[Flashcoders] Playing MP3 file through FMS

Hi, I am playing MP3 file through FMS. It is working fine. My problem is that i am unable to get the duration of the stream. Can anyone help me in this? Thanks, Amandeep ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or sear

[Flashcoders] Little annoying AS editor question

This is a small and silly question, but: Is there any way to persuade the AS editor's automatic indent function not to turn something like this: myArray = [ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]] into: myArray = [1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]? And yes, I know everyone prefers to use an

[Flashcoders] video streaming help needed

Hi, i m looking forward to built a simple site on lines of youtube.com I have never used flash communication server extensively. the site will have audio and video streaming. which will be for most of the news item. We need video streaming to be smooth and hassle free, which icludes identificati

[Flashcoders] Problem with mx.filters

Hello Flashcoders, in a recent project i made use of the blur filter on a container clip that is used all over the project with differing content, but over the project it sometimes blurs and sometimes won't with no obvious regularity (i.e. the content of the container is varying while the filter r

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

Yeh, but woudl that be an option (skills and software wise) to the average user, even to the average pirate or copier?? The ore I look into the issue, the more I am thinking of not really going beyond the deterrent stage, as anything beyond that becomes a 'project ' in itself, detracting budget a

Re: [Flashcoders] [OT] - Need a voice over artist in the UK

Hi Paul, Male or female? Remote workin is the usual thing with VO artists, everything else would be too expensive. You send them the script, they speak it for you and return a file ni whatever format you want (usually mp3 or wav). Talk to Sarah at http://www.sarahparnell.com/, you can listen to

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

That's USD, right? $100,000 = £49,704.66 = € 73,462.297 Alias On 18/04/07, Weyert de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 100-120K nice... ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chatt

[Flashcoders] Superscript & Subscript in Dynamic Text Fields

Hi, I have a very large medical project that requires for me to load dynamic text through XML for a series of text fields. I know that there is an issue with displaying Superscript & Subscript characters in Flash player 8. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=1959eceb Be

RE: [Flashcoders] Superscript & Subscript in Dynamic Text Fields

No it hasn't! ;( Please make sure you fill out the wish form: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform as there is talk of rebuilding the text engine for player 10. ;) Currently I think the best way round it is by creating custom superscript and subscript fonts that get embedde

RE: [Flashcoders] [OT] - Need a voice over artist in the UK

Thanks Nic - I will get in touch with Sarah though it is likely that the voice will need to be male. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nik crosina Sent: 18 April 2007 09:59 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Fla

Re: [Flashcoders] Superscript & Subscript in Dynamic Text Fields

Ouch! Thanks for the advice Giles. JP On Apr 18, 2007, at 4:13 AM, Giles Taylor wrote: No it hasn't! ;( Please make sure you fill out the wish form: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform as there is talk of rebuilding the text engine for player 10. ;) Currently I thin

Re: [Flashcoders] [OT] - Need a voice over artist in the UK

she'll know who to talk to; any accent, age, or dialect ... ; NIk On 4/18/07, Paul Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Nic - I will get in touch with Sarah though it is likely that the voice will need to be male. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

Re: [Flashcoders] video streaming help needed

Hi May this sdk at http://www.flash-video-mx.com/flv_encoder_sdk/ can help you! Best regards! master 2007-04-18 From: creativity Sent: 2007-04-18 16:20:52 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com CC: Subject: [Flashcoders] video streaming help needed Hi, i m looking forward to built

[Flashcoders] Init generic clip

Hello list, I have made a very simpele MovieClip that functions as a generic button, this is clip 'gen_btn_mc'. For the designers it is important that I place the gen_btn_mc on stage and not attach it at runtime. The gen_btn_mc clip itself has a few functions on the 1st frame of its timeline, the

RE: [Flashcoders] Superscript & Subscript in Dynamic Text Fields

If you only need numbers, an alternative is to use a Unicode font that has a full complement of superscript and subscript numbers, such as Lucida Sans Unicode or Arial Unicode. Under embedding options you either need to create a custom code page for the super/subscript characters, or simply embed t

