Re: [Flashcoders] Need help with Keyboard events

2007-02-02 Thread Helmut Granda
Hey Mike, This should get you started: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=2305.html On 2/2/07, Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, Could any of you help me with the logic, required to capture a

[Flashcoders] Need help with Keyboard events

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Anderson
Hello All, Could any of you help me with the logic, required to capture a combination? I am coming back from writing Flex Apps, to writing some Flash Apps. In Flex, this is a total piece of cake - but with Flash, it's not as easy to capture Control-Key combinations. Does anybody have any sampl

[Flashcoders] re: loadMovie question ([p e r c e p t i c o n])

2007-02-02 Thread Matt Garland
p you can skew without the transform matrix by passing a negative value for x or y scale. I'll bet you have a negative value in there--look for it matt Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:19:31 -0800 From: "[p e r c e p t i c o n]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Flashcoders] loadMovie ques

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread Wagner Amaral
Had that problem once, that was because I had a number in the instance name, which flash wasn't handling well... How are you assigning the '1' to 'card1' ? read this: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-December/177045.html On 2/2/07, [p e r c e p t i c o n] <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [Flashcoders] XRay freezes controls?

2007-02-02 Thread Karina Steffens
Perhaps a little less obvious, clicking on a control in the Xray UI, or rolling over it, gives you the same effect as clicking/rolling over the control on the stage. So the question is, what happens when you click the control on the stage? Karina > -Original Message- > From: Pete Miller

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:dynamically change registraion point of MovieClip for rotation scaling in loaded assets

2007-02-02 Thread Muzak
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:27 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Q:dynamically change registraion point of MovieClip for rotation scaling in loaded assets > Hi > I'm sure this has been asked before The please search the archives or goog

Re: [Flashcoders] XRay freezes controls?

2007-02-02 Thread John Grden
lol no, it's not expected ;) Let's get the obvious questions : 1. version of actionscript your publishing to 2. version of xray connector 3. are you using the newer Xray interface (flex2 version)? let me know, On 2/2/07, Pete Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying out XRay for the firs

Re: [Flashcoders] Where's the Central 1.5 install badge? this is worth for?

2007-02-02 Thread Gustavo Duenas
well I don't see the problem in installing it...the think I don't know is what is worth for ... forgiving my ignorance course! Regards On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Well, the install works from that page, can't you just link users to that? Jason Merrill Bank of America

RE: [Flashcoders] ContextMenu based on state

2007-02-02 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
I tried that but it didn't fix it, but thanks for the response. - MM aren't you just missing () on your first line? var cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(buildMenu); should be var cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(buildMenu()); ___ F

Re: [Flashcoders] Where's the Central 1.5 install badge?

2007-02-02 Thread danton chin
Thanks! Right before I sent the email the install badge wasn't there and now it is. Odd. Thanks for your help! Danton Chin On 2/2/07, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, the install works from that page, can't you just link users to that? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning & O

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:dynamically change registraion point of MovieClip for rotation scaling in loaded assets

2007-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning & Organizational Effectiveness >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >>Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 3:27 PM

[Flashcoders] XRay freezes controls?

2007-02-02 Thread Pete Miller
I'm trying out XRay for the first time, and it seems that after taking a snapshot, when I click on an item in the UI to examine its properties, that control becomes disabled (no longer responds to mouse events) anymore. If I examine the properties of an mc containing controls, the entire mc is dis

[Flashcoders] Q:dynamically change registraion point of MovieClip for rotation scaling in loaded assets

2007-02-02 Thread moveup
Hi I'm sure this has been asked before but what is the best way to dynamically change the registration point in MovieCLips? I'm loading assets (jpegs, gifs, etc) into holder MovieClips and then I need to change the registraion point of this holder MovieClip from the top left to the center of th

RE: [Flashcoders] Where's the Central 1.5 install badge?

2007-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Well, the install works from that page, can't you just link users to that? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning & Organizational Effectiveness >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >>Of danton chin >>Sent: Friday, February 02

Re: [Flashcoders] Where's the Central 1.5 install badge?

