /LayerOne Layertwo asset namesomename2.bmp/name width20/width height10/height xPos50/xPos yPos30/yPos /asset /LayerTwo /root I want to use XPATH or something similar to create dynamic arrays/string and store values respectivele like this: String: totalLayers = 5; LayerOne and LayerTwo will be a multidimentional array LayerOne[[asset[name,width,height,xpos,ypos]][asset[name,width,height,xpos,ypos]]...] LayerTwo[[asset[name,width,height,xpos,ypos]][asset[name,width,height,xpos,ypos]]...] etc... Any hint or suggestion...? ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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/Eclipse Workflow
If I'm understandung this... You add the IDE generated swf (IDE.swf) to the project. You then create an external class that has a 'main' entry point and it loads the IDE.swf. (with a preloader of course). Do I have this right? Sounds good, though the test will be can I impliment it myself. You could also break IDE.swf into several library1.swf, library2.swf and load them seperately, to spread out the load, couldn't you? this sounds similar to the Natural Entry Point method. Do you instanciate the entry point class? If it extends MovieClip, then it could also serve as _root, couldn't it? I'm searching for examples as we speak...write?... Im close, thankis for the help On 6/3/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually do is load in the assets swf through the MTASC generated swf and use it as the root in the movieclip hierarchy. By this I mean all movieclips created by my MTASC generated swf are descendants of the asset swf. By doing so you can access all symbols in the asset swf through attachMovieClip and you don't have to mess around with injection. An added benefit is that you can display a preloader on the asset swf which is quite likely large. Hope that helps, Scott On 6/3/06, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I installed Eclipse, spent a better part of a day downloading plugins and configuring everything. I'm using Ant tasks to compile with MTASC and send it to the standalone player. I don't see the need for swfmill, since I own Flash. My plan was to create vector graphics and any timeline stuff in flash (mostly done by my wife) and then move to Eclipse to write the code. But now I'm not at all sure how to structure a project. I read about several methods, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. What's best practise? Can I use one swf as a symbol library and compile it with the class files and a 'main' entrypoint? Do I inject all the code into the library swf? I've been experimenting with a class that's tied to a symbol in an .fla and would like to switch over to the new workflow, if I can figure out what that is. The symbol is a movieclip with nested movieclips. The class extends MovieClip and uses an init function rather than a constructor. The code I've been using to test is in the .fla but the class file is external. How can I restructure this to include Eclipse in the workflow? Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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/Eclipse Workflow
thanks, there's nothing left but to actaiully try it. On 6/4/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm understandung this... You add the IDE generated swf (IDE.swf) to the project. You then create an external class that has a 'main' entry point and it loads the IDE.swf. (with a preloader of course). Correct Do I have this right? Sounds good, though the test will be can I impliment it myself. You could also break IDE.swf into several library1.swf, library2.swf and load them seperately, to spread out the load, couldn't you? No, unfortunately not. Assets are only available to use from the closest loaded parent. Let me explain with a little picture. shell.swf (where all your classes most likely reside) | |-assets.swf (loaded by shell.swf) | |---movieclips that can access assets.swf library | |---assets2.swf | |movieclips that can access assets2.swf (but not assets.swf) It's limited by this parent cut-off idea, but it is still very useful for getting IDE generated assets into my MTASC generated projects. You can split this up a bit further even by including your classes in a separate swf. The limitations shown above do not apply to loaded classes. As soon as they are loaded, they are available. Hope this helps, Scott this sounds similar to the Natural Entry Point method. Do you instanciate the entry point class? If it extends MovieClip, then it could also serve as _root, couldn't it? I'm searching for examples as we speak...write?... Im close, thankis for the help On 6/3/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually do is load in the assets swf through the MTASC generated swf and use it as the root in the movieclip hierarchy. By this I mean all movieclips created by my MTASC generated swf are descendants of the asset swf. By doing so you can access all symbols in the asset swf through attachMovieClip and you don't have to mess around with injection. An added benefit is that you can display a preloader on the asset swf which is quite likely large. Hope that helps, Scott On 6/3/06, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I installed Eclipse, spent a better part of a day downloading plugins and configuring everything. I'm using Ant tasks to compile with MTASC and send it to the standalone player. I don't see the need for swfmill, since I own Flash. My plan was to create vector graphics and any timeline stuff in flash (mostly done by my wife) and then move to Eclipse to write the code. But now I'm not at all sure how to structure a project. I read about several methods, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. What's best practise? Can I use one swf as a symbol library and compile it with the class files and a 'main' entrypoint? Do I inject all the code into the library swf? I've been experimenting with a class that's tied to a symbol in an .fla and would like to switch over to the new workflow, if I can figure out what that is. The symbol is a movieclip with nested movieclips. The class extends MovieClip and uses an init function rather than a constructor. The code I've been using to test is in the .fla but the class file is external. How can I restructure this to include Eclipse in the workflow? Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search
[Flashcoders] Flash/Eclipse Workflow
Ok, I installed Eclipse, spent a better part of a day downloading plugins and configuring everything. I'm using Ant tasks to compile with MTASC and send it to the standalone player. I don't see the need for swfmill, since I own Flash. My plan was to create vector graphics and any timeline stuff in flash (mostly done by my wife) and then move to Eclipse to write the code. But now I'm not at all sure how to structure a project. I read about several methods, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. What's best practise? Can I use one swf as a symbol library and compile it with the class files and a 'main' entrypoint? Do I inject all the code into the library swf? I've been experimenting with a class that's tied to a symbol in an .fla and would like to switch over to the new workflow, if I can figure out what that is. The symbol is a movieclip with nested movieclips. The class extends MovieClip and uses an init function rather than a constructor. The code I've been using to test is in the .fla but the class file is external. How can I restructure this to include Eclipse in the workflow? Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Biased Random Particle Distribution
from a practical standpoint, something like this should work, it's
difficult to be sure at 5:30 in the AM.
