[Flashcoders] Re: Blur effect via action scripting
you don't even need a tween package for this (altho they sure are useful things). read about BitmapData, BlurFilter, and Repeating actions using loops in the Flash Help. gg OOoops!!! I am sorry. It is not blue but blur. I have three good quality image in my application. Initially I want all three look blur but when user roll over to it then it will gradually become clear image when roll out it would be again blur. There are a lot of different tweening packages out there that do the thing with one command only (or very close to it). There's MC Tween, Fuse Kit, Tweener, and probably others who do support 'native' filter blur filtering. That's the kind of solution you should be looking for. No need for overcomplicate a problem that's so simple. Zeh ___ 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] Exporting alpha channel video from flash
sorry if i posted this before, i asked this question a couple of days ago but never saw it come back in the digest, and it doesn't show up in the archives search. although it did seem someone else recently asked nearly the same question and nobody really knew. so let's try again. i have some animated icons in flash that need to make it into either after effects or avid. in Export Movie i can select QuickTime Video and in the Format box select 32-bit Color (alpha channel). however, when Importing Footage into After Effects, no matter how i Interpret Footage the swf comes in opaque. so far exporting a .png sequence works, but that is clunky. yes, i know about wmode, that doesn't seem to have anything to do with this. does anybody know the trick? thanks, glenn grant ___ 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] setting a timer in flash 8
hi gustavo, your first problem is that you have a gotoAndPlay loop. that means that every time you go back to frame 1 you are re-creating your now variable, so it is never going to have a chance to get bigger. secondly, the timer does need to be updated checked inside your onEnterFrame (i used a setInterval), so that it can be compared with your later variable. try this: stop(); var startTime:Number = getTimer()/1000; var later:Number = 20; var timeCheck:Number = setInterval(checkTime, 100); function checkTime(){ var currentTime:Number = getTimer()/1000; var elapsedTime:Number = currentTime - startTime; if(elapsedTime = later){ trace(llegamos); clearInterval(timeCheck); } } Message: 22 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:57:54 -0400 From: Gustavo Duenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flashcoders] setting a timer in flash 8 To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi, I'm trying to set a timer to trigger a event after 20 seconds or less, but so far i have this code, but with no results someone help me? . I don't know how could I got into but some help might be needed this is the code: is inside the first frame of a movie clip and the 4 frame has: gotoAndPlay(1); var now = getTimer(); var seconds:Number = now/1000; var later:Number = seconds+20; this.onEnterFrame= function (){ if(seconds == later){ trace(llegamos); } } trace(seconds); Regards ___ 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] LoadVars.send vs. LoadVars.sendAndLoad
I use .sendAndLoad to load a shopping cart so it will not pop a new browser window each time the user adds an item. this works fine locally, but online the items are not being added to the cart. if i use .send instead of .sendAndLoad everything works fine except for the aforementioned launching of browser every time. i read in flash's documentation that .sendAndLoad has a different security protocol than .send, so i have tried System.security.allowDomain(thedomain.com); in the first line, which doesn't seem to be making a difference. any suggestions? ___ 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 paypal shopping cart security
i am trying to use the paypal cart with flash 8. my code looks like this: System.security.allowDomain(paypal.com); var myLoadVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); var cartVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); function loadCart(){ myLoadVars.bn = PP-ShopCartBF; myLoadVars.lc = US; myLoadVars.currency_code = USD; myLoadVars.no_note = 1; myLoadVars.no_shipping = 2; myLoadVars.amount = amount; myLoadVars.item_name = item_name; myLoadVars.business = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; myLoadVars.cmd = _cart; myLoadVars.add = 1; //myLoadVars.send(https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr;, _blank, POST); myLoadVars.sendAndLoad(https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr;, cartVars, POST); } function viewCart(){ cartVars.display = 1; cartVars.business = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cartVars.cmd = _cart; cartVars.send(https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr;, _blank, POST); } I use .sendAndLoad to load the cart so it will not pop a new browser window each time the user adds an item. this works fine locally, but online the items are not being added to the cart. if i use .send instead of .sendAndLoad everything works fine except for the aforementioned launching of browser every time. i read in flash's documentation that .sendAndLoad has a different security protocol than .send, hence the System.security.allowDomain(paypal.com); in the first line, which doesn't seem to be making a difference. any suggestions? thank you, ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Net Debugger not working
I had something similar at the beginning of the year, when first using Flash 8. http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-January/158090.html http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-January/158265.html Perhaps it's a similar issue? Regards, Grant Cox Elena Blanco wrote: No, and I never had to do it to use the netdebugger in the past. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks | BLITZ Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:27 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Net Debugger not working Did you put the remoting components on the stage? ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] diff between var == value VS var eq value
eq has been deprecated in favour of == for many years now. While they should be equivalent, you should not use eq unless you are targeting Flash Player 4/5. Is the code where == didn't work for Flash lite? dnk wrote: Is there a difference? I have had some code that will not work using the == and then does using the eq. Any issues? Just curious what the difference is. d ___ 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] Tree component icons
Is it possible to mark a tree node as Special so I can apply different icons ? I have a tree that has the hierarchy Groups |__Roles |_ Permissions An I want each level to have a different icon. Can this be done, and do I have to do a custom tree renderer ? Grant ___ 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] AS2 and Singleton woes ...
I had that with my last post too, I got a bounce around 5-10 minutes later. However, I received my message through the mailing list before the bounce arrived, so I assumed it had worked. Stephen Ford wrote: Sorry if you've read the same message from me three times. I keep getting a reply from flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com saying my email has been bounced, but checking the archives shows that all three messages got through. Can anyone read this (or my last 3, very similar posts) post? Thanks, Stephen. ___ 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] Disable a menu with MM V2 Menu component.
I'm adding authorization to my application and I've manged to disable menu items within a menu by setting the enabled property to false. In some case the entire menu needs to be disabled, but it appears to be ignoring my enabled=false or setEnabled(false). e,.g. myAccountMenu = menuBar.addMenu(MyAccount, myAccountXML); myAccountMenu.setEnabled(false); The menu is still active, looks active and works, even though I'd expect it to be grey and inactive. anyone have a clue or should I start hacking the MM v2 menu code ? Grant. ___ 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] Movie clip loader onLoadError not called in firefox
I've been doing some googling and found a lot of people complaining about the onLoadError method of your listener object passed to the MovieClipLoader does not get called when the movie cannot be loaded when run inside firefox. Before I go writing a timeout class to catch this, is there a simple work around? I need to support firefox users. thanks, Grant ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Where to politely and appropriately discuss pricing issues
Yeah, I totally agree with Claus about pricing. There are just too many bad clients out there, where at the end of the day the associated stress and pain of completing a project with them means you end up with a net loss. Offering cheap prices (below market rate), or any kind of incentive to get their business (how many times have you heard Do us a good price on this one, and there will be heaps more work later!), is just like holding up a red flag to the bad-client-bull. Generally our process is to have an initial meeting with the prospective client to find out exactly what the project will entail, what the deadlines are, and how prepared they actually are. If possible (ie you are confident in your quoting skills) we usually give a rough cost estimate (ie roughly how many thousand $), otherwise do this a day or so later. If any of the first attributes (project scope, deadlines, preparation) are looking flakey, then this cost estimate will be substantially higher than what it should actually cost to develop. Remember, what looks bad at the first meeting will be at least 10x worse by the end of the project. If they baulk at this cost estimate, good - you've just saved yourself a world of pain :) And wasting a few hours on a meeting and a cost estimate to find your client is an unorganised cheap-skate is better than finding that after signing any kind of contract. Of course, this can only work if the client actually wants YOU to work on their project - you aren't just another name in the yellow pages. All I can say about that is that it's 80% marketing (not advertising), and 20% portfolio. I also agree with Claus about making yourself indispensible. While doing so may stop them from going elsewhere (or make it difficult), it also makes it very difficult for you to move on if you so decide. I have found a number of clients who initially looked like they would be keepers, but after a few months it turns out to be a lot of overhead to do the same old boring, low paid work. Do you really want to lock yourself into this, and not be able to recommend another freelancer? Regards, Grant Cox Claus Wahlers wrote: That's interesting.. i usually do the exact opposite (of course, this is me, and probably doesn't apply to everyone and everything). I usually offer new clients my regular rate and offer discounts when i feel that my relationship to the client is good and of a potentially long term nature. Most of the time, the client continues to pay me my regular rate for follow up projects though. Also, apart from trying to do a good job and making the client happy of course, i never ever do anything to make myself indispensible. To the contrary actually. For a long term, good client relationship imho it's absolutely necessary to give the client assurance that if for whatever reason i might not be available to continue working on a project (e.g. i get ill), he can continue without much hassle with another similarly skilled developer. cheers, Claus. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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: Loading Text files into swfs then loading swfs into other swfs...
Are all files in the same folder? When it reports that the file cannot be found, it should give a path in the trace statement - make sure this is where the file actually is. The load call will be from the location of the holder movie, not the ticker.swf. Regards, Grant Cox Craig Stanford wrote: still need some help with this please. I am depserate! Cheers Craig. Hi everyone, I have 2 swfs, and I want to load them both into one holder movie. Im loading them in as follows: tickerHolder.loadMovie(ticker.swf); clockHolder.loadMovie(clock.swf); The ticker.swf uses a text file. The file works fine by itself, but as soon as I load it into the holder movie, it tells me that the text file couldnt be loaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Craig. ___ 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] Fwd: Loading Text files into swfs then loading swfs into other swfs...
Perhaps it's the Flash security settings then. I personally find flash security to be a grey area, but things to check would be: - That you have a crossdomain.xml file on your server, allowing flash files to load data from that domain - That your local flash security settings (from http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html#117502 ) have Always Allow ticked, and you add c:\ to your trusted locations. Hope that helps. Regards, Grant Cox Craig Stanford wrote: Yeah all the files are in the same folder. Its strange cos it works fine when published inside Flash, but when I try and run it stand alone, or in a browser i get nothing. On 6/2/06, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are all files in the same folder? When it reports that the file cannot be found, it should give a path in the trace statement - make sure this is where the file actually is. The load call will be from the location of the holder movie, not the ticker.swf. Regards, Grant Cox Craig Stanford wrote: still need some help with this please. I am depserate! Cheers Craig. Hi everyone, I have 2 swfs, and I want to load them both into one holder movie. Im loading them in as follows: tickerHolder.loadMovie(ticker.swf); clockHolder.loadMovie(clock.swf); The ticker.swf uses a text file. The file works fine by itself, but as soon as I load it into the holder movie, it tells me that the text file couldnt be loaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Craig. ___ 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@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: Timeline coding
For your first question - you will not be able to access clip_mc unless the playhead is on a frame where that movieclip exists. You should be able to access the mc and all child mcs immediately after going to the correct frame, however you will not be able to execute any script defined inside the movieclip until a frame has passed. With your second question, the scoping is not necessarily what you would expect. The scoping of the function is wherever you define it, for example having blah = 1; clip_mc.btn1_btn = 2; clip_mc.btn1_btn.onRelease = function(){ trace( this ); trace( blah ); } will trace _level0.clip_mc.btn1_btn 1 when you click. Of course, you don't have to worry about the scope of _root.variableName, as you are providing the absolute path to the variable. Regards, Grant Cox. Jonathan Berry wrote: I just had a thought on this. Perhaps I just need _root.variableName inside the getURL since we are using a variable returned from FlashVars. Are anonymous functions such as clip_mc.btn1_btn.onRelease = function(){} subject to scoping issues? On 4/17/06, Jonathan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I know this is really basic, but I wanted to know something about timeline code. Everything I have read about placing your code says you should place it in a central location, so I set my code in the timeline first frame, actions layer - as recommended. However, I am finding that sometimes buttons do not react unless the onRelease event handler is in the same frame as where the movie stops. Is this correct? Do actions have to be in same frame as where the movie stops and you want the interactivity? Though I wanted to get the answer to this general question, what I have specifically is a movieclip with buttons inside of it. I have tried putting the code for these buttons in the first frame of the main timeline or in the last frame of the main timeline, where this movieclip is instantiated. But neither method works. I use something like this: clip_mc.btn1_btn.onRelease = function(){getURL(etcetcetc.);}; Where should one place this code? Are actions present in the first frame of the main timeline applicable to all subsequent frames, unless overwritten? In case you wish to know, the buttons and movieclips do have instance names. Thanks in advance. -- Jonathan Berry, M.A. IT Consultant 619.306.1712(m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mindarc.com --- This E-mail is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. ?? 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. This information is confidential information and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. --- -- Jonathan Berry, M.A. IT Consultant 619.306.1712(m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mindarc.com --- This E-mail is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. ?? 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. This information is confidential information and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. --- ___ 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] flash file to recognize SESSION or REQUEST variables?
