Re: [Flashcoders] sound object in AS2

2008-02-08 Thread maurice sallave
So are the audio files to be set at stream or event? On Feb 8, 2008 3:48 AM, Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that is the way to get around this, also make sure that you uncheck > 'export in first frame' in your assets - when you uncheck that box, the > compiler will not export the asset a

RE: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>Hi Dave, >> >>Is possible to integrate Maya with flash?? Depends on what you mean by integrate. Maya has a vector renderer (the same one that Swift3D has, it's made by Electric Rain), but for this, it looks more like a bitmap sequence or even a movie. So in a sense, yeah. Jason Merrill Bank

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Vlado Krempl
Hi Dave, Is possible to integrate Maya with flash?? - Original Message - From: "Dave Mennenoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site. I remember someone saying

RE: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Watts
> Hey, can someone re-post Jesse's sarcastic comment? I'm sad > I missed it, all this talk has me curious! "With magic! Unfortunately if you haven't learned it by now you'll never be able to understand its full potential. Full screen - FLASH and HTML http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/fu

RE: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>Hi Peter, >>I understood Jesse's comment to be a follow on to his >>sarcastic reference to 'magic' Hey, can someone re-post Jesse's sarcastic comment? I'm sad I missed it, all this talk has me curious! Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development eTools & Multimed

Re: [Flashcoders] mask + embedded fonts + createTextField

2008-02-08 Thread Andrew Sinning
Looks like the problem was that I had embedded the "bold" version of the Arial. Andrew Sinning wrote: I generating some content at runtime inside a movieClip that is masked. The images that get loaded in using the Loader class work great and they get masked. As a test, there is a dynamic-Tex

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Jimbo
I did not get 'Winter', but got 'garden 006.jpg' and 'garden 010.jpg' jimbo *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/8/2008 at 1:35 PM Paul Steven wrote: >Hi Jimbo > >One file was called "Winter" and another called "garden 006" > >I have written an uploader myself based on the Flash 8 file

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Jimbo
There is an as3 version that shows progress quite well, is very easy to customize, and also sends you an email every time a file has been uploaded. It was created by Flep at flepstudio.org, source code is available under the swf. http://jimbo.us/Uploader/ hth, jimbo *** REPLY SEPARATOR

[Flashcoders] How to structure this site

2008-02-08 Thread Dwayne Neckles
http://dnecklesportfolio.com/pv3d/archive/2/PaperCloud.html That column represents a prototype menu, there will also be a similiar looking subnav column to the right. like my current site dnecklesportfolio.com I am redoing this site to use a lil PV. Real minimal. My question for you: Do yo

[Flashcoders] mask + embedded fonts + createTextField

2008-02-08 Thread Andrew Sinning
I generating some content at runtime inside a movieClip that is masked. The images that get loaded in using the Loader class work great and they get masked. As a test, there is a dynamic-TextField in the movieClip with Arial embedded, and it shows up just fine. However, the fields that I cre

Re: [Flashcoders] getDefinitionByName and error #1009

2008-02-08 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
From timeline? import extremefx_comar.i18n.locales.EN_US; trace(EN_US.test); var n:String = "extremefx_comar.i18n.locales.EN_US"; var klass:Class = getDefinitionByName(n) as Class; trace(klass); var ca:Object = new klass(); trace(ca); Output: boo [class EN_US] [object EN_US] Kenneth Kawamoto h

RE: [Flashcoders] Export hidden layers turning itself off

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Heppell
That sounds about right - I did paste something in from Fireworks... I'll test that theory Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Van Cleave Sent: 08 February 2008 17:31 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Export hidden

Re: [Flashcoders] getDefinitionByName and error #1009

2008-02-08 Thread Marcelo Volmaro
The problem is, I'm using getDefinitionByName in other places, and it works fine. The specific class (EN_US) is included, but I can't instantiate it. Also, I was wrong on one of my statements: The trace of the static var (trace(klass.test)) worked fine. That what makes this a mystery for