2007-02-02 Thread danton chin
Yes to both unfortunately. I was planning on migrating to Apollo when it went FCS. But now are there any alternatives? Danton Chin On 2/2/07, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Central isn't listed as an Adobe product anymore, and on the Developer Center homepage, Central has been remov

Re: [Flashcoders] Where's the Central 1.5 install badge?

2007-02-02 Thread Gustavo Duenas
Hi, you just installed or are asking how to, because after receiving your email I went to the link and have this installed...I'm using a mac. I'm not much a developer guy, but it installs very quick on my computer...I don't see the problem. Regards. On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:06 PM, danton chin

RE: [Flashcoders] Where's the Central 1.5 install badge?

2007-02-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Central isn't listed as an Adobe product anymore, and on the Developer Center homepage, Central has been removed as well. With Apollo coming out, I don't think that page is really even supposed to be there, even though you can still get to it. Lots of broken and outdated links on that site. Doesn

[Flashcoders] loadMovie question -- better explaination --SOLVED

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
don't know why it suddenly started working, but it did... thanks to all who helped p ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to

[Flashcoders] Where's the Central 1.5 install badge?

2007-02-02 Thread danton chin
Does anyone know what's happened to the Central 1.5 install badge at http://www.adobe.com/products/central? -r ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo

[Flashcoders] bitmapdata question...

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
thank you sir! ___ 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 Consulting and Trainin

RE: [Flashcoders] bitmapdata question...

2007-02-02 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ
var bitmapdata:BitmapData = new BitmapData(mc.width,mc.height,true,0x); bitmapData.draw(mc); BLITZ | Patrick Matte - 310-551-0200 x214 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [p e r c e p t i c o n] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:50

Re: [Flashcoders] gotoandlearn.com (what is he using to capture his input)

2007-02-02 Thread greg h
Back in May 2005, I had asked Lee. At that time he graciously replied. I am confident that Lee won't object to my sharing with you his reply from that time: I have been using Camtasia to record the screen into AVI files. From there I bring them into Premiere and edit them together if there are

[Flashcoders] loadMovie question -- better explaination

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
further... if i drag a clip onstage...it works like it's supposed to, but when i attach it while the movie is running, it doesn't like accept it. does anyone have an explaination for this? thanks ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-02 Thread Joshua Sera
When you enable html in a textfield, Flash adds a bunch of formatting in HTML. If you trace the htmlText property of the textbox in question, you'll get something like: This is a test If you trace the text property of that same textfield, it won't count the HTML tags, so you'll get a number less

[Flashcoders] bitmapdata question...

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
i've taken a snapshot of a movieclip. is there a way to keep it from showing? meaning i don't want to see it on stage i just want to save it. thanks ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http:/

[Flashcoders] RE: Q:Dynamically Scale a MovieClip by dragging

2007-02-02 Thread Jack Doyle
For those of you who downloaded my TransformManager class yesterday/today, I found a small bug and uploaded a new version (4.1). http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/TransformManager. Shoot me an e-mail with "TransformManager" in the subject if you'd like me to keep you posted about future updates

[Flashcoders] Re: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 25, Issue 5

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
sorry for that but i'm on digest ___ 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 Cons

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question -- better explaination

2007-02-02 Thread Helmut Granda
Hey Buddy, You dont have to start a new thread, you can just continue with the original post :) On 2/2/07, [p e r c e p t i c o n] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ok so i noticed that where i have the clip that i'm loading into matters... so here's how my movieclip is set up. there are about 20 f

[Flashcoders] loadMovie question -- better explaination

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
ok so i noticed that where i have the clip that i'm loading into matters... so here's how my movieclip is set up. there are about 20 frames the background spans all 20 the mask begins at frame 10 as does the clip that i'm trying to load the jpg into... before i load the jpg i goto frame 10 so

RE: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread Alain Rousseau
and what are you tracing exactly ? that's only the result. But at first glance Target looks like a file path and not a clip path to me ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [p e r c e p t i c o n] Sent: 2 février 2007 12:49 To: flashcoders S

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread eric dolecki
it sounds like you might be targeting the main clip and not the nested clip beneath the mask. mc > mc.mask, mc.holder_mc (empty) - beneath the mask on a layer mc.holder_mc.loadMovie("foo.jpg"); - should be affected by the mask layer inside of the mc movieclip On 2/2/07, [p e r c e p t i c o n

[Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
here's what the output window is spitting out... Target not found: Target="/screen_container/card1/image_container" Base="_level0.screen_container.card1.image_container" the clip is on the stage...which this trace confirms image container: _level0.screen_container.card1.image_container thanks

RE: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread Alain Rousseau
Yes or use the MovieClipLoader class var mLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); mLoader.load(movieclip_a.masked, "image.jpg"); If you load your jpeg to a depth of 0 it might overwrite the masked movieClip and thus you lose the mask as for the skewing, have you rotated or modified your c

Re: [Flashcoders] Was: Flash diagnostic tools - Xray Flex2 connector [VERY alpha]

2007-02-02 Thread John Grden
thank me when it works ;) On 2/2/07, slangeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the advance release, John! I've got a new project starting, so I will be using it in the days and weeks to come. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change

Re: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread Helmut Granda
It sounds like you are not loading the JPG to the right target. Make sure your loadmovie is loading correctly. On 2/2/07, [p e r c e p t i c o n] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Alain, I would think that would work too, but i tried that as well...not sure what's happening... in fact all of my co

[Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
Hi Alain, I would think that would work too, but i tried that as well...not sure what's happening... in fact all of my coordinates are all screwed up...plus i've noticed that when i change the width of some clips it literally skews the clip as if i used the transform tool...very strange as i have

Re: [Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-02 Thread PR Durand
hi Jah yes, this is the reason why I have 651 instead of 502 in the 1st case. but I search the difference between 651 and 762, after passing trough an xml and a localConnection. I don't know wich one causes trouble thx PiR Jah a écrit : most likely it is the "" and "" that are making up the

Re: [Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-02 Thread Jah
most likely it is the "" and "" that are making up the extra characters. if you were to trace the text, not htmlText you'll see that. On 2/2/07, PR Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list! I have a text in a value, the text length is 502, I fill my htmlText with it, the htmlText.length is 651

RE: [Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread Alain Rousseau
You should try masking your movieclip through code, as you are loading into it with code : movieclip_a.masked.setMask(movieclip_a.mask); then your masked movieClip should remain masked even if you load a jpeg inside it. I say should, but I've not tested this precise setup ... HTH Alain -O

[Flashcoders] text length difference

2007-02-02 Thread PR Durand
Hi list! I have a text in a value, the text length is 502, I fill my htmlText with it, the htmlText.length is 651. Now I get the same text content from an xml file, within a CDATA node. trace (myNode.nodeValue.length) // outputs 502, ok I pass it through a localConnection to another flash,

Re: [Flashcoders] Was: Flash diagnostic tools - Xray Flex2 connector [VERY alpha]

2007-02-02 Thread slangeberg
Thanks for the advance release, John! I've got a new project starting, so I will be using it in the days and weeks to come. -Scott On 2/2/07, John Grden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't released it yet, but if people are willing to take some lumps with the alpha version, the Flex2 code is

Re: [Flashcoders] SCORM?

2007-02-02 Thread Carolina Avila Coral
Hi: Yes, you can iterate at the end and send all the values to the LMS in order. Sometimes the users can answer a question in a different order as we expected, so if you try to send the value of the fourth question and you didn't initialize in the LMS the first, second and third questions, t

[Flashcoders] loadMovie question

2007-02-02 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
Hello all, i'm trying to load a jpg into a movie clip that is nested within a movieclip and masked by another movieclip within the same clip for example movieclip_a.mask movieclip_a.masked the problem is that the jpg is showing up on top of everything...shouldn't it be behind the mask even if i

[Flashcoders] ContextMenu based on state

2007-02-02 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... I can't get a ContextMenu based on a variable in my movie to show up. It gets to the callback function, and chooses the right array (wording), but the menu itself doesn't render. What am I missing? Thanks, - Michael M. private function bandwidthMenu():Void { var cm:ContextMe

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Q:Dynamically Scale a MovieClip by dragging

2007-02-02 Thread Romain Ecarnot
Great work ;) Thanks very much Jack to share it. I'm certainly need some process like TransformManager in few weeks... Cheers, Romain - Romain Ecarnot Développeur ActionScript / Multimédia E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://ww