To get data into your swf, you will want to use the FlashVars embed tag. This can be done very easily with FlashObject ( http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ ), in fact it appears that FlashObject will automatically pass your request parameters (the attributes on the end of the URL) into your flash movie. Now, I don't quite follow what your client means in their first URL, where they have some PHP code. If that is meant to be PHP, then that's fine, and FlashObject will ensure that your SWF has variables p, m, dcwid and udfo2 available on the root timeline. If he's just saying you need extra URL parameters passed to the server, well, that's nothing to do with flash. Regards, Grant Cox Sunnrunner wrote: A client asked me this question. Does anyone know what it means or can someone explain and give me an answer. Thanks. T How can we get the link in the URL of the flash file to recognize SESSION or REQUEST variables? You know like GET or POST? I need to do something like. url = https://secure.store.com/HousewivesUnleashed.306/buy.cfm?p=1000141m=306dc wid=$_REQUEST['aid']udfo2=$_REQUEST['sid']; as opposed to what we currently have. url = https://secure. store.com/HousewivesUnleashed.306/buy.cfm?p=1000141m=306; Thoughts? ___ 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] allowing slow animation
Oops, looks like I forgot to ensure the font outlines were included in my dynamic text field :) I tested as both a plain textfield, and inside a MC. I don't have time to investigate further, but I believe it will snap to pixels in Flash 7 when: - You use a dynamic textfield without embedding fonts - You set the font to appear aliased - You are using a pixel font (unless flash fudges the anti-aliasing...) But as you mentioned, it would be great to have a .fla of the exact circumstances to test ourselves. Regards, Grant Cox elibol wrote: I tested it Grant, however, my dynamic textfield doesn't appear to snap to pixels at all, even if I use device fonts. Is your textfield contained in a Graphic or MovieClip? M. On 4/6/06, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just gave this a go, and I see exactly the same behaviour on F7 and F8. If the text is a dynamic textfield then it snaps to pixels, if it's static it moves smoothly. But this is the same in F7 and F8. I animated the textfield to move 10 pixels in 100 frames, with just a linear motion tween. Regards, Grant Cox PR Durand wrote: Snap to pixel ??? Thanks for your answer but I thought it was just for the flash IDE, to place the object... however I can't see any difference in the animation with or without the pixel snaping enabled. Till there, the only difference from the same .fla is the player version. f7 : smooth, f8 : broken PiR Mike Mountain a écrit : I think you have snap to pixels enabled: View/snapping/snap to pixels M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PR Durand Sent: 04 April 2006 14:30 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] allowing slow animation thanks too for your answer, Zeh, but we've talked about this case with Ian Thomas, so I've made tests with all different aliasig parameters, and also with a drawn shape instead of text. the problem remains the same I've made a html page holding 2 swf, one in flash 7 and the other in flash 8 in each swf, the content was the same: 3 100 pixel animations on _x in 10 frames, one with a flash ide motion tween, one with a onEnterFrame and the last one with the Tween class. all 3 methods are still smoothed in the flash 7 animation, not in the 8 version... PiR ___ 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@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] allowing slow animation
I just gave this a go, and I see exactly the same behaviour on F7 and F8. If the text is a dynamic textfield then it snaps to pixels, if it's static it moves smoothly. But this is the same in F7 and F8. I animated the textfield to move 10 pixels in 100 frames, with just a linear motion tween. Regards, Grant Cox PR Durand wrote: Snap to pixel ??? Thanks for your answer but I thought it was just for the flash IDE, to place the object... however I can't see any difference in the animation with or without the pixel snaping enabled. Till there, the only difference from the same .fla is the player version. f7 : smooth, f8 : broken PiR Mike Mountain a écrit : I think you have snap to pixels enabled: View/snapping/snap to pixels M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PR Durand Sent: 04 April 2006 14:30 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] allowing slow animation thanks too for your answer, Zeh, but we've talked about this case with Ian Thomas, so I've made tests with all different aliasig parameters, and also with a drawn shape instead of text. the problem remains the same I've made a html page holding 2 swf, one in flash 7 and the other in flash 8 in each swf, the content was the same: 3 100 pixel animations on _x in 10 frames, one with a flash ide motion tween, one with a onEnterFrame and the last one with the Tween class. all 3 methods are still smoothed in the flash 7 animation, not in the 8 version... PiR ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?
Well, I was probably being too harsh with major bugs, as I can't remember exactly what they were now (it was about 6 months ago I used it). I believe we had the same issue with building - having to reload SW first, but often when reloading it would fail because the process was still running in the background. Also, we had some issues with system dialog boxes, that they displayed multiple times. Anyway, I was somewhat naive as to what to expect of Projector applications, and as SW was quite new to Open Source, had a very small developer and user base, we thought it best to go to a third party. Regards, Grant Cox Darren Cook wrote: Support I can live without but I wondered what the major bugs were that you found? I've started using it on a project and was pleased with it. But my current usage is relatively simple. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and input type=file....
Except that only works in Flash 8, as the OP mentioned. Unfortunately there is no way to do this in Flash 7, except for iframe hacks or similar. I saw a link a year or so ago where someone placed a transparent HTML iframe over the top of the flash SWF, so the HTML form looked as though it was part of the flash. It was fairly hacky, and I don't think it was cross-browser compatible. Regards, Grant Cox Manuel Saint-Victor wrote: Do you mean like a filebrowser window? import flash.net.FileReference; var myFileReference:FileReference=new FileReference(); myFileReference.browse(); On 3/31/06, Felipe Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is it possible show in a flash (Flash 2004 MX) a input type file form in order to catch user file selection? Basically, I need to show an html form inside a flash movie. Is there any flash component to show that? I know Flash 8 has upload files capabilities but Flash Mx 2004 is requiered in my project. Thanks and regards ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] lil' help with amfphp... works locally, not uploaded...
Make sure you have a crossdomain.xml file in the root of your server, otherwise the security model in Flash will refuse connections to that server. The simplest version (allow all connections from any flash files) would be: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd; cross-domain-policy allow-access-from domain=* / /cross-domain-policy Regards, Grant Cox Count Schemula wrote: http://www.flash-creations.com/notes/servercomm_remoting_amfphp.php I have the above file working well on a local test server. Flash 8, amfphp, mySQL. Then I try to make this file work on my hosted sever: http://www.thelargeglass.com/highscores2/index.html The file works when I do a Test Movie and play it locally. According to NetConnectionDebugger I'm connecting to my remote/online host and it's getting the data from tha db. I can even add and delete records. When I upload this file, it does not work. On my computer, it says Waiting for localhost down in the bottom web browser status window. ??? It should not be looking for any localhost? So, in conclusion, files works EVERYWHERE, except where I need to work. Any ideas? === I think I'm gonna like amfphp remoting a lot... I never got remoting to work with CFMX. ___ 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] If not Zinc, then what?
We just did our first application with a projector app like this. Thankfully the target was only for Windows 2000 and XP, but it needed to support nice transparency with non-rectangular windows. First I gave Screenweaver OS a go, but it has some major bugs, and almost no development (well, not on the version 3, apparently they are working hard on the beta version 4). After a couple of days we decided that we needed an application that could provide support. We looked at them all, and decided on Zinc, as it seemed to have the most active forums and developers (ie they respond to bug reports quickly), it was cross platform (thinking about future projects), and had a lot of features. Unfortunately we found that CPU usage was extreme - with an application approximately 800x600 it would use 65% of a 3.0GHz cpu just sitting there, and 100% cpu when there was any animation inside the window. This is due to the transparency - it was much better with a regular rectangular window. As our client found this unacceptable we moved to mProjector (at their recommendation). We found mProjector to make the smallest file size, and have the best CPU usage. Unfortunately their support is much slower - the forums are much less busy and the devs will take some days to respond to emails. They were in the process of releasing their new version at this time, so this may explain it (they are a much smaller operation than Zinc). Unfortunately we found there was a bug that would cause the application to crash sporadically (when loading external movies/data), and some two months after reporting this as a bug it was still on their todo list. Also transparency was fine in the Flash 7 build, but in Flash 8 was very patchy (I believe this has been fixed since). So, we had to move to Northcode SWF Studio. This was our last option, as we couldn't find any other Projector applications that had synchronous commands (and switching to asynchronous would be far too much work this late in the project). Northcode has fairly quiet forums, but their devs replied to every post at least once a day, and responded to emails within a day (with the timezone difference from Aus to Canada I thought that was pretty good). The downside is that their transparency support was fairly poor - the only reliable method for non-rectangular windows was to have 1bit transparency. They did provide me with a pre-release version with better transparency (which I believe has been released now), however this did have pretty much the same CPU issue as Zinc. So, overall: - Northcode (which we ended up going with) had the best support and least bugs. But did make the largest filesize. - Zinc has the most features, and the CPU issue appeared to just be Flash 8 - all three had ver poor CPU usage when using nice transparency in Flash 8. Medium filesize - mProjector had the smallest filesize, and with Flash 7 had the best CPU performance. The app/libraries had the least features (ie no cross platform, no screensavers, no support for standard rectangular windows). And at the end of it all, I have vowed to avoid working on any Projector applications like this again. They all seem like patchy solutions, and I guess that's why Macromedia never added more than basic fscommands to the standard Flash projectors. Regards, Grant Cox Chris Velevitch wrote: On 3/29/06, Gene Jannece [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading pros and cons of using Zinc, I started to wonder what are the pros and cons of other projectors? Flash Magazine did a comparison of projectors. http://www.flashmagazine.com/1095 http://www.flashmagazine.com/1097 It's a little old now, but is a good starting point. Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au ___ 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 date comparison bug?
