[Flashcoders] Remove cellPress Listener on DataGrid

2006-03-17 Thread Felipe Fernandez
Hi, is that possible? How could I do that? 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

Re: [Flashcoders] Position objects evenly around ellipse

2006-03-17 Thread Danny Kodicek
Would anyone have a function, class, formula, idea whatever that would allow me to calculate X and Y values to place an "n" number of movie clips evenly spaced around an ellipse/oval shape? The number of clips can vary based on external data. The ellipse would also have to be calculated I suppo

Re: [FlashCoders] remove BitmapData

2006-03-17 Thread Dimitrios Bendilas
I didn't know that about dispose. I guess you are right. I changed my code and now I keep a reference of the bitmap, so I can execute dispose() whenever I want. Thanks guys, Dimitrios - Original Message - From: "elibol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" Sent: Wednesda

RE: [Flashcoders] Question for XML Style Junkies

2006-03-17 Thread jim
You cant have cdata or any tags inside an attribute, you should put this in a child tag of its own. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 16 March 2006 17:09 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Question f

[Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director work, FPS with bots, network play etc.

2006-03-17 Thread Mike Mountain
http://www.rasterwerks.com/game/phosphor/beta1.htm I had to share this. Cheers M ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to yo

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director work, FPS with bots, network play etc.

2006-03-17 Thread Adrian Lynch
But where the baddies at? All that fire power and no one to use it on! :OD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Mountain Sent: 17 March 2006 11:42 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director work, FPS with bo

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director work, FPS with bots, network play etc.

2006-03-17 Thread Mike Mountain
You can enable bots... or play over the network with someone else. I think it'll still be a while before we see anything like this in flash, AS3 or not... M > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Adrian Lynch > Sent: 17 March 2006 12:

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director work, FPS with bots, network play etc.

2006-03-17 Thread Nick Weekes
That is a stunning piece of work...didnt realise director could interface with DirectX. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Mountain Sent: 17 March 2006 12:28 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Direc

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director work, FPS with bots, network play etc.

2006-03-17 Thread James Marsden
that is inspiring!! Great work. Nick Weekes wrote: That is a stunning piece of work...didnt realise director could interface with DirectX. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http:/

RE: [Flashcoders] Question for XML Style Junkies

2006-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
Thanks very much - that's exactly what I ended up doing. I didn't realize CDATA was a type of node before, though it should have been obvious to me. Thanks to everyone for your help. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com >>-Original Message- >>From: [EM

RE: [Flashcoders] Position objects evenly around ellipse

2006-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
I think by evenly spaced I mean equal arc lengths around the ellipse. Thanks for the idea. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Kodicek >>Sent: F

[Flashcoders] amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread eric dolecki
Does anyone have sample code of doing a search for album art using the Amazon web service? You can leave your key out of it... import mx.data.components.WebServiceConnector; var res:Function = function (evt:Object) { trace( evt.target.results ); }; var wsConn:WebServiceConnector = new WebSer

Re: [Flashcoders] Position objects evenly around ellipse

2006-03-17 Thread Danny Kodicek
>I think by evenly spaced I mean equal arc lengths around the ellipse. Thanks for the idea. You might find that quite tricky to achieve accurately: arc length of an ellipse involves some rather unpleasant calculus. Elliptic integrals are decribed here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EllipticInt

[Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Wendy Richardson
I know I can find if a file I want to load exists by using "onload" with "success", but there must be something more immediate. Using onload, I can'd determine success answer untill the file is completely loaded which is too long for my purposes. Anyone have a hack for determining if a file

[Flashcoders] RIA - Crystal Reports

2006-03-17 Thread Iuliu Burtoiu
Hi there, Does anyone know any Flash apps similar to Crystal Reports? Thanks, IuliuB ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Br

RE: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Adrian Lynch
Do you have access to a scripting language on the server where the file resides? If you do, get that to do the check for if the file exists and interrogate that instead. Maybe. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wendy Richardson Sent: 17

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Yotam Laufer
If onload fires immediately with success==false then you know that there's no file, so why don't you wait for a reasonable interval and then if it's not fired than assume the file exists. not the best of solutions but should work. Yotam ___ Flashcoders@c

[Flashcoders] Compile using an "older" version of a given class

2006-03-17 Thread Wendy Richardson
I came across this problem yesterday: I have some flash code with lots of external .as scripts. I also save old copies of the scripts so I can go back easily. Yesterday I dropped an older (by date) version of an external .as file into my directory (path), but on compile, the final swf was no

RE: [Flashcoders] Position objects evenly around ellipse

2006-03-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
Great info. Thanks. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Kodicek >>Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 9:01 AM >>To: Flashcoders mailing list >>Subject:

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Ian Thomas
There's no Flash native hack as far as I know. The only obvious solution I can think of is to call a server script - for example in PHP something like: Then use LoadVars to call the script, passing in the parameter 'file' - which is a filename relative to the PHP script. Once LoadVars returns, i

Re: [Flashcoders] Compile using an "older" version of a given class

2006-03-17 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you have a compiled swf that imported a version of the class and it gets loaded before your swf with the new version, the new version will be ignored. Also delete your Flash cache Ron Wendy Richardson wrote: I came across this problem yesterday: I have some flash code with lots of exter

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Andreas Rønning
It stands to reason that if onLoad fires with success==false no file was loaded anyway, so i don't see why you'd need a separate handler for wether success is false NOW or success is false a little later. onLoad(success){ if(success){ //handle file load }else{ //handle error } }

RE: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Adrian Lynch
I think because if the file exists, you will have to wait till the file has loaded completely before you know about it. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: 17 March 2006 15:04 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Yotam Laufer
_mc.onLoad = function (success) { if (success) { trace ("file loaded"); } else { _global.fileExists = false; } }; _gloabl.fileExists = true; _mc.loadMovie (url); // wait 250 ms and see whether the file has failed var intId = setInterval (function () { if (_global.fil

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Isaac Rivera
Theres no "reasonable" amount of time on networked connections of unknown hardware specs... Have you looked into onData instead? I believe it will allow you to know if the file exists bases on the first packet of the response. Isaac Rivera Senior Flash Developer Audience Programming, Americ

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Yotam Laufer
[Theres no "reasonable" amount of time on networked connections of unknown hardware specs...] And yet timeout times are set somehow... I think it's a subjective decision. I wouldn't do it like this, but if someone has to? Yotam. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfi

Re: [Flashcoders] amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread Paul BH
doubt its any use to you, but I ended up using their REST endpoints rather than wsdl... code is at home and can send over the weekend if you dont get a good wsdl answer... On 3/17/06, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have sample code of doing a search for album art using the

Re: [Flashcoders] amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread eric dolecki
I have the REST method down - but I'd prefer to use wsdl... just not sure how to contruct the parameters (yet). thanks though :) On 3/17/06, Paul BH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > doubt its any use to you, but I ended up using their REST endpoints > rather than wsdl... > > code is at home and can

Re: [Flashcoders] amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread Paul BH
no problems - kind of figured that'd be the case... On 3/17/06, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the REST method down - but I'd prefer to use wsdl... just not sure > how to contruct the parameters (yet). thanks though :) > > On 3/17/06, Paul BH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > do

RE: [Flashcoders] Remove cellPress Listener on DataGrid

2006-03-17 Thread Judah
Hi Phillipe, Try: datagrid.removeEventListener("cellPress", ListenerObj); Judah -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felipe Fernandez Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:53 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Remove cellPress Li

[Flashcoders] Re: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 14, Issue 57

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin Newman
I think you might be looking for the *mx.services.WebService class instead of the WebServiceConnector class. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=2998.html Kevin N. * On 3/17/06, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flashcoders] Re: amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin Newman
I think you might be looking for the *mx.services.WebService class instead of the WebServiceConnector class. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=2998.html import mx.services.WebService; import mx.services.

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread eric dolecki
What goes in here: (???) callback1 = wsConn.ItemSearch( ??? ); callback1.onResult = function(result){ trace( result ); } - trying to do a search on an artist, and get back a URL to an album cover... the wsdl needs my accesskeyid and also other params for the search... On 3/17/06, Kevin N

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director work, FPS with bots, network play etc.

2006-03-17 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
We looked at it here with a gyroscope visor. Simply incredible. - MM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Marsden Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 9:33 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Great bit of Director wo

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: swfdraw2jpg database table settings

2006-03-17 Thread Rafa
Mick, did you get your swfdraw2jpg working? I've tried what you suggested and it's not working. Thx, rafa On 3/17/06, Rafa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mick, it's connecting to the database ok, it can save and display the > image, but the user data does not get inserted into the database. >

[Flashcoders] OT: full-time actionscript job in DFW

2006-03-17 Thread Mike Gralish
If you know a good director/flash developer - there is an opening building Computer Based Training in Hurst TX. Search on CareerBuilder.com for "tecfilms" or email me offline for more details/contact information. Thanks, Mike Gralish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

[Flashcoders] compile problem

2006-03-17 Thread Wendy Richardson
Thanks Ron. As to yesterdays compile question, apparently I needed to clear Flash cache. See: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/migrating_fl8_07.html and more background at: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19045 __

Re: [Flashcoders] best 360VR panorama

2006-03-17 Thread Alan Shaw
On 3/16/06, Michael Bedar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Following one of those links, i got to this page.. > > http://nodename.com/lab/dispmapPano/ > > anyone have source to these examples? I've been playing with > distortion maps, but this effect is alluding me:( I'm sure _someone_ has source

[Flashcoders] Issue with Masks in externally loaded SWFs?

