[Flashcoders] damn trouble: if loop dont go at first condition

2005-10-08 Thread MetaArt
Description: I have some instances of a mc, with inside a button; the button have the code below: on (rollOver) { _root.blinker.myclip = this.arrow; _root.blinker.gotoAndPlay(2); _root.name = this._name; // NOTICE THIS } on (rollOut) { _root.blinker.gotoAndStop(1); my_color = new Color(this.a

[Flashcoders] Problems writing Shared Objects in Flash 8

2005-10-08 Thread Matt Muller
Hi, this is the second site I have seen have issues with this, it happens only within my company and our desktops are actually on the network and not local. Flash 7 writes the SOL files no problem, but Flash 8 wont, is this a security issue with writing data to a network, has anyone else had the sa

[Flashcoders] scrollRect.height?

2005-10-08 Thread Kent Humphrey
Hey guys, this is my first post, so excuse me if I misbehave ;> I'm trying to come to grips with scrollRect. I have applied it to a MC, no problem, using a new Rectangle. I can see the width, height, x, and y of the scrollRect, but I can't change them. Here is my code: var rect:Rectangle = n

Re: [Flashcoders] scrollRect.height?

2005-10-08 Thread Marcelo Volmaro
mainMenu.scrollRect.height = 50; mainMenu.scrollRect = mainMenu.scrollRect; You need to re-set the rectangle (setting it to itself do the work). On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:43:32 -0300, Kent Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey guys, this is my first post, so excuse me if I misbehave ;> I'm t

Re: [Flashcoders] scrollRect.height?

2005-10-08 Thread Kent Humphrey
Benjamin Herholz | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you dont change the height via the height property of the scrollRect. you just set a new rectangle with your desired values. var rect:Rectangle = new flash.geom.Rectangle(475,41,your new width,your new height); mainMenu.scrollRect = rect; gr, ~~

Re: [Flashcoders] BIT-101/Beamjive component set

2005-10-08 Thread Jim Kremens
Thanks! On 10/7/05, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > These have been transfered over to Flashloaded, and can be purchased there: > http://www.flashloaded.com/bitcomponents.php > > Cheers, > > Ken > > http://www.xyris.ca > > Jim Kremens wrote: > > >Hi all, > > I'm trying to get some co

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

2005-10-08 Thread Marc Hoffman
This alert pops up when I use I.E. to locally play the html and .swf that Flash publishes: "! Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly. OK" If I put this on a web server, it plays fine. It also works locally

[Flashcoders] Fonts not rendered in loaded movie

2005-10-08 Thread JesterXL
I'm having an issue where embedded fonts work in my SWF fine, but when I load the SWF into another one, they are no longer visible. Apparently, I can trace the fields out, so I know they have text in them. I remember reading about this issue back in Flash 5. Apparently, if your movie's textfi

RE: [Flashcoders] calling all accessibility gurus

2005-10-08 Thread Michael A. Jordan
That's the expected behavior. Unfortunately, you can't take control over focus management from the screen reader or force the screen reader to read something. In fact, if you shift focus with ActionScript using Selection.setFocus(), JAWS will ignore the command and try to keep the focus where it

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread ryanm
I fail to see the relationship between the ".NET" part of the statement and the possibility of "cross-platform" part. .NET apps can be *consumed* from any platform. ryanm ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chatt

[Flashcoders] Re: attachMovie woes

2005-10-08 Thread Carlos Saenz
I am attaching the dots at a position well within the area of the target movieClip. Also, the dots MUST be loaded into this MC because the MC will be programmatically scaled up and moved, and the red dots need to grow and move with it. I just need to know why the width and height of the MC

[Flashcoders] JIT in 8.5, this sounds good and promissing

2005-10-08 Thread Frédéric v . Bochmann
Hey, Mike Chambers posted this nice video about Kevin Lynch’s Session at Web2.0. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2005/10/video_of_kevin.cfm Thanks. Kevin Lynch seems to mention that the future version of the player will support JIT (Just in time compiler). Does this mean tha

Re: [Flashcoders] Fonts not rendered in loaded movie

2005-10-08 Thread Matt Muller
if you have fonts both in the lib and embedded in a dyn text box, the font wont show up, well this is true with arial/verdana from my experience. I solved this by just embedding the font in a dynamic box ad deleting from the lib., also sometimes you need the reiterate say if you are using a textfor

Re: [Flashcoders] Fonts not rendered in loaded movie

2005-10-08 Thread Zeh Fernando
I remember reading about this issue back in Flash 5. Apparently, if your movie's textfields uses embeded fonts, you need to ensure on _level0, you have a textfield, physically on the stage, that has the the font in question embedded. However, I think this only applied to SharedLibraries. Tha

[Flashcoders] Why are spaces stripped out of html text?

