RE: [Flashcoders] Best SWF Wrapper

2006-05-11 Thread Steven Sacks
Seriously. Stop f**king around and get mProjector. I have coded against many wrappers and mProjector by far is the best experience, period. From how the API works to the elegant and clever way it handles the system tray icon (best solution I've seen) and direct communication between multiple Fla

Re: [Flashcoders] Best SWF Wrapper

2006-05-11 Thread Cedric Muller
yes, I forgot that optimistic note about mProjector... Seriously. Stop f**king around and get mProjector. I have coded against many wrappers and mProjector by far is the best experience, period. From how the API works to the elegant and clever way it handles the system tray icon (best s

Re: [Flashcoders] Saving images server-side...

2006-05-11 Thread Andriy Panas
Hello ryanm, Thursday, May 11, 2006, 1:04:55 AM, you wrote: > Has anyone implemented anything that is fast enough to > be usable in a business enviornment? Grant Skinner was the man who wrote recently saveBMP routine which does exactly what you are looking for, IMHO. Here is the relevant text

[Flashcoders] > Input filtering

2006-05-11 Thread Joe Cutting
>> The thing is that the buttons are used as sensors, meaning that we use the buttons to detect if some block is available (i.e. item isn't removed from his stationary) now we want to be able to reorder this four block elements. Only I am not sure how I can detect if the order, is a expected. Beca

Re: [Flashcoders] x, y coordinates when using Mouse Listener object arenot giving correct output

2006-05-11 Thread Vivek lakhanpal
Hi Jim, I have tried this problem at 2-3 other places and at last it has been confirmed as some sort of bug in Flash. we have got a way out of the problem. You can follow the following thread: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=484976&posted=1#post484976 Thanks, Vivek

Re: [Flashcoders] Saving images server-side...

2006-05-11 Thread Glenn Mitchell
Hi, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you just marquee-ing an existing image, cropping and resizing ? or is there more manipulation going on ? when I first read your post, I thought that maybe you dont need to send any image data back to the server at all ? just a reference to the orig

[Flashcoders] v1 components in Flash 2004

2006-05-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
Can anyone point me to info about using v1 components in Flash 2004? I want something smaller than the v2 scroll pane. It increases the swf by 500%! Will using the MX version be a better move? Thanks. Adrian Lynch http://www.halestorm.co.uk/ ___ Flash

RE: [Flashcoders] v1 components in Flash 2004

2006-05-11 Thread Ryan Hovey
Hey there, Ghostwire Studios has some excellent v1 components. The scroll pane is part of Set 1. http://www.ghostwire.com/ Cheers, Ryan Hovey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Lynch Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:13 AM To: Flashco

RE: [Flashcoders] Text Height in MovieClip help!

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lee
I've noticed that some TextField properties do not update themselves until the function that updated them finishes executing. In other words, don't do: function(){ TextField.text = "foo"; trace(TextField._height); } I have sometimes used SetInterval to wait a tick before testing

[Flashcoders] Breakapart vs slicing an image

2006-05-11 Thread Dennis - I Sioux
Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows what hapens to an image when you use flash 7 and break it apart Is it translated in many vector points or is it still an image with an build in mask (because you can slice away parts then).. And does anyone know if it is precessor friendlier to slice an im

RE: [Flashcoders] Best SWF Wrapper

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Boyd (MMCR)
Well there is good old Director, works a treat (plays full screen) and you have access to hundreds of plug-ins too :-) Kevin Boyd Multimedia Creations Ltd. www.mmcr.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller Sent: 11 May 2006

[Flashcoders] Transparent background when exporting to QuickTime?

