RE: [Flashcoders] Flex 3 Air Beta 3

2007-12-17 Thread Matthew James Poole
Right, that will probably be becuase the stage.nativeWindow hasn't yet initialized you can test this theory by using this code: var timer:Timer = new Timer(100) timer.addEventListener(Timer.TIMER, teststage); timer.start(); function teststage (): void { if (stage.nativeWindow !=

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars and cookies

2007-12-17 Thread Guillaume Bedleem
Hi, just a little add in the debugging script tools. I've tried a lot, and the better I've found is : http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/ very useful and show a lot of data. moreover it's free and should work with most of browser / connected app sorry for the non-really-pure-flash-object-post

[Flashcoders] pause a loop for an set amount of time

2007-12-17 Thread thomas nordahl
I have an string made from using getpixel on an image. I want to compress this string using lzw compression, but the string is way too big so my flash application hangs. is there anyway to make flash pause 50 milliseconds every 3 sekunds? or every 1000 iteration? here is the part of the code that

Re: [Flashcoders] pause a loop for an set amount of time

2007-12-17 Thread Zeh Fernando
You don't use a loop. Instead, you create the variables needed as properties, then create a function that does an *iteration* of the loop. Then on every frame you do N calls to that iteration, until it's over. Or if you want: http://labs.zeh.com.br/blog/?page_id=97#lzw This is an AS2 LZW

RE: [Flashcoders] [Sort of OT] Flex Usage - IDE

2007-12-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
You can use Flex for any commercial project (Flex is the framework, not the tool, and Flash is the platform). For example, there is a free Flex SDK that will compile Flex .swfs for you. If you're referring to the Flexbuilder tool, you can use it for any commercial project granted you have

[Flashcoders] external flv only playing one frame

2007-12-17 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... I'm putting an external flv on the stage like so: (AS2) var vid:MovieClip = _root.createEmptyMovieClip(vid, 1); var videoContainer:MovieClip = vid.attachMovie(videoContainer, videoContainer, 1); // videoContainer MC in the library contains a video object named videoObj var

[Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question

2007-12-17 Thread ben gomez farrell
First of all, I'll ask this Where is that flexcoders list you all talk about? I don't see anything under figleaf, and the only Flex coders list I found on google is a yahoo groups one, and I haven't gotten a single email from them yet - so I'm thinking there's some kind of SECRET one.

[Flashcoders] AVM1 loadMovie problems

2007-12-17 Thread Dave Segal
I am having some problems loading multiple Flash 8 movies into Flash 9. I understand that this not recommended and that is preferred to work with all Flash 9/AS 3 content. Here is the situation. I have 2 Flash 8 swfs, let's call these f8loader1.swf and f8loader2.swf. Both of these swfs

RE: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question

2007-12-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
First of all, I'll ask this Where is that flexcoders list you all talk about? I don't see anything under figleaf, and the only Flex coders list I found on google is a yahoo groups one, and I haven't gotten a single email from them yet - so I'm thinking there's some kind of SECRET one.

Re: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question

2007-12-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: ben gomez farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:07 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question First of all, I'll ask this Where is that

RE: [Flashcoders] [Sort of OT] Flex Usage - IDE

2007-12-17 Thread Francis Cheng
Speaking of Flex Builder, if you are a current student or faculty member at an educational institution, you can get it for free for educational purposes: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/productinfo/faq/#flex_faculty Francis Cheng | Sr. Technical Writer | Adobe Systems Incorporated

[Flashcoders] target object under mouse-AS3 syntax?

2007-12-17 Thread dave matthews
hi all, What is the correct syntax to target any named symbol on stage, please? Looking for the event target or something like that - just can't find the exact syntax to look it up in Moock's book! The app has many named symbols on stage, trying to use same 'widget' to

Re: [Flashcoders] AVM1 loadMovie problems

2007-12-17 Thread ben gomez farrell
That's an interesting twist on what I found. I had a Flash 9 SWF. The Flash 9 SWF loaded a Flash 8 SWF. The F8 SWF had a movieclip instance that would grab several different animation SWFs that would get loaded into the movieclip. So, first it would load animation1.swf into the MC instance,

Re: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question

2007-12-17 Thread Muzak
Avoid states.. they're hard to maintain, control, etc.. Look into using ViewStacks and controling application state through actionscript. - Original Message - From: ben gomez farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday,

Re: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question

2007-12-17 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Another sort of Off Topic Flex question Avoid states.. they're hard to maintain, control, etc.. Look into

Re: [Flashcoders] target object under mouse-AS3 syntax?

2007-12-17 Thread Charles Parcell
Perhaps... event.currentTarget; private function mouseOverHandler(event:Event) { trace(event.currentTarget); } http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/events/Event.html#currentTarget Charles P. On Dec 17, 2007 1:10 PM, dave matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all,