2005-10-08 Thread Nick Kuh
If you apply the following html text to a html enabled input text field in Flash... txtObj.htmlText = "Line 1 Line 3"; ... The space on the second line gets removed from the displayed text. Why? Is there a way to force it to appear without adding any other characters to the second line? Nick _

Re: [Flashcoders] Fonts not rendered in loaded movie

2005-10-08 Thread JesterXL
Crap... well, I've been testing in Flash 8, targetted at Flash Player 6. I ran in MX 2004 and same issue. This blows... :: hits monitor :: - Original Message - From: "Zeh Fernando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 3:15 PM Subject: Re

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

2005-10-08 Thread John Olson
That's a "feature" of WinXP SP2... Which I will assume you are using. LINK: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19542#active - John -Original Message- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:16:59 -0700 From: Marc Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Flashc

Re: [Flashcoders] JIT in 8.5, this sounds good and promissing

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Chambers
No. It does not mean you can load and execute source files at runtime. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation JIT is a technique for improving the performance of bytecode-compiled programming systems, by translating bytecode into native machine code at runtime.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Jim Kremens
How does that work on the Mac? Jim Kremens On 10/8/05, ryanm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I fail to see the relationship between the ".NET" part of the > > statement and the possibility of "cross-platform" part. > > > .NET apps can be *consumed* from any platform. > > ryanm > ___

[Flashcoders] Drop Shadow Rendering Issue

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Bedar
I have a MovieClip, lets call it "mc_holder" that I am creating, drawing a rectangle in, and then applying a dropshadow filter.. Inside "mc_holder", I am creating an "image_holder" MC, inside of which I am creating several MC's, each of which is having an Image Loaded into it

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

2005-10-08 Thread Kevin Aebig
This is because of IE's internal security saying "You're running an activeX plugin locally, which could be dangerous, watch out!"... It'll scream the same thing with any other plugins, if run locally. Cheers, Kevin - Original Message - From: "Marc Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "F

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread ryanm
How does that work on the Mac? Go to any site developed with .NET on a mac, and it'll work. ryanm ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Chambers
I think you need to distinguish between the .NET runtime, and ASP.NET. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ryanm wrote: How does that work on the Mac? Go to any site developed with .NET on a mac, and it'll work. ryanm ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Weyert de Boer
Mono runs under MacOSX (www.go-mono.org) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread hank williams
Yeah... that is a **HUGE** difference. Typically when people talk about .net they are talking about the whole managed environment. Saying that anyone can "consume" .net apps is like saying that someone without java can consume jsp apps. Its not the same thing as being able to run java code client s

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Isaac Rivera
Yes, .NET web applications running on MS can be consumed from any platform, But I believe the point he was making was regarding Avalon apps. Isn't Avalon for developing desktop apps? That is the point I was talking about. Isaac On Oct 8, 2005, at 1:38 PM, ryanm wrote: I fail to see the r

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Weyert de Boer
Microsoft is planning to make a runtime available for MacOSX. That's what I read somewhere, though. The .NET runtime (only windows and freebsd) is not available for MacOSX but you can use the opensource alternative Mono (go-mono.com) and use that it. It works like charm even while its not featu

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Isaac Rivera
I know that MS has stated that they would port .NET to ALL platforms. Let's see. Until there is an official, up to date, fully capable, Darwin port, there is an even better alternative than mono... JVM can be developed and deployed everywhere with community-approved products. Isaac On Oc

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

2005-10-08 Thread Marc Hoffman
Actually, I'm not using SP2 -- I decided to forego all the lovely "features" I'd heard about. But maybe it's inherent to I.E. 6. I ended up changing security settings for "restricted sites," which I never thought would apply to local folders (!), and that fixed the problem. Of course who knows

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Weyert de Boer
Isaac Rivera wrote: I know that MS has stated that they would port .NET to ALL platforms. Let's see. Until there is an official, up to date, fully capable, Darwin port, there is an even better alternative than mono... JVM can be developed and deployed everywhere with community-approved pr

