Re: [Flashcoders] looking for some .NET to Flash tools

2006-04-04 Thread Arul Prasad
Haven't read this mail thread completely, so may be this isn't what you want. But check out NeoSWIF http://www.globfx.com/products/neoswiff/. You can create Flash SWFs by writing code in a .NET language. I have some more info I wrote once in a post abt NeoSWIFF here:

Re: [Flashcoders] Good Math script for sheet movementwhendragedontable

2006-04-04 Thread eugen pflüger
zeh, thanks! looks good. also good to know that the keyword for this is rigid body dynamics. i'll look a bit aorund. maybe i can improve it. i'll keep you updated. thanks again. e Am 03.04.2006 um 18:57 schrieb Zeh Fernando: Another good article on something like that is this --

[Flashcoders] Variable containing a String instance crash Flash 8 on [List Variables]

2006-04-04 Thread Fumio Nonaka
If a variable containing a String instance exists, [List Variables] causes to crash Flash 8. [1] Write the following frame action: _str = new String(); [2] [Test Movie] [3] From the [Debug] menu, chose [List Variables] [Result] Flash 8 will crash. The crash is reproduced in Flash 8.0/Mac OS

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable containing a String instance crash Flash 8 on [List Variables]

2006-04-04 Thread Janis Radins
new String instance is created by simple var myString:String = new String() with no arguments. though this might be quite a bug, once i tried new Object(a) that leaded to total crash of flash ide that finished not only with restrating flash but i had to reinstall it. 2006/4/4, Fumio Nonaka

[Flashcoders] allowing slow animation

2006-04-04 Thread PR Durand
Hi List! There's something that I really can't understand in Flash 8 Before ('till Flash 7), if you made a 100 pixels object animation in 10 frames, flash knew how to display a 1/10 pixel and the animation was quite smooth. That was sometimes a problem because when we wanted a aliased

Re: [Flashcoders] allowing slow animation

2006-04-04 Thread Ian Thomas
Is this solely for text? In which case, is this something to do with the new Anti-alias for Animation or Anti-alias for Readability options in the properties dialog of the new IDE? Does switching that solve your problem? Cheers, Ian On 4/4/06, PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List!

Re: [Flashcoders] DINAMIC MENU

2006-04-04 Thread Sebastián Sirvent
How can I center text among height, depending on the amount of characters? Sebastián Sirvent http://www.e-foco.com On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make the textfield dynamic, make it multilined, wordwrap and make sure it can autosize.

[Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in player 8

2006-04-04 Thread Roman Blöth
Hello folks, once again flash strikes my mind: I've made a small test movie to test my ClipLoader-class, which stores and handles loading queues using a MovieClipLoader. To make a stress test I queue 5 larger swf files for loading on button press (made another button for testing a

Re: [Flashcoders] allowing slow animation

2006-04-04 Thread PR Durand
Hi Ian, thanks for your answer, but no, it doesn't solve the problem. Its actually texts, but I tried with changing the aliasing properties without any result, and tried also with a vectorial shape and the problem still be the same... Regards, PiR Ian Thomas a écrit : Is this solely for

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in player 8

2006-04-04 Thread Ian Thomas
Roman, Yes, I've had this - but it seems to only be an issue when working with local files. I've never yet had an issue with online files, even when cached. The only workaround I've found is to queue the requests rather than issue them together - but in most cases that does slow things

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in player 8

2006-04-04 Thread Martin Weiser
i got similar problem, not possible to access MovieClip.getBytes...() methods, and also affecting progress value of movieClipLoader onProgress event . Maybe show more of your script Martin - Original Message - From: Roman Blöth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in pl ayer 8

2006-04-04 Thread Van De Velde Hans
I've had some trouble in the Flash 7 plugin when loading JPEGs that were Saved for the Web in Adobe Photoshop CS2 with the Optimized checkbox ticked on : the images simply weren't displayed with Flash plugin 7. (After re-saving without that option everything was ok.) Please note that the

