Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Hoza
Wacky. Thanks for looking further into this. It's helping to understand the issues, for sure... not to say that I'm fully aware of what to do with this knowledge so far, but thanks. :) Paul John VanHorn wrote: here, i set the frame rate to 1, and tried to move the mouse 1 px persecond

Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Hoza
Alain Rousseau wrote: checked your files and indeed the position was wrong if you dragged and droped too fast. I made a simple fix to your code and now it works nicely... Suhweeet... thanks a ton! That's very interesting. I'm much further towards the side of Flash Novice, but this bugger wa

[Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax highlighter

2007-02-28 Thread Iv
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Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread John VanHorn
here, i set the frame rate to 1, and tried to move the mouse 1 px persecond. i added traces for everything on both enterframe and mousemove events. you can start to see the asychronicity between setting the text and redrawing the stage: onEnterFrame mc._x: 3.45 _xmouse: 149 text: 4 onMouseMov

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Muzak
- Original Message - From: "Kalani Bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:55 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval,and for loop. > 1) setInterval is not accurate. Try moving the window around and see if the > function gets

RE: [Flashcoders] as3 book

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Hi Gustavo, There are several great changes with AS3. But nothing I can tell so far with Flash 9 IDE except that the Alpha's version is all messed up. I would advise thinking on both ends because an artist/programmer can do anything with flash. If you are looking for more of an art introduction

Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
onEnterFrame didn't give any better results either, it was definitely a case of how fast can Flash grab the exact _x postion when the button is released and the listener removed (or onEnterFrame deleted). Can't quite understand the logic of the sequence or timing, but it's definitely a case of

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 Full Screen Mode - Mac Player bugs?

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
apart from "Do not use Safari, ever !" , I don't know what could be the cause of this ... I've tried with a simple test, and indeed onRollOver and onRollOut seem to be overriden by something else ... If you *click* on the button with a onRollOver, then the call is made ! weird ! Definitely a S

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 book

2007-02-28 Thread Gustavo Duenas
thanks eric, I'm not a programmer more a designer though, so you think this book would be ok for me, actually I hope to finish my book of flash oop(as2) and once I have this done, I'm going to migrate to the as3 cookbook. I just realized how useful is the actionscript for animations and flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread John VanHorn
this seems to be tied to using a mouse listener. onMouseMove is not synchronous with the frame rate, so it can fire more than once in between framesthat being said, it still doesnt make sense that the _x seemingly increases if you drag left. if you use good ole onEnterFrame, everything works

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
You can use a singleton. It's just important that the intervals be managed in a single location. _root can be used by as1 or as2 programmers. AS3 supports a document class and support for inner classes which means (through some creative engineering) singletons as well, no need for root. 1) setI

Re: [Flashcoders] Adding Dynamic Text to Scroll Pane

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
Hello Steve and welcome to flashcoders, the proper way to set content for a ScrollPane is as follow : MyScrollPane.contentPath = "myContent"; where myContent is a MC in your library with a linkage ID "myContent" So what you should do is create a MovieClip with your dynamic text in it and expo

Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
Hi Paul, checked your files and indeed the position was wrong if you dragged and droped too fast. I made a simple fix to your code and now it works nicely. In your onRelease function you should grab the final position of your mc. Here is the code with a bit of cleaning up and use of Delegate

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop. Thanks All!

2007-02-28 Thread Paul V.
Thanks all! I have the code working now. I will be sure to hang on to the replies, so I can have them for reference. THANKS. Paul Vdst - Original Message - From: "Omar Fouad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frust

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Always a pleasure having intellegent people prove me wrong. I'd rather be proved wrong by a singleton rather than a simpleton. My only comment is that setinterval doesn't fire accurately. If the user is moving the window for example the interval function will never get called. I like your manager

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Adam Pasztory
Intervals are not a problem as long as you use them correctly. Just make sure for every setInterval() call you have a corresponding clearInterval() call. Usually the clearInterval() is within your interval event handler function, so once the interval end condition is met, there's no way for your

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Muzak
As a posted last week or something, there's a few things to keep in mind when using setInterval - clear interval before setting it - always use this syntax setInterval(scope, "method", interval) - and never use this syntax setInterval(function, interval) - keep a reference to the interval - remov

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
Link Updated :D http://www.proeye.net/omarfouad/myClasses/SetTimer.rar On 3/1/07, Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well I've actually created a class called SetTimer.as that executes a function after a given time in seconds and can loop the function many times u want.. see just put the c