get a random number from 1 - 10
var ranNum:Number = random(10)+1;
now if ranNum is less than 4 pick a random position within x of the origin
if ranNum is 6-8 select a random point within x + delta x
If ranNum is 9 - 10 select a random point from the entire range.
By playing with the ranges I used here you will get more or less
intensity near the origin. If this is too coarse, make ranNum a bigger
range and add more regions.
You could set this up in one tidy finction, it's less interesting than
the math, but it should get the job done.
On 5/27/06, clark slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ron,
Thanks for jumping into this thread amongst the tumbleweeds. Yes, I suspect
something logarithmic could work but don't know where to start. I am trying
to distribute 1000 particles randomly in a rectangular distribution area,
with a bias towards one side of the rectangle.
Clark
On 5/26/06, Ron Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would a formula based on logarithms give you what you want as well?
You were not very specific about what you wanted the distribution to
look like.
Ron
clark slater wrote:
Here I go answering my own question.
To make it more dense toward the origin, use {x,y} = {random[]^2,
random[]^2}--squaring the independently generated numbers
(random[]*random[]
won't work). The result is a distribution with a sharp cusp at the
origin--the probability is a maximum there, and has a discontinuous
derivative. You can use higher powers for narrower (and sharper)
distributions.
Damn useful I say!
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Re: [Flashcoders] Problems with Tween Class
It's early in the morning, but it seems to me your not finishing the
tween in your test. Try calling the stop() method before you unload.
There may be a call to setInterval that doesn't get cleared if you
don't.
That begs the question of why you want to unload and reload it. there
must be a way for you to save the extra load. What about setting
visible to false or moving it off stage?
On 5/25/06, Nik Derewianka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Basically i attachMovie my character (which is an AS2.0 class extended
MovieClip) to _root, then move it back and forwards across the screen
using the Tween class, unloadMovie my character, go to a different
frame, attachMovie my character back again, but this time it seems as
though there are two or more Tween objects trying to control my
character. If i reattachMovie using a different instance name, then
it will work fine.
So how do i completely unload my MC and my Tween so that there are no
references hanging around ?? How can i find out how many references
there are for a given object (similar to the ref count in lingo
objects in Director) ?? And is this only happening because of AS 2.0
?
Heres my stripped down test movie:
mc with ID of idRedbelly1, AS2.0 class of code.Crawlie2 which contains:
--
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
class code.Crawlie2 extends MovieClip {
private var Walker:Tween;
public function StartWalking(){
Walker = new Tween(this, _x,None.easeNone,this._x,this._x +
200,1,true);
Walker.onMotionFinished = function(){this.yoyo();};
};
};
--
frame 1, symbol named btn on the stage, the following as a frame script:
--
btn.onPress = function() {
_root.test.removeMovieClip();
_root.test.unloadMovie();
_root.gotoAndPlay(part2);
}
_root.attachMovie(idRedbelly1,test,_root.getNextHighestDepth(),{_x:50,_y:50});
_root.test.StartWalking();
stop();
--
frame 10 with marker name of part2, following frame script:
--
_root.attachMovie(idRedbelly1,test,_root.getNextHighestDepth(),{_x:50,_y:25});
_root.test.StartWalking();
stop();
--
I also tried a version that set Walker to null before i unloaded the
MC but that didn't work either.
Any help is greatly appreciated,
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Re: [Flashcoders] OOP 101: Is import really necessary?