Well, it depends how the comparisons work. When you check equivalence == it is checking whether the two Date instances are the same object, which of course they aren't. When you check greater than or less than, it can only check their value, and that is the same. So it comes down to how the Date class handles comparisons. I'm honestly not sure how you overwrite these in Actionscript (I guess there must be something in Object that you can overwrite). But checking equivalence with complex variables will always be checking if they are actually references to the same object, not if the two objects have the same attributes. Oh, and Ryan, is your fourth line meant to be trace( d1 = d2 ); or trace( d1 == d2 ); ? Regards, Grant Cox Ryan Matsikas wrote: var d1:Date = new Date( 1970, 0 ); var d2:Date = new Date( 1970, 0 ); trace( d1.toString() == d2.toString() ); // true trace( d1 = d2 ); // Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT-0700 1970 On 3/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know why I haven't come across this before, but can anyone confirm this for me (and maybe give an explanation)? code var d1:Date = new Date( 1970, 0 ); var d2:Date = new Date( 1970, 0 ); trace( d1 == d2 ); // false trace( d1 = d2 ); // true trace( d1 = d2 ); // TRUE?! /code Umm… If something is both = *and* = the only possibly is that it is equal. So… WTF? dave myron principal, technical director contentfree ⊡ 206.855.5580 phone | 206.774.2767 fax ⊠ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ⊟ 337 1st ave ne. suite 100, issaquah, wa 98027 ___ 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.0/290 - Release Date: 3/23/2006 ___ 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] DataGrid Component Performance
What do you mean by expand rows? But I think the answer is no - all grid rows need to be the same height (this height is adjustable, but applies to all rows). The datagrid component can handle many thousand rows, but becomes very unresponsive with a number of columns. In an application which does display a lot of data we limit the grids to a maximum of 15 columns, and this can display 20,000 rows ok. However, whenever the grid needs to do a full redraw (ie sorting a column, resizing a column) it can pause for a couple of seconds. Also, intensive CellRenderers should be avoided, as should any kind of manual row highlighting (ie alternate row colours). Regards, Grant Cox varfoo wrote: Anyone have a feel for how this component performs. Can you expand rows? Can it handle thousands of rows? ___ 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] Encrypting data
This is true. However, if someone is prepared to submit fake post requests to hack your high scores, are they not going to decompile your SWF to see how you encrypt the high scores? My recommendation is to submit the level reached and the score, and have the server validate these (ie that the score achieved was possible for the level reached). Also, make the client inform the server every time a new level is reached, and validate that these are not occuring too fast (ie at least 20 seconds apart). And encrypt any important data sent to/from the server, but use some stupid algorithm you made up, do it inline (don't use a encrypt/decrypt function), and then obfuscate your actionscript. Oh, and if any of these server side checks fail, just ignore any high scores from that IP address. Or, just admit that faking high scores is nigh impossible when the client is so easily modified, and don't worry about it :) Regards, Grant Cox Dave Mennenoh wrote: MD5 isn't going to help encrypting a high score is it? It's a one way hash... Dave - Adobe Community Expert www.blurredistinction.com www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/ ___ 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] How does remoting access class members ?
I'm trying to remember how remoting accesses class members when translating and object for serialization over AMF I know it can access the private variables of a class, but will it use get/set methods if they are present, for example : class com.somecompany.domain { private var eventId:Number; private var title:String; public function get EventId():Number { return eventId; } public function set EventId(eventId:Number):Void { this.eventId = eventId; } public function get Title():String { return this.title; } public function set Title(title:String):Void { this.title = title; } } Will the remoting library in flash use the get / set methods here if I've defined Title and EventId on the remote object or will it bypass those methods and attempt to use the private variables eventId and title ? Cheers Grant ___ 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] Z sorting multiple overlapping movie clips
Problem with that is if the item you click on is under other items and it swaps depths with the top item, the top item then appears under things it wasn't. I did it this way first and it looked very weird. I ended up just writing a depth sorter, each of the objects that are added to the screen dispatch a registration event and the depth sorter adds them to a list and stores a sorted depths list, when an item wants to be on top I figure out where it is in the Z order and then swap it with the item above it and then the next, and next and next until I get to the top, that way the Z order is preserved just like in a windowing system. Cheers, Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karthik Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:27 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Z sorting multiple overlapping movie clips On 01/03/06, Byron Canfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can make it a lot easier by doing some of the prep work for that architecture in the for loop that you use to first create and assign depths to those movieclips. It might be a lot simpler to just do something like: // Untested. // Assuming clips are given depths based on ID var highest_depth:Number = clips_array.length; // click handler function click_handler(e:Object):Void { if (e.target.getDepth() != (highest_depth)) { e.target.swapDepths(++highest_depth); } } --- This should be fine for IIRC 2 billion+ clicks, with some caveats for depths greater than 1M.. My 10p, -K ___ 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] Z sorting multiple overlapping movie clips
Ok so you are doing it with the item just below the top, how does that put your selected item on the top ? Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Miguel M. Tayag Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:26 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Z sorting multiple overlapping movie clips why not mc.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth() ) ? Do you have that many movieclips? On 3/2/06, Karthik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/03/06, Grant Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem with that is if the item you click on is under other items and it swaps depths with the top item, the top item then appears under things it wasn't. I did it this way first and it looked very weird. Not really - I'm swapping with (the depth of the topmost item + 1). -K ___ 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 -- Ramon Miguel M. Tayag Managing Director Quirkworks ___ 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] Z sorting multiple overlapping movie clips
I thought you could only swap depths with movieclips, get night higest depths just returns what depth would be the next highest, it doesn't actually create the depth. Gran -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Miguel M. Tayag Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:26 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Z sorting multiple overlapping movie clips why not mc.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth() ) ? Do you have that many movieclips? On 3/2/06, Karthik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/03/06, Grant Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem with that is if the item you click on is under other items and it swaps depths with the top item, the top item then appears under things it wasn't. I did it this way first and it looked very weird. Not really - I'm swapping with (the depth of the topmost item + 1). -K ___ 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 -- Ramon Miguel M. Tayag Managing Director Quirkworks ___ 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] Z sorting multiple overlapping movie clips
Does anyone have a an algorithm for Z sorting multiple overlapping clips... I have an array of clips and when one is clicked I want it to come to the top, but I want the other overlapping items to also shift appropriately... So Item [1] at depth 10 Item [2] at depth 9 Item [3] at depth 8 Item [4] at depth 7 If you click item [4], it would go to depth 10, and the other would shift down 1 Item [4] depth 10 Item [1] depth 9 Item [2] depth 8 Item [3] depth 7 But if any of those items are overlaping other items, they also need to be Z sorted. I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. Thanks Grant ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] how to make single cell in the grid non editable?
The only way I've done it is by making the entire datagrid non-editable, and listening for a double click on a single cell. When this happens, if that cell can edited that column is set to editable, and the appropriate cell is selected. On a mouse deselect (onBlur?) the column is set back to non-editable. Generally I've found that double clicking to edit a field works quite well, as I never liked that just selecting a row would start to edit the actual cell clicked. Oleg Filipchuk wrote: I hope it would be better. It's nothing else left. :( So does anyone know any smart solution about making individual cell non/editable? ___ 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] Re: Installing Custom Ant Tasks in Eclipse
I messed around with a few preprocessors a week or so ago, and just had so many problems (due to ignorance - I'm a noob when it comes to java/ant etc). However, finally I got FMPP to work ( http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/ ), and while the preprocessing directives aren't the prettiest (they look like html tags), once I got it working I was beyond caring about that :) This is the appropriate part from my build.xml: !-- PreProcess all the Actionscript with FMPP, output to build directory -- taskdef name=fmpp classname=fmpp.tools.AntTask classpath=${dependencies_dir}/fmpp/lib/fmpp.jar / fmpp sourceRoot=${src_dir} outputRoot=${build_dir} modes=ignore(server/**/*, lib/**/*, dependencies/**/*), execute(**/*.as), copy(**/*.swf), ignore(**/*) quiet=false data antProperties(svn_version) debug: true /data /fmpp Actually, so that modes line makes sense, my folder structure is: /build /deploy /src /com /dependencies /lib /server And I only want it to preprocess .as files from the /src and /src/com (not dependencies, lib or server), copy any .swf files (in case MTASC needs them as base files) and ignores the rest. Regards, Grant Cox John Mark Hawley wrote: UPDATE: After a lot of flailing and forcing Ant to specifically include the jars for Prebob, I actually got it to run. However, all it does it copy things from one directory to another, and no amount of manual flogging and guesswork can get it to actually preprocess anything. Has anyone tried Prebop and gotten it working, or does anyone have an IDE-friendly preprocessing solution themselves? -- Mark Hawley said: There doesn't seem to be a simple tutorial for actually getting custom Ant tasks installed and running. Even as2Ant leaves you out to dry when it comes to actually getting it to work the first time. Any help? Has anyone else on the list experimented with the Prebob preprocessing Ant task, or custom Ant tasks in general in Eclipse? I can't seem to get mine to work...I have a feeling it's because I don't have the java SDK installed, and no one else is running into this because mot of the Flash devs fooling around with Ant and Eclipse in the first place are also developing Java occasionally. (UPDATE: well, installing the SDK, and making sure Ant could see tools.jar did squat.) In Eclipse-Preferences-Ant I can see the preprocessor task is defined. Vanilla Ant builds are working 100%, but ant tasks installed as Eclipse plugins don't work when built, they just croak and give a massive, unhelpful Ant error. --snip from build.xml--- !-- adding this does nothing taskdef name=preprocess classname=com.objfac.prebop.ant.PreprocessorTask/ -- target name=preprocess description=Run preprocessor !-- perform preprocessing steps here -- echo message=Allegedly running preprocessor/ preprocess indir=${src_dir} outdir=${targetdir} out=merge except=${skip} !-- testing junk -- var name=smell value=rose/ filetype commentend=*/ commentbegin=/* extensions=as/-- /preprocess /target --end snip--- --partial output--- preprocess: [echo] Allegedly running cpp or equivalent BUILD FAILED C:\PATH_HIDDEN_TO_PROTECT_THE_INNOCENT\buildPreprocess.xml:24: Could not create task or type of type: preprocess. Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon. (GIANT ERROR MESSAGE SNIPPED) Any suggestions? -- John Mark Hawley The Nilbog Group 773.968.4980 (cell) ___ 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] getting the actual width of a scaled child clip
If you use localToGlobal you can find the dimensions in root coordinates. /// var topleft = {x: inner._x, y: inner._y}; var bottomright = {x: inner._x + inner._width, y: inner._y + inner._height}; inner._parent.localToGlobal(topleft); inner._parent.localToGlobal(bottomright); trace(inner from: + topleft.x + , + topleft.y + to: + bottomright.x + , + bottomright.y ); /// Rich Rodecker wrote: wierd that i've never hit this before, but I'm running into an issue with getting the width of a clip's children after the parent clip has been scaled down. So, I say parent clip name holder_mc. I create 4 movieclips inside holder_mc and load movie into them. Each of the loaded clips are 600 x600. If i scale holder_mc down 50%, each of the loaded clips still reports their size as 600x600. Somebody's HAD to have dealt with this one already...any suggestions? ___ 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] getting the actual width of a scaled child clip
Except you would have to iterate through every _parent level until you hit the _root anyway, in case any ancestor clip is scaled... I've done that before for visibility ( parent was _visible=false, grandchild was _visible=true but of course not seen). Lanny McNie wrote: Also, you could just multiply the width/height by the scale.. var w = subClip._width * subClip._parent._xscale / 100; var h = subClip._height * subClip._parent._yscale / 100; Sorry for the psuedo code. On 2/22/06, Rich Rodecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah, nice one. On 2/22/06, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use localToGlobal you can find the dimensions in root coordinates. /// var topleft = {x: inner._x, y: inner._y}; var bottomright = {x: inner._x + inner._width, y: inner._y + inner._height}; inner._parent.localToGlobal(topleft); inner._parent.localToGlobal(bottomright); trace(inner from: + topleft.x + , + topleft.y + to: + bottomright.x + , + bottomright.y ); /// Rich Rodecker wrote: wierd that i've never hit this before, but I'm running into an issue with getting the width of a clip's children after the parent clip has been scaled down. So, I say parent clip name holder_mc. I create 4 movieclips inside holder_mc and load movie into them. Each of the loaded clips are 600 x600. If i scale holder_mc down 50%, each of the loaded clips still reports their size as 600x600. Somebody's HAD to have dealt with this one already...any suggestions? ___ 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 -- - Lanny McNie ___ 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] OT: Design patterns