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
well I've actually created a class called SetTimer.as that executes a function after a given time in seconds and can loop the function many times u want.. see just put the class in the same directory of the fla and use: import SetTimer; var myTimer:SetTimer = new SetTimer(2, function () {myFunct

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
> So even though I never wrote it I would offer the following > advice, which is to *almost* not use setInterval at all. Hogwash. http://www.kennybunch.com/index.php?p=16 :) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options o

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
These are great articles! They are helping me out a lot. While browsing the links I also found grant's talk at flash forward austin. His presentation explaining resource management can be found here http://gskinner.com/talks/resource-management/ (free nicely animated slideshow application if an

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
And another error on my part in doLoadImage replace i with movieCount Alain Rousseau wrote: Hi Paul, actually what you should do with setInterval is something like setInterval(functionReference, interval); or to keep the scope of the interval : setInterval(this, "functionReference", interval

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
I take that back...never use it...you can always use onEnterFrame on the root. -Original Message- From: Kalani Bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:15 PM To: 'flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
When I was using AS2 I found that no matter what there were always memory leaks with set interval and even after I explicitly tell Flash to remove the interval it never got removed... So even though I never wrote it I would offer the following advice, which is to *almost* not use setInterval at al

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
Ahh yes forgot something to stop loading images : function doLoadImage() { movieCount++; this.attachMovie("image"+i, "image"+i, 41); // allways refer to the movieClip you are attaching, in your case it's "this" image = this["image"+i]; // eval is deprecated in Flahs 8, so this is a bette

Re: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Guntur N. Sarwohadi
@Mick I think I meant modifying bitmapData instead of placing bitmaps one by one.. but to make sure, are you referring to using copyPixels to a single bitmapData per point creation? @Michael I see what you mean.. I think I wont need any undo feature (i'm not like trying to make flash-photoshop

Re: [Flashcoders] >> webcam

2007-02-28 Thread Webdevotion
Yes, with bitmapdata. ___ 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

Re: [Flashcoders] Resize Flash content dynamically via JS in IE6 when DOCTYPE declaration is present in HTML

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
If i look at the code from Eduardo Ramos, I can see a problem for IE6 in the pixelWidth property. I don't believe it exists ... what you should be doing is the following : function newSize(datoX,datoY) { var flashElement; if(document.all && !document.getElementById) { flashElement

Re: [Flashcoders] Tree Table Component

2007-02-28 Thread Guillaume Malartre
here's a simple treeGrid http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/?p=36 It juste render tree cell differently. I'm using the one from http://flex2components.sourceforge.net/ currently. It's a little bit buggy. I've come around some difficulty with it. But in my opinion it's the best one I've found for

[Flashcoders] Finding all subclasses at runtime

2007-02-28 Thread Timothy Fitz
In ActionScript 3 I'd to find all of the subclasses of a particular class, at runtime. Or put in different terms, I'd like to enumerate every class in existence. My end goal is an extension to Flex Unit that will automatically find all subclasses of UnitTest execute them. It seems at least possib

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Alain Rousseau
Hi Paul, actually what you should do with setInterval is something like setInterval(functionReference, interval); or to keep the scope of the interval : setInterval(this, "functionReference", interval); secondly, if you want to load the image at a set interval, then your approach is wrong.

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
assign the setInterval to a variable than clear the interval this way : var myInterval = setInterval(blah blah blah); clearInterval(myInterval); read about clearInterval on the docs... U'll realize it more On 3/1/07, Paul V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let me explain the problem I am having and

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashcoders

2007-02-28 Thread Ramon Miguel M. Tayag
I believe you can change the settings to get it as a daily digest. On 2/28/07, Allent99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Why am I getting so many flashcoders information from individuals? Before everything was consolidated to one email per week or month. It is very annoying to get my inbo

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Matt Samet
Paul: I understand what you're trying to do (make a time-delay slide show of images). Using setInterval for that is fine, but you have to make sure you're using it correctly. Calling setInterval will set up a flash system timer that will call your function every X milliseconds. It will keep going

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
PS again: with any bacground color, put a movieClip on the stage and name it mc1 it is a good idea but you know? my version is having a mask that hides 80 percent of the mirrored mc and the 20 showing is fading in.. On 3/1/07, Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and create a movieClip calle