[Flashcoders] tangozebra enhanced call function option

2008-02-08 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i don't know if you guys have worked with tangozebra before but if so can you explain how the enhanced component works? there's an option to call a function which i assume is called after the webpage that the banner sits on is loaded but it doesn't seem to work for me i have the tz_enable

Re: [Flashcoders] Export hidden layers turning itself off

2008-02-08 Thread Jason Van Cleave
I noticed it seems to happen when I paste something into Flash from Fireworks/Some other app On Feb 8, 2008 8:21 AM, Kevin Heppell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've got Flash CS3 and I've found that every now and then the export > hidden layers export option turns itself off... > This

RE: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Jesse Graupmann
Thanks Adrian, I couldn't have said it better. Sorry for the confusion folks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Park Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 6:16 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A part

Re: [Flashcoders] getDefinitionByName and error #1009

2008-02-08 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
If I do this I get all the traces: (Document class) package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.utils.describeType; import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName; import extremefx_comar.i18n.locales.EN_US; public class Test extends Sprite {

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Adrian Park
Peter, to my own detriment, I've found that sarcasm doesn't translate so well into ones and zeros :) I was also initially rather taken aback by Jesse's comment but, much to the credit of the people on this list, I've never seen that kind of elitism here so figured it must be sarcastic. Anyway, I'l

Re: [Flashcoders] send email from project on local machine

2008-02-08 Thread Glen Pike
If your kiosk PC shows Flash using a web-browser, served by a web-server on local machine, you can use PHP or ASP to "script" the sending of emails. You will probably have to setup a "send mail" program for the ASP or PHP mailing functions to use. I don't use IIS, so I cannot help you with th

Re: [Flashcoders] send email from project on local machine

2008-02-08 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
Projector will have no local security imposed, i.e. you do not need to place your Projector in a web server or anything to connect to internet. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ sense co moh wrote: Hi all I have Kiosk machine we put it in mall it's normal PC and I made flash pro

[Flashcoders] getDefinitionByName and error #1009

2008-02-08 Thread Marcelo Volmaro
Hi!, I'm trying to do something pretty simple: dynamically instantiate a class based on it's name: var n:String = "extremefx_comar.i18n.locales.EN_US"; var klass:Class = null; try { klass = Class(getDefinitionByName(n)); trace(describeType(klass));

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Peter B
Hi Adrian. Ah, I see. In which case Jesse, my apologies. I must have had my sarcasm filter on... ;p ) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] send email from project on local machine

2008-02-08 Thread sense co moh
Dear iv I didn't understand what you mean do i have to install IIS on the pc and plice the files in wwwroot or what to do anyone help please thanks - Original Message From: Ivan Dembicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Flash Coders List Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 2:42:02 PM Subject

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Helmut Granda
I'm not sure how this was created but after looking at the home animation (the tree with the leaves falling) I can say that the animation can be done simply with shape tweens. and yes the gradient in the background can be controlled with CSS and a transparent movie or it can be controlled within fl

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Adrian Park
Hi Peter, I understood Jesse's comment to be a follow on to his sarcastic reference to 'magic' and he is in fact insinuating that it's simpler than it looks and therefore, yes, anyone interested enough can learn how to do it. I don't think he meant any offense. If I'm not mistaken he's alluding to

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Paul Steven
Hi Jimbo One file was called "Winter" and another called "garden 006" I have written an uploader myself based on the Flash 8 fileReference and it experiences the same problem. However the files are successfully being uploaded. The reason I decided to use flash for the uploader was so I could disp

Re: [Flashcoders] is there a way of detecting whether or not the mouse is in a movie at all?