Wouldn't it be great to have a project like that - that actually stays on track and doesn't have last minute changes :) It is never necessary to use design patterns, but they can make your project more structured. More structured usually means easier to understand, and easier to modify (as it is more obvious what else will be affected by any change). I would suggest spending time on less critical projects to explore using some design patterns, to see how you feel about them, and if you find they are useful then keep using them. When I first started using design patterns (when FAMES kicked off) I thought it was important to use pure patterns, and got quite stressed trying to understand wtf all the patterns actually are and why I should be using them. Now that I have made a few projects (~6) in this fashion I am much more laid back - I use the patterns that I understand, bastardise others to something I like, and ignore the rest. We're not making works of art here - as long as the project is done to time and budget and isn't a complete dog's breakfast then it's fine :) Regards, Grant Cox Anggie Bratadinata wrote: If I don't plan to extend my app. nor there is late requirements to meet then using DP is not necessary? Thanks Troy, -- Anggie Bratadinata Web|Graphic|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A http://design.ibshastautama.com Troy Rollins wrote: On Feb 22, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Anggie Bratadinata wrote: What is the advantage(s) and disadvantage(s) of design patterns? I've been studying MVC and Singleton patterns but so far I'm not sure how those can make my software better. They don't necessarily make your software any better. They can probably make your software easier to extend and or maintain. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.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 ___ 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] Strange actionscript vs tweening problem Flash8
I'm not sure what is happening in your case, but previously I have found similar issues (with code / timeline based effects conflicting) when: - The symbol (movieclip/button) does not have the same instance name across all keyframes (ie doesn't have an instance name on a keyframe). - When the code changes any attribute of a tweened symbol. If you have code that changes a clip's position, the tween becomes invalid until the next keyframe (which then overwrites whatever code change you made). I assume this applies to all other clip attributes (not just position), as a key is on a whole layer... Regards, Grant Cox T. van Zantvoort wrote: I just simply use for (i=1; i10; i++) { this[b+i].onRelease = function() { play(); }; } This is for button 1 through 9 and then on the timeline there's a tween with all the buttons that go to an other location themselfs. But when I click on a button, that button stays on it's place until the tween is done and then finally flips to the position it supposed to tween to. Met vriendelijke groeten, Tayfun van Zantvoort WebSculptor --- MonTay WebArchitects T: 040-2300898 F: 040-2954071 I: www.montay.nl --- Check ook eens andere onderdelen van ons uit. --- www.vsnet.nl (je eigen webshop) www.mlife.nl (aug '05, digi-lifestyle) === -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Karthik Verzonden: donderdag 16 februari 2006 9:24 Aan: Flashcoders mailing list Onderwerp: Re: [Flashcoders] Strange actionscript vs tweening problem Flash8 At this point it goes strangely, the tween is actually happening but the button clicked stays on the same place until the tween stops and then flips to the location it supposed to tween to. How are you tweening this? You might want to show us some code. -K ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Issue with two instances on a timeline
I agree, this is perhaps the most irritating thing about animating inside the Flash timeline. Unfortunately I believe it is just a limitation of Flash, and the only way to get around it is to avoid keyframes on objects you need to use code with. So, either avoid all keyframes and do animation with code, or just avoid keyframes on the specific objects you want to modify with code. In your example for changing text or colour, the object you are changing (textfield or movieclip) needs to be inside another movieclip. Now you can apply code to the inner movieclip and timeline effects to the outer movieclip (or vice versa), and it should work ok. But unfortunately it is still a pain. But then, that's animating in Flash for you :) Regards, Grant Cox Meinte van't Kruis wrote: Hi folks, I've had this problem for a long time and it keeps on coming back once in a while, and allthough I've allways found ways to work around it, I never got to a real solution, so perhaps some of you know the answer. The problem is, simply put: make a textfield, called tfield place it inside a movieclip called mc now we'll animate mc, one keyframe on frame 1, one keyframe on frame 10, put a motion tween in there. now the problem is, i have two keyframes, thus two instances of, basically, the same thing (same instance name) this, somehow, always brings up alot of problems, giving unexpected results. when i, say, change the color of the movieclip, or the text of the field inside the movieclip, it usually doesn't work at all it seems like flash only likes to change the color or text on the first frame and not during the animation, or on the last frame Does anyone know a good solution to this problem, because i feel there must be an easy solution to this (besides tweening with actionscript alone) thanks, Meinte ___ 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] redraw/update DataGrid to reflect change of data?
If all you want is for the datagrid to refresh from the data already in it's dataProvider (ie, each grid row updates to what you want when you rollover), then try: var current_vpos = myGrid.vPosition; myGrid.dataProvider = myGrid.dataProvider; myGrid.vPosition = current_vpos; Regards, Grant Cox Chuck Hoffman wrote: I'd like to get a DataGrid (or better yet, one of its columns) to redraw itself, so as to reflect a change made to item(s) in its dataProvider. Specifically, I have a field called 'select', and for its column in the DataGrid I use a CellRenderer containing a CheckBox, which responds to clicks to the CheckBox by setting the select field of the given item appropriately. However, I'd also like to add a select all checkbox. I have no problem responding to clicks on the CheckBox with a quick looping-through of the dataProvider setting the select fields on each item to true or false, as the case may be. But I can't seem to get the DataGrid to redraw right away to reflect the change. The CheckBoxes will redraw correctly only when I mouse over the rows. I should note that a co-worker of mine got this functionality working using code on the timeline, whereas I'm trying to do it within a class to which the MovieClip containing the DataGrid is linked and having considerably less luck with it. I've tried calling invalidate(), redraw(), draw(), and refresh(), on the DataGrid, and a few combinations of two or more of these, all to no avail (do any of those functions actually *do* anything??) Many thanks --ch-- ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] flv video encoding for flash 7
I used the flash 8 video encoding tool and set it for flash 7 high quality (700k) and the video is very pixelated, I've uploaded it here for review : http://bluetubecom.web123.discountasp.net/clients/soapbox/videotest.html the original quicktime is here : http://bluetubecom.web123.discountasp.net/clients/soapbox/img/PortVideo/SBS_open_for_flash-test.mov the flv version is really pixelated, not acceptable at all. Someone suggested using sorenson squeeze instead of the flash video encoder as it may produce better results but I'm pretty green on flash video. The settings I used for that where : Sorenson spark codec, frame rate same as source (29.xx), keyframe placement automatic, quality, custom, 1000 kilobits per sec, no video resize, audio mp3, 128kbs stereo. Thanks Grant. - Original Message - From: Fabio Sonnati [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 2/15/06 2:54 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flv video encoding for flash 7 I think its sorenson let we know what you used to encode your video and related settings. Fabio Sonnati http://flashvideo.progettosinergia.com - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:07 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] flv video encoding for flash 7 I have a quicktime that I need to encode to an flv and have had very poor results (pixelation/noise) using flash 7 sorenson. I found this site : http://www.creativedigitalgroup.com the quaility of video on there looks very good, is it my source material that is too hard to encode and produce a good quality flv ? Or is that site really using the on2 Vp6 codec ? Is there a way to tell in an flv is on2 or sorenson without some special tools ? Grant. ___ 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] flv video encoding for flash 7
I have a quicktime that I need to encode to an flv and have had very poor results (pixelation/noise) using flash 7 sorenson. I found this site : http://www.creativedigitalgroup.com the quaility of video on there looks very good, is it my source material that is too hard to encode and produce a good quality flv ? Or is that site really using the on2 Vp6 codec ? Is there a way to tell in an flv is on2 or sorenson without some special tools ? Grant. ___ 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] vardump an object in ActionScript?
Yeah, a for...in loop is what you want in Actionscript too. However, to save you a few minutes, below is the function I use. static function printr( object, depth ){ if ( depth == undefined ) depth = 3; var depth_spacing:String = ; var string_rep:String = ; for ( var attrib in object ){ var attrib_value:String = ; if ( depth 0 ( typeof( object[attrib] ) == object || typeof( object[attrib] ) == movieclip) ){ attrib_value = printr( object[attrib], depth-1 ); if ( attrib_value == ){ attrib_value = []; if (object[attrib] instanceof Array){ attrib_value = [empty Array]; } } } else { attrib_value = + object[attrib]; } string_rep += \n + depth_spacing.substr(depth*2) + [ + attrib + ]: + typeof(object[attrib]) + = + attrib_value; } return string_rep; } Josh McDonald wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there's any way to just dump out all there is to know about an object in ActionScript similar to PHP's vardump()? It's easily done with for(foo in bar) in JS, but that doesn't seem to work. Any pointers much appreciated :) Cheers, -Josh ___ 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] embeded CSS issue
Thanks Gregory, The code in the email was a quick example, I really do allocate objects before I use them :) It appears you are right that the only reliable way is with parse css function as the built in stuff in 8 really doesn't seem to work at all. Thanks Grant - Original Message - From: GregoryN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 2/10/06 7:50 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] embeded CSS issue Grant, While I can't open you sample (I'm still with FMX2004), there's some obvious mistakes in the code: 1) You need to sreate new TextField.StyleSheet object before using it. 2) Too many zeros in color ( boldlite.color = #ff00;) 3) If testText is textfield, it doesn't have .font property - you have to define font face in CSS or use TextFormat instead. 4) Strange, but your P with class doesn't work (while it should). I'd use tag instead. BTW, I prefer to write CSS as string and then use .parseCSS . This approach have some advantages. For example, you can define several alternative fonts (font-familiy: Futura Medium, _sans) . Corrected code: === // ADDED var testSheet:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet(); var boldlite:Object = new Object(); boldlite.color = #ff; boldlite.fontWeight = bold; boldlite.fontFamily = Futura Medium; testSheet.setStyle(boldlite, boldlite); testText.styleSheet = testSheet; testText.embedFonts=true; // make sure you embedded font somewhere testText.wordWrap=true; testText.htmlText=using class*this should be bold and red*; === Corrected files: http://gousable.com/flash/temp/embedcss_fixed.zip -- Best regards, GregoryN http://GOusable.com Flash components development. Usability services. - Grant wrote: I'm using an embedded CSS file where I define the styles through code var boldlite:Object = new Object(); boldlite.color = #ff00; boldlite.fontWeight = bold; testSheet.setStyle(boldlite, boldlite); and then I assign it to an html text field. testText.styleSheet = testSheet; testText.embedFonts=true; testText.wordWrap=true; testText.font = Futura Medium; testText.htmlText=using class*this should be bold and red* ; No matter what I do I can't get it to render any color or weight changes. I have uploaded the fla if anyone has a chance to look, its just a TEST right now. http://www.bluetube.com/temp/embedcss.zip Grant. -- ___ 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] pagepeel
I've previously used Macc/Iparigrafika's page turner, and found it to be very good. http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/ Latcho wrote: anybody got a link to a resource of a (doublepaged) page-peel effect? like browsing a book, but nonfake. preferably working with bitmapdata. my Math skills aren't just sufficient :( thanks ! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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] plz suggest.....urgent
Well, not really - it's part of a larger application, and I have certain business obligations not to just give it all away. However, if you are stuck with something specific then I don't mind helping out (although it is almost 7pm here - I will be heading home soon). Basically what we did was had a controller to manage the list of Fields (our data type for a grid column). The popup window had a datagrid that displayed all of the Field objects from the controller, displaying only the title and visible attributes. We had a Checkbox CellRenderer used for the visible column, so ticking / unticking would change this attribute. Once the popup window is hidden, then the main datagrid columns are recreated, by looping through all the Field objects from the controller, and creating a DataGridColumn for each Field whose visible is set to true. Macromedia have some sample CellRenderers, one of which is for a checkbox. You can download this from http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/fl8/samples.html Regards, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Grant, Can u plz send me ur code for the same...the way u implemented... The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