The import statements tell the compiler where to find the classes your going to use, it compiles into the byte code only the classes you use. You could also do it by giving the full package.class of the class too. Import statements aren't strictly necessary, but they save a lot of typing if your using the library a lot. On 5/25/06, Derek Vadneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The import statement embeds, but so does this: var a:mx.controls.Button; import also allows you to use a shortcut as has been mentioned already. From the docs: Lets you access classes without specifying their fully qualified names. .. You must issue the import statement before you try to access the imported class without fully specifying its name. If you import a class but don't use it in your script, the class isn't exported as part of the SWF file. This means you can import large packages without being concerned about the size of the SWF file; the bytecode associated with a class is included in a SWF file only if that class is actually used. If you import but don't use it it's not included ... however, in practice you can definitely see that the SWF file size has changed. I took a blank FLA and published for a SWF size of 43 bytes. I then used this code: import mx.controls.Button; import mx.controls.List; import mx.controls.Tree; import mx.controls.DataGrid; import mx.containers.Accordion; File size: 42.5 KB I then used this code: var b:mx.controls.Button; var l:mx.controls.List; var t:mx.controls.Tree; var d:mx.controls.DataGrid; var a:mx.containers.Accordion; FileSize: 48.3 KB I then used this code: import mx.controls.Button; import mx.controls.List; import mx.controls.Tree; import mx.controls.DataGrid; import mx.containers.Accordion; var b:Button; var l:List; var t:Tree; var d:DataGrid; var a:Accordion; FileSize: 48.3 KB So the classes seem to be included in the SWF with just the import statements. Of course there is no difference if you import and use them compared to using them with explicit reference to the classes. Now the docs say that import by itself doesn't include the classes, but I used this code: import mx.controls.Button; import mx.controls.List; import mx.controls.Tree; import mx.controls.DataGrid; import mx.containers.Accordion; trace(_global['mx']['controls']['Button']); The output panel displays [type Function] telling me that the class was indeed included. The compiler doesn't understand the [] notation as a reference to the class during compile-time, so I don't think that's why it worked. I think the classes are indeed included. However, someone could prove me wrong. Incidentally, the file size was 42.5 KB ... so, trim the fat and use [] notation! Derek Vadneau - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:24 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OOP 101: Is import really necessary? The 'import' statement doesn't actually embed a class into the .swf. All it does is tell the compiler that when you type (for example) MyClass, you are actually referring to com.fred.MyClass. Err...that has not been my understanding at all. If that is the case, then why do you NOT need to include your class files on the server with the .swf? Since reality is you don't, all that code has to be in the swf upon compiling, otherwise, the .swf wouldn't know what to do with Myvar:MyCoolClass = new MyCoolClass(); If it's not included with the .swf, how would the .swf know what MyCoolClass is otherwise? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Technology Solutions ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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] HashMap?
If memory serves... There's a HashMap class in Java that hides the implimentation. You can declare it with or without a size (I don't rememv[ber the default) and optionally it will accept a load value which is the percentage of capacity at which to increase the size of the map. Growing the array, increasing the hash, etc... is all handled by the class. Since you probably have an installation you can find the source in the utils package, I think. On 5/17/06, Ron Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernard Poulin wrote: Funny, I was actually thinking of an implementation which would use a Java-style String objects. In java, all string objects have an int hash data member (computed the first time it is needed). In that scenario, only a portion of the hash value is used to make the hash lookup. The complete hash stays around since it is part of the String object and so can still be used to quickly distinguish strings. Also when rehashing you do not need to really compute new hashes - you just need to re-distribute them based on more bits of the complete hash. That only works if the hash primary table has a length that is a power of 2. If your original has maps from 1-5,000 and your increase the size of the primary storage area to 15,000, you will need more than more bits, you will need a completely different set of hash values. Not sure what Java does with its hash. Do you have to declare the maximum array size when you declare the array? Ron And yes, this is still heavier than re-balancing a tree. regards, B. Binary searches may involves a lot more string comparison. In a binary search comparing the string hash value is of no use to know if the value is greater or lower (to decide for the next search direction). In hashmaps, the lookup in the chain after the hash jump can, most of the time, skip a string entry without even looking at the characters by comparing the 32bit integer hashes. String hashes are only useful for looking up a specific value. It is unlikely that the hashes are even stored since once you store the key/value you no longer have any need for the hash since the position in the main table is known and you can follow the links in the overflow back to the main table(usually). If you are hashed into the overflow, you have to examine each key since the hashes are identical for everyone in the list (otherwise they would not be in the list - they would be in another list of collided hashes). ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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] sprouts data structure
I have been in contact with the authoir of Aunt beast. While he isn't offering source code, he has given methe resources he maintains are everything needed to write the game. A paper discussing a previous ly written computer opponent http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/applegate91computer.html and a paper on a linear programming approach to graph printing http://i11www.ira.uka.de/research/geonet/publications/pdf/n-admm-05d.pdf Unfortunately, I won't get to reading these for a couple of weeks. The end of the semester crush is upon me. On 5/15/06, Bernard Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more googling... This one seems to link to a word document with some high-level explanation. http://www.pa.uky.edu/~sorokin/stuff/cs650/sprout/sprout.html B. 2006/5/15, Bernard Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=1091009tstart=0 http://www.pa.uky.edu/~sorokin/stuff/cs650/sprout/SPROUT.CC Somebody did a program called auntbeast which seems to be quite good. I can't find a copy of it nor their source. Might be worth sending an email to them. http://www.geocities.com/chessdp/ *World* *Game* *Of* *Sprouts* * Association* 2006/5/11, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a request for a game called sprouts. The game starts with a few randomly distributed dots. There is one move and 2 restrictions. Move: draw a line for a dot to itself (a loop) or to another dot. Any line drawn has a new dot on it. Restriction 1: no more than 3 lines from any dot. Restriction 2: no lines can cross. Simple game, but the data structure to keep track of the game and in particular to handle restriction 2 is a bear. How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? The game is, of course based on graph theory, and you can represent a graph in several ways, but how to determine that it remains planar? I haen't begun to think about the visual part of this, if I don't have a reasonable data structure I can't teach a computer to play the game. Any ideas? Hints? Wildly improbable ideas? -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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: FW: [Flashcoders] sprouts data structure
