Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread Johannes Nel
XPath != *native* E4X i realise this, correct xml parsing is still faster while xpath is a comfort library to use when speed is not essential. xfactorstudio is the best and most complient xpath. have not used MM xpath since 7.0, but its api is extremely limited the best sollution thus far

Re: [Flashcoders] site carching when loading a particular xml file

2006-01-07 Thread Weyert de Boer
The buttons on the flash site itself! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Switching plugins on the mac

2006-01-07 Thread Weyert de Boer
On my Windows computers you can use a utility as Flash Plugin Switcher or do some magic in the registry. But is such thing also possible on the Mac? Because I don't want to use the Flashplayer 8.5 all the time. I only used Macs in my design course, since November I have my own Powerbook...

Re: [Flashcoders] Switching plugins on the mac

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/01/flash_player_sw.cfm - Original Message - From: Weyert de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:25 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Switching plugins on the

Re: [Flashcoders] Switching plugins on the mac

2006-01-07 Thread Weyert de Boer
JesterXL wrote: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/01/flash_player_sw.cfm Hmm, I hope Mike can't read my mind! ;) Anyway thanks for your link. Yours, Weyert de Boer ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] Preloading dynamic XML file using XMLConnector

2006-01-07 Thread Sajid Saiyed
Hi, I am storing my data in MySql database and using PHP to generate XML file on the fly which is then read by flash using XMLConnector. Now as long as the XML file is small, or is generated quickly by PHP, Flash displays the data in the datagrid properly. When there is a slight delay in

Re: [Flashcoders] Increasing DisplacementMapFilter Precision

2006-01-07 Thread Spencer Markowski
Absolutely. You can add as many filters as you like... all effecting different channels or components. On 1/6/06, Alan Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a shame that the displacement map only allots one byte each for its x and y components when there are four bytes available. We can use

RE: [Flashcoders] recommended books on XML in Flash

2006-01-07 Thread Ben Deroo
Thanks Johan, My hardcopy has not arrived yet, so I will certainly do a little pre-reading in the PDF. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Lopes Sent: vrijdag 6 januari 2006 23:33 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread Spencer Markowski
So then... does anyone know of any solutions to speed up the 'parsing' process? Is there a way to pause the parser, do something else, and then resume parsing? (It sure would be nice if we could do two things at once) Is anyone really having trouble with the XML Object's parser or is it developer

Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
This has been discussed countless times, and everytime all reach the same conclusion; you cannot do anything when XML.parseXML is run. The function has been improved in 3 releases (5, 6, and 7), but it's still single-threaded, and does not scale to meet larger XML datasets. If during testing

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Lite 2.0

2006-01-07 Thread Flavio Ramos
How's the speed, compared to J2ME and Python? It should be great to create a database of device's performance, just like www.jbenchmark.com . What do you think? On 1/6/06, Weyert de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flash Lite 2.0 just rocks! If you are dumb ass who doesn't really understand

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Lite 2.0

2006-01-07 Thread Weyert de Boer
Flavio Ramos wrote: How's the speed, compared to J2ME and Python? I haven't really played much with J2ME and Python myself, yet... If I find any information about it I will let you noW! It should be great to create a database of device's performance, just like www.jbenchmark.com . What

Re: [Flashcoders] Locale class problem

2006-01-07 Thread bryan.rice
You have to access static methods and properties via the full class path: this.sizeTitle_txt.text = mx.lang.Locale.setXMLLang.loadString (IDS_SIZETITLE) blue skies, bryan On Jan 7, 2006, at 11:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import mx.lang.Locale var defLang:String =

Re: [Flashcoders] Locale class problem

2006-01-07 Thread bryan.rice
Typo, it should read: this.sizeTitle_txt.text = mx.lang.Locale.loadString(IDS_SIZETITLE) blue skies, bryan On Jan 7, 2006, at 12:05 PM, bryan.rice wrote: You have to access static methods and properties via the full class path: this.sizeTitle_txt.text = mx.lang.Locale.setXMLLang.loadString

Re: [Flashcoders] Switching plugins on the mac

2006-01-07 Thread Sander
Weyert, On my Windows computers you can use a utility as Flash Plugin Switcher or do some magic in the registry. But is such thing also possible on the Mac? I have 3 zip archives on my Mac, in the Library/Internet Plugins folder: plugin 6,7,8 files. I quickly throw away all MM plugins

RE: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Lee
I had a project recently where I was parsing huge XML datasets... To get the speed and memory efficiency I needed, I ended up avoiding the XML object altogether. I loaded the XML as a String instead (using LoadVars), and split it into page sized chunks that I could parse on-demand later.

