Erixtekila,
Thanks for the link, I have read the site serveral times during the day
trying to figure this out. but one of the things I saw is that the code
above only helps if you are exporting for flash 5. I still dont understand
what this was used since the program that this piece of software
Thanks for the replies Michel/Max, Im using Eric's idea of a semi
transparent mc set at window height/width, but I like the look of the
lightbox method.
Cheers!
Nick
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Reuss
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Hi there
I have some remoting function (amfphp) that have relay responder... no I
have a trace in the call, and in the handler... and the trace never is
called in the handler. What would cause the handler to not be called?
I had it working before, and now all of a sudden - no go!
I have tried everything I can think of and more to find a way to stretch a
loaded clip but not have it scaled. I have scaling features for the main
container flash movie, and I want to change the width and height of a loaded
movieclip when the main movie is resized. However, I don't want the
Seems like the landscape is:
Flash IDE 8 and Flash Player 8 is current. Player 8 offers some nice
features like blurs, drop shadows, really really nice anti-aliased
text and bitmap manipulation.
Thing is, Flash Player 7 is better seeded in the world, so, if you
publish to Player 8, you need to
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I have tried everything I can think of and more to find a way
to stretch a
loaded clip but not have it scaled. I have scaling features
for the main
container flash movie, and I want to change the width and
height of
Can't remember where I found it, I just googled AS2 qlod loaderClass I
think...
M
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http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-February/132366.
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] MovieClip loader IE
Hi,
actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many
people
in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too long ago.
Tho I do think
releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal, since alot of people
have it
allready (
Here is the situation more broken down:
I have a flash movie we can call container.fla. When it is resized from its
original size, it change various object sizes and positions and it is set to
noScale from the Stage object. container.fla loads a movieclip I am also
working on that we can call
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Hi,
actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many
people
in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too long ago.
Tho I do think
releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal, since alot of
people
have it
allready (
On 8/18/06, Meinte van't Kruis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many
people
in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too long ago.
Tho I do think
releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal, since
Thanks... those are better adoption numbers than I would have thought...
With the whole EOLAS thing, I'm just gonna start publishing to Player
8 using swfobject and be done with it.
On 8/18/06, Meinte van't Kruis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal,
The first thing to understand is that AS2 uses the same bytecode as AS1. i.e.
AS2 if just AS1 with pretty makeup and a new hairdo.
This page might help you understand more about __proto__ , .prototype and all
the weird stuff we did that is thankfully in the past (most of the time) :)
Place the mc to load your SWF into at (0,0) on the main SWF's Stage. Thats
to ensure the coordinate system matches. Then on the resize event for the
main stage, manipulate your mcs with loaded content. You'll find it to be
pretty easy.
- e.d.
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Here
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Here is the situation more broken down:
I have a flash movie we can call container.fla. When it is
resized from its
original size, it change various object sizes and positions
and it is set to
noScale from the Stage
Hi list,
ok this feels a bit like a stupid question, but i haven't been able to find
it anywhere,
is there anyway to install the latest flashplayer ocx without visiting the
adobe site with internet explorer?
I can download the archived players, but i can't download the latest, except
through a
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=standalone+flash+player+installstart=0ie=
utf-8oe=utf-8client=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
Not sure if this is what you are after?
T
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Hi,
yes and no:).
I see a standalone installer, Download the *Flash Player* 9 (Complete *
Standalone* Installer) http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html but
it's on some softwarepatch site, instead of macromedia. I can download the
archived standalone installers for 8 and older, but for
sorry, instead of on *ADOBE* djeez its like changing to the euro all over
again...
On 8/18/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
yes and no:).
I see a standalone installer, Download the *Flash Player* 9 (Complete *
Standalone* Installer)
quote
I have a main movie, with Font symbols in the library, se to export.
I am loading swf's into that movie.. should existing plain d-
textfields in the subclips have access to the fonts in the parent
movie, and if not, should tf's i create after loading?
/quote
By the time your child
The first thing to understand is that AS2 uses the same bytecode as
AS1. i.e. AS2 if just AS1 with pretty makeup and a new hairdo.
I can't say better !
Actually all the tricks available for Flash5 are still usefull for
flash7.
The one you noticed is a trick to link a MovieClip Class with a
Is there some magical method to get flash to serialise my objects
correctly when Im sending data to the webserver?
Im trying to send an array of objects up but all flash sends is an
array with the right number of elements inside with no data.
as:
var testobj1:Object;
testobj1.cid = testcid1;
Well I figured it out.
You need to create custom classes for all the data objects you want to send
back to your SOAP service.
-- snip 8 --
//Relevant actionscript for sending the SOAP call.
var testobj0:ContentMetaItem = new
ContentMetaItem(testcid0,testtitle0,description0);
var
Hi everyone!
I'm having real difficulty understanding how to
properly architect and structure Flash applications
using ActionScript 2.0.