Yes, and the idea isn't difficult, but can be computationally expensive. Generate a tree of possible moves and number them recursively, starting with 0 at the leaves of the tree (note the leaves are winning positions as there are no further moves). Then work back up the tree numbering each level with the lowest interger, which is not the number of the next lower level. This means winning positions are 0's, the level above is non-0, the level above that must be 0 again Once you have all the positions labeled, the winning strategy is simple. Move to a 0 position. Once on a 0 position you can leap frog through the game from 0 position to 0 position until you win. this is a class of games called Impersonal, 2 person games, or I2p. Mathematicians love these things. Since this recursive numbering grows by a power function, on the number of possible moves, it's often only feasible to run smaller, simplier cases, and then try to find winning strategies that can be extended to more general cases. The goal is of course a proof which may teach him something about graph theory. On 5/13/06, Bernard Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh my apologies, I really did not realize that you had to implement an actual player and thus do all the AI. Actually had no clue about what this game really looked like. I understand it a bit better now: The game plays with 2 players, lines are not straight, new dots can be placed anywhere on the line, one wins when its opponent cannot do a move. Interestingly enough, the outcome is somehow deterministic: from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game) []By enumerating all possible moves, one can show that the first player is guaranteed a win in games involving three, four, or five spots. The second player can always win a game started with one, two, or six spots. At Bell Labs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs in 1990http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990, David Applegatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Applegateaction=edit, Guy Jacobsonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_Jacobsonaction=edit, and Daniel Sleator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sleator used a lot of computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer power to push the analysis out to eleven spots. They found that the first player has a winning strategy when the number of spots divided by six leaves a remainder of three, four, or five, and conjectured that this pattern continues beyond eleven spots.[] Regards, B. 2006/5/12, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reqiurement is that the software be able to play the game, so I need a data structure to store the game position for analysis. The intersection check is moot until I can store the current state of the game, update it, and analyze the potential moves. If moves are made that create a cycle, then the possibility of a vertex, or even a subgraph, being contained by that cycle exists, which removes the possibility of edges to a vertex outside the cycle, but not to the vertexes in the cycle. That would have to be incorperated into the data structure. I think the adjacency list might store the position, but then the AI for the game will be very tough to do. As for the intersection check this will work to prevent an illegal move, but the tougher part will be making the computer move if the best move is a line that loops around other vertices. Or maybe I should forget programming and try my hand at cartooning! On 5/12/06, Bernard Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I am re-sending this message - somehow, I got a disk full error message from the flashcoders server) -- Not sure what you mean by: How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? I do not understand why we need to keep track of cycles? What is the relation with your game constraints? I am assuming these are straight lines, right? ...or can they be of any shape? Essentially what you (seem to) want is simply checking if any line crosses when the user interacts with a dot or a line. In other words, block the user from drawing a line that will cross another one. Just for that, you do not need to keep track of all the possibilities in advance... A straight array of dots and lines should be enough for this. ...or I must be missing something. I know that doing an intersection check on a complete graph can be a lengthy task but: Since this an interactive, human-driven game - you can reduce the verification processing by just checking one move at a time. The processing time will be at least linear (e.g. not exponential). So it should not be too too bad - especially if the number of segments should fit on a screen in a human-readable form ( 200 ?). my 0,02$ B. 2006/5/12, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My first thought was an adjacency list with something to indicate forbidden edges (for a dot inside a cycle), so it might help. The problem isn't
[Flashcoders] Fwd: sprouts data structure
Good news, I just found some code on the U of Utah site. I';ts in java, but it should allow me work out my own implimentation in action script -- Forwarded message -- From: Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 11, 2006 8:48 AM Subject: sprouts data structure To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com I have a request for a game called sprouts. The game starts with a few randomly distributed dots. There is one move and 2 restrictions. Move: draw a line for a dot to itself (a loop) or to another dot. Any line drawn has a new dot on it. Restriction 1: no more than 3 lines from any dot. Restriction 2: no lines can cross. Simple game, but the data structure to keep track of the game and in particular to handle restriction 2 is a bear. How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? The game is, of course based on graph theory, and you can represent a graph in several ways, but how to determine that it remains planar? I haen't begun to think about the visual part of this, if I don't have a reasonable data structure I can't teach a computer to play the game. Any ideas? Hints? Wildly improbable ideas? -- Weldon MacDonald -- Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: sprouts data structure