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Boyd (MMCR)
Hi I am trying to export a simple scrolling text animation from Flash 8 (in Flash 5 format as that's all QuickTime can handle) to QuickTime so I can use it as titles in Avid Liquid 7. On the Export options in Flash I set Alpha to Alpha-transparent but in Liquid it just has a white background and

RE: [Flashcoders] v1 components in Flash 2004

2006-05-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
I might have to go down that path. I've swippedthe v1 SP from a file(copied from the library) and added it to another movie but it dones't seem to be working. I get a white box with the bars missing and no loaded content. Any ideas? Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

RE: [Flashcoders] v1 components in Flash 2004

2006-05-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
I can't seem to download this extension on Adobe's site: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?extid=1009423&view=sn111#loc =en_us&extid=1009423&view=sn111&viewName=Flash%20Extension&avm=1 The download bottom doesn't do anything. Anyone else seeing this? -Original Message- From

Re: [Flashcoders] v1 components in Flash 2004

2006-05-11 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Even though they are relatively good quality, the v2 framework is indeed too big and can ruin projects that need to stay at a limited kb rate (for strictband connections for example)... my components.swf shared library is 70KB alone... it adds too much to my app´s size :/ I´m also interested in f

[Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness

2006-05-11 Thread Kent Humphrey
ok, been banging my head against a wall for ages on this one. These lines of code work: menu_root = XPath.selectNodes(this, "root/menu/item/@name"); trace('menu_root: ' + menu_root); These don't: perm_items = Xpath.selectNodes(this, "root/perm/item/@name"); trace('perm_items: ' + perm_items);

Re: [Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness

2006-05-11 Thread John Mark Hawley
perm/item has no children with 'name' attributes. It has no children at all... Kent Humphrey wrote: ok, been banging my head against a wall for ages on this one. These lines of code work: menu_root = XPath.selectNodes(this, "root/menu/item/@name"); trace('menu_root: ' + menu_root); These don

[Flashcoders] sprouts data structure

2006-05-11 Thread Weldon MacDonald
I have a request for a game called sprouts. The game starts with a few randomly distributed dots. There is one move and 2 restrictions. Move: draw a line for a dot to itself (a loop) or to another dot. Any line drawn has a new dot on it. Restriction 1: no more than 3 lines from any dot. Restrict

Re: [Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness

2006-05-11 Thread Serge Jespers
Could it be just a plain old typo? XPath is with capital X and capital P. In the perm_items line you wrote Xpath Serge These lines of code work: menu_root = XPath.selectNodes(this, "root/menu/item/@name"); trace('menu_root: ' + menu_root); These don't: perm_items = Xpath.selectNodes(this,

Re: [Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness

2006-05-11 Thread Kent Humphrey
Unbelievable! Thanks a lot Serge, you're a lifesaver :> On 11 May 2006, at 13:50, Serge Jespers wrote: Could it be just a plain old typo? XPath is with capital X and capital P. In the perm_items line you wrote Xpath Serge These lines of code work: menu_root = XPath.selectNodes(this, "ro

Re: [Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness

2006-05-11 Thread Serge Jespers
You're welcome... I mixup capitals all the time so it was the first thing I looked at ;-) Serge Unbelievable! Thanks a lot Serge, you're a lifesaver :> ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archiv

Re: [Flashcoders] xpath xml strangeness

2006-05-11 Thread Johannes Nel
get a proper as editor i would say On 5/11/06, Serge Jespers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're welcome... I mixup capitals all the time so it was the first thing I looked at ;-) Serge > Unbelievable! > > Thanks a lot Serge, you're a lifesaver :> > _

[Flashcoders] Accessibility, MSAA & Screenreaders

2006-05-11 Thread Jamie Owen
Hello All. I am experimenting with Accessibility and trying to discover how screenreaders ( say JAWS ) respond to subsequent calls to Accessibility.updateProperties() after the swf is loaded and first read by the reader. I'm no expert user of JAWS and all i've managed to get working is : HT

RE: [Flashcoders] sprouts data structure

2006-05-11 Thread Scott Hyndman
Wow, great question. Needless to say, you can't figure these things out with vertices and edges alone, you're going to have to assign location to each vertex and use that to calculate the intersection...but that's where things get hazy. You probably don't want to brute force it, because your wo