Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance
The same conclusion though, as long as you clean up your references to delegates, which means no object.addListener (click, Delegate.create()) constructions, you'd be fine and there is no need to get all paranoid:). Thats exactly what i think. In most cases, there is even no problem using addListener with Delegate because 1) the listener is never removed, because it is always needed 2) the dispatch object itself is removed cheers, Janosch Hans Wichman schrieb: Lol ok, checking your links, it seems Dimitrios posted his problems on his game performance back then when he had the issues, and most of whom have responded now, responded back then as well, myself included. The same conclusion though, as long as you clean up your references to delegates, which means no object.addListener (click, Delegate.create()) constructions, you'd be fine and there is no need to get all paranoid:). cheers JC On 10/24/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Muzak last time I checked your links didnt work, but forgot to report it. Ill check m now. On 10/24/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned earlier, this is a really old discussion: http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/?archive=2004_08_01_archive.xml http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-June/140994.html http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=delegate http://muzakdeezign.com/flashcoders/?q=remove%20delegate etc.. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance Hi, i agree, but it is only true, as long as there is a reference to the inline function. The text seems to suggest that although the reference to the inline function is gone, it still stays on memory. greetz JC ___ 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] TextInput Component display problem
Hello, ComboBox-Instances are not removed instantly, because they use the onUnload-Event, which takes one frame to be executet. (see ComboBox.as line 661) You can either fix this by modifing the Component or MonkeyPatching it, or you can wait one frame between the first form step, and the second one. Janosch Patrick Matte schrieb: Hi, I am building a 2-step form with flash 8 components. For the first step, I¹m attaching a MovieClip which has a few instances on stage of TextInput, ComboBox, RadioButton and CheckBox. For the second step, I remove the step 1 movieclip using removeMovieClip and replace it with a second movieclip which has only TextInputs. Everything looks normal except that the text inside won¹t show up. The problem seems to come from the RadioButton and ComboBox from Step 1 because the step 2 TextInputs show up nicely if I delete them. Is there an issue with the TextInput component used with RadioButton or ComboBox? Anybody ever went through a similar problem ? Any idea welcome. ___ 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] how to not overwrite methods, but append functionality
Hello,
some time ago i postet at flashforum.de how this can be done, without
drawbacks to the rest of the application:
http://www.flashforum.de/forum/showthread.php?t=207998
Its in german but the code is more or less internation :)
Janosch
Matthias Dittgen schrieb:
Hello list,
my tooltip class uses code like this mc.onRollOver = function() {}
to add its tooltip functionality to a movieclip mc. But this way it
overwrites the onRollOver method of mc and disables the functionality
like highlighting.
So now my question (probably a really simple one): How is it possible
to append functionality instead of overwriting? is there something
like super() is for cunstructors?
Thanks,
Matthias
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Re: [Flashcoders] x,y coordinates of a character
When using Flash 8, you can use the Method BitmapData.getColorBoundsRect, that will be faster. Janosch Robert Gordon schrieb: Hey List! I'm trying to find a way to determine the stage coordinates of a character within a dynamically constructed text field (multiline, wrapping, html formated). I've experimented with Erik's TextFieldExtension - but the html formatting wrapping seem to throw it off. Anyone have another solution? One thought I had was to recolor the field to white, colour the character of interest to non-white, convert to a bitmap object and walk it pixel by pixel. Can't imagine that's going to be very efficient though... Thanks in advance for any suggestions, r o b | Robert Gordon | The Article 19 Group Inc. | phone: 514.938.8512 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.article19.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] Array Empowerment
uniq is the appropriate function Janosch Mike Mountain schrieb: Yup good to see, an optimised remove duplicate items would be good, or have I missed it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Wichman Sent: 26 July 2006 10:41 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Array Empowerment Hi Steven, awesome, very welcome additions. Would addIfNotPresent (in want of a better name), getRandomItem(with the option of deleting that randomItem), randomizeOrder , make any sense to add as well? Or am I missing something (with respect to the code that is). greetz Hans ___ 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] Can I assign a Class to the main timeline?
This is a very nice explenation, thanks!
Janosch
Mark Winterhalder schrieb:
On 7/21/06, JulianG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks you Patrick and Weyert!
I tried Patrick's approach and it worked.
I had never used this __proto__ thing before.