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in player 8

2006-04-04 Thread Roman Blöth
Martin Weiser schrieb: i got similar problem, not possible to access MovieClip.getBytes...() methods, and also affecting progress value of movieClipLoader onProgress event . Maybe show more of your script O.k., seems like I have hit a spot. ;) One addition to the phenomenons we're

RE: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in pl ayer 8

2006-04-04 Thread Van De Velde Hans
To work around the sandbox security problem when loading JPEGs from a different domain, you can always make a proxy. For example, you can make a servlet that fetches a JPEG from a different domain. And in the loadClip you give the name of the servlet. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] Slightly OT (Hello world! and so forth ;)

2006-04-04 Thread Mikael Wirén
Hi all, The slightly OT part Been lurking the list for about 2 months and this far i´ve read a LOT of very good posts here. But this is my FIRST own contribution. I´m perty new to this list and serious Flash development aswell. Although i´ve got 10+ years experience with Macromedia/Adobe

Re: [Flashcoders] Slightly OT (Hello world! and so forth ;)

2006-04-04 Thread Ramon Miguel M. Tayag
How do YOU work in Flash? -Timeline - I try to create the graphics that don't need to be dynamic in the IDE. - Those that need to be highly dynamic are made using AS - I animate what I can using the IDE, but if it'll be dynamic and might be controlled at any time, I use AS to animate.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash in HTML and the Object Embed tags ...

2006-04-04 Thread Stephen Ford
It's a flash movie that replaces the broken icon, not an image. There's nothing else on the HTML page other than one flash movie. Thanks if anyone can help. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

Re: [Flashcoders] allowing slow animation

2006-04-04 Thread Zeh Fernando
There's something that I really can't understand in Flash 8 Before ('till Flash 7), if you made a 100 pixels object animation in 10 frames, flash knew how to display a 1/10 pixel and the animation was quite smooth. That was sometimes a problem because when we wanted a aliased display, we

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash in HTML and the Object Embed tags ...

2006-04-04 Thread Éric Thibault
It would be helpfull to see the actual html page... :-) A+ Stephen Ford wrote: Can anyone tell my why the following icon/image appears momentarilyin the top left of my browser screen when visiting my website: (click link to see

Re: [Flashcoders] converting/printing swf to eps

2006-04-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
You can send an XML file of drawing instructions to the server and use XSLT to do anything that you want. a) You can convert it to SVG or EPS. b) You can convert it to your own vector format c) You can hold onto it as an XML and redraw it in your Flash program later d) You can convert it to a

Re: [Flashcoders] Find Nearest Color?

2006-04-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
Another minor optimization Initialize tempDistance to a huge number (greater than the distance from ff000 toff) and then simplify the if Ron Darren Cook wrote: Hi, A minor optimization, but you can drop the Math.sqrt(). I.e. x^2 y^2 == x y for all positive values of x and y.

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in player 8

2006-04-04 Thread Roman Blöth
O.k., we've some sort of cure for strange loadClip-behaviors: Between onLoadInit and the next call to loadClip we set a delay of about 500ms (using a setInterval which then invoces the next loadClip) and now we have no crashes any more. That is: When (pre-) loading several external files in

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in player 8

2006-04-04 Thread Ian Thomas
Thanks Roman - I'll try it next time I encounter another MCL situation which crashes FP7. Cheers, Ian On 4/4/06, Roman Blöth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O.k., we've some sort of cure for strange loadClip-behaviors: Between onLoadInit and the next call to loadClip we set a delay of about 500ms

[Flashcoders] How best to zoom in on a mc?

2006-04-04 Thread Kevin Boyd (MMCR)
I have a movieClip 2,000 square and I want to be able to zoom into a part of it and then zoom out and over to another part in a arc formation. What would be best way to achieve this? Kevin Boyd Multimedia Creations Ltd. www.mmcr.co.uk ___

RE: [Flashcoders] allowing slow animation

2006-04-04 Thread Mike Mountain
I think you have snap to pixels enabled: View/snapping/snap to pixels M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PR Durand Sent: 04 April 2006 14:30 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] allowing slow animation

[Flashcoders] Arrays, Movieclip reference names, and LoadVars

2006-04-04 Thread Brad Harris
Greetings all. I have a question for you. I am using LoadVars to read a text file containing one variable. The variable contains all the state abbreviations delimited by a comma. On my stage I have the us map with each state in a movieclip with the instance name matching what is in the text file.