Just to throw my 2c in, I personally only use getNextHighestDepth(), and as yet haven't had any problems with it. The majority of our screens are already placed in the Flash timeline, I use attachMovie almost only to populate scrollpanes, and loadMovie only into graphic components. To keep our code separated from the design, we will use placeholders / components in the Flash file to define where external elements are loaded. This lets the designers fiddle with what they like, without having to bother me :) Regards, Grant Cox Nathan Derksen wrote: Nonsense, this is a great debate IMHO, and I would love to hear more from others as well. This is something that everyone has to deal with, and I genuinely thought that others would make more use of getNextHighestDepth() and was surprised that you and others avoid it. What are the situations that you have come across where only manual depth management would work? Do you have other ways of managing depth? Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] plz suggest.....urgent
Please explain what you mean by checkboxes in a scrollbar. Do you mean a list component (scrollable), where each row contains a checkbox? If so, you want to use a CellRenderer. Or do you mean just two checkboxes, in a bounding area that can have scrollbars? If so, you probably want a ScrollPane, with the content being a movieclip containing the checkboxes. Regards, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i add 2 checkboxes in a scrollbar..is it using contentpath?? The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] plz suggest.....urgent
Then yes, contentPath is what you want. The contentPath can be either a Linkage Id, or a url of an external SWF. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want a ScrollPane, with the content being movieclip containing 2 checkboxes and labels next to them. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] select columns-datagrid
How is your edit button embedded in the column, are you using a Cell Renderer? When I have done something similar using a CellRenderer I made the CellRenderer dispatch an event (actually from the Datagrid), which contained the cell's row and column. This way in my class containing the Datagrid, I could just listen for my event just like any other (like cellEdit, headerRelease etc). Below is the appropriate line from my CellRenderer. I believe the template for this CellRenderer was just from the Macromedia multiline textfield sample. listOwner.dispatchEvent({type:myCustomEvent, itemIndex: getCellIndex().itemIndex, columnIndex: getCellIndex().columnIndex, newValue: somethingGoesHere}); Regards, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have a datagrid that I'm using to display records. One of the columns has an edit button. When the user clicks edit, the window pops up. What I'd like to do is when a user clicks edit, one of the columns is set to selected. I mean to ask that how can i select the whole column for display,so that rest of the columns i can make invisible. Does anyone know if this is possible and how to do this. Greatly appreciate any help... The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
I personally use Eclipse / MTASC, so all code is class based. In my Flash file all symbols that need functionality have a linkage id, and almost all of my symbols are only a single frame (unless shape tweening is needed). To make the Flash compile faster, none of these symbols are linked to Classes in the Library, this is all done in the external code using Object.registerClass. I find it a lot cleaner to have all of my code in a nice external structure, in a decent IDE. My code is all right where I need it, I can control all animation simply (using an animation / tweening library like Fuse), and I can let the designers do almost whatever they like to the Flash file without worrying about them stuffing code up. And, of course, I get decent version control on the source files. After using this for a few months, I just wouldn't code inside the Flash IDE any more. Movieclip spaghetti is a bitter dish. Regards, Grant Cox Anggie Bratadinata wrote: Hi expert coders, Just a simple question, How do you develop your Flash applications? How do you write clean, readable, and reusable codes? The reason I'm asking this is because, so often, I got lost in MovieClips spaghetti. Different depth/levels/timelines drive me nuts and in the end, after reviewing my codes, I can't help re-writing everything from scratch in order to make it much cleaner. So, on the same project, I always work twice. :( What I do so far is write-then-test every single function in my codes;if it works then I'll write another function. And I tend to write everything in a single frame. I'd be more than happy if you, experts, can tell me the right way to code/develop Flash applications. TIA, -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.com ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
Are you actually deploying Flex 2 applications? Doesn't it still require the alpha/beta Flash 8.5 player? Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: The enlightened Lemming would also like to add some comments. /* * Begin * * Flex 2 kicks ass. Any app dev I will work with flex. * Any GUI component / animation works I'll use Flash * * Thank you * * The end */ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:44 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Don't feel bad Anggie, I think it is an interesting topic that is worthy of discussion. The problem is that best practices are quite subjective, and as such some people feel the need to be offended at alternative suggestions :) Of course, the method I use (Eclipse/MTASC) really is The Best Practice, as in my infinite wisdom and experience have found that every other method is simply inferior, and only suitable for ignorant lemmings. You're all lemmings, you hear me!! ;) Regards, Grant Cox Anggie Bratadinata wrote: On 2/3/06, Mark Winterhalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (to open) a can of worms, idiom: to ask for general stylistic advice on a professional mailing list, often resulting in contradicting advises that turn into flame wars, ending with somebody crying and repeated demands for the thread to be discontinued. Ugh, I didn't mean to start another flame war. I just wanna learn from you, folks I'm sorry if my question was considered a can of worms. If there's any Indonesian Flash mailing list that is as good as this one, I'd turn to them instead, keeping the worms in Indonesia. -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.com www.nextrand.co.id ___ 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 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
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
I build assets in flash and give them symbol names that match my class names. for example loginForm = com.bluetube.view.LginForm I code in eclipse and bind classes to symbols using Object.registerClass, I compile with mtasc and use ANT to build. I always have an ApplicationForm class that kicks off the whole show (natural entry point) and its the swf that gets the code injected into it via MTASC. I load external swfs with symbols that have names that match their classes but they have no code IN the swf. I use the ARP framework on pretty much everything. (I code, I have a designer who does the animation) I use Fuse for code based tweens. I use alcon for logging via a custom logger and the -trace feature of mtasc I use xray to debug I'm busy as hell since i learned all this stuff (normall a JAVA J2EE coder) :) (thanks flash and the open source community!) Cheers, Grant. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] quick array question
Use Array.splice() to remove an element. randomPos = random(total); rfcClip = rfcsArray[randomPos]; imgID = imgArray[randomPos]; rfcsArray.splice(randomPos, 1); imgArray.splice(randomPos, 1); total--; Corban Baxter wrote: Ok one quick array question... randomPos = random(total); rfcClip = rfcsArray[randomPos]; imgID = imgArray[randomPos]; total--; //now how can I delete those two records from my two arrays and recompile the arrays for use next time? I want to slowing delete the entire array so that I never use one twice... 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Fire Event Manually
sorr its a late, but cheat... var foo:Object = myCheckBox; foo.dispatchEvent( {type:cick, target:myCheckBox}); if you use an object reference the compiler doesn't enforce class modifiers so you can basically bypass protected. Grant. - Original Message - From: Yotam Laufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/20/06 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Fire Event Manually unless dispatchEvent is a private method ;) On 20 Jan 20 06 14:27:30 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: myCheckBox.dispatchEvent( {type:cick, targ et:myCheckBox}); or should work ? Grant. - Original Message - From: julian atienza j [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] af.com Sent: 1/20/06 5:59 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] F ire Event Manually Anybody can helps me with this? I have a collection of checkbox, with their own a ctionscript code in the on(click) or on(change) regio n of code to manage events... in one special case , i want to manually (through actionscript code in a class) fire the click event on every checkbox control of my panel. there is any way to make this? to fire click event like if a user interacts with the contr ol and click on it? I'm talking about Checkbox Co ntrol (not about HTML checkbox) ... thank u in ad vance! __ _ Flashcoders mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/list info/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] tyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/ listinfo/flashcoders -- Yotam Laufer | Flash Develop er | mobile +44 (0) 79 205 17 212 V¬ Êz»¨¥x+- V¬ Êz» «mÉø ~(%y§Ü¢ Ûiÿ÷!jÛr~( ^i÷(ùYùb²Ø§~ß«!r^® ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] NetConnection Debugger not working in Flash 8?
Yes and no. On my main machine I have both installed, but on a secondary machine I uninstalled Flash MX2004 before installing Flash 8, and it exhibits the same problems. Very odd indeed. Gavin Lilley wrote: I have exactly the same problem. I have installed a fresh version of 8 and then remoting and components. Do you have Flash 7 and Flash 8 on the same pc? Im wondering if it is possible to install 7 first and then install 8 'over the top of 7' to solve this problem. I read about copying old library files across but as far as I can see I am missing nothing. -- Gavin Lilley. On 1/20/06, Grant Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just upgraded my workflow to Flash 8 and the latest MTASC today, and found that while my Remoting calls were working, nothing was printing in the NetConnection Debugger. After some debugging I have found that I cannot get anything to print to the NetConnection Debugger even from within the Flash 8 IDE, and this is with a clean reinstall of Flash 8 (no previous version of Flash installed) and the Remoting components. I have set the Flash 8 security settings to Always Allow, and to trust anything in C:\. The follow code, when applied to the first frame of an empty movie with just the RemotingConnector Component on the stage, works in Flash 7, but does not work in Flash 8. The log messages work fine (and the remoting connection is created and works), but nothing appears in the NetConnection Debugger. Can anyone see a problem with this, or even replicate the error? Regards, Grant Cox /// import mx.remoting.Service; import mx.services.Log; import mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug; NetDebug.initialize(); var myLogger:Log = new Log(Log.DEBUG, logger1); myLogger.onLog = function(message:String) { trace(NetConnection LOG: + message); }; var gatewayURL:String = http://localhost/myproject/gateway.php;; var userService:Service = new Service ( gatewayURL, myLogger, Users, null, null ); trace(gateway at: + gatewayURL + user service: + userService ); NetDebug.trace(testing testing testing); stop(); ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Remoting
If you are using AS2, then you want to use import, not #include (which is AS1). import mx.remoting.Service; import mx.services.Log; import mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug; Regards, Grant Cox JP wrote: I'm running into very odd issues with the installation of Flash remoting components for AS2 on both Windows and OSX using Flash MX 2004. 1. In both cases, using #include NetServices.as or NetDebug.as produces a 'file not found' compiler error. 2. After reading through a bunch of Tec notes, I discovered that those two files needed to be placed into the include directory. After that, Flash found the files, but... 3. Suddenly the compiler spit out 20+ warnings about improper import paths defined in these files. import mx.remoting.degug. -- place filename here I started madly shuffling files around to their correct paths (on the OSX version), but now I'm getting 20+ messages from within the component files when including NetDebug or NetServices: **Error** Volume:Users:jpowers:Library:Application Support:Macromedia: Flash MX 2004:en:Configuration:Include:NetDebug.as: Line 10: Classes may only be defined in external ActionScript 2.0 class scripts. intrinsic class mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug extends Object or [snip] Syntax error. import mx.remoting.debug.events.NetDebugTrace; [snip] Syntax error. static public function getNetDebug():mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug Can anyone tell me how I can sort this out? I'm stumped. -jp ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Fire Event Manually
myCheckBox.dispatchEvent( {type:cick, target:myCheckBox}); or should work ? Grant. - Original Message - From: julian atienza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/20/06 5:59 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Fire Event Manually Anybody can helps me with this? I have a collection of checkbox, with their own actionscript code in the on(click) or on(change) region of code to manage events... in one special case, i want to manually (through actionscript code in a class) fire the click event on every checkbox control of my panel. there is any way to make this? to fire click event like if a user interacts with the control and click on it? I'm talking about Checkbox Control (not about HTML checkbox) ... thank u in advance! ___ 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] NetConnection Debugger not working in Flash 8?
I have just upgraded my workflow to Flash 8 and the latest MTASC today, and found that while my Remoting calls were working, nothing was printing in the NetConnection Debugger. After some debugging I have found that I cannot get anything to print to the NetConnection Debugger even from within the Flash 8 IDE, and this is with a clean reinstall of Flash 8 (no previous version of Flash installed) and the Remoting components. I have set the Flash 8 security settings to Always Allow, and to trust anything in C:\. The follow code, when applied to the first frame of an empty movie with just the RemotingConnector Component on the stage, works in Flash 7, but does not work in Flash 8. The log messages work fine (and the remoting connection is created and works), but nothing appears in the NetConnection Debugger. Can anyone see a problem with this, or even replicate the error? Regards, Grant Cox /// import mx.remoting.Service; import mx.services.Log; import mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug; NetDebug.initialize(); var myLogger:Log = new Log(Log.DEBUG, logger1); myLogger.onLog = function(message:String) { trace(NetConnection LOG: + message); }; var gatewayURL:String = http://localhost/myproject/gateway.php;; var userService:Service = new Service ( gatewayURL, myLogger, Users, null, null ); trace(gateway at: + gatewayURL + user service: + userService ); NetDebug.trace(testing testing testing); stop(); ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] NetConnection Debugger not working in Flash 8?