unfortunately he only has the byte code for download. I'm trying a few sources for some clue On 5/13/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean this site? http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Sprouts/ It appears to not have any AI, however it does appear to check the rules, so it may be a good starting point. This is an interesting topic to me, please be sure to keep us updated if you have any success! -David R On 5/13/06, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good news, I just found some code on the U of Utah site. I';ts in java, but it should allow me work out my own implimentation in action script -- Forwarded message -- From: Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 11, 2006 8:48 AM Subject: sprouts data structure To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com I have a request for a game called sprouts. The game starts with a few randomly distributed dots. There is one move and 2 restrictions. Move: draw a line for a dot to itself (a loop) or to another dot. Any line drawn has a new dot on it. Restriction 1: no more than 3 lines from any dot. Restriction 2: no lines can cross. Simple game, but the data structure to keep track of the game and in particular to handle restriction 2 is a bear. How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? The game is, of course based on graph theory, and you can represent a graph in several ways, but how to determine that it remains planar? I haen't begun to think about the visual part of this, if I don't have a reasonable data structure I can't teach a computer to play the game. Any ideas? Hints? Wildly improbable ideas? -- Weldon MacDonald -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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: FW: [Flashcoders] sprouts data structure
My first thought was an adjacency list with something to indicate forbidden edges (for a dot inside a cycle), so it might help. The problem isn't that simple though, as more and more moves are made whose in what cycle and can make waht move is a good deal less than clear. On 5/12/06, André Goliath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW if have written some AS2 classes some time ago that implement a graph by using adjacenty lists. If it would help you let me know -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Weldon MacDonald Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:49 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] sprouts data structure I have a request for a game called sprouts. The game starts with a few randomly distributed dots. There is one move and 2 restrictions. Move: draw a line for a dot to itself (a loop) or to another dot. Any line drawn has a new dot on it. Restriction 1: no more than 3 lines from any dot. Restriction 2: no lines can cross. Simple game, but the data structure to keep track of the game and in particular to handle restriction 2 is a bear. How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? The game is, of course based on graph theory, and you can represent a graph in several ways, but how to determine that it remains planar? I haen't begun to think about the visual part of this, if I don't have a reasonable data structure I can't teach a computer to play the game. Any ideas? Hints? Wildly improbable ideas? -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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: FW: [Flashcoders] sprouts data structure
The reqiurement is that the software be able to play the game, so I need a data structure to store the game position for analysis. The intersection check is moot until I can store the current state of the game, update it, and analyze the potential moves. If moves are made that create a cycle, then the possibility of a vertex, or even a subgraph, being contained by that cycle exists, which removes the possibility of edges to a vertex outside the cycle, but not to the vertexes in the cycle. That would have to be incorperated into the data structure. I think the adjacency list might store the position, but then the AI for the game will be very tough to do. As for the intersection check this will work to prevent an illegal move, but the tougher part will be making the computer move if the best move is a line that loops around other vertices. Or maybe I should forget programming and try my hand at cartooning! On 5/12/06, Bernard Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I am re-sending this message - somehow, I got a disk full error message from the flashcoders server) -- Not sure what you mean by: How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? I do not understand why we need to keep track of cycles? What is the relation with your game constraints? I am assuming these are straight lines, right? ...or can they be of any shape? Essentially what you (seem to) want is simply checking if any line crosses when the user interacts with a dot or a line. In other words, block the user from drawing a line that will cross another one. Just for that, you do not need to keep track of all the possibilities in advance... A straight array of dots and lines should be enough for this. ...or I must be missing something. I know that doing an intersection check on a complete graph can be a lengthy task but: Since this an interactive, human-driven game - you can reduce the verification processing by just checking one move at a time. The processing time will be at least linear (e.g. not exponential). So it should not be too too bad - especially if the number of segments should fit on a screen in a human-readable form ( 200 ?). my 0,02$ B. 2006/5/12, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My first thought was an adjacency list with something to indicate forbidden edges (for a dot inside a cycle), so it might help. The problem isn't that simple though, as more and more moves are made whose in what cycle and can make waht move is a good deal less than clear. On 5/12/06, André Goliath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW if have written some AS2 classes some time ago that implement a graph by using adjacenty lists. If it would help you let me know -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Weldon MacDonald Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:49 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] sprouts data structure I have a request for a game called sprouts. The game starts with a few randomly distributed dots. There is one move and 2 restrictions. Move: draw a line for a dot to itself (a loop) or to another dot. Any line drawn has a new dot on it. Restriction 1: no more than 3 lines from any dot. Restriction 2: no lines can cross. Simple game, but the data structure to keep track of the game and in particular to handle restriction 2 is a bear. How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? The game is, of course based on graph theory, and you can represent a graph in several ways, but how to determine that it remains planar? I haen't begun to think about the visual part of this, if I don't have a reasonable data structure I can't teach a computer to play the game. Any ideas? Hints? Wildly improbable ideas? -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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 -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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
[Flashcoders] sprouts data structure
I have a request for a game called sprouts. The game starts with a few randomly distributed dots. There is one move and 2 restrictions. Move: draw a line for a dot to itself (a loop) or to another dot. Any line drawn has a new dot on it. Restriction 1: no more than 3 lines from any dot. Restriction 2: no lines can cross. Simple game, but the data structure to keep track of the game and in particular to handle restriction 2 is a bear. How do you tell when a dot has been encircled by a line? The game is, of course based on graph theory, and you can represent a graph in several ways, but how to determine that it remains planar? I haen't begun to think about the visual part of this, if I don't have a reasonable data structure I can't teach a computer to play the game. Any ideas? Hints? Wildly improbable ideas? -- Weldon MacDonald ___ 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] Talking to Flash from JavaScript
works fine for me, in FF 1.5 Weldon MacDonald ___ 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] Active X and Microsoft IE ...