2006-03-17 Thread Jeff Fox
Is there any known issue with loading external SWFs that have animations that require masks? We just tried loading an external SWF that has it's main area blocked out by a mask, but when the movie loads and plays, there is no mask apparent and all the pieces of images that animate are clearly visib

Re: [Flashcoders] Issue with Masks in externally loaded SWFs?

2006-03-17 Thread Éric Thibault
Are all the paths relative inside the loaded SWF or is there a reference to the _root? Just a quick idea... A+ Jeff Fox wrote: Is there any known issue with loading external SWFs that have animations that require masks? We just tried loading an external SWF that has it's main area blocked ou

Re: [Flashcoders] Issue with Masks in externally loaded SWFs?

2006-03-17 Thread Matt Muller
yeah there are issues with this, bit of a nightmare, i ha some animations running under and i could see masks etc sticking out the mask, weird. Also this totally screwed my align class, so i had to recode a new one that used reference points. MaTT On 3/17/06, Jeff Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [Flashcoders] Issue with Masks in externally loaded SWFs?

2006-03-17 Thread Éric Thibault
I'm using mask inside loaded SWF but I have to be carefull of the dimention of those loaded SWF because everything inside (and outside it's root level) is visible on the loading SWF! One thing I'm doing now is to mask my loader within my parent SWF and load into that external SWF with their ow

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: swfdraw2jpg database table settings

2006-03-17 Thread Rafa
Mick, do you really know what you're talking about or are you just making things up? If you wanted the code, you could have just said so without saying you could help. Don't say you can help when you can't. rafa On 3/18/06, Rafa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mick, did you get your swfdraw2jpg

[Flashcoders] Tool for Converting PPT to SWF

2006-03-17 Thread Lori Hutchek
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good tools to convert PPT to SWF. So far the best one I've found is Flash Printer. But I'd like to have the flexibility of converting each frame of the PPT movie to a swf. And it would be great if it would also maintain the animation. Thanks! Lori- _

[Flashcoders] OT: maps of hyperlinks that change in font size?

2006-03-17 Thread thotskee
Flashcoders, What are those maps of hyperlinks that change in font size according to relevance called? Thanks... ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/

[Flashcoders] Anyway to check if a file exists?

2006-03-17 Thread Judah
I saw the thread a few threads ago but I'm really wanted to start my own. Is there an error or event that loadMovie dispatches if it does not find a swf? exteriorMenuBoard_mc.loadMovie(path + lang + "" + dtboarddesc + ".jpg"); Flash is tracing the famous "file not found message" in the out

Re: [Flashcoders] Remove cellPress Listener on DataGrid

2006-03-17 Thread Felipe Fernandez
Ok, thanks. It works!! On 3/17/06, Judah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Phillipe, > > Try: > > datagrid.removeEventListener("cellPress", ListenerObj); > > Judah > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felipe > Fernandez > Sent: Friday, M

Re: [Flashcoders] Anyway to check if a file exists?

2006-03-17 Thread Marlon Harrison
What about the MovieClipLoader Class? var loadListener:Object = new Object(); loadListener.onLoadError = function(target_mc:MovieClip, errorCode:String, httpStatus:Number) { trace(">> loadListener.onLoadError()"); trace(">> =="); trace(">> errorCode: " + errorC

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Isaac Rivera
I backtracked on this thread... I guess the questions are: 1) what are you trying to load? 2) what onLoad(success:Boolean) are you using? Are you using the XML or LoadVars? Assuming you are using the LoadVars, a more reasonable "timeout" approach would be something like: //---

[Flashcoders] loading XML as string via parseXml: how to avoid "undefined"? (onParseComplete??!)

2006-03-17 Thread Ken Fine
I'm attempting to manually load an XML object via a string. I appear to be successfully completing this process: my XML is well-formed, and myxmlobject.toString() returns a result, as do attempts to traverse the attributes and nodes. What isn't working is the XML object itself when I attempt t

Re: [Flashcoders] File Exists - a better way?

2006-03-17 Thread Bart Wttewaall
Ian: "There's no Flash native hack as far as I know." You can check (and cache while you're at it) any file by using LoadVars: var file:String = "anyFileType.exe"; var fileExists:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); fileExists.onLoad = mx.utils.Delegate.create(this, doCheck); fileExists.load(file); funct

Re: [Flashcoders] loading XML as string via parseXml: how to avoid"undefined"? (onParseComplete??!)