Besides this, what do you use __proto__ or prototype for? I never use
it. Maybe I'm missing something.
__proto__ is a property every object has (except Object.prototype, I
guess), pointing ot its prototype. It's the way inheritance works in
the Flash VM, the Prototype Chain.
Say you have Foo extending Bar. Then any instance myFoo of Foo will
have myFoo.__proto__ == Foo.prototype, and Foo.prototype.__proto__
will point to Bar.prototype. Since Bar only inherits from Object,
Bar.prototype.__proto__ will point to Object.prototype.
Now, when you try to access a property of myFoo, the VM will first
check if your instance has it itself. If not, it will check its
__proto__, than the __proto__ of the __proto__, and so on, until it
eventually ends up at Object.prototype. If that doesn't have it,
either, it will call myFoo.__resolve() and pass a string with the
identifier of what had been tried to be accessed as an argument, and
use what you return as its value.
So, if you do...:
var myFoo = new Foo();
myFoo.__proto__ = Foobar.prototype;
then you modify the inheritance, your myFoo will have all the methods
an instance of Foobar would have.
Think of how it used to be done in AS1 (still works, BTW). You'd
create a class by declaring a constructor function:
function Foo () {
this.text = hello world!;
}
to inherit from Bar, you'd create a new instance of Bar and assign it
as Foo's prototype:
Foo.prototype = new Bar();
Some didn't like to instantiate an instance of the parent class to
inherit from, so they did this instead (causing lots of interesting
discussions whether or not to stick with documented features, as
__proto__ was undocumented back then):
Foo.prototype.__proto__ = Bar.prototype;
To add methods (or properties), you'd attach them to that prototype:
Foo.prototype.sayHello = function () {
trace( this.text );
};
So, instead of myFoo = new Foo(), you could also do:
var myFoo = {};
myFoo.__proto__ = Foo.prototype;
myFoo.__constructor__ = Foo;
Foo.apply( MyFoo );
Which is precisely what you're doing right now, except for the last
line which calls the constructor.
HTH,
Mark
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Re: [Flashcoders] Difference between null and undefined?
little error in !foo, correct like this:
if (!foo) {
// This will never run.
trace('foo');
}
Mike schrieb:
You can actually just use (!var) in most cases.
if (!undefined) {
// This will always run.
trace(undefined);
}
if (!null) {
// This will always run.
trace(null);
}
if (!false) {
// This will always run.
trace(false);
}
if (!0) {
// This will always run.
trace(0);
}
if (!) {
// This will always run.
trace('');
}
if (!.length) {
// This will always run.
trace('.length');
}
if (!foo) {
// This will always run.
trace('foo');
}
if (![].length) {
// This will never run.
trace([].length);
}
// Conversely...
if (!foo.length) {
// This will always run.
trace('foo.length');
}
if (!true) {
// This will never run.
trace(true);
}
if (!1) {
// This will never run.
trace(1);
}
if (!-1) {
// This will never run.
trace(-1);
}
if (!(Math.random() + 1)) {
// This will never run.
trace(Math.random() + 1);
}
if (!{}) {
// This will never run.
trace({});
}
if (![]) {
// This will never run.
trace([]);
}
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rifled
Cloaca
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:00 AM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Difference between null and undefined?
FlashCoders,
I've recently been upgrading some old Flash MX code to Flash 8, and have
been running into issues where properties return 'undefined' instead of
'null'. I seem to recall that undefined was introduced in Flash 7.
I've
always been confused about when something is undefined versus null, so I
always check for both. { (var != undefined var != null) }
Is there an explanation somewhere regarding the difference between
undefined
and null, and when to expect which? If not, can someone who understands
explain it?
Thanks in advance!
-rc
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Re: [Flashcoders] Difference between null and undefined?
Thats very strange, but in usual case you do not check for the pure
value, but for the value, saved in a variable:
a = foo;
trace(!a); // false
Janosch
Mike schrieb:
That's what I thought, too, but when I did the test, !foo evaluated as
true.
trace(!foo); /// Outputs true.