Does anyone know how long it takes for this kind of update to filter through? I, for instance NEVER accept anything from Microsoft on the first pass. Do I have to impliment several alternatives? What happens to a current browser if you make the switch? Weldon On 4/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |-+- | | John Dowdell | ___ 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] createEmptyMovieClip path
Ahhh the programmers life for me... :)
On 4/8/06, Boon Chew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the code I attached work for you? Or you can send me what you got, I
can have a look. It's Friday evening after all, and I am playing with code
anyways. :)
- boon
hbruyere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok
I mc instance on the stage (scene) is correctly named.
I'm compiling the movie in Flash7 AS2.0 .. but I just tried in Flash8 AS2.0
and this is still not working.
Hum... what's going on. I never had this king of problem before.
I'm going to check everything... but it doesn't make sense...
I'm sure that I'm going to be mad at myself when I'm going to solve this.
I will let you know.
Thanks again, in the meantime if you any other idea...
Hugues.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boon Chew
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:17 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip path
Did a quick test, works fine. Maybe compare the solution and figure out
where your problem is?
(I have an empty movieclip instance on stage called mcEmpty, did you name
your movie instance in your Properties window?)
Below code tested on Flash 8:
var url = [ http://www.adobe.com/imageshome/flash_icon3.jpg;,
http://www.adobe.com/imageshome/pdfprintengine_icon.gif; ];
for (var i = 0; i url.length; i++)
{
// you can just create one MovieClipLoader to load all clips, but this
is ok too
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mcHolder = mcEmpty.createEmptyMovieClip(mcHolder + i,
mcEmpty.getNextHighestDepth());
mcHolder._x = 40 * i;
mcLoader.loadClip(url[i], mcHolder);
}
hbruyere wrote: No didn't solve my problem.
But thanks.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boon Chew
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:38 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip path
At a glance, I caught at least one problem, not sure if they are others that
could cause your problem.
var NewMC_mc:MovieClip =
ContentContainer_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(container+i,
getNextHighestDepth());
You need to call getNextHighestDepth() on your ContentContainer_mc, like so:
var NewMC_mc:MovieClip =
ContentContainer_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(container+i,
ContentContainer_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
- boon
hbruyere wrote: Hi,
I don't understand what I get when running this:
for (var i = 0; i NumPages_v; i ++)
{
var NewMC_mc:MovieClip =
ContentContainer_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(container+i,
getNextHighestDepth());
NewMC_mc._x = ScreenWidth_c * i;
NewMC_mc._y = 0;
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new
MovieClipLoader();
mcLoader.addListener(this);
mcLoader.loadClip(WebsiteMap_a[i].File_tx,
NewMC_mc);
function onLoadInit(mc:MovieClip) {
trace(onLoadInit: + mc);
}
}
I get NOTHING ! My external movieClips are not load or at least displayed.
But if If replace:
var NewMC_mc:MovieClip =
ContentContainer_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(container+i,
getNextHighestDepth());
by
var NewMC_mc:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip(container+i,
getNextHighestDepth());
it works.
But I want to load my external into the movie clip named
ContentContainer_mc present on the main scene on the root of my main
Movie.
What am I missing here ?
Must be stupid.
Any advice are welcome,
Thanks,
Hugues.
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Re: [Flashcoders] There is no method with the name 'Math'.
it works for me. the only thing I can think of is it's not finding the class. Does syntax coloring recognise it? Did you modify class path? On 4/6/06, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on earth would the compiler be telling me There is no method with the name 'Math'. iNumber = Math.floor(iNumber/2); ? 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 -- Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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] Actionscript 2 - suitable for designers?
I prefer to do most everything in code, but like you the sights I've done aren't RIAs or even close. For that reason I stuck with AS1, until recently. When I look back at the sites and how they were constructed, I'm astounded at how much cleaner my sites would be, how much time, effort, and debugging could have been saved, by using AS2 features. Once you know how to write classes for the things you do often and how to use the classes developed by others, you'll find that even if you don't need the all of the oop features (inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism, etc...), using classes is worth the trip to AS2. On 3/27/06, Kevin Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I hope this isn't off-topic but I've been struggling to find the answer, and this list has been a great help to me over the years. I'm a designer, but often code in Flash. I'm not building huge RIAs, usually just adding small little bits of interactivity to sites, and building some multimedia interfaces and gathering data from XML etc... Nothing hardcore, but a bit more that just tinkering with AS. Up until now I've always used AS1, and though I've bought Colin Moock's AS2 book, it seems like a bit leap to make, and from what I've read it seems like many of the advantages of AS2 are in having proper OO, and more manageable code for large projects. I'm wondering if AS2 offers any advantages to me, or if sticking with AS1 would be better. Is AS2 (and now 3) the natural progression of Flash coding, is there even a future for AS1, all the useful libraries seem to be AS2 only these days too, perhaps that alone is a reason to switch. I'm unsure as to what path I'm supposed to be on. Any advice you could give me would be appreciated, - Kevin ___ 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 -- Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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] Private Static -static
Your trying to access the properties width and heigh from a static
function getArea. The problem is a static function is designed to
handle class wide properties and width and height are local to each
insttance of the class. The compiler won't allow it. Remove the static
from the function definition, I don't see why they would be needed
there anyway.