2008-02-08 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, that is only detectable when the mouse is down (try tracing xmouse and ymouse while mouse is down, versus when its not). Another thing you can do is look at how long the mouse hasnt moved. greetz JC On Feb 8, 2008 1:40 PM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi gu

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Jimbo
Just thinking . . . if your virus program prohibited the upload, the file never was uploaded . . . if you can tell me the name of the file you tried to upload, I'll see if it uploaded?? jimbo *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/8/2008 at 12:49 PM Paul Steven wrote: >Hi Jimbo > >Than

[Flashcoders] Export hidden layers turning itself off

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Heppell
Hello, I've got Flash CS3 and I've found that every now and then the export hidden layers export option turns itself off... This obviously causes problems but I can't work out a specific trigger that changes the value... Has anyone else had this and anyone found a solution? Thanks Kev

RE: [Flashcoders] Slow textfield performance - anyone experiencedthis?

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Heppell
Hmmm splitting into smaller textfields doesn't seem to help unless you mean really small textfields (like 2 or 3 lines each?) Also, this would stop the text from being selectable (which I would like to avoid) The problem seems to be related to the amount of text in the swf rather than the size of

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Jimbo
hmmm, hard to think of a problem on the senders end that would not display the progress meter in the swf??? I notice that several uploads were made - did others upload, and did others see the progress meter for their uploads? I'm on XP now with most recent flash 9, firefox 2.0.0.1.1 and see it.

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Mennenoh
I remember someone saying that the developper told him that: *Scenes were rendered using Maya* That was me. I emailed them and asked. Yeah it's very well done, no doubt. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___

Re: [Flashcoders] MS Access?

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Mennenoh
Thanks guys, much appreciated. I will tell them that they need to use a "real" database. They currently don't even have a site and were asking about hosting too. All the top hosts I looked at (IX, Lunar, BlueHost, HostMonster, etc) don't even offer Access as an option - which makes telling the

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Paul Steven
Hi Jimbo Thanks for the link. Weird thing is I am experiencing the same problem with your upload example Here is another one I tried too http://www.tink.ws/blog/files/flash8/UploadExample.html I have tried it on Windows Vista with Firefox Flash 9 Player and Windows XP Internet Explorer 6 with Fl

[Flashcoders] is there a way of detecting whether or not the mouse is in a movie at all?

2008-02-08 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
hi guys just a quickie i've got an expandable flash banner that has a transparent movie clip (called roll_mc) over the top of it to detect whether to expand or not but because i can't seem to get an accurate false from my hittest if the mouse goes out of the banner, i was wondering if ther

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Paul Steven
Further to my last post, here is a link I found that has an example of uploading with filereference. http://www.jackleaman.co.uk/test/upload/index.html With this example, I get the same problem i.e the file progress goes to 100% pretty much immediately but the file does not report having finish

RE: [Flashcoders] sound object in AS2

2008-02-08 Thread Jimbo
Yes, that is the way to get around this, also make sure that you uncheck 'export in first frame' in your assets - when you uncheck that box, the compiler will not export the asset at all, so you need to physically place it on frame 2 or later, but before they are neeeded. Then the frame 1 'load'

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 9.0.47 serious issue (maybe some 9 versions before too)

2008-02-08 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
Changing to Event.INIT and catching IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR had no effect, but it's interesting the player thinks it's an AVM1 movie... Using Symbol Class is better solution anyway, since if you use the Document Class, your asset will include entire Stage too. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiapr

[Flashcoders] Problems displaying Progress with FileReference

2008-02-08 Thread Paul Steven
I am creating a file upload flash movie in Flash 8 but cannot get the progress of the upload to work when tested online. When I test if in Flash authoring environment, the progress appears to work. My code is essentially exactly the same as that here http://markshu.ca/imm/flash/tutorial/fileRef

Re: [Flashcoders] Anyone know of good mac app that will trace outside of Flash

2008-02-08 Thread Alistair Colling
Thanks everyone for your responses. Alcon is just what I'm looking for, I'll have a look into XRay as I think it may be useful for larger projects but for day to day Alcon is great and now I can make all of my text colours beautiful in Textmate and Alcon my quality of life has improved. M

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Peter B
> Unfortunately if you haven't learned it by now you'll never be able to > understand its full potential. ??! What? Come on, it's not exactly rocket science is it, and everyone has to start somewhere, don't they? Kinda arrogant to suggest that if you haven't already learned somehting you will nev

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
yeh that's an import from a bitmap 3d render with flash overlayed very nicely done tho swift 3d is more for doing vector-based 3d work like this http:// 64.207.133.120/Erain/extreme/02/visions.asp although it does have limited bitmap mapping a On 8 Feb 2008, at 08:07, Cedric Muller wrote

Re: [Flashcoders] Slow textfield performance - anyone experienced this?