Yes, yes, and yes. And in Flash 7 it works, but not Flash 8. Steven Sacks wrote: Did you install Remoting for Flash 8? Did you put the remoting components on the stage of your movie? Did you try manually tracing? NetDebug.trace(Hello world); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:03 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] NetConnection Debugger not working in Flash 8? I have just upgraded my workflow to Flash 8 and the latest MTASC today, and found that while my Remoting calls were working, nothing was printing in the NetConnection Debugger. After some debugging I have found that I cannot get anything to print to the NetConnection Debugger even from within the Flash 8 IDE, and this is with a clean reinstall of Flash 8 (no previous version of Flash installed) and the Remoting components. I have set the Flash 8 security settings to Always Allow, and to trust anything in C:\. The follow code, when applied to the first frame of an empty movie with just the RemotingConnector Component on the stage, works in Flash 7, but does not work in Flash 8. The log messages work fine (and the remoting connection is created and works), but nothing appears in the NetConnection Debugger. Can anyone see a problem with this, or even replicate the error? Regards, Grant Cox /// import mx.remoting.Service; import mx.services.Log; import mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug; NetDebug.initialize(); var myLogger:Log = new Log(Log.DEBUG, logger1); myLogger.onLog = function(message:String) { trace(NetConnection LOG: + message); }; var gatewayURL:String = http://localhost/myproject/gateway.php;; var userService:Service = new Service ( gatewayURL, myLogger, Users, null, null ); trace(gateway at: + gatewayURL + user service: + userService ); NetDebug.trace(testing testing testing); stop(); ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Public examples of Business RIAs
Clark, are the controls (scroller, dropdown box and vertical accordian) entirely custom components ? very nice interface btw. grant - Original Message - From: clark slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/17/06 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Public examples of Business RIAs Here's one we developed for a Golf Club manufacturer who sells highly customized clubs directly to the public. http://www.gigagolf.com I think this is a good example of a business RIA because it makes the product configuration a lot easier than an HTML version might in terms of using the 'eFit' tools to determine best option for your measurements and instantly recommending (and selecting) the appropriate product options. Clark On 1/17/06, matt stuehler wrote: All, I'm trying to convince a potential client that Flash is the way to go for a B2B RIA for a project it's working on, and I'd like to develop a showcase of a RIAs developed in Flash. I'm sure there are hundreds of great examples, but most of them are not public. The few available through Macromedia are OK, but not great. The ideal apps would meet two main criteria: - It should include functionality that's not reproduceable with dhtml/ajax (e.g., custom controls or interactivity) - It should be a real substantive business-type application (e.g., not a pseudo-app that's really just a fancy web advertisement) Many thanks in advance to anyone who can suggest a few great URLs. I'll be happy to send a list of all the URLs I receive to anyone who's interested - just send me your email address, and I'll forward all the great apps I find. Cheers, Matt Stuehler ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] JSFL help
I've never used JSFL and found a book at borders that was supposed to teach but looks more like a dump of the API to a book. I need to create some templated swf's and would like the text fields in the swf to be populated either by a human being whois not a flash developer (e.g. enter data into a panel and it puts the data into the correct text field variables). Or to have swf's generated from a text file, say coma separated that contains the values for the text fields, is this even possible and are there any good lists out there from JSFL ? The client does needs templated flash files, there will be about 10 standard fla files and then we need to populate several text fields with data, the 10 stanard files would be used to produce 150 swf files with different text in the text fields and I can't do it dynmically (no web services or remoting) the swf must be self contained including its data. any JSFL gurus on the list ? Thanks Grant ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: SV: [Flashcoders] certificate
One issue I had with internet exploder was the first time I did an https call instead of hitting the server I was asking it to hit, it went to the windows update site to see if there were any updates due, I still haven't figured out why it did this, and this was looking at the http traffic from the browser with a proxy... I had no issues with firefox. Grant. - Original Message - From: Martin Baltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/12/06 2:07 AM Subject: SV: [Flashcoders] certificate Yes flash in Internet Explorer has serious problems with self signed or 3. party ssl certificates. If the certificate is a valid one (by Verisign) there are no issues. The problem is actually that when flash makes the request through IE the browser thinks the https page is already expired when it receives it and therefore it won't return it to flash. This is only an issue in Internet Explorer but it can be fixed if proper cache headers are being set on the serverside. In JAVA/JSP the following extra cache headers solved the problem for me :) response.setHeader(Cache-Control, no-store); response.setHeader(Pragma, no-store); Hope that works Martin -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 11. januar 2006 21:38 Til: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Emne: Re: [Flashcoders] certificate I have had some issue's with certificates and flash. I use charles which is an http proxy to intercept the requests between the browser and the server to figure out what the issue was. 1st test is really to create an html page and call your webservice using a form post and make sure the certificates are working within the browser and the webserver BEFORE you try and use the service from flash. There is cheap http proxy thats better than charles but I forget who created it. ah, here is the link http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/ Grant. - Original Message - From: PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/11/06 3:08 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] certificate Hi List It seems that I found antoher point to explain my difficulties to obtain a result in connecting my WS. The server has a Double-side certificate. I installed the certificate on firefox, so I can call correctly the https webservice via the browser, on the 8448 port without any problem, but maybe flash can't communicate correctly? I thought that the browser holding the swf was the only concerned by the certificate, as flash isn't seen by the servers, but only the webpage holding it... am I wrong? Can Flash have problems with the certificate? thanks a lot PR ___ 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 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
Re: SV: [Flashcoders] certificate
Did you make sure the cross domain file is in the root folder ? Grant. - Original Message - From: PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/12/06 4:37 AM Subject: Re: SV: [Flashcoders] certificate Thanks a lot for all your answers, Martin, Grant and Campbell, So I got a additional step: I have a domain problem now... the response.setHeader didn't change anything at the beginning, but may help to go further. the proxy, we tried to build one yesterday, but not enough time...so thanks for the link I got my service working on the 8443 port by uploading the swf on the same server where the service is located. Why isn't it possible to reach it from another domain? I put the crossdomain.xml on the server, is there another security rule? PR Martin Baltzer a écrit : Yes flash in Internet Explorer has serious problems with self signed or 3. party ssl certificates. If the certificate is a valid one (by Verisign) there are no issues. The problem is actually that when flash makes the request through IE the browser thinks the https page is already expired when it receives it and therefore it won't return it to flash. This is only an issue in Internet Explorer but it can be fixed if proper cache headers are being set on the serverside. In JAVA/JSP the following extra cache headers solved the problem for me :) response.setHeader(Cache-Control, no-store); response.setHeader(Pragma, no-store); Hope that works Martin -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 11. januar 2006 21:38 Til: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Emne: Re: [Flashcoders] certificate I have had some issue's with certificates and flash. I use charles which is an http proxy to intercept the requests between the browser and the server to figure out what the issue was. 1st test is really to create an html page and call your webservice using a form post and make sure the certificates are working within the browser and the webserver BEFORE you try and use the service from flash. There is cheap http proxy thats better than charles but I forget who created it. ah, here is the link http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/ Grant. - Original Message - From: PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/11/06 3:08 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] certificate Hi List It seems that I found antoher point to explain my difficulties to obtain a result in connecting my WS. The server has a Double-side certificate. I installed the certificate on firefox, so I can call correctly the https webservice via the browser, on the 8448 port without any problem, but maybe flash can't communicate correctly? I thought that the browser holding the swf was the only concerned by the certificate, as flash isn't seen by the servers, but only the webpage holding it... am I wrong? Can Flash have problems with the certificate? thanks a lot PR ___ 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 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Webservice and complex type class mapping
Christophe, I've never had it map in the remoting way, but I have sucessfully done a cast on the dynamic object returned and then got data from it. I think it works by accident :) Grant - Original Message - From: Christophe Herreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/11/06 8:46 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Webservice and complex type class mapping Hi all, does anyone know if it is possible to map an incoming complex type to a AS class? With remoting Object.registerClass() does the trick but it doesn't seem to work with webservices. Any clues? Or is it simply not possible and do I have to parse the soap messages myself? thx in advance, Christophe ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] ARP or Cairngorm
I've built 7 projects in ARP, I have built some extension, there was a recent article somewhere where a guy converted a flex app in cairngorm to flash using Cairngorm and it worked well, he's supposed to be doing ARP next, I need to find the link. I found them kinda apples to apples and some of the extra features or cairngorm I wouldn't use but due to all my flash based projects being authored in AS2 with AMES ARP is a better fit for me. Grant - Original Message - From: Weyert de Boer To: Flashcoders mailing list Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:32 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] ARP or Cairngorm What's the best framework to use when you want to be able to make flash application 1-2-3 in Flash or Flex with practically the same way. Of course, you have MXML in Flex. Because I want to move more to a MVC approach in Flash, I am asking myself which framework I should use. Anyone any suggestions? I have mainly experience with patterns in Delphi, C# and PHP5 etc. ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Windows media player embed in div over flash movie ?
I am about to convert a tight comp to a flash movie, the comp is here : http://www.tribalchicken.com/clients/intentmedia/comps/set2/s2pay/2.html I'm trying to decide if I should break the thing into 3 swfs in 3 divs and then have the movie player embed in its own div, or if I can do 1 flash movie and then 'float' the windows media player embed over the top of the flash movie. I only need to support IE 5.5 or above. Will the 2nd approach work and does anyone have an example I can look at ? I can figure it out but I don't have much budget for prototyping. Cheers, Grant ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Windows media player embed in div over flash movie ?
ended up testing it, seems to work (internet explorer only right now as I haven't done the embed tag): http://bluetubecom.web123.discountasp.net/clients/imw/mediatest/test.html Grant. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 1/6/06 1:06 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Windows media player embed in div over flash movie ? I am about to convert a tight comp to a flash movie, the comp is here : http://www.tribalchicken.com/clients/intentmedia/comps/set2/s2pay/2.html I'm trying to decide if I should break the thing into 3 swfs in 3 divs and then have the movie player embed in its own div, or if I can do 1 flash movie and then 'float' the windows media player embed over the top of the flash movie. I only need to support IE 5.5 or above. Will the 2nd approach work and does anyone have an example I can look at ? I can figure it out but I don't have much budget for prototyping. Cheers, Grant ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] private/public troubles
did you type your instance of oCore on root ? if your data is not typed the iDE will not enforce access modifiers. e.g var core:Core = new Core() trace (core.oParam); /// should not compile var anotherCore = new Core() trace (anotherCore .oParam); /// should compile as anotherCore is not typed. because you are declaring it on root is probably not typed. Why put it on root ? Grant. - Original Message - From: PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/14/05 9:54 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] private/public troubles Hi List! This is not really a problem, but rather a question cause it seems strange... I've got a Core.as class containing private var oParam:ParamMngr; and this.oParam = new ParamMngr(); in the ParamMngr class, we can see private var mcGround:MovieClip; and theuse of it. into flash, on main stage, I've put the following: import com.domain.Core; _root.oCore = new Core(); and then tried trace(_root.oCore.oParam.mcGround); -- it worked !!! why? each variable is private... so how can it run? thx, PR ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] private/public troubles
If I have a main Application class I generally drag it to the stage and then in my external code I have the application start in the onload method of the class. I never use root, in your case its probably not a big deal I just find sometime in the future a use of root would come back and bite me. using _root is generally considered a no-no. stone the blasphemer!, stone the blasphemer ! :) Grant - Original Message - From: PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/14/05 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] private/public troubles Thanx a lot Grant, I think you pointed right. 'will test it. Why on _root? because the project is a full external code, and this class is the core of the application, so why not putting it on _level0 (so mainSwf._root) ? Is it better to make a CoreComponent and drag it to the scene? PR [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : did you type your instance of oCore on root ? if your data is not typed the iDE will not enforce access modifiers. e.g var core:Core = new Core() trace (core.oParam); /// should not compile var anotherCore = new Core() trace (anotherCore .oParam); /// should compile as anotherCore is not typed. because you are declaring it on root is probably not typed. Why put it on root ? Grant. - Original Message - From: PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/14/05 9:54 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] private/public troubles Hi List! This is not really a problem, but rather a question cause it seems strange... I've got a Core.as class containing private var oParam:ParamMngr; and this.oParam = new ParamMngr(); in the ParamMngr class, we can see private var mcGround:MovieClip; and theuse of it. into flash, on main stage, I've put the following: import com.domain.Core; _root.oCore = new Core(); and then tried trace(_root.oCore.oParam.mcGround); -- it worked !!! why? each variable is private... so how can it run? thx, PR ___ 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 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] Turning off flash mx UIScrollBar when nothing to scroll.
