[Flashcoders] componets below mask

2006-12-03 Thread learner
Hello all, I have kept few components on the stage, like buttons, label etc. And have assigned a label text and button label to them. But when I keep a mask on them, I can not see the labels there. Also the datagrid's content which is populated with the dataprovider is not visible. I know that

Re: [Flashcoders] [ot-ish] Font customization (will pay $ for help)

2006-12-03 Thread Josh Santangelo
Well that's certainly a why-didn't-i-think-of-that idea. I'll give it a shot -- though I'm skeptical that things would line up correctly that way all the time. -josh On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:18p, Scott Whittaker wrote: Hi Josh, One thing you could try is to keep your special symbols in a se

[Flashcoders] components below mask

2006-12-03 Thread learner
Hello all, I have kept few components on the stage, like buttons, label etc. And have assigned a label text and button label to them. But when I keep a mask on them, I can not see the labels there. Also the datagrid's content which is populated with the dataprovider is not visible. I know that

Re: [Flashcoders] onFrameReached {do something}

2006-12-03 Thread Wendy Richardson
Great ideas, meanwhile I did a work around. I did find a way to supposedly use javascript to get label of current frame (using tcurrentlabel) which I never got working. I do hear that in Flash 9 it is all easy as can be, just say what's my label and it tells you. Wendy Message: 6 + 7 Date:

Re: [Flashcoders] [ot-ish] Font customization (will pay $ for help)

2006-12-03 Thread Scott Whittaker
Hi Josh, One thing you could try is to keep your special symbols in a seperate font and use HTML formatted text - I assume you are already using HTML text anyway if you include the fonts in different styles. So when you need to display your special symbol, you simply change the font in the HTML u

[Flashcoders] Firefox and navigateToUrl

2006-12-03 Thread Arjen Veneman
Hi all, I'm using navigateToUrl in flash 9. In combination with a firefox browser i get strange results, sometimes the external link opens correctly , sometimes nothing happens and sometimes firefox gives a popup blocker message. I saw people having the same problem: http://www.mail-archive.

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Prototype vs fixed property inheritance

2006-12-03 Thread T. Michael Keesey
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Was reading an interesting explanation of prototype vs fixed property inheritance in the AS3 livedocs. Although, it was mentioned that in general, its always prefereable to use fixed property (regular) inheritance for performance reason

[Flashcoders] Q:Prototype vs fixed property inheritance

2006-12-03 Thread moveup
Was reading an interesting explanation of prototype vs fixed property inheritance in the AS3 livedocs. Although, it was mentioned that in general, its always prefereable to use fixed property (regular) inheritance for performance reasons, I was wondering why, or when it would make sense to use

[Flashcoders] problem with data grid that have columns renderer as input text

2006-12-03 Thread Fratiman Vladut
Hi! I have an data grid with two columns renderee as input text. all works fine (i read some on the net), but i have two problems: 1. data grid display input text in rows, even if i don't have any value for that row (is ugly). 2. after i input some text in and delete that row (due to my script), va

Re[6]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Iv
Hello Paul, PS> I was trying to create a Boiler object instance, not a movie clip. - ok. now I understand. -- Ivan Dembicki __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.artlebedev.ru | http://www.sharedfonts.com

RE: Re[4]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Steven
Hi Iv I was trying to create a Boiler object instance, not a movie clip. It was the movie clip path that I was creating so I could pass this to the Boiler object instance. Not sure what is wrong with this line var vBoiler_Obj:Boiler = new Boiler(vBoilerRef, i + 1); It seems to work ok now with

Re[4]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Iv
Hello Paul, PS> var vBoiler_Obj:Boiler = new Boiler(vBoilerRef, i + 1); - incorrect line -- Ivan Dembicki __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.artlebedev.ru | http://www.sharedfonts.com

Re[4]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Iv
Hello Paul, PS> I am still curious though as to why I cannot dynamically create the boiler PS> movie clip reference and pass it to the boiler clip constructor - is this PS> not possible? - it's possible. private function Boiler () { ref = this; } :) you can't create movieclips using "new" key

RE: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Steven
Found the problem!! My boiler movie clips were not on screen when I was calling the create_Boilers method. Anyway the following works fine now when I call it with the boiler movie clips on stage public function create_Boilers():Void { arrBoilers = new Array(); for (var i:Number

RE: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Steven
Many thanks Ivan - I wasn't familiar with self-registering. I will give your suggestion a go. I am still curious though as to why I cannot dynamically create the boiler movie clip reference and pass it to the boiler clip constructor - is this not possible? Thanks Paul -Original Message-

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Iv
Hello Paul, PS> And I want the boiler object to store unique properties for each of the PS> boilers. - every boiler must create his own object for store his properties. for example: class BoilerStore { public var _rotation:Number; public var _x:Number; public va

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Iv
Hello Paul, opps. a little mistake. replace game constructor: private function Game() { this.boilers = []; } -- Ivan Dembicki __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.artlebedev.ru | http://www.sharedfonts.com

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Iv
Hello Paul, If you already have an instances of Boiler on the stage you can use boiler's self-registering in your game class. For example you have in library: "Game_mc", linkage - Game_mc, AS 2 class - Game. "Bolier_mc", linkage - Boiler_mc, AS 2 class - Boiler. On the stage you have an instance

RE: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Steven
Thanks IV I do not want to create the boiler movie clips as these are already on the stage. Basically I want to be able to control a nested movie clip within each boiler, that is called "needle_mc" And I want the boiler object to store unique properties for each of the boilers. Your code looks

Re: [Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Iv
Hello Paul, PS> var vBoiler_Obj:Boiler = new Boiler(vBoilerRef); - this line incorrect. use create method public static function create (this_mc:MovieClip, name:String, depth:Number, init_obj:Object):Boiler { var new_mc:MovieClip = this_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth); var current_constr

[Flashcoders] Create movieclip path within a class

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Steven
Having problems dynamically creating a movieclip reference to pass to another class. Basically I have a Game class and a Boiler class. The Game class contains a property called "mcReference" which is being created correctly as "_level0.game_mc" when I create the Game instance var myGame = new Gam

Re: [Flashcoders] Transmit image diff?

2006-12-03 Thread Wojtek Dabrowski
Thanks for all the tips everybody. Sent me off quite a few new lines of thought, which was the best possible help in my situation! I think that now I'm going to have to think about a totally different approach than I had been planning in the beginning. Thanks a lot again everybody! __

[Flashcoders] solution to xml gallery backwards dealie

2006-12-03 Thread Andrea Hendel
oh em gee, the thing that's great about being a noob is that when you get something, it's a little celebration. jason, you rule for puttin' me on the right track. i reversed the order in which the xml nodes were being imported. that way both the thumbs and the photos were numbered the other