RE: RE: [Flashcoders] UNSUBRSCRIBE

This is most likely why you couldn't unsubscribe. Automated emailers cannot respond to whitelist requests. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chi

[Flashcoders] need to send on(rollOut) to button component

I have configured a group of button components so that only one can be selected at a time and so that each button becomes not enabled after it is selected. The problem is that since the button.enabled = false happens before the on(rollOut) event, later on when it is re-enabled it displays its

[Flashcoders] Find size of the bounding box of a particular frame of a loaded SWF

All, I'm working on an application that loads a variety of external SWFs. Once each SWF loads, if I test it's _height and _width properties, I get the height and width of the largest frame within that clip. However, what I'd like to get is the _height and _width of a particular frame. Is that

RE: [Flashcoders] List component redraw bug

>>I've seen this before, but can't remember what caused it >>though (let alone what fixes it). >>It sounds like a masking/font problem. >> >>Can you reproduce it in a seperate fla? >>Got a sample we can take a look at? Thanks, I'll see if I can reproduce it in a separate .fla. The List component

RE: [Flashcoders] [OT] - Need a voice over artist in the UK

I've usually just googled for voice talent and had good results. Some people charge a LOT - sometimes you get what you pay for, sometimes not. Working with people remotely has never been a problem. I have found several people will just charge a minimal fee depending on the length of the script, o

[Flashcoders] Re: Find size of the bounding box of a particular frame of a loaded SWF

Sorry, this isn't true... Generally, _height and _width DO return the height of the _currentframe of the SWF. The problem is that the SWFs we're using are created by FlashPaper, which seems to mess things up a bit. If anyone has any experience working with SWFs created by FlashPaper, and could

RE: [Flashcoders] Find size of the bounding box of a particular frame of a loaded SWF

When you say "frame" - you need to think of that differently. A "frame" is not a physical object, but instead an instance of the stage being rendered in time (or something like that :) ) - check for the width and height of an object instance in that frame, like a background movieclip or something

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

Here in México a Senior with these skills. U$15k-U$20k at year. A game developement manager (Flash Guru) like me and others 6 people in the country. U$32k-U$37k at year :.( We are fucked 2007/4/18, Alias™ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: That's USD, right? $100,000 = £49,704.66 = € 73,462.297

Re: [Flashcoders] [OT] - Need a voice over artist in the UK

Try Elain at http://theBigFishVoiceCompany.com one of my clients, great people. Richard ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

not true, you can enjoy the sun of mexico ;) On 4/18/07, Andrés González & Aragón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here in México a Senior with these skills. U$15k-U$20k at year. A game developement manager (Flash Guru) like me and others 6 people in the country. U$32k-U$37k at year :.( We are fu

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

Andrés, it ain't so bad. Consider the cost of living in different US cities. San Fran is one of the most expensive. Here's a link to a cost of living table: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0883960.html -Original Message- From: Andrés González & Aragón [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: We

Re: [Flashcoders] Find size of the bounding box of a particular frame of a loaded SWF

Jason, Thanks for the clarification - that's an important point. I should have been more specific in my original post. Essentially, we have a number of SWFs created by FlashPaper. I'm loading those SWFs into a container movie clip. I then want to scale and center the container clip on the mai

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

And exploitation by multinationals! On 18/04/07, Tom Huynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: not true, you can enjoy the sun of mexico ;) On 4/18/07, Andrés González & Aragón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here in México a Senior with these skills. U$15k-U$20k at year. > > A game developement manager

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

Here in México a Senior with these skills. U$15k-U$20k at year. A game developement manager (Flash Guru) like me and others 6 people in the country. U$32k-U$37k at year :.( We are fucked Similar values apply to our market here (in Brazil). But you have to take the cost of living of the country/

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

this email would be my script that I would hand and read to your boss. It looks like a job description. If you fill these, then hand it to him and say "I do this, we need to adjust my pay to compensate me for this work" Looks good to me On 4/16/07, Jordan Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He

RE: [Flashcoders] Find size of the bounding box of a particular frame of a loaded SWF