Resent as it never got to the list I'm building this site : file:///D:/projects/bluetube/clients/amvescap/calendar2005/dist/container.html I'm using a textField for the content and the MM UIScrollbar for the scroll bar. After loading the text into the text field I tried this with the scroll bar : contentTextField.htmlText = contentLoader.text; scrollBar._visible = scrollBar.enabled; TRACE(scrollbar enabled state + scrollBar.enabled); TRACE(scrollbar is + scrollBar); I did a google search and one suggested I use the enabled property to determine if I should display the scrollbar but the scrollbar is always enabled even when there is nothing to scroll. I want the scrollbar to be invisible when there is nothing to scroll. click on the December month to see one that should scroll and January to see one where there should be no scroll (but I still get a phantom scroll bar) Can someone help ? Thanks Grant ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Turning off flash mx UIScrollBar when nothing to
doh, sorry thomas, thanks for the catch, weird I didn't see it come through the first time :) correct URL : http://bluetubecom.web123.discountasp.net/clients/amvescap/container.html See jan has a phantom scrollbar even though there is nothing to scroll. Grant. - Original Message - From: Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/12/05 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Turning off flash mx UIScrollBar when nothing to Grant, That's the second time it's come through. You've posted a local URL that links to a file on your machine's D drive. So people can't actually look at your content. Cheers, Ian On 12 Dec 2005 14:32:32 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resent as it never got to the list I'm building this site : file:///D:/projects/bluetube/clients/amvescap/calendar2005/dist/container.html I'm using a textField for the content and the MM UIScrollbar for the scroll bar. After loading the text into the text field I tried this with the scroll bar : contentTextField.htmlText = contentLoader.text; scrollBar._visible = scrollBar.enabled; TRACE(scrollbar enabled state + scrollBar.enabled); TRACE(scrollbar is + scrollBar); I did a google search and one suggested I use the enabled property to determine if I should display the scrollbar but the scrollbar is always enabled even when there is nothing to scroll. I want the scrollbar to be invisible when there is nothing to scroll. click on the December month to see one that should scroll and January to see one where there should be no scroll (but I still get a phantom scroll bar) Can someone help ? Thanks Grant ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Turning off flash mx UIScrollBar when nothing to
found the fix via this site : http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/hide_scrollbar.htm had to do scrollBar._visible = (contentTextField.maxscroll 1) so the scroll bar is only visible of the maxscroll of the field to be scrolled is greater than 1, simple fix, wish the damn scroll bar did that automatically :) Grant - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Cc: Flashcodersmailinglist flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/12/05 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Turning off flash mx UIScrollBar when nothing to doh, sorry thomas, thanks for the catch, weird I didn't see it come through the first time :) correct URL : http://bluetubecom.web123.discountasp.net/clients/amvescap/container.html See jan has a phantom scrollbar even though there is nothing to scroll. Grant. - Original Message - From: Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/12/05 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Turning off flash mx UIScrollBar when nothing to Grant, That's the second time it's come through. You've posted a local URL that links to a file on your machine's D drive. So people can't actually look at your content. Cheers, Ian On 12 Dec 2005 14:32:32 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resent as it never got to the list I'm building this site : file:///D:/projects/bluetube/clients/amvescap/calendar2005/dist/container.html I'm using a textField for the content and the MM UIScrollbar for the scroll bar. After loading the text into the text field I tried this with the scroll bar : contentTextField.htmlText = contentLoader.text; scrollBar._visible = scrollBar.enabled; TRACE(scrollbar enabled state + scrollBar.enabled); TRACE(scrollbar is + scrollBar); I did a google search and one suggested I use the enabled property to determine if I should display the scrollbar but the scrollbar is always enabled even when there is nothing to scroll. I want the scrollbar to be invisible when there is nothing to scroll. click on the December month to see one that should scroll and January to see one where there should be no scroll (but I still get a phantom scroll bar) Can someone help ? Thanks Grant ___ 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 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
Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET
I've used the flourine pre-alpha, it works fine.. I used it in a demo of ARP extensions (flash RIA) but you can download the .NET piece to look at how it works, was pretty easy and transparently comparable to MM's .NET remoting framework. http://theresidentalien.typepad.com/ginormous/2005/10/extending_arp.html Grant. - Original Message - From: Zoltan Csibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/7/05 10:45 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET Hi Michael Don't know if this is in your timeframe but we are preparing the alpha release of the Fluorine .NET remoting gateway. This works like the MM one for .NET and additionally supports pageable recordsets and .NET custom authentication (Fluorine is open source) Zoli -Original Message- From: Michael Appelmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:15 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Xpath and HTML tags inside XML bug?
I'm having the same issue even without XPATH, I have a CDATA section in my XML and the text field renders the text and the HTML tags without rendering HTML, if I cut and paste the HTML to a string and set the text field to that it works as expected. I've done this before and it worked, difference now is I'm compiling with MTASC and using flash 8 IDE. I'm going to try a standalone fla test and compile with MM compiler and flash 7 to see what the issue is. Grant - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/7/05 1:56 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Xpath and HTML tags inside XML bug? Searched Google, no dice, when the chattyfig servers were down again, I turned to Flexcoders, no luck either. Anyone who has experience with Xpath, I hope you can help. Problem overview: using Xpath, HTML tags inside of XML does not render, even with CDATA tags applied. Problem detail: I am using xfactorstudios' Xpath classes to bring in XML node data which contains text and HTML tags to display in a Flash text area component in the Flash 7 player. Here is a snippet of the XML: http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/'Center for Devices of Radiological Health. More text...]] The text area component IS set to HTML=true, but when it renders, it shows the text plus the HTML: Welcome to the Center for Devices of Radiological Health. More text... Does the same thing with a regular dynamic text field. If I hard code the same string directly in the .fla, it renders properly in the text field and/or component. The string from XPath returns, interestingly enough, looks like this: Welcome to the a href='http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/'Center for Devices of Radiological Health/a. More text... Not sure why Xpath is changing the string from . to /a, but Flash doesn't like it obviously. Anyone come across this before and have a solution? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET
between flashorb pro, flashorb standard and weborb and the fact their news doesn't link to the item the news is talking about I was a little confused on what to download, is weborb professional for .net the free thing ? I could find a weborb standard in the downloads section... grant - Original Message - From: hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/7/05 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET www.flashORB.com has a free .NET remoting product. Regards Hank On 12/7/05, Michael Appelmans wrote: 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 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] button width ?
I have a button that appears as a highlight behind a text field when the user rolls over the button the highlight appears. I want the highlight width to be a little bigger than the textbox so when I populate the text box I measure it and set the width of the button, however this doesn't work, when I read the buttons width its 0, and this is when the button has been loaded, if i measure the buttons width when it receives a onRelease event its a valid width. Is there some way to set the buttons width after loading, right now its giving me the bird. Grant ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Xpath and HTML tags inside XML bug?
yes doing that, when I do a trace when I have a CDATA section with hello and bold tags around it (not typing it as it won't be displayed in the flashlist) I see in the text field the hello with the html tags and the same in the trace, if I set a string to hello with bold tags around it and assign it to the same text field it works... I'll create a demo file and upload soon, I had a deadline so ended up using loadvars for the html content and that worked, but I've done the CDATA section stuff for my old site and it worked then. Grant - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 12/9/05 1:36 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Xpath and HTML tags inside XML bug? Don't know if this helps, but for html, you set: textArea.html = true; then: textArea.text = thestring; ,but for textField, you set: textField.html = true; then: textField.htmlText = thestring; But you probably knew that. I think that's really confusing the way Macromedia coded that. Guess their developers weren't talking to each other enough. What are you using to bring in the XML? Before going to the textfield, the string is being traced out as having the HTML tags intact or no? The CDATA tags are correct in the XML as well? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] weird scaling issue in internet explorer and 1900 x
I fixed it today. I had to add : param name=scale value=noborder and that fixed it, not sure why that only appears on my machine, maybe an issue with my nvidia 6800 XT or the laptop screen resolution, I tried switching to 1024 x 768 and testing made no difference... I did have a Stage.scaleMode=noScale; in the 1st frame but that didn't help easier. Thanks for trying it, i guess its just one of the weird bugs :) grant - Original Message - From: Gregory_GOusable [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/16/05 3:31 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] weird scaling issue in internet explorer and 1900 x Grant, I've tested in IE6 + FPlayer8 and Opera 8.5 + FPlayer8 : width= 1000height 600 scale noScale in both, and in stand-along (cached file) too. Even more: if you're accessing Stage.width and Stage.height, these props are read-only... Or if you're accessing others, please tell me - I'm very interested. -- Best regards, Gregory_GOusable http://GOusable.com Flash components development. Usability services. I'm getting to the end of a project and have been testing inside eclipse and in firefox, I come to test in internet exploder (windows) and its scaling my move no matter what I set it to in the object tag. I've done a test swf that is 1000 x 600 px and if I view in in firefox it looks great if in explorer its not scaled but the stage is bigger than its supposed to be, I added a button to get the stage height and width and the scale mode and in firefox it displays: width= 1000height 600 scale noScale in IE it displays width= 1250height 750 scale noScale http://www.bluetube.com/temp/flash-embed-test/EMC.html I've tried this on other machines and it appears to work how it should and the only thing I can put it down to is I run a dell 9300 with a 17 display that runs 1900 x 1200 pixels, could this be an issue the flash player in internet explorer is not addressing ? Grant ___ 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] weird scaling issue in internet explorer and 1900 x 1200 resolution
I'm getting to the end of a project and have been testing inside eclipse and in firefox, I come to test in internet exploder (windows) and its scaling my move no matter what I set it to in the object tag. I've done a test swf that is 1000 x 600 px and if I view in in firefox it looks great if in explorer its not scaled but the stage is bigger than its supposed to be, I added a button to get the stage height and width and the scale mode and in firefox it displays: width= 1000height 600 scale noScale in IE it displays width= 1250height 750 scale noScale http://www.bluetube.com/temp/flash-embed-test/EMC.html I've tried this on other machines and it appears to work how it should and the only thing I can put it down to is I run a dell 9300 with a 17 display that runs 1900 x 1200 pixels, could this be an issue the flash player in internet explorer is not addressing ? Grant ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie question: SHIFT+TAB
Did you create a new focus manager you could share ? :) Grant - Original Message - From: Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/7/05 11:50 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Newbie question: SHIFT+TAB What I did on one project was to use __proto__ and override the FocusManager's class at runtime. It worked quite well. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Muzak Sent: Mon 11/7/2005 9:14 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie question: SHIFT+TAB And what exactly is TextInput1? A custom class I suppose. Which class does it extend? For tabbing to work propertly with other v2 components, you don't have much choice other than extending UIComponent (or any of the v2 core classes). I've said it before, the FocusManager is not one of the best v2 classes out there (and I'm being nice here;-) ). regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Neil Gibbons To: Flashcoders mailing list Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:56 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Newbie question: SHIFT+TAB Yes. I've used FocusManager.nextTabIndex() to set all tabIndexes, but there the following on screen, (in preferred tab order): 1. A search box at the top 2. Username field 3. Password field 4. A Login button 5. A Register button TAB SHIFT TAB works between the buttons, but only TAB( tabbing forward), works on the fields. All text fields are type TextInput1. If I use the standard TextInput, tabbing is fine. :( Neil ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] text not displaying in an input text field
make sure you have all styles of the font you are using embedded, we were using bold in a style but forgot to embed bold specifically and nothing rendered. Grant - Original Message - From: Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/4/05 9:52 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] text not displaying in an input text field Hi All, I'm having a weird problem with a text editor i made ages ago, i'm updating it to use styles instead of textformat. however, whenever i have my input text field set to use the style sheet nothing displays. in the output window, the text and the htmlText are filled with what they shoudl be, but i see nothing. the fontFamily property is Arial, and i have Arial embedded on the textfield. still nothing showing. anyone seen this before??? tia, tom. ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
can your client afford Flash communication server, it has true push technology to the flash application but its not cheap licensing. Can you really push using an XMLSocket, I thought it was still request/response and not listen from the flash runtime unless you use rmtp and net connection. red5 would meet your needs but won't be GA for a while.. Grant - Original Message - From: Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/4/05 3:09 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Tracy, I think you're going to find the latter of your two approaches to be more efficient and quite easy to accomplish, especially the server will be authored in .NET. If you're using the term port to refer to the actual socket, then you'll find that handling multiple clients concurrently is fairly easy to achieve without needing to filter results on the client side. The main issues you're going to find with this sort of thing (network / tunneling issues, thread management) will probably be non-existent in a controlled environment with 100 clients. I see the very basic architecture as something like this: Flash client xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer .net socket server xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer system internals or .net remoting to the service aggregator / whatever The other option in which you could avoid writing a server would be to poll (even though it seems yucky) very quickly. Probably not such a huge burden if you're on a lan and use flash remoting. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XPath Error...