I've read Colin Moock's excellent Essential
ActionScript 2.0 and several other books and articles
on the topic and while I can safely say that I do
understand
Firstly Im not sure that you taking over the role of distributing the Adobe
flash player is legal and secondly a good idea.
The install process for different browsers is different. You cant just install
the OCX inside Firefox for example. You are also not equipped to provide
support to users
Hey,
It's a state of mind being able to separate tasks into object
relationships that only becomes natural with time and practice. I learnt
by following an AS 1.0 game tutorial*, transcoding to AS 2.0 as I
followed it. That way I didn't have to think at all about the actual
content or
I used to feel that way too. And in fact, reading books like that are
great, but they can also give you an overwhelming feeling of all you
don't know.
What I would do is this - start out slow. Don't feel like you have to
do it by the book - that's just not possible until you gain some
One of the things that's fun about OOP design is that there is no single
best solution to a problem. (Or perhaps another way of putting it is that
there's always a beter way to solve your problem!) Sure there are best
practices, and a book like Head First Design Patterns can help you
understand
I second James' recommendation of Headfirst Design Patterns. I also
recommend downloading an Enterprise Architect trial
http://www.sparxsystems.com/ or Poseidon
http://gentleware.com/index.php and learning some UML. It helps me to
step outside of the code and focus on the logic behind the
I find the hardest thing to get my head around is the absurd amount of
Jargon involved in OOP - for what are essentially simple concepts. I
really wish we wouldn't perpetuate the practice of trying to make
ourselves important by using such a verbal smokescreen. Once you get
past the copious
I have the same problem as the original poster.
I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or
Hans if you're there I would love to see some code.
What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it vary according
to screen resolution?
How can you
I used to have a problem with this too, hating the 'verbal smokescreen'
as you put it, but it's crucial to be in sync with specialist language
and concepts in order to cut through misunderstanding between peers. I
don't think it's about making ourselves more important, but making sure
you're
Yeah, I asked this question on Flexcoders but got no answer at all.
Any code would be greatly appreciated :)
The funny thing is this printing a block of multipage text seems like
such a basic thing but there are no examples in the docs and it seems
as thought this issue was never considered as a
my solution is scrolling the text and printing as you go, here's the
function.
(beware though, it's been ages since writing this, it works tho)
function buildPrinter() {
_root.print.onPress = function() {
var p_length = Math.round(Math.floor
_root.test is the textfield, _root.line_length is the lines fitting on one
page.
good luck!
-Meinte
On 8/18/06, Meinte van't Kruis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my solution is scrolling the text and printing as you go, here's the
function.
(beware though, it's been ages since writing this, it
it's crucial to be in sync with specialist language and concepts
Completely agree, but Jargon in any industry is always a barrier to
effective communication between the initiated and the uninitiated,
whether it is intentional or not. I just find that the OOP literati can
sometimes be a little too
I have the same problem as the original poster.
I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or
Hans if you're there I would love to see some code.
What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it
vary according
to screen resolution?
As long as it's
How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know it
is completely full?
Here's a revised version using a word array. But as I said, including
formatting would be more difficult and significantly slower. I tend to agree
with Meinte that in this case you're better off using
tru tru...
Mike Mountain wrote:
I think (especially on forums and blogs
etc.) that some of this comes down to a basic good old fashioned I know
more oop than you do dick measuring competition. Once initiated into
this clique it then gives us a warm feeling to perpetuate the problem by
showing
Back when I was at college studying CS we were taught that the way to
decide which objects to use was
to write a simple description of what your program should do. Then go
through the description and find all the nouns
- these are your main objects. You can also go through and find all
the
welcome to the party,
The basics of design patterns evolved from the timeline for me.
Flash is an 'object oriented language' - that is each symbol is an
independent 'thing' in the library.
Learning the time line and how to do a tween came first, oooh, a moving
thing on the screen.
I'm sure a lot of excellent Flash developpers in this
mailing list didn't have previous coding experience
before they started Flash (like myself) and managed to
become the ActionScript 2.0 OO pros aroud here.
I'm not one of the pros here. I'm just another noob, lurking in his list
to read some
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Adrian Arva wrote -
You have to write your own packet distribution system so that you can
load a sequence of packets and stitch them together to get your data.
Kind of messy but if you are limited not to use Flash Remoting...
Do you have any pointers to information about shaping packets from
Hi everyone,
First post... I was wondering if there's a shortcut to passing in an
argument to a function or a built-in class. For instance, for
BitmapData.draw(), I just want to pass in a true value for
smooth, but I don't want to apply a Matrix or any of the other
options. Must I
im having a problem with a swf that plays a progressive download flv. a
coworker has IE with flash player 7, and she cannot view the flvs. there is
nothing flash 8 specific, and the swf is published for player 7, and the
flvs were converted with flash 7 settings as well. serviceCapture shows the
Hi,
Can anyone tell me what special meaning vars with $ have...
thanks
b
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Are you limited to one or the other?