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little error in !foo, correct like this:
if (!foo) {
// This will never run.
trace('foo');
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Shared fonts : method with 2 files seems faster that method with 1 file
1) You have total control over which glyphs are included directly in the Flash IDE without having to use a 3rd party tool like SWFmill. Completly opposite on this. opposite to your opposite :) I wanted to embed all japanese characters of a font, how do you do this with swfmill? I don't want to define them all in the glyphs attribute, but i also don't want to embed the whole font. So my solution for this was: 1) embed the needed characters with Flash 2) decompile the generated swf with swfmill 3) changing the xml so it works as shared font library (adjusted the font name) 4) recompile with swfmill. Greets, Janosch erixtekila schrieb: The shared lib isn't loaded twice. You just have to wait for a delay frame, in order to use it. That's all. Actually I'm pretty sure it does load twice but I'd be glad to hear that I'm wrong. Let me show you what I mean. Good observation, but wrong tools, IMHO. I wouldn't want to rely too much on the bandwidth profiler to make good assumptions. But perhaps the behavior (that I have observed following your test) can perhaps only be for offline use ? Following your line, I've hosted Zarate's file on a web server. Requesting the files with firefox and livehttpheaders. That don't give the same results as yours. And I would preferably rely on those tools instead. Here are an output of the session : --- http://www.v-i-a.net/t/ GET /t/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.v-i-a.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060603 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/ plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:33:40 GMT Server: Apache Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 567 -- http://www.v-i-a.net/t/index.swf GET /t/index.swf HTTP/1.1 Host: www.v-i-a.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060603 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/ plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://www.v-i-a.net/t/ HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:33:41 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:22:12 GMT Etag: 18a8b8e-37c-44b50594 Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 892 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash -- http://www.v-i-a.net/favicon.ico GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1 Host: www.v-i-a.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060603 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Accept: image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:33:41 GMT Server: Apache Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=97 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 -- http://www.v-i-a.net/t/Quadaptor.swf GET /t/Quadaptor.swf HTTP/1.1 Host: www.v-i-a.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060603 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/ plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:33:41 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:48:40 GMT Etag: 18a8b8f-1b47-424ea2b8 Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 6983 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=97 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash -- You'll notice that the shared font lib is requested only once. As to conclude that the loading appears twice offline and once online, I can't. On the topic of faux fonts, could you please send me (privatly) a swf containing fonts with the Ivan and Bernard technic. I'll try to figure what permit this behavior. Shouldn't be to hard. Perhaps a swfmill not yet implemented feature ? So that's why I was king of leaning forward the 2 SWF file per shared font methods used by Ivan and Bernard because even though there are 2 files instead of one by shared font: 1) You have total control over which glyphs are included directly
Re: [Flashcoders] Shared fonts : method with 2 files seems faster that method with 1 file
Simpler than that, omit the attribute glyph of the swfmill's font tag. No, i already wrote, that i don't want to embed the whole font (this would result in +2MByte chinese characters) Greets, Janosch erixtekila schrieb: 1) You have total control over which glyphs are included directly in the Flash IDE without having to use a 3rd party tool like SWFmill. Completly opposite on this. opposite to your opposite :) I wanted to embed all japanese characters of a font, how do you do this with swfmill? I don't want to define them all in the glyphs attribute, but i also don't want to embed the whole font. So my solution for this was: 1) embed the needed characters with Flash 2) decompile the generated swf with swfmill 3) changing the xml so it works as shared font library (adjusted the font name) 4) recompile with swfmill. Simpler than that, omit the attribute glyph of the swfmill's font tag. Please refer to swfmill mailing-list for further discussions of that **genious** tool. Best. --- erixtekila http://blog.v-i-a.net/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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] improving ScrollPane performance
Before you start implementing pages, try out to load all the content into a simple masked MovieClip and check the performance. Janosch André Goliath schrieb: Andy and Eric, thanks for your responses :) Unfortunatly you confirmed what I was afraid of ;) cacheAsBitmap reveales the problem that the text fields look messy and get crippled after scrolling or even editing. A kind of draw only if neccessary would also be impossible to me since the pane is a kind of editor, and therefore I do not know what the user wants to see or edit. I would run into scrolling issues too. I guess I have to go with plan B 1/2:Implement a pageing system then,... Thanks, André -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Stone Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:05 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance That might be too much for Flash to handle. You might be able to only load the MCs that are near the visible area by making a grid and get the ScrollPane position? -A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Goliath Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:59 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs gets instanciated from the library and then filled with some data via AS. The loaded MC contains some HTML textfields and another movieclip which loads a JPEG using loadMovie directly off-disk (it´s an exe projector). Now, once the ScrollPane is populated it takes incredibly long for scrolling and even typing few chars in the textfields tooks about 5 secs until they finaly appear. is there anything I could do to improve the performance of the Scrollpane? Or is that jsut too much data for Flash to handle? My plan B would be to break the 400 loaded MCs up into pages but I´d rather not do that. Or is there any other component that performs better and could be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Scrollpane? TIA André ___ 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] weirdness passing string to text field
Danny Kodicek schrieb: Chris: Thanks for elaborating on the restrict issue. Looks like I won't need to explore it just yet, but it's good to know about. (Since I'm very new to the Flash/Actionscript thing and am learning 'on the job' with a project deadline looming I'm being pragmatic and just learning the bits of AS that I need to make the project work. I'll flesh out my knowledge afterward). Just to clarify: I'm pretty sure the restrict property only affects user-typed input, not text that you add dynamically with code. Danny Thats correct: _root.createTextField(txt, 1, 0, 0, 100, 100); _root.txt.type = input; _root.txt.restrict = abc; _root.txt.text = hallo; // complete hallo is written into the TextField Janosch ___ 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] Textfield clearing on Enter key
Hello,
the text length is 0, becaus at this time, there is no linebrake in the
textfield.