2008-02-08 Thread Adrian Ionut Beschea
yes, I ran into that one once. my sollution back then was to split the text into multiple textfields Kevin Heppell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello In a flash site I've created with large textfields the performance just grinds to a halt... I'm using device fonts and tried the embed options bu

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 9.0.47 serious issue (maybe some 9 versions before too)

2008-02-08 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
hmm, the only difference in code I can spot right now, is that you have the Circle class attached to the DisplayObject itself, rather than the Document root, does it crash when you put the Circle class on the Document root? On Feb 8, 2008 9:30 AM, Jason Van Cleave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 9.0.47 serious issue (maybe some 9 versions before too)

2008-02-08 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
I've just checked. Setting Circle class on the displayobject itself works fine. It only crashes when setting the Circle class as a Document class... So I guess that would make a fine solution, attaching the Class to the object itself, rather than the document. On Feb 8, 2008 9:47 AM, Meinte van't

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 9.0.47 serious issue (maybe some 9 versions before too)

2008-02-08 Thread Jason Van Cleave
ok, I did get it to puke - here's some info [Switching to process 2666 thread 0x622f] 0x199ae696 in Flash_EnforceLocalSecurity () Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x000c 0x199ae696 in Flash_EnforceLocalSecurity () Th

RE: [Flashcoders] sound object in AS2

2008-02-08 Thread McVirusS
Hi Maurice, What you could do is place a movieclip in the second frame that contains all the sounds on different layers (don't forget to put it on "stop"). It's not a very clean solution but it works :). Regards, Meinaart / McVirusS -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

[Flashcoders] Flash/Flex Engineer wanted- San Francisco

2008-02-08 Thread Michelle Mermelstein
Greetings all, A Media company is looking for a talented *Flash/Flex Engineers. * If you like working on complex, Flash-based web apps (games a plus), you'll be interested in the projects they have going on. * Responsibilities* - Contribute to product design and implementation discussions

[Flashcoders] Video issues with Flash Lite 2.1 and Windows Mobile 6

2008-02-08 Thread McVirusS
Hi, I am working on a mobile Flash application that uses a lot of video. Before I received the real target device (HP iPAQ 214 with Windows Mobile 6) I did some tests on an older type iPAQ (with Windows Mobile 5) and on a Nokia N95. I had no problems getting video to work in the Flash Lite 2.1

[Flashcoders] Slow textfield performance - anyone experienced this?

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Heppell
Hello In a flash site I've created with large textfields the performance just grinds to a halt... I'm using device fonts and tried the embed options but that doesn't make any difference. It isn't a problem with the development test movie player. I've tested it in IE, Firefox, Safari and it is th

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 9.0.47 serious issue (maybe some 9 versions before too)

2008-02-08 Thread Jason Van Cleave
I have been working with this technique a lot today so I downgraded to 9.047on the mac but I am not getting any crashes. i did see this come through tho Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed. I started with my code then tried the above changes with the file

Re: [Flashcoders] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.

2008-02-08 Thread Cedric Muller
I remember someone saying that the developper told him that: *Scenes were rendered using Maya* :) Cedric That doesn't look like Swift3D to me, looks more like faked 3D using Flash transforms or some other tool - but Swift3D does not do fancy morphing of vector shapes like that. Jason Merrill B

[Flashcoders] sound object in AS2

2008-02-08 Thread maurice sallave
Hi, This is my first post so please bare with me. Presently I'm using the sound object class in AS2 to control my sounds and using the linkage id to attach my sounds appropriately. The problem I'm having is that when I "export in first frame" for a couple of audio files the presence of my loader