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
and create a movieClip called mc1 on the stage :D On 3/1/07, Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: set the background color of the stage to black and it will work man On 3/1/07, Stephen Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've tried it does not work > > - Original Message - > From

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
set the background color of the stage to black and it will work man On 3/1/07, Stephen Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've tried it does not work - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wed Feb 28 17:39:14 200

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread Dave Watts
> I have tried several times to remove myself from this email > list to no avail. Can someone please remove me? In the future, if you need help on a list, PLEASE CONTACT THE LIST OWNER DIRECTLY. It is a mistake to assume that the list owner will read every message sent to the list, because the l

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread JOR
Grant Skinner has some good blog postings on the subject...

Re: [Flashcoders] >> webcam

2007-02-28 Thread Dennis Roche
is it possible to use to the web cam locally to capture a still?? On 26/02/07, Amir T Rocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure, but only local - means no one else can see you. // get the camera var cam = Camera.get( [opt. camName ] ) ; // attach the camera on the vid display videoPanel.attachCam

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Stephen Smith
I've tried it does not work - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wed Feb 28 17:39:14 2007 Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip?? > Please take me off this list, the emails just keep coming > > Ahhggg

Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Hoza
Thanks for the reply... I tried what you're suggesting and still see the problem. I decided to make a quick example to see if anyone can see a problem in what I'm doing (and a demonstration of said funkiness.) This is out of context, so I think it's working okay as a demo. The code is incl

[Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Paul V.
Let me explain the problem I am having and then I will send you some code. I want to load up images in a slide show with set interval, with the images being called image1 image2 image 3 etc. I want to be coding a dynamic slide show so that if I change the images I can just replace the mc image

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread Douglas Pearson
I'd be interested in tools for monitoring this too. To avoid holding onto objects through addEventListener, have you tried the weak reference option? We've been using that increasingly as the default way to add listeners, so objects don't hang around when we think we're finished with them. Doug

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash exe and Vista

2007-02-28 Thread Ryan Cooper
-Original Message- From: "Robert Akerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 2/26/07 11:30 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash exe and Vista I just finished a large Flash CD project that started out as a SWF Studio build, but Switched over the Using MDMs Zin

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread David Andersen
Hi all, I have tried several times to remove myself from this email list to no avail. Can someone please remove me? Thanks! -Dave Kalani Bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, Does anyone have some tips or tutorials on how to handle resources and performance issues in flash. I h

Re: [Flashcoders] Right Click disabling

2007-02-28 Thread Cortlandt Winters
Hi Andy, Actually there is a way, though I think it's a metaphysical law that somebody has to say it's impossible before an answer appears. I had to do this so that folk could copy paste with ctrl-c ctrl-v and have the text modified before put in atext field but not allow a right-click-paste int

RE: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
> Please take me off this list, the emails just keep coming > > Ahhggg At the bottom of every email it tells you how to get off the list. > ___ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > h

[Flashcoders] Adding Dynamic Text to Scroll Pane

2007-02-28 Thread Steve Abaffy
Hello, I am new to the group and have already looked at the archives, and on line for the answer to this and can't find it anywhere. Here is what I have. I have a MC which has a ScrollPane. I have the ScrollContent set to nothing (Also tried setting it to a dynamic text box) and when I get

[Flashcoders] Flash 9 Full Screen Mode - Mac Player bugs?

2007-02-28 Thread Dan Rogers
Yo Flashcoders, I am attempting to use the fullscreen feature in the Flash 9 player (Stage["displayState"]), while keeping my publish version set to v8. Everything seems to work fine, but when I use the feature on Safari for the Mac, some of my button methods aren't working properly- na

Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Mick G
Perhaps it's doing some rounding because your mouse is sitting on half pixels and it's not noticeable to the eye (if that's even possible). Have you tried putting a Math.ceil around the _x values to see if it helps always round the value up? On 2/28/07, David Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Hi everyone, Does anyone have some tips or tutorials on how to handle resources and performance issues in flash. I have more of an application than a flash file and things start to slow down after a while. I'm thinking the garbage collection mechanism in flash isn't deleting the objects which

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 book

2007-02-28 Thread Webdevotion
Buy both the cookbook and the ActionScript 3 Design Patterns one! Both are indespensible when you are new too Actionscript 3. Well written and nice to read books. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the ar