his XML is fine, its either the chattyfig server or our email clients stripping his xml.. //product[colors[clr='red']] will only return results if the first clr child node of the colors tag has a value of red. the correct syntax to return any clr child of colors that matches red would be : //product[colors/clr[.='red']] but neither the xfactor studio xpath parser or the mx.xpath.xpathAPI classes return anything for that xpath query. I tested it in internet explorer and it works fine. grant - Original Message - From: Chris Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/3/05 10:00 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] XPath Error... Well spotted hadn't seen the inconsistent xml, which means you're also right about the XPath... Chris Wilcox Bounce Digital Ltd 12 Goslett Yard | London | WC2H 0EQ UK T +44(0)207 478 4488 | www.bouncedigital.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: 03 November 2005 14:09 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] XPath Error... But the xml structure is not consistent (unless there was a typo). So, if i'm not mistaken, this //product[colors[clr= 'green']] will only work for the second part (multiple 'colors' nodes), not the first one. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Chris Wilcox To: Flashcoders mailing list Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] XPath Error... Hmm... it works if you nest the predicate bit to... //product[colors[clr= 'green']] ...apparently (after quick google) this is legal XPath. Chris Wilcox ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ ___ 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] Customer maps/mapquest ?
I need to provide a client with the ability for the customers to have driving directions from their home to one of the clients 10 locations. The map can be html or flash based and the driving directions are really the key part. I looked at mapquest who provides a webservice, however their site advantage API is $5k per year which seem pretty damn high for what I need. The use case would be. Customer clicks location they want to visit, customer types their address in and then clicks get directions, the system displays directions. This would be almost the same as what we do manually when you visit mapquest as a consumer other than the fact we pre-populate the ending address. I can't find if mapquest has a free webservice for getting directions or something lower in cost. Grant ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Using the FocusManager
I appear to be in focus manager hell. I have an application with many forms each form is extended from movie clip and based on what menu option you have selected the form may or may not be visible. For example I have create user and update user, if you have selected create user, then update user is not visible. both of these forms have the default push button set to their own push button, however in testing I'm finding that if I hit the enter key when the create user form has focus, the button on the hidden update user form is being activated. The way I'm using focus manager right now is getting one by doing submitButton.getFocusManager.defaultPushButton = submitButton; Is there some other way I'm supposed to use the focus manager, it seems like there is one for the whole application instead of 1 per movie clip, or one per form. I tried attaching my own instance of the focus manager to each form but didn't see any good results. Macromedias docs on how to implement focus management in a sizeable application with multiple forms is pretty non existent. any help would be appreciated. Grant http://www.bluetube.com http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/searchlist/5579.html our 1st press coverage! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Using the FocusManager
I missed out the () sorry.. I have it working somewhat how I want, when a form is hidden I set focusEnabled to false and set the default push button to null and the new form activates it enables itself as focusEnabled and sets its own default push button. This has stopped my hidden forms processing when someone hits the enter key so I'm part way there. I guess what I'd like is a focus manager per form or set of controls instead of a global one. The issue I have right now is a have a panel with 2 forms on it and i can't get focus to jump from one form to the other even if I set the child property to true so the focus manager knows the panel has children. The interesting thing was none of the macromedia docs recommend how to get a focus manager instance and doing _level0.focusManager is not good programming practice for me. Grant - Original Message - From: Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/1/05 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Using the FocusManager isn't getFocusManager a method? submitButton.getFocusManager().defaultPushButton = submitButton regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:37 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Using the FocusManager I appear to be in focus manager hell. I have an application with many forms each form is extended from movie clip and based on what menu option you have selected the form may or may not be visible. For example I have create user and update user, if you have selected create user, then update user is not visible. both of these forms have the default push button set to their own push button, however in testing I'm finding that if I hit the enter key when the create user form has focus, the button on the hidden update user form is being activated. The way I'm using focus manager right now is getting one by doing submitButton.getFocusManager.defaultPushButton = submitButton; Is there some other way I'm supposed to use the focus manager, it seems like there is one for the whole application instead of 1 per movie clip, or one per form. I tried attaching my own instance of the focus manager to each form but didn't see any good results. Macromedias docs on how to implement focus management in a sizeable application with multiple forms is pretty non existent. any help would be appreciated. Grant ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] When migrate to Flash 8?
I upgraded as they increased the stage size in the IDE, for example when designing for 1000 x 600 with the document set to that size in the flash mx2004 ide I could not scroll far enough to the right when designing large movie clips, I'd have to to move all the symbols from 0,0 to something like -500 (x) to see all the symbols and then remember to move them back. In flash 8 the stage is about double the size of the document setting so you can see everything, thats was reason enough for me as I build lots of forms for my current client :) Grant - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 10/28/05 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] When migrate to Flash 8? Keep in mind too, you can still use Flash 8 and output Flash 7/AS2 content. The IDE is a big improvement in speed resource usage as well as fixing a few bugs in Flash MX 2004. I've been getting myself into trouble designing in Flash 8 with my clients expecting me to transfer the design to Flex 1.5 which is Flash 7 only... but it DOES render out PNG sequences so all is not lost. - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason To: Flashcoders mailing list Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] When migrate to Flash 8? I think you should base your decision on what the new improvements to Flash actually are, and see if you would make use of them with your clients... and if they are things that are going to be supported by the target player your market will have. At the same time, even still, its important to stay on top of technology as always. That's usually a good investment even if you aren't going to be able to use many of the new features right away, you might see some improved efficiencies. For me, I have upgraded Flash every time it has been upgraded, but Adobe Illustrator, I am still using version 9 and don't see a need to upgrade it currently since I'm just not going to use the new features, or they aren't going to benefit me enough to justify the purchase. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:14 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] When migrate to Flash 8? Hello flashcoders, I think it's no question that one need to upgrade. And I'll do it in 1-2 month ;-). Question was if (and when) it's necessary to update existing applications (e.g. migrate) to use new features of Flash 8. -Original Message- frcfc Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:12:10 -0500 frcfc From: Judah Frangipane frcfc Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] When migrate to Flash 8? frcfc To: Flashcoders mailing list frcfc Message-ID: frcfc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed frcfc I'd upgrade to Flash 8 even though you are doing Flash 6 and 7. It has a frcfc lot of little things that make development quicker. So even though you frcfc are exporting to Flash 7 you can still take advantage of the new text frcfc resizing handles (something I use everyday) and other neat little frcfc changes. Or wait until 8.2 update (if one comes out). frcfc Best, frcfc Judah -- Best regards, Gregorymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://GOusable.com Flash components development. Usability services. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash player keeps 'downgrading' itself
I haven't noticed that in firefox, I have the 8.5 plugin installed in firefox and left 7 in windows exploder. I've been to quite a few sites that use 7 and I watched the osflash conference using 8.5 fine... Maybe its just some rogue site ? :) Grant - Original Message - From: Hindman, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 10/24/05 1:31 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash player keeps 'downgrading' itself Same think was happening to me ... but not until I installed the Flex 2.0 Alpha. --Jeff Hindman -Original Message- From: Mike Mountain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:52 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash player keeps 'downgrading' itself OK I know for sure I'm not the only one this is happening to, but I wanted to get a consensus of how common this is. My Flash player keeps silently reverting to version 7, I don't know if it's a website I visit forcing a silent 'downgrade', or something to do with my PC (win XP). Anyone else experiencing this on the list? Solutions? Causes? Etc. Cheers Mike ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flexbuilder 2 Alpha IDE problems
Muzak are you just playing with flex 2 or are you trying to build some real applications. Reason I ask is I have a 400 hour project that I think would be better suited to flex than normal flash as its an online app and I'm trying to make my decision right now as to which way I'm going to go even though we are months away from flex 2 release. grant - Original Message - From: Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 10/20/05 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flexbuilder 2 Alpha IDE problems Hmmm, can't say I've noticed that. Only thing that annoys the hell out of me is the 'rebuilding workspace' dialog each time I hit CTRL+S. I tend to hit that after every word or so. I wasn't really aware of the fact I save my document *that* much... up to now. I'm using the standalone version by the way. I have both installed (eclipse plugin and standalone), but use the standalone version (for no particular reason). All in all, I'm quite happy with the IDE so far and like it *alot* more than the sluggish Dreamweaver hack called Flex Builder 1.5. I've been using the Lab Forums to report bugs/ask questions: http://labs.macromedia.com/community/ regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason To: Flashcoders mailing list Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:33 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Flexbuilder 2 Alpha IDE problems I realize its still in Alpha, but has anyone noticed that highlighting long lines of code in the Flexbuilder 2 IDE is sometimes problematic, as the highlighting is sometimes delayed behind the cursor for as long as a few seconds? For example, if I try and click and drag my cursor across the following line in order to highlight it for a copy/paste: The highlighting suddenly stops at the d in dataprovider and then continues, then stops again a few characters later, then continues, etc. It seems to be worse when I try and highlight from right to left instead of left to right. Also, the problem is inconsistent as to what characters it stops at the next time I try. Eclipse didn't have that problem as far as I remember. Anyone else experiencing the same? It's a fairly annoying problem that slows down work. Also, is there a proper place to report bugs in Flexbuider 2? I couldn't seem to find a place on labs.macromedia.com - probably just missed it, or maybe its on macromedia.com Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com ___ 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