[Flashcoders] onMotionFinished not firing...

2006-04-04 Thread Clint Tredway
Anyone have this problem? I have a function that calls a tween based on a passed in parameter: var l1:Tween = new Tween(holder_mc.universe_mc.s3_mc, _x, Regular.easeInOut, holder_mc.universe_mc.s3_mc._x, distance, 1, 5, true); l1.onMotionFinished = function() { trace(I am finished); };

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Warning / onLoadComplete vs. onLoadInit

2006-04-04 Thread Roman Blöth
Hello again, some final words about this thread: One part of our problems we had with the MovieClipLoader has been our handling of events. So after having tested our thing some billion times and burning several brain cells I want to issue a warning: Beware of onLoadComplete! If possible,

[Flashcoders] Cantering a mc when you click on it

2006-04-04 Thread Kevin Boyd (MMCR)
I'm trying to figure out the math of how to move a movie clip into the centre of the stage depending on where you click on it. I'm sure it's real simple but I just can figure it out. file at www.mmcr.co.uk/orgchart.zip Any help hugely appreciated :-) Kevin

[Flashcoders] Can You Extend a Swc Component?

2006-04-04 Thread Shaw, Matt (MTVN)
I'm trying to use a component's intrinsic class as a super class. I have a component installed. I unzipped the .swc files and stole the intrinsic classes so I could get proper code checking in Eclipse. This works fine. Then I attempted to extend one of the intrinsic classes. Flash compiles with

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash in HTML and the Object Embed tags ...

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Rachels
Well, from my understanding, that image comes up as a place holder while the movie gets found and loaded. Without seeing what your movie is, or how the html page is set up, it isn't easy to know what might be wrong other than that. You might want to put a loading page up to fill the space

[Flashcoders] Window component depth problem.

2006-04-04 Thread David Farrell
Hi all, I've had this problem a few times now and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have a Flash movie that attaches a .as defined MovieClip in the first frame of the timeline. In my MovieClip class, I attach a background image movie and a couple of buttons and whatnot - basically building

Re: [Flashcoders] Steps of colors

2006-04-04 Thread Juan Anzaldo
Hi Duncan I already make this two functions and works well but I have to convert to string de value of the color and get the r,g,b´s values with the substring function. Seein your example its better because make the operations directly, but (as you can see in my code)I dont know how to work with

Re: [Flashcoders] Steps of colors

2006-04-04 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Juan, If i created it i'd be more than happy to try to explain it, but truth be told i can't. This article by Grant Skinner will probably get you where you want to go, unless Andre graces us with his presence :-) http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/bitwise_operators.html Dunc

[Flashcoders] R/GA seeks Flash Developers

2006-04-04 Thread Krystyna Bloch
R/GA, an award-winning interactive agency specializing in advertising media, seeks Flash Developers Senior Flash Developers. Wholly owned by The Interpublic Group, R/GA is an innovative, stimulating agency whose philosophy embraces three principles: Be creative. Be Strategic. Be Collaborative.

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader - Crash in player 7, fine in player 8

2006-04-04 Thread Latcho
/ loading several external files in queue put a delay of about 500ms between onLoadInit and loadClip/ _or put them on an http server while developping instead of locally, that worked for me. _ _Latcho _ Roman Blöth wrote: O.k., we've some sort of cure for strange loadClip-behaviors:

[Flashcoders] Flash/Java developer required in Chandigarh,Inida

2006-04-04 Thread Kabir S Chandhoke
Hi All We are looking for a Java/Flash/ActionScript developer. This person should really be a Java developer with good Flash/ActionScript/XSLT skills, as we are not looking for someone simply to do Flash Animations. Munish Jauhar CEO, GrayCell Technologies Exports Office: +91-172-3252526

Re: [Flashcoders] test

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Rachels
D- Dave Watts wrote: test ___ 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