[Flashcoders] Detecting the dominating colour in a rectangle of a bitmap

2006-01-07 Thread Weyert de Boer
I would like to ask if anyone already have some sort method that calculates which colour in a rectangle is the dominating colou in a BitmapData instance. Because I would like to detect if some area of the image has a specific colour which is dominating - -for example black. Does anyone already

Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread ryanm
I'll be glad when I can release an AS3 version and take advantage of E4X. Even then you'll have issues with the amount of time it takes to parse large datasets. However, with native RegEx in 8.5 as well, you can write much more robust string splitting routines that are less dependant on the

Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread ryanm
I'm also working with massive amounts of XML data and cannot find a way to speed up my parsing routine. (For one set it takes 10+ seconds to release it's grip on the processor. Not allowing the user to do anything, of course) Like I said, break it up across frames and show a progress bar. 10

Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread blists
How would you break it up? Brookd At 12:05 PM 1/7/2006, you wrote: I'm also working with massive amounts of XML data and cannot find a way to speed up my parsing routine. (For one set it takes 10+ seconds to release it's grip on the processor. Not allowing the user to do anything, of course)

Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread ryanm
How would you break it up? Overwrite the onData event, take the data as a string and pass it off to a frame loop that parses x number of records per frame. You can teak the number of records per frame to fit the app, depending on how long parsing takes. The easiest way to do that is

Re: [Flashcoders] IE on mac documentation

2006-01-07 Thread Ryan Luce
There were all kinds of problems with mac ie and flash. All kinds of stuff would work with every browser except it. Very frustrating. On 1/6/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Caleb E. Brown wrote: I'm trying to find out if there are any known differences between the video/audio

[Flashcoders] Classes being cached - deleting ASO does help (flash 8)

2006-01-07 Thread blists
I have a strange problem. When I compile my project in the flash 8 IDE, one of my classes that I am editing does not get re-compiled. Testing in a browser does not show the changes. If I make a coding error in the class being compiled, the IDE complains and I have to change it before it will

RE: [Flashcoders] Classes being cached - deleting ASO does help (flash8)

2006-01-07 Thread Frederic v. Bochmann
You might be able to clear the cached compiled classes by clearing your ASO files. In the Flash 8 IDE you can do this via the Control menu -- Delete ASO Files. Hope this helps! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of blists Sent: January 7, 2006

RE: [Flashcoders] Classes being cached - deleting ASO does help (flash8)

2006-01-07 Thread blists
I should have been more clear sorry. Clearing the ASO files does not help in this case. At 03:15 PM 1/7/2006, you wrote: You might be able to clear the cached compiled classes by clearing your ASO files. In the Flash 8 IDE you can do this via the Control menu -- Delete ASO Files. Hope this

[Flashcoders] is delegate the answer?

2006-01-07 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i'm having problems referencing a listener that is attached to my media display component. i believe the answer lies in my using delegate. when my video plays thru, i can successfully remove my listener a la: var completeListener = new Object(); completeListener.complete = function(

Re: [Flashcoders] Classes being cached - deleting ASO does help (flash 8)

2006-01-07 Thread Ian Thomas
Is the movie you're having trouble with loaded into another containing movie? And has that other containing movie got references to a version of the class you're changing? In which case you need to recompile that containing movie, too. Flash always uses the first version of the class that it

Re: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread MyName
In my current project, I need to be able to pause my traversal function in order to load another nested xml file, which may contain dependencies the current loaded parent xml file is depended on. This almost can't be done by multiple passes or by breaking up data. So what I did was as suggested

RE: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Lee
I would suggest looking into setInterval as an architecturally cleaner way of doing this... Has the advantage that the interval is not dependant on the movie's framerate, and has less overhead than instantiating a movieclip. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting the dominating colour in a rectangle of abitmap

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Lee
Interesting idea... I don't have a method written, but the first thing I would do is try blurring the image until it is one uniform color (perhaps with a Transform Matrix), and then get the RGB of that color. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Flashcoders] IE on mac documentation

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
Not anymore; IE for Mac is dead. - Original Message - From: Ryan Luce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE on mac documentation There were all kinds of problems with mac

[Flashcoders] Generating XML file from projector

2006-01-07 Thread dls
Other than SWF Studio from Northcode, does anyone know of any other flash to .exe software that allows your projector to create XML files? Thanks in Advance, Dan Sherman ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] is delegate the answer?

2006-01-07 Thread John Grden
Hey Matt, if completeScope is a string, eval it in your call: removeEventListener( complete, eval(completeScope)); removeEventListener is looking for function or object in the second argument: function removeEventListener(event:String, handler):Void As for using Delegate, I don't think that's

Re: [Flashcoders] Generating XML file from projector

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
mProjector, Zinc, not sure about the OS version of Screenweaver. - Original Message - From: dls [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 10:27 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Generating XML file from projector Other

[Flashcoders] windows flash standalone able to export standalone file?

2006-01-07 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all - I have to recreate a Director app/dvd I've done a few times -- it's basically a presentation creation engine that allows one to pick slides and video and create their own small presentation. The client wants the ability to export standalone files, so I was exporting quicktime moves from