Re: [Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread David Cohn
Paul, I know it's no help, but I recently ran into this also and never found a workaround... I'd love to know if you find one! --Dave Heya folks, This is baffling me (and making me very annoyed), and I haven't found an answer elsewhere, so here goes... I have a main movie with a cu

RE: [Flashcoders] Right Click disabling

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Hi Andy, This will drive you wild until you're living with the lions in Africa. Save yourself. It's not possible especially in a .swf. They removed that possibility in flash 5 or 6. I even tried putting in in a C# windows application with complicated scripting to toggle a layer above it and f

Re: [Flashcoders] Urgent help !!! Please :)

2007-02-28 Thread nelson ramirez
Agreed. There really aren't very many instances in which a popup window is absolutely necessary. On 2/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an ongoing area of debate, but, the fact that popup windows are problematic isn't disputed. If I go to a public website, click a lin

[Flashcoders] TEST

2007-02-28 Thread Glen Pike
Will the real Steve Smith please stand up, please stand up. Will everyone else complaining about receiving lots of emails / not being able to unsubscribe, please RYFEML and try to realise there maybe a technical problem with the list, people have posted suggestions to help you resolve them.

RE: [Flashcoders] as3 book

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
>> ActionScript 3 Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson, Adobe Press :-) << -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eric dolecki Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:20 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoder

RE: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Stephen Smith
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Re: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Michael Hood
What about creating a function that acts as sort of a "History" (like the way Photoshop does) - only, in addition to recording each action the artist performs on his project, it also does the following: The application creates a "TEMP" folder for each new project. Inside each project folder, a lo

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
Well i was talking about skewing orizontally in order to have a mirrored movieClip effect.. by the way, Snepo, your way you of a nested movieClip is true but not achievable dynamically, another technique i am trying to use is by using the mx.geom.Transform class and the mx.geom.Matrix class but i

Re: [Flashcoders] Editing .as files with vim editor (non-english chars broken)

2007-02-28 Thread David Holroyd
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:29:27PM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote: > My problem is that the cyrillic letters which are being displayed > ok by Macromedia Flash IDE appear broken in Vim 7.0. > > The russian text is displayed twice as long as it should be and > there are repeatable "P" and "C" charac

[Flashcoders] Resize Flash content dynamically via JS in IE6 when DOCTYPE declaration is present in HTML

2007-02-28 Thread JabbyPanda
Dear flashcoders, I have a flash content sitting on the single page with dynamic height and width value (100% and 100%). ---example of SWF embedding in HTML var flashObj = new SWFObject("myFlash.swf", "flash_obj", "100%", "100%", 9, true); I resize the Flash content using JS by apply

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Snepo - Arse
Skewing isn't available but is possible. In order to skew a clip (skewClip) the clip needs to be nested inside another movie clip (containerClip). To skew - rotate both skewClip and containerClip in opposite directions and modify either the _xscale or _yscale of containerClip... the resul

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Jason Rayles
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/transformmatrix/ ___ 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 Pre

[Flashcoders] Dragging a clip gives erratic ._x numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Hoza
Heya folks, This is baffling me (and making me very annoyed), and I haven't found an answer elsewhere, so here goes... I have a main movie with a custom drag "scrubber" control. At the core of my app (Flash 8 Pro) is this scrubber that needs to simply return its position so I can use it to

Re: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Mick G
If you want to simulate a painting application you have to be mindful of how artists work. You WILL have ten of thousands of strokes being generated which will at some point (depending on the users system) slow down the flash player. Many artists do lots of sketch style mouse actions where they ma

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reverse the .wmv files

2007-02-28 Thread Jonathan
win avi video converter... convert any video format.. and if you use codes... will be a monster converter... =) - Original Message - From: "Omar Fouad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] how to reverse the .wmv files wha

Re: [Flashcoders] [JOB] Google is hiring experienced Flash Engineers

2007-02-28 Thread John Harding
Correct - the candidate would need to work out of our Mountain View location. We are offering relocation assistance if a move would be required. -John On 2/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assume it's at the location specified in the posting. - Original Message -

RE: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Holth, Daniel C.
As far as I can figure, "skewing" isn't available in flash right now... Adjusting the yScale will change the dimensions of a movieclip, for example (Hope my ASCII drawings work!) ___ | | |___| Becomes _ | | |_| When you reduce the _yScale. Skewing horizontally would be adjusting the

RE: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Matthew Bryson
and me... Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> Subject: Re: > [Flashcoders] Subscription problems> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:32:42 -0300> > > pease Unsubscribe me too> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - Original Message - > > From:

[Flashcoders] Editing .as files with vim editor (non-english chars broken)

2007-02-28 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, is anybody using the Vim editor on Windows for editing ActionsScript files? My problem is that the cyrillic letters which are being displayed ok by Macromedia Flash IDE appear broken in Vim 7.0. The russian text is displayed twice as long as it should be and there are repeatable "P" and

[Flashcoders] AS3: how can I suppress - ReferenceError: Error #1074 ?