[Flashcoders] Was: Flash diagnostic tools - Xray Flex2 connector [VERY alpha]

2007-02-02 Thread John Grden
I haven't released it yet, but if people are willing to take some lumps with the alpha version, the Flex2 code is working well with snapshots. Changing properties via the property inspector isn't really done yet (Booleans seem to be the only thing working there), but the treeview does work and Iv

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash diagnostic tools

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Weekes
http://www.rockonflash.com/xray/flex/Xray.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of slangeberg Sent: 02 February 2007 15:17 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash diagnostic tools Sorry if this is redundant, but is there

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash diagnostic tools

2007-02-02 Thread Thomas Fowler
Yes - Original Message - From: "slangeberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash diagnostic tools Sorry if this is redundant, but is there now an XRay connector for Flex 2 / Flash 9? Thanks, -Scot

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash diagnostic tools

2007-02-02 Thread slangeberg
Sorry if this is redundant, but is there now an XRay connector for Flex 2 / Flash 9? Thanks, -Scott On 2/2/07, Karina Steffens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would highly recommend Xray (http://osflash.org/xray) - Don't know what I'd do without it... Aside from "Xraying" your app, you can also

Fwd: [Flashcoders] RE: Q:Dynamically Scale a MovieClip by dragging

2007-02-02 Thread slangeberg
Some indispensable AS code, here. Nothing like people opening their hearts to the community, by sharing important code like this! -Scott -- Forwarded message -- From: Jack Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 1, 2007 7:55 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Q:Dynamically Scale a MovieCl

Re: [Flashcoders] Cancelling a load in progress : has this issue ever been fully resolved ???

2007-02-02 Thread JOR
If you are using a MovieClipLoader you could use the unloadClip() method. I've used it successfully in the past though I haven't tried every OS/browser/plugin combination to see. Excerpt from the Flash 8 docs: ActionScript classes > MovieClipLoader > loadClip "Use MovieClipLoader.unloadClip()

RE: [Flashcoders] Works in IDE - not in projector

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Mountain
Never mind, the problem has now miraculously fixed itself > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Mike Mountain > Sent: 02 February 2007 12:18 > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: [Flashcoders] Works in IDE - not in projector > >

Re: [Flashcoders] sort 2d array

2007-02-02 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
I think its wise to be careful how you approach this as although quicksort is 'quick' you could actually be using it inefficiently (or rather in a situation that isnt appropriate) If your list is almost sorted then quicksort can be inefficient, (depending on how you choose your pivot, apparent

[Flashcoders] Works in IDE - not in projector

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Mountain
I have some code that works fine in the IDE but not in the projector. All swfs are published to AS2 flash 8, there are no external domain issues or other security problems I'm not evaluating something in a trace statement as far as I can see. Anything else I should be looking at? The code reall

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash diagnostic tools

2007-02-02 Thread Karina Steffens
I would highly recommend Xray (http://osflash.org/xray) - Don't know what I'd do without it... Aside from "Xraying" your app, you can also set up customised traces, that are much better than our beloved trace() command. And it also works in your runtime environment. Karina > -Original

[Flashcoders] Document Class stopped working

2007-02-02 Thread Matt Muller
Has anyone else had this, my document class has stopped working in the flash 9 as3 preview. Linkage instantiation still works but specifying the document class doesnt compile the document class. Ive tried re installing flash. It happend after I set a as3 classpath in the prefs. Any ideas anyone?

Re: [Flashcoders] Class Initiation Q:

2007-02-02 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Eric, You can get away without any code at all on the timeline if your main 'entry point' class is assigned to a movieclip instance that exists on the timeline. So no code on _root, an invisible MovieClip on stage on frame 1 linked to a MovieClip-derived class. But that may not be ideal

Re: [Flashcoders] fullscreen javascript

2007-02-02 Thread Martin Klasson
You can copy the fullscreen-javascript from our latest project: http://www.volvocars.se/campaigns/Local/c30_finansiering.htm BUT BE AWARE, that popupblockers on Firefox/Netscape on PC DOES NOT like when CLICKING on the FLASH to open a popup -the popup gets caught in the popup-blocker. Works w