On 3/27/06, CK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
In the following code: I'm getting the following static from the
ouput window:
**Error** /Users/user/Desktop/code/oop_review/BOX/Box.as: Line 34:
Instance variables cannot be accessed in static functions.
return width*height;
Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1
How could I access these instance variables from within this private
static method? Is it advisable using Private Static? Would I have to
create an instance of the class then access the properties?
//AS
class Box {
//accessing a static property through a method.
//The box class, with methods to set and retreive the
//value of the class property, numSides.
//
//The class property numSides
private static var numSides:Number = 4;
//
private var width:Number;
private var height:Number;
private var area:Number;
//
//all CAPS denotes constants, values that never change.
private static var DEFAULT_WIDTH:Number = 30;
private static var DEFAULT_HEIGHT:Number = 20;
//
public static var maxWidth = 250;
public static var maxHeight = 250;
//
//The constructor function.
public function Box(w:Number, h:Number) {
if (w == undefined) {
w = DEFAULT_WIDTH;
}
if (h == undefined) {
h = DEFAULT_HEIGHT;
}
width = w;
height = h;
//initialize area. This is perfectly legal within a
constructor
//area = width*height;
}
private static function getArea():Number {
return width*height;
}
//Method for setting numSides.
public function setNumSides(newNumSides:Number):Void {
numSides = newNumSides;
}
//Method for getting numSides.
public function getNumSides():Number {
return numSides;
}
//Accessor to retreive width
public function getWidth():Number {
return width;
}
//Accessor to assign width
public function setWidth(w:Number):Void {
width = w;
}
//Accessor to retreive height
public function getHeight():Number {
return height;
}
//Accessor to set height
public function setHeight(h:Number):Void {
height = h;
}
//reset the dimensions
public function resetDimensions():Void {
height = 1;
width = 1;
trace(Dimensions reset !);
}
public function onMouseDown():Void {
resetDimensions();
}
public function enableReset():Void {
Mouse.addListener(this);
}
public function disableReset():Void {
Mouse.removeListener(this);
}
//this gurantees a safe means of deleting its instances.
public function die():Void {
disableReset();
//Unregister the object so the Mouse class
//deletes the reference to it.
}
}
//End AS
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Re: [Flashcoders] CSS with input text
Wouldn't having full www support for html in Flash mean building in a browser. Not too likely I think. What about a component in Flash that allows the display of a web browser window in a flash document, using the browsers functionality. I wouldn't know where to start, but it would be cool. On 3/20/06, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coming from the Director world you know there are basic issues with some of the more basic elements, such as HTML text, in Director. In the meantime bigger and badder items have been added to Director giving it more *WOW* while basic issues were not addressed. (And, no, Xtra is not a solution to what should be a basic implementation.) Absolutely (although don't forget that many Xtras are actually part of the standard Director package: text support itself is wrapped in a standard Xtra). Having said that, Director hasn't had much in the way of significant improvements anywhere since D8.5 introduced 3D. We had Imaging Lingo (the equivalent of BitmapData) since D7, about 6 years ago, but it has hardly changed since then. Mostly, subsequent releases have been designed to bring us up to speed with current developments in Flash. I'm saying this, because it makes me wonder if the same is happening (will happen) with Flash! Already is. Many features of Flash have that sense of being half-done (XML object, Text support and Sound spring to mind fairly quickly) Danny ___ 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 -- Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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] Alpha-blending two MC's with bitmaps?
I've done it with dynamically loaded images and createEmptyMovieClip. There shouldn't be a problem, but then _visible won't hide them. Good luck On 3/20/06, Sascha Balkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weldon, thanks for trying to help! Yes the images are all definately available when the blend happens. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the images are loaded dynamically from external files into movieclips. Either way I will see if I can locate the source of the problem! Sascha - Original Message - From: Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha-blending two MC's with bitmaps? I experimented and with the images as mc's, attached from library, and your function on frame one, not as a class, the function works as you wanted it too. Are you sure the images are really where you expect them to be? ie. is the image loaded when the call is made? Maybe something about your class setup? On 3/19/06, Sascha Balkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weldon, here's the method I've wrote to handle the blending. It's very simple and I cannot detect any bug in there ... The blending works but strangely the fromImage is not shown, instead the toImage fades in from the white background of my Flash movie. As I mentioned before there are other image mc's in the holder movieclip but they are on depths 0 to 20 and are invisible so I doubt they have any influence on this. Sascha Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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 -- Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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] Alpha-blending two MC's with bitmaps?