Yeah - you'd have to know what the content instance name is in each frame in Flashpaper and get the Width and Height on that. But frames themselves don't have width or height. I've never used Flashpaper other than messing with it so I don't know anything about specific specs on what it's timeline l

RE: [Flashcoders] Find size of the bounding box of a particular frame of a loaded SWF

You might be able to loop through (each frame as it's presented) the Flashpaper's timeline movie clip object and look for instances of MovieClip and then get the collective width max and height max - that way, you wouldn't have to know how the Flashpaper timeline is set up. Jason Merrill Bank of

Re: [Flashcoders] Find size of the bounding box of a particular frame of a loaded SWF

Hi Matt, try to make a clip from each of your frames (ie frame1_mc, frame2_mc, etc.) then test the width of the specific frame/clip (var myWidth:Number = myLoadedClip.frame1_mc._width;) Gilles Le 18 avr. 07 à 16:10, matt stuehler a écrit : All, I'm working on an application that load

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

Yeah, if you wanna buy a house in London you're looking at £200k - £300k minimum... So it all evens out... Alias On 18/04/07, Zeh Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here in México a Senior with these skills. U$15k-U$20k at year. > A game developement manager (Flash Guru) like me and others 6

Re: [Flashcoders] Init generic clip

Hello Jiri, do you absolutely have to use an enterFrame function ? you can write an init function like this : function init (myMc:MovieClip,myLabel:String,mySize:Number,hasIcon:Boolean) { myMc.setLabel(myLabel); myMc.setSize(mySize); myMc.setIcon(hasIcon); } init(toto_m

[Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

Flashcoders, Anyone have any thoughts on what the Adobe Media Player means for Youtube/Brightcove/Veoh/Google Video/etc. ? Thanks, ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.fi

Re: [Flashcoders] Find size of the bounding box of a particular frameof a loaded SWF

Check out the FlashPaper API. http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashpaper/2/flashpaper_api/index.html regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: "matt stuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Find size of the boundi

[Flashcoders] [OT] - Need a voice over artist in the UK --Amazing Voice

I recently used a company called Amazing Voice (www.amazingvoice.com ) with success. They are located in Canada have a number of narrators for English, French, and Spanish. I used narrators with American accents. You would need to ask about specific accents if you hav

Re: [Flashcoders] Init generic clip

Use onLoad, not onEnterFrame On 4/18/07, Gilles Roquefeuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jiri, do you absolutely have to use an enterFrame function ? you can write an init function like this : function init (myMc:MovieClip,myLabel:String,mySize:Number,hasIcon:Boolean) { myMc.setLabe

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

Exactly, the cost of living here in SF is insane. A decent flat in the city will cost you a million flat. I'm in my 30s and still renting. Again, the 100k - 120k figure I tossed out is for someone who has demonstrated expertise in database programming and administration, business logic layers, an

[Flashcoders] how to employ http status codes without using XML, loadVars, or MovieClipLoader classes

Greetings fellow coders - The current app I'm developing needs to track http GET requests from the flash player to the server side, but flash's built in http status code handling is limited. Most sever-side information the player grabs comes from ExternalInterface / JavaScript functions in the br

[Flashcoders] Flash File Upload Issues

Hello everyone! I'm going crazy trying to figure out an issue we're having with flash file uploads. It works perfectly fine from every computer I've tried it from at the office and at home, but we keep having users report that it just hangs - never moving the file to the server. It has happened

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:09 PM, thotskee wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on what the Adobe Media Player means for Youtube/Brightcove/Veoh/Google Video/etc. ? My guess is ... not too much. My take on it: It's just a glorified FLV player that talks to various video services and can be branded.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash File Upload Issues

this might be more an backend problem than a flash problem. depending on your server config, serverside language used to handle the upload and issues you mentioned (firewall, proxies and so on) it might be hard to trace. have you checked your log files (server, sideside scripting) for errors?