The Key-Listener is faster than the textfield.
Try this:
_root.createTextField(txt, 1, 0, 0, 100, 100);
_root.txt.type = input;
_root.txt.multiline = true;
_root.txt.wordWrap = true;
_root.clearText = function(id) {
clearInterval(_root.clearTextIntervalId);
_root.txt.text = ;
};
_root.keyListener = new Object();
_root.keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.ENTER) {
_root.clearTextIntervalId = setInterval(_root.clearText, 10);
}
};
Key.addListener(_root.keyListener);
Janosch
Danny Kodicek schrieb:
God knows why this is such a hassle:
I have a chat app that sends messages when the user hits enter. The
input field is multiline (and needs to be, for the sake of elegance).
Hitting enter inserts a line break in the text regardless of what i do
right now. The method reads something like this:
function clearText() {
chat_input.text = ;
trace(chat_input.text.length);
}
kl = {};
Key.addListener(kl);
kl.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.ENTER)) {
clearText();
}
};
After clearText, The input field has 2 blank lines and a text length of
0. I'm hugely confused here, and kind of freaked out.
If it's got a text length of 0 maybe it doesn't actually have two blank
lines, it's just not reset its height to where it was before clearing the
text. Try storing its _width and _height and resetting those as part of your
clearText function.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Any tools for testing flash applications?
Hello, at osflash you can find a project called AutoTestFlash, which can be used for GUI-tests. Janosch Vipin schrieb: Hello All, I am new to this mailing list and this is my first mail. We are a company which makes desktop flash/director applications(both desktop and online). If there is any reliable tools using which we can automate testing the applications. We tried a tool called 'Test Smith', but found not reliable. Any suggestions? links? which can help us ___ 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] the Function class and messing with it
Hello,
in AS2 this is not possible, Functions are compiled, local variable
names get lost, so in the final flash movie, the function does not exist
the way, you coded it.
Don't know about AS3 ...
Janosch
Meinte van't Kruis schrieb:
Hi folks,
In common javascript it's possible to alert a function and 'see' the
function
as it is.
function test(){
alert(A);
}
Prints out in javascript excactly as it is, in actionscript you get
'[Type
Function]'.
Is there any way to somehow to see the internals of a function in
actionscript (2.0, though im curious
bout 3.0 as well)?
It would be fun to do, because one could alter functions run-time that
way.
I've tried using
external interface to kick a function to javascript, but this won't
do, just
throws a javascript
error. I also tried Function.valueOf() instead of toString(), but this
won't
do either.
Anyone has an idea on this one?
thanks!