2007-02-28 Thread Francis Chary
We're building an application that loads one swf into another. Both swfs use the same version of a class, let's call it com.as.MyClass. We've established what the error is, an attempt by the child swf to register its version of com.as.MyClass in the ApplicationDomain. Flash doesn't like that, so

Re: [Flashcoders] path/attachMovie problem

2007-02-28 Thread hervé hubert
thanks alot! I think this will help.. Le 28 févr. 07 à 16:46, Chris Bowley a écrit : Hi In order to reference movieclips using an index you would need to keep them in an array. Alternatively if you don't need to reference them by name, you can use the return value of attachMovie() to keep a

Re: [Flashcoders] XPathAPI recursive XML search

2007-02-28 Thread T. Michael Keesey
On 2/26/07, Jim Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, Flash has never had a good means to traverse an XML tree. Never say never. AS3.0's e4x is an extremely good means for traversing an XML tree. (You're right if you mean "pre-AS3 Flash", though.) -- Mike Keesey _

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Put a filter in your e-mail client to dump all of the Flashcoders e-mail into a separate folder and one a month delete the contents until you can unsubscribe. I subscribe to quite a few lists and everything gets sorted on its way in so that I can deal with each list in its turn. If your e-mail

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reverse the .wmv files

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
what do you want to do exaclty? convert wmv to fla?? convert it first to .avi using movie maker than convert the avi to fla from flash professional 8 On 2/27/07, payal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All Can anyone tell that how to reverse the .wmv files or some software tool that reverses the

Re: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Guntur N. Sarwohadi
hmmm... nice.. very nice.. but not exactly what i want to achieve.. it seems it has a lag due to the 'calculating stuff to bitmaps'.. i need to be responsive.. similar to MS-Paint.. and it doesn't have to look as good as BitmapExporter.. but it is something i'll look in to, definitely. if tha

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Jonathan
hi Jonathan nice! but... i want to get out... for two reasons: 1° - i'm novice on flash, i have a advertising agency on brazil... and my flash nivel is so far away from that list... 2° - so many e-mails... i can't read all... then i want to go out... thx Jonathan ( pls escuse the Eng

[Flashcoders] CellRenderer, Datagrid & component updating

2007-02-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
I have the followinng setup: comboBoxA, a dataGrid, and a cellrenderer in the datagrid which renders comboboxB in each cell. ComboboxA switches the dataprovider for the datagrid, thus changing the datagrid. It's all working fine, except that I cannot seem to get the comboBox within the datagrid

RE: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Holth, Daniel C.
As a temporary solution, why don't you just set up a rule/filter/smart folder that moves anything with the word [Flashcoders] in the subject line directly into the trash or another folder? -Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chanda Dhar

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Jonathan
pease Unsubscribe me too [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Kristal Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems Again, I too have tried to unsubscribe (5+ times), no confirmation email is sent.

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing MovieClip??

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
i'll try it On 2/28/07, iashido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: True. > _yscale = -100 itseveryday.ro iashido.com On Feb 28, 2007, at 11:55 AM, dr.ache wrote: > Duplicate your MovieClip and try _yscale = -100 ? > Or do i get you wrong? > > > Omar Fouad schrieb: > >> i have a movieClip on

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Muzak
I think we're all aware by now that the list has problems. I'm sure Dave is looking into the matter and the list will be fixed at some point. Sending "me too" or "unsubscribe me" messages is not gonna speed up the fixing process. Instead of whining about it you could simply look into setting up

Re: [Flashcoders] swf working but in browser doesnt???!!!