Re: [Flashcoders] Drop Shadow Rendering Issue

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Britton
Why don't you create a new mc behind image_holder, draw a rectangle in it and apply the DropShadowFilter to it? Better yet, create one mc specifically for the DropShadowFilter and duplicate it. Mike ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.fi

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Jim Kremens
The discussion of JVM and .NET runtimes makes me wonder whether Flash will ever really compete with them. How much faster is the new Virtual Machine? Whatever the increase, does it put us in the realm of, say, Java regarding speed? If not, how far off? Jim Kremens On 10/8/05, Weyert de Boer <[

[Flashcoders] Flashout

2005-10-08 Thread Weldon MacDonald
I just installed eclipse 3.1.1 on my laptop, but I'm getting an error when I try to create a .flashout file. I unzipped the download in to the plug-in folder as per the instructions I could find, did I miss something? Where can I ask about this error? _

RE: [Flashcoders] JIT in 8.5, this sounds good and promissing

2005-10-08 Thread Frédéric v . Bochmann
Oh, this is still very cool! Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Chambers Sent: October 8, 2005 4:08 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JIT in 8.5, this sounds good and promissing No. It does not mean you ca

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread hank williams
Of course there is no way to know without trying it but... with a Just in time compiler it should be in the ball park of java or the .net VM. Compiler technology is pretty well understood. If they have been working on this for 2 years there is no reason they shouldnt be state of the art in this ar

Re: [Flashcoders] Drop Shadow Rendering Issue

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Bedar
I ended up making a new mc just for the shadow... I was somewhat attached to the idea of just adding filters to the main container however, so its a shame it appears to be buggy. On Oct 8, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Mike Britton wrote: Why don't you create a new mc behind image_holder, draw a rect

Re: [Flashcoders] JIT in 8.5, this sounds good and promissing

2005-10-08 Thread Weyert de Boer
Would it cache the bytecode too? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Chambers
Until of course Microsoft sues the mono guys: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2887217,00.html mike chambers Weyert de Boer wrote: freebsd) is not available for MacOSX but you can use the opensource alternative Mono (go-mono.com) and use that it. It works like charm

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Weyert de Boer
:-) Always possible. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Isaac Rivera
I would say all too common... when it comes to MS... On Oct 8, 2005, at 7:17 PM, Weyert de Boer wrote: :-) Always possible. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders __

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Weyert de Boer
Isaac Rivera wrote: I would say all too common... when it comes to MS... Yeah... anyway the Mono project is still active! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Jim Kremens
"with a Just in time compiler it should be in the ball park of java or the .net VM. Compiler technology is pretty well understood. If they have been working on this for 2 years there is no reason they shouldnt be state of the art in this area." That's crazy. I can't wait... Jim Kremens On 10/8/

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread ryanm
Yes, .NET web applications running on MS can be consumed from any platform, But I believe the point he was making was regarding Avalon apps. Isn't Avalon for developing desktop apps? That is the point I was talking about. Apps for Avalon may be delivered as desktop apps or as web apps, t

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread ryanm
Until of course Microsoft sues the mono guys: Hhhh this sounds fasmiliar. Wait, didn't Sun sue MS for exactly the same thing? But Sun was the "good guy", right? But now, when MS is in exactly the same position that Sun was in (someone else developing a competing runtime), they're th

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread Weyert de Boer
Oh well, we will see what happens next year ;-) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

2005-10-08 Thread hank williams
Wow, talk about comparing apples and oranges. 1. The Sun Microsoft suit was a contract suit not a patent suit. If Microsoft sued anyone it would be over allowing patents to end up in open source with a GPL. 2. There has been *no* announcement of any law suit so lets not get ahead of ourselves her

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashout

2005-10-08 Thread Muzak
Try the osflash mailing list: http://osflash.org/ http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org Muzak - Original Message - From: "Weldon MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Flashcoders mailing list'" Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 12:14 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Flashout >I

Re: [Flashcoders] Drop Shadow Rendering Issue

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Britton
I went through the same thing and was disappointed to discover that for dropshadows, we may be better off still using imported pngs. Glad you sorted it out. Mike ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/

Re: [Flashcoders] Drop Shadow Rendering Issue

2005-10-08 Thread Alain Rousseau
You should approach drop shadows in Flash the same way you do in Photoshop (or similar). It's allways best to put your shadow in a separate layer if you want to tweek it, move it, distort it, etc ... Do the same in flash and you will have less problems ! Mike Britton wrote: I went through th

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: attachMovie woes

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Velevitch
Please post the code and include the x, y position of the target movieclip and the dots. Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://