Meinte
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Re: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness
Hello, i always use textfield.autoSize, and it works fine. But you have to be carefull, to set the correct styles to the textfield, before measuring. Janosch Danny Kodicek schrieb: I've noticed a post about this in the archives, but it was described as a Mac issue and I'm getting it on a PC. I'm trying to use TextFormat.getTextExtent() to do some image calculations, but I'm getting enormous values. I suspect it's because my text includes newline characters, but that's just a guess. The docs say the function is deprecated, but the liveDocs emphatically deny this. Anyone got any suggestions? I've found a few more posts in the archives about this. Everyone says, essentially, don't use it - and it looks like it won't solve my problem in any case, because it essentially returns the same values as field.textHeight / textWidth. Maybe someone can offer some alternative suggestions. I need to get a bitmap representing a menu. It will contain n lines of text, and needs to be resized automatically to the extent of the text. So far so simple. But the problem I'm having is that field.textWidth (and autosize too) crops the text too close, with the result that the top and bottom lines of text are both hard up against the edge of the image, so that the size of the image is not equal to n* the line height, as I need. And without getTextExtent I can't see any simple method for finding the height of the line - and in other circumstances I might not even know how many lines there are, although of course if I know the lineHeight I can get this by ceil(textHeight/lineHeight) Thoughts welcome Danny ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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] Sort within an object
Hello, is Track an array? Janosch Mendelsohn, Michael schrieb: Hi list... Is there any way to sort within an object: Track[1][score] Track[2][score] Track[3][score] Track[4][score] Track[5][score] All the tracks have different score numeric values. What's the most efficient way of getting them in order? It seems sort and sortOn only work on arrays. Thanks, - Michael M. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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 Physics Engine
http://www.cove.org/flade/ Janosch Oliver Lecher schrieb: Hi, i am looking for a free flash physics engine. MFG Oliver ___ 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] Object Listener?
No, such thing does not exist. Perhaps you can use __resolve or getters and setters to hook in the getting of properties, and invalidate then your object. But with this, you will lose type-safety. Greetings, Janosch Doug Coning schrieb: Greetings, Is there an object listener that will trigger if ANY item within the object is modified? I know watch will trigger if a specific attribute is modified, however, I want to trigger an event if any of the attributes within an object is modified. My Object is a complex object. I contains arrays that contain more objects, that contain more arrays. I don't want to have to add event listeners for each array and item within my object. Does a single object listener exist that will recognize any change within an object, no matter how deep it is? Thank you very much! Doug Coning Senior Web Development Programmer FORUM Solutions, LLC This e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended for the specified recipient(s) only and are legally protected. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to sender's e-mail address with notification of the error and then destroy this message in all electronic and physical forms. ___ 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] changing the width of a dynamic text field
Oh, thanks a log for [strg] + [shift] + [z], this helps a lot!!! Janosch Lanny McNie schrieb: You don't necessarily need to create it with Actionscript, just remove the transform on it in the IDE. Text fields that are scaled in the IDE (stretched) will measure their width adjusted with their scale. So if you have a 100px wide text field (not stretched), and stretch it to 200px in the IDE (with the transform tool or numerically), the _width of the field is 100px*2. If you then set the _width with AS to 200px, the result will be 400px (200px*2). It seems to me that this is an odd way for flash to handle text field scaling, but if you understand whats happening, its easy to circumvent. As a developer who frequently receives scaled assets from designers, CTRL-SHIFT-Z (remove transform) is my best friend :) On 6/8/06, Phil Glatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:14 AM 6/8/2006, João wrote: I think is something related to the name of your textField, if it was created in the designing or programming mode I got this sample from the ActionScript manual, tested it and it works fine this.createTextField (my_txt, this.getNextHighestDepth (), 10, 40, 160, 120); ... Yes; I created it in design mode, rather than from actionscript. Your suggestion works perfectly, so I will use actionscript to create the field. Why wouldn't it work either way? I have a feeling these is something I must do in actionscript before changing the width. thanks for your suggetsion, Phil ___ 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] relative path issue
I don't know why, but this email cam to me like this: Hello all, Painful discovery. This technique works great on a PC, not on a MAC. Any ideas? -- Michael Michael A. Jordan schrieb: Hello all, Painful discovery. This technique works great on a PC, not on a MAC. Any ideas? -- Michael ___ 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] scrollPane
User scrollPane.content instead of scrollPane.contentPath to get the content-MovieClip. Janosch eric dolecki schrieb: I have a scrollPane inside an accordion - and I'm trying to build up a mc with UI and have it placed inside the scrollPane... I used to do this in the past, but I forgot how exactly... some of the code: child2.genres_sp.contentPath = emptyHolder; // works no problem var mc = child2.genres_sp.contentPath.attachMovie(genreSection, genreSection_+i, i ); // build up clips here... child2.genres_sp.invalidate(); However, ___ 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