2006-03-17 Thread JesterXL
getBytesTotal is only used for tracking the downloading of a large amount of XML. You aren't downloading anything. You are building the XML object by hand in Flash. Therefore, since you never loaded anything, you never started a download. Since you never started a download, you'll never get

[Flashcoders] Cannot stop loaded movie

2006-03-17 Thread Marco Tabini
Hello-- I am trying to control a movie I load from a remote location. I've narrowed down my code to the smallest possible number of lines: ld = new MovieClipLoader(); ld.loadClip(url, mcClip); obj = new Object(); obj.onLoadComplete = function() { mcClip.gotoAndStop (10); } ld.addList

Re: [Flashcoders] Cannot stop loaded movie

2006-03-17 Thread Marco Tabini
To add to the weirdness: this problem only presents itself if I create the project in Flash 8, so I wonder whether I'm hitting my head against the new security model. Again, any help would be much appreciated. Marco Marco Tabini wrote: Hello-- I am trying to control a movie I load from a re

Re: [Flashcoders] Cannot stop loaded movie

2006-03-17 Thread Marc Hoffman
Try adding the listener to ld before loading the clip. At 07:07 PM 3/17/2006, you wrote: To add to the weirdness: this problem only presents itself if I create the project in Flash 8, so I wonder whether I'm hitting my head against the new security model. Again, any help would be much appreciat

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 broken

2006-03-17 Thread Weyert de Boer
Since this afternoon my Flash 8 copy on my Mac is reluctant to export movies. Even restarting Flash 8 or the mac doesn't help! Anyone know how to fix this? -- Yours, Weyert de Boer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) innerfuse* http://www.innerfuse.biz/ ___ Flashcod

Re: [Flashcoders] loading XML as string via parseXml: how to avoid"undefined"? (onParseComplete??!)

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Bedar
xml.parseXML is not an asynchronous event like xml.load, so like jesse said, you have no need of a loader, so, after you call parseXML, you can start using the xml object to read your data on the next line. On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:37 PM, JesterXL wrote: getBytesTotal is only used for tracki

Re: [Flashcoders] Cannot stop loaded movie

2006-03-17 Thread Marco Tabini
Sorry, that was just a bad copy-and-paste job. Moving the listener to before the clip is loaded doesn't change anything. Good catch, though :) Marco Marc Hoffman wrote: Try adding the listener to ld before loading the clip. At 07:07 PM 3/17/2006, you wrote: To add to the weirdness: this prob

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 broken

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Bedar
Define reluctant. Is it crashing Flash, or freezing? Have you tried different FLA's? On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Weyert de Boer wrote: Since this afternoon my Flash 8 copy on my Mac is reluctant to export movies. Even restarting Flash 8 or the mac doesn't help! Anyone know how to fix

Re: [Flashcoders] Cannot stop loaded movie

2006-03-17 Thread Helen Triolo
What Marc said, plus use onLoadInit instead of onLoadComplete. From the help docs: "It's important to understand the difference between MovieClipLoader.onLoadComplete and MovieClipLoader.onLoadInit. The onLoadComplete event is called after the SWF, JPEG, GIF, or PNG file loads, but before th

Re: [Flashcoders] loading XML as string via parseXml: how to avoid "undefined"? (onParseComplete??!

2006-03-17 Thread GregoryN
Hello Ken, As you don't LOAD anything, menu_xml.getBytesTotal() will return undefined - it's OK. You can either set interval or onEnterFrame function to check the ned of parsing and then delete/clear onEnterFrame/interval. Also, check spelling of mymenuxml (quotes, ";" etc) Also, I'd suggest to

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: swfdraw2jpg database table settings

2006-03-17 Thread Mick G
Raja - I was happy to help. I don't check my email every hour. If you're going to be rude, look somewhere else for help. Bye On 3/18/06, Rafa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mick, do you really know what you're talking about or are you just making > things up? If you wanted the code, you could hav

[Flashcoders] flash8 and cgi

2006-03-17 Thread riccardo.roasio
Hi, anyone know how to connect a flash movie to a cgi script? I tried to use sendAndLoad but when i check with the onLoad function it gives me an unsuccess... Thanks,Riccardo ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or s

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: swfdraw2jpg database table settings

2006-03-17 Thread Rafa
You call this help??? What help exactly did you provide? You've left me waiting for a response for more than a day, and you STILL have not responded with a solution. I doubt you ever had one. Fucking retard. Continue on with this conman attitude and see how far you get in life. rafa On 3/18/06,