We need to use POST.
I've found that you can overload the XML object within flash
We aren't using XML.
So its possible that you could create a POST querystring using this
method, and turn it into variables server side.
This is what we're doing.
AFAIK if
Just checked out the website and thought I'd report an issue I'm having.
I'm using IE6SP2 with Flash Player 9.0.16.0. I have to manually refresh the
page after clicking any of the main menu items; they all stall after
reporting 100% loading.
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Hi everyone,
First post... I was wondering if there's a shortcut to passing
in an argument to a function or a built-in class. For
instance, for BitmapData.draw(), I just want to pass in a
true value for
Same thing here with firefox 1.0.7 on win2k + flash player 9.
All is stuck at 100%
Elena
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:42 AM
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I know PHP uses it and TorqueScript use $ and % to differentiate between
global ($) and local (%) variables but it has no special meaning in Flash.
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Maybe that's why they're after a new developer ;-)
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Sent: 18 August 2006 19:48
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] JOB: BLITZ Agency
Same thing here with firefox 1.0.7 on
I've found that you can overload the XML object within flash
We aren't using XML.
I'm not saying you could use XML, but what you can do is overload the
XML object and you can write whatever you like to your POST data. This
may be able to get around whatever limit you are hitting
actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many
people in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too
long ago.
Actually, with MySpace requiring Flash 9, I would expect the penetration
to reach 80%+ within a couple months.
ryanm
Hans Wichman wrote:
is there anyway to install the latest flashplayer ocx without visiting the
adobe site with internet explorer?
Yes, Internet Explorer for Windows will usually do a background
installation of any needed updates to an ActiveX Control. The following
search term pulls up
While making custom components I have found the component's property panel a
little simplistic.
I would like to have at least some drop down lists of settings for my
component.
Example: Component contains some movieclips, which have some frames with
labels.
The component's
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Maybe that's why they're after a new developer ;-)
It seems like one won't be enough : Flash developper career =
http://jobs.blitzagency.com/public/controlPanel/listingDetail/ListingDetail.php?listing_id=2
If
Not really, since for me it is way easier to work with Flash Remoting
(AMF::Perl) and do all the data transfer that I need.
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Hi guys,
i want to put button component into list component
and i did try to addItem() but it is not working or
may be i m making some mistake.
So if anyone can help me out in this problem.
I want to add button into list
(i want to add like 10-15 button into list)
how can i do.
thanks
Rutul
HI
Sorry if this is all info that's in the archive. I did check but I'm
getting pushed for time ()
basic question really.
I have a basic system whereby user has to register and log-in in order to
play an online game.
when handling PHP sessions do I just append the session_ID to the
In addition, some programmers also use $ to indicate a string.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
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I've used it to indicate arguments in a function to clarify the origin of
the variable, like this:
function myFunc($arg1,$arg2){
trace($arg1+ : +$arg2);
}
I don't know where I picked that up, but for me it makes the code easier to
read since you know immediately they are arguments. I've
ryanm wrote:
Actually, with MySpace requiring Flash 9, I would expect the
penetration to reach 80%+ within a couple months.
The MySpace surge apparently affected the servers last week (I think
MySpace has since throttled back, spread out their update requests), but
even so, MySpace has 90
We created a swf and placed it on our webpage. Problem: There are two areas
of our swf that include links and these areas don't appear on some
computers. After some testing we found out that they only appear on
computers with the latest version of JAVA. Those without the JAVA update
can see the
Using $ in flash is just wierd :). There is no special meaning - I
don't think it should even be valid.
On 8/18/06, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used it to indicate arguments in a function to clarify the origin of
the variable, like this:
function myFunc($arg1,$arg2){
I have seen others do it, or mark parameters with a p_.
I prefer not to mark parameters in any special way. I mark private
variables with _, so those are already distinct. And if I have a
function that's so long that I can't see the top from somewhere in the
body, it's well past time to cut it
I'm in a real bind, with no real solution. I'm using the DataGrid, which
I've used before, but the problem is that multiple selection and
re-ordering seems to be unbelievably broken. I've never used these
features, and I've googled just about every possibility to shed light on
the subject and
So I really am in my own little universe. Far out, moon doggie!
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 5:58 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] vars with $
Using $ in flash is just
The real benefit to marking parameters is when you use variables within a
function that are defined outside the function. You could make an argument
that it's poor practice to do so, but there it is. I guess you could prefix
every other kind of variable instead. Also, when you are choosing
So I really am in my own little universe. Far out, moon doggie!
I use p_ for parameters, _ for private properties, and $ for (almost)
everything temporary (ie, var functions). Like $tmc for a movieclip.
I think we're each other on our very own universe. :)
Zeh
I used to use $ to mark private vars back when doing AS1, before there were
explicit privates. I alwys preferred it to the _, because it's a easier to
see, and shows that those vars are special -- not to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] with!
But
nobody else did this, so I stopped because I figured it
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