I experimented and with the images as mc's, attached from library, and your function on frame one, not as a class, the function works as you wanted it too. Are you sure the images are really where you expect them to be? ie. is the image loaded when the call is made? Maybe something about your class setup? On 3/19/06, Sascha Balkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weldon, here's the method I've wrote to handle the blending. It's very simple and I cannot detect any bug in there ... The blending works but strangely the fromImage is not shown, instead the toImage fades in from the white background of my Flash movie. As I mentioned before there are other image mc's in the holder movieclip but they are on depths 0 to 20 and are invisible so I doubt they have any influence on this. Sascha Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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] Alpha-blending two MC's with bitmaps?
I've done what you seem to be discribing and it works. You probably have a small bug in your code. Without seeing the code it's hard to say what it is, but you could look for a depth duplication problem. Have you made certain the lower one is loading at all or has been made visible...etc... Your idea will work, you just need to do some debugging On 3/18/06, Sascha Balkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, there are several mc's in one container mc but all are set to invisible except for two at a time. And I want to fade between these two but I haven't managed to do so. The top most mc always fades in from the white background as if the bottom mc would be invisible. But it isn't. Flash 8 is no choice as my client wants it in Flash 7. Thanks, Sascha - Original Message - From: Michael Bedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:32 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha-blending two MC's with bitmaps? There is a limit to how many alpha'd movieclips you can have overlapping before Flash runs into display errors. If a movieclip is supposed to be completely invisible, set _visible=false instead of _alpha=0, so that Flash does not need to display it. If for some reason you really need to display many images overlapped with 0 alpha, look into drawing them into the same bitmap in Flash 8. On Mar 18, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Sascha Balkau wrote: Hi list, I got a number of movieclips created with createEmptyMovieClip, into every MC I load a JPG image dynamically and then it's set it invisible. Then I change the depth of two of these mc's, say one to depth 2000, the other to 2001, make them visible and then I try to blend over these two images with an alpha transparency by setting the _alpha of the upper image to 0 and increase it up to 100 in an onEnterFrame. However it doesn't work, the upper image always fades in from 100% white and not the underlying image. Did I missed something? Is that not possible with _alpha in Flash? Thanks for any hints! Sascha ___ 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 -- Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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] targeting specific content in HTML file
If different pieces of the file go to different text boxes, then it sounds like a job for xml. If you want to parse the html file and distribute it, then you'd have to write a parser to do it for you. A specific answer would require more details on what you want to do. On 3/8/06, Jeanna Lievsasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question. I'm working in Flash 8 and loading a CSS HTML file into a dynamically created text box. Is there a way to populate multiple dynamic text fields with specific content from the HTML file? I dont want the entire HTML file to load into each box, but i do want all my content in one file. ___ 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 -- Weldon Mac Donald ___ 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
FW: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash
I'm skeptical of abstract technology discussions, unattached to a real world need. Amen, but you have to keep up with the abstract discussions in order to best deal with the real world problems. If you keep forcing new solutions out of the same mould, your probably not creating the best solutions. In many ways Flash and Ajax compete, but Flash can also be an integral part of Ajax. While Flash has many advantages, handling text rich content isn't one of them. If your developing something that needs asynchrony for some elements, but also includes a lot of text, you may have to mix things up. As you say it depends on the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Dowdell Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:17 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash Weldon MacDonald wrote: Where does Flash fit in with the Ajax paradigm? A lot depends on what the Ajax paradigm might be ;-) I know that Flash and JavaScript have coexisted for about a decade now, and that both are necessary clientside technologies. Both will also improve and evolve, at their different rates of adoption and predictability. In such discussions I usually look for the particular job under consideration -- the tasks that must be done, the audience that must be engaged, the client who knows the message they're trying to convey. The technologies must serve these realworld needs to be useful, so I'm skeptical of abstract technology discussions, unattached to a realworld need. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Ajax and Flash
Where does Flash fit in with the Ajax paradigm? As a competitor, or as an integrated part. The answer seems to be both, but I'm interested in how working developers see it. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How to make a doughnut?
cut the ring with a 1 pixel line, then it's like a c with a pixel opening. You could do this with the drawing api, but if the split shows too badly you might need to patch it -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navneet Behal Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 9:54 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] How to make a doughnut? After putting a couple of hours on the problem, I am still in a daze on how would one go about making a doughnut shape (circle with cut-out in the center) using the drawing API. I'm not talking about drawing a circle using: lineStyle(BIGNUMBERHERE, color, alpha); I'd like to put in a gradient fill into a doughnut shape. And it has to be a doughnut, not a simulation of it (ie. not by drawing 2 circles over each other and keeping the center cirlce the same as the background color). Real dunkin' doughnut! Any ideas? Thanks for your time. Regards, Navneet ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Flashout
I just installed eclipse 3.1.1 on my laptop, but I'm getting an error when I try to create a .flashout file. I unzipped the download in to the plug-in folder as per the instructions I could find, did I miss something? Where can I ask about this error? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