[Flashcoders] memory problems

hi guys i have 300 pages in flash and all the pages having animation and sounds files.last week i had the site for 4 hours and then it would stuck for some of the pages.i dont know what is the problem. _ Free & easy posting . Yel

Re: [Flashcoders] Init generic clip

Thnks for the posts Both suggested solutions don't work, altough the first one by Gilles does work. But I want the button to be selfcontained, no external initFunctions. Just a MovieClip onStage called btn and on the parent timeline of btn something like btn.setLabel('hello world') The onLo

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

The main trouble I'm running into when trying to prove what I do here is that we have almost NO organization in our company and no clear path to any given team or individual. A good example is that anyone (salesperson, PR guy, creative director, client) can come to ANYONE in my department and req

[Flashcoders] FITC 07...what is everyone seeing?

Are there any 'must sees' at this year's FITC in Toronot? Of course some of the most interesting presentations are scheduled at the same time, for instance on Tuesday, there is a Papervision 3D presentation the same time as Francis Bourre's presentation on AS3 game development and Ivan Todorov

Re: [Flashcoders] Init generic clip

Take the code out of the movieclip and put everything in a class that is associated with that movieclip (Linkage+Class) through the library. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: "Jiri Heitlager | dadata.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:34 PM Subject:

[Flashcoders] Flash 9 CS3 - Where's the scale 9 on bitmaps?

Can you do scale 9 with bitmaps in flash 9 cs3? It seems like this is not handled yet. Is this right? Austin ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/

[Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area of a masked SWF

All, It looks like this has been asked before, but I couldn't find an answer. I'm creating a Flash app that loads several SWFs. Those SWFs contain use masks. I'd like to be able to find the VISIBLE height and width of those SWFs; however _width and _height return the size of ALL the masked con

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area of a masked SWF

I'd like to be able to find the VISIBLE height and width of those SWFs; however _width and _height return the size of ALL the masked content. Can't you just check the width/height of the mask? Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area of a masked SWF

Claus, That's a great suggestion - the best answers are often the overlooked, obvious ones. But I don't think so - in the original SWFs, the masks aren't movieclips - they're just fills. So, I don't know how you'd check their width or height. The key thing about the application is that I won't

[Flashcoders] TEST

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RE: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VISIBLE area of amasked SWF

To center the visible part on stage, center the mask on stage. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of matt stuehler Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:30 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Finding the height and width of the VIS

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

I doubt that the management structure of your global company is going to change any time soon. If you are frustrated, then it sounds like you should find another gig, especially if want a raise but are unable to communicate to your boss what it is that you do. I find that it's easier to bump up

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

What I do is hardly Flash development...that's one small piece of the pie. :) But you're right on the rest of it. If nothing else, I'm learning a lot here about coming up with creative ways to make things work against all odds at a very high level. Cheers On 4/18/07, Jason Rayles <[EMAIL PROTE

[Flashcoders] Need help with error, PLEASE HELP ME!!!

I am gettint this error, and it just doesn't make sense to me **Error** \\sugarmomma\projects\couresFrameWork\04-04-2007\com\infusion\ui\DataUpdate.as: Line 1: The class being compiled, 'com.infusion.ui.DataUpdate', does not match the class that was imported, 'DataUpdate'. class com.infus

Re: [Flashcoders] Need help with error, PLEASE HELP ME!!!

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Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

@jon, thanks for the reply. i appreciate your feedback. what if adobe does offer support for other video formats though? (pure speculation btw) anyone else care to share? thanks again jon. - Original Message - From: "Jon Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

I'd say it stands a decent chance of supporting a bunch of formats eventually. Remember this thing is built on Apollo, and you can build your Apollo app with HTML. Maybe Apollo won't support HTML pages with plugins (except for Flash) at launch, but it would be in their best interest to render

[Flashcoders] Hey Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com ;)

http://www.hi5.com/register/lbGhX?inviteId=A_736a9cb_5PUwtDKWI9f0 Murali ___ 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

[Flashcoders] Web Services / Services in flash 9 cs3

Are we missing something? I can't find any support for web services, soap calls, or service objects in flash 9 cs3. How about flash remoting? How do we do this now? Anyone have any ideas? This is a bit of a shock. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.co