[Flashcoders] Serious Problem with Big Loads... HELP ME , please... HELP ME

2005-12-11 Thread Julián Atienza
HELP ME! I have a demo of my project in a few days and i still have a serious problem... I made my project using several levels (Level_0, Level_1, Level_2) , AS2.0 and some classes to help me with the manage of interface, information to parse from XML, etc... One of my problems

Re: [Flashcoders] Serious Problem with Big Loads... HELP ME , please... HELP ME

2005-12-11 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, well, i don't think its the filesize. I've loaded 10mb fla's into another swf without a problem. Interface responds as it should, progressbar updates normally etc. I can only offer you some general tips: - run the project from a webserver if you havent already done so, it might act

Re: [Flashcoders] Serious Problem with Big Loads... HELP ME , please... HELP ME

2005-12-11 Thread Cortlandt Winters
Hi Julian The good news is that there is definitely a way to fix this. The bad news is i'm not sure you have been able to describe what is going on well enough for folk to help you figure it out yet. First. A question. Is this 5MB swf an animation with graphs or interactive graphs? If it's an

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: 3D in Flash

2005-12-11 Thread Dave Mennenoh
... but so far all only simple catalog stuff is what I've seen Beacuse the viewpoint plugin _is_ simple... Use Director 3D - much more powerful. Dave - www.blurredistinction.com/director www.macromedia.com/go/team ___ Flashcoders mailing

[Flashcoders] RE: Serious Problem with Big Loads... HELP ME , please... HELP ME

2005-12-11 Thread Julián Atienza
Thank for the 2 answer but i forgot to say that wasn't a Web-project. This is an StandAlone Project in DVD with projector... that's the cause i thought the size of files wasn't a important question... The big load i was talking about contains a lot of interactive actions... that isn't a

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-11 Thread Martin Wood
One thing that i think could be added to the Sound class now which would help in creating audio applications in flash is to have a 'polyphony' setting. if i make a new sound object and want to control how many voices it uses it would be great to just say : var snd:Sound = new Sound();

RE: [Flashcoders] universal toString() function

2005-12-11 Thread zwetan
I'm quite sure that this must be around somewhere, but this time I didn't have any luck searching the archives... What I'm looking for is similar to a deep-copy/clone method (e.g. Arul/Tatsuo http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/htdig/flashcoders/2004- March/106149.htm l) but instead of

[Flashcoders] Custom Loading Bar Lines and Fade into next frame? How do I do this?

2005-12-11 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
Hey guys, I have a client who wants a custom loading screen - They want a line to create a rectangle shape on as loading reaches 100% adn then for all the content to fade in - would you use onEnterFrame for this? help muhc appreciated! Nick Chh.

[Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
Ok, I have 4 lines which tween (shape) one after the other to make rectangles, I was wondering how to load 1 frame as the percentage goes up by one and so on. Does anyone know howto do this, help is much appreciated! Nick Chh. ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote: Ok, I have 4 lines which tween (shape) one after the other to make rectangles, I was wondering how to load 1 frame as the percentage goes up by one and so on. Does anyone know howto do this, help is much appreciated! Take a look at the

Re: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
No, this is only useful for Picture files, and waiting for them to download, I am using this as an actual preloader for site, I have a 100 frame anuimation of lines extending to form rectangles, and I want the movieclip to play in time with the percentageLoaded - this is a variable I have set

Re: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Dec 11, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote: No, this is only useful for Picture files, No, it is also useful for SWF files. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
I don't need this functionality. I am trying to preload the timeline. Troy Rollins wrote: On Dec 11, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote: No, this is only useful for Picture files, No, it is also useful for SWF files. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net

RE: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with theloading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Howard Nager
Have you looked at getBytesTotal() and getBytesLoaded()? You can pretty easily calculate percentage loaded from those - in your case my guess would be that you are looking for something like: var percentage = (_root.getBytesLoaded()/root.getBytesTotal()) * 100; -Original Message-

RE: [Flashcoders] build text one char at a time with random

2005-12-11 Thread Robin Burrer
Hey Mick, I'm sure you can this yourself - that's not rocket science :-) Check out the string class - the rest is just a bit of fiddling around. Cheers Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mick G Sent: Monday, 12 December 2005 2:26

Re: [Flashcoders] build text one char at a time with random

2005-12-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Robin Burrer wrote: I'm sure you can this yourself - that's not rocket science :-) Check out the string class - the rest is just a bit of fiddling around. Of course, you'll thank yourself for using a monospaced font, otherwise you'll probably end up watching

[Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2005-12-11 Thread Simon Lord
I have a movieClip on stage and a movieClip in the library that has an identifier. The idea is to get the movieClip (which is exported for runtime) to load into the movieClip which is on stage. It serves as a placeholder until an image is called for elsewhere. For whatever reason I just

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2005-12-11 Thread Flash guru
try attachMovie(), its well documented in the help files ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] build text one char at a time with random

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Bedar
If the background color is the same under all of the text, you could easily use a little css to tag the areas you want hidden, by making them that color, even with a crazy font. On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:50 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Robin Burrer wrote: I'm sure

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Bedar
Just to expand on that, loadMovie loads an external SWF or JPG (and more in Flash 8) into a MovieClip. attachMovie loads a named MovieClip from your flash library into a MovieClip. On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Flash guru wrote: try attachMovie(), its well documented in the help files

Re: [Flashcoders] build text one char at a time with random

2005-12-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Michael Bedar wrote: If the background color is the same under all of the text, you could easily use a little css to tag the areas you want hidden, by making them that color, even with a crazy font. CSS. Good point. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd.

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2005-12-11 Thread Simon Lord
Thanks, finally got it working. Just to expand on that, loadMovie loads an external SWF or JPG (and more in Flash 8) into a MovieClip. attachMovie loads a named MovieClip from your flash library into a MovieClip. On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Flash guru wrote: try attachMovie(),

Re: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
Yeh, I've already got all the preloading code setup - kBytesLoaded = _parent.getBytesLoaded()/1024; kBytesTotal = _parent.getBytesTotal()/1024; kBytesRemaining = kBytesTotal - kBytesLoaded; percentageLoaded = 100 * kBytesLoaded / kBytesTotal; percentRemaining = 100 - percentageLoaded;

[Flashcoders] Flash buttons in Firefox don't work?

2005-12-11 Thread Sascha Balkau
Hi list, are there any known issues with buttons inside a flash movie doesn't work in the newest Firefox and Netscape versions? I've developed a Flash RSS ticker for a client where I have a dynamic textfield (which uses CSS) and over the textfield mc I have a movieclip which acts as a mask

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3, can Flex 2 Alpha compile anything but Flex?

2005-12-11 Thread David Peek
Lets say I had a different application framework (AS3 packages) could I compile it in Flex 2 without the Macromedia component architecture? Would I need Eclipse to do this maybe? Thanks, David ___ Flashcoders mailing list