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
allright i found where was the problem, i was setting the Stage properties (allign and scale mode) before the attaching methods when i replaced it worked on ie too. before it worked only with netscape, firefox and opera... but what was the difference whether i set the stage properties before

Re: [{SPAM?}] - [Flashcoders] Stop loading sounds - Email found in subject

2007-02-28 Thread Omar Fouad
i tried deleting it but it still buffers on the background it seems the load method isnt static... On 2/28/07, Ben Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try mySound.stop(); delete mySound; - Ben http://www.bencline.net On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Omar Fouad wrote: > Nah, i tried mySound.load(")

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Jonathan Lackey
For everyone trying to unsubscribe, why don't you set up a rule to automatically delete anything from the list or move it to another folder until the unsubscribe is fixed Jonathan Lackey | creative contractor 509 N Elena Ave #2 . Redondo Beach CA . 90277 t:310.341.3606 . c:310.698.9330

RE: [Flashcoders] Beginners/Designers Actionscript

2007-02-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yes - the Friends of Ed book is probably better, but if you don't have a good enough handle on AS 1, you'll be even more confused by AS 2. At some point, the "person in question" just needs to jump off the dock and start swimming. :) I have found the OOP aspects of AS2 learnable only by repeated e

RE: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Mike Mountain
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000572.php I think someone beat you to it. Complete with source code: http://www.quasimondo.com/scrapyard/BitmapExporter.zip How lucky is that! M ECM Systems Ltd, Ellifoot Park, Burstwick, East Yorkshire HU12 9DZ Tel: 01964 672000 Fax: 01964 671102 Register

Re: [{SPAM?}] - Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems - Email foundin subject

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Andrews
LOL. If only I had so little to worry about. I'm sure they'll sort it out. If they don't ask for your money back.. - Original Message - From: "Cole Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:32 PM Subject: RE: [{SPAM?}] - Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription prob

RE: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Mike Mountain
Just want to be clear - you're not placing bitmaps - but writing bitmap data, so once the line is drawn (you'd represent it somehow as a vector preview) you create some bitmapData which encompasses the line and brush width, then you'd copy from your brush bitmap into the new bitmap along the length

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Diogo Moutinho
More of the same i also can't unsubcribe ADMIN PLEASE CHECK THIS! On 2/28/07, Kristal Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Again, I too have tried to unsubscribe (5+ times), no confirmation email is sent. This is a helpful list, but getting every email in my inbox is a real annoyance. Unti

RE: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Chanda Dharap
Hate to add to the spam, but please, I've been doing nothing but deleting my inbox since last night. I don't want to tweak my spam filter, but really this is getting to be an issue for me. Maybe be worthwhile for you folk to pause the list for the week, send a message to all and just fix it in iso

RE: [{SPAM?}] - Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems - Email foundin subject

2007-02-28 Thread Mary Hayes
Ditto UNSUBSCRIBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cole Peterson Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:33 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [{SPAM?}] - Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems - Email fou

RE: [{SPAM?}] - Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems - Email found in subject

2007-02-28 Thread Cole Peterson
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. FIX THIS. :( : Cole Peterson : ZAAZ, Inc : Interactive developer : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t 206.341.9885 x4867 : www.zaaz.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristal Dale Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:21 AM

Re: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Guntur N. Sarwohadi
yeah.. i usually just use lineTo in a loop while the mouse is pressed.. no curveTo as i thought it's unnecessary. so I just need to place the bitmaps after the lineTo? is that all? if I need to stretch the bitmap, say from the last point to the current, is that possible? or by just placing the bi

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Kristal Dale
Again, I too have tried to unsubscribe (5+ times), no confirmation email is sent. This is a helpful list, but getting every email in my inbox is a real annoyance. Until the unsubscribe is fixed on this list, please honor the unsubscribe requests from email. Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks.

Re: [Flashcoders] Beginners/Designers Actionscript

2007-02-28 Thread Ian Thomas
Thanks Jason, I've got Moock's book, and having had a quick skim, I think it's too advanced for the person in question who's only ever done very basic scripting; I was looking for something simpler. Would the FoE book suit, do you think? Cheers, Ian On 2/28/07, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [Flashcoders] Beginners/Designers Actionscript

2007-02-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
Friends of Ed's Object Oriented Actionscript is great. Moock's AS2 is good too. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology & Operations Learning & Leadership Development eTools & Multimedia Team >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

RE: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush

2007-02-28 Thread Danny Kodicek
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Guntur N. Sarwohadi > Sent: 28 February 2007 14:56 > To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] simulating airbrush + calligraphy brush > > > apply the airbrush effect in

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