Re: [Flashcoders] Passing vars with the the timer and events

2008-03-14 Thread EECOLOR
Oh man, thank you for this example! This totally blows me away. I am sorry I was so persistent. You are correct. I will have to check all my applications now, hehe. This also means that all my earlier arguments are incorrect and that the use of Delegate is indeed very dangerous. Thank you for sh

Re: [Flashcoders] Passing vars with the the timer and events

2008-03-14 Thread EECOLOR
Hey there, I was totally shocked this morning. If what you were saying was true it would mean that if you created a class with a listener to itself and instantiated it, it would never be garbage collected. So I did some extra tests. 1. Your example with a weak listener (same result) 2. Trying to

Re: [Flashcoders] 9-slice scaling not working when used as mask

2008-03-14 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
scale9 can only be applied to shapes not to movieclips or sprites etc.. So thats probably why it wont work with masks and why children of a scale9ed movieclip will still distort.. On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Matt S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of Scale 9, can the "Scaled" MC, eg th

Re: [Flashcoders] 9-slice scaling not working when used as mask

2008-03-14 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
actually, let me rephrase that, scale9 is offcourse applied to a movieclip, but it only works on shapes within this movieclip. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Meinte van't Kruis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > scale9 can only be applied to shapes not to movieclips or sprites etc.. So > thats proba

Re: [Flashcoders] Passing vars with the the timer and events

2008-03-14 Thread EECOLOR
I have modified my test classes slightly. And found that when debugging this movie in Flex Builder 3, the garbage collection was triggered when I moved my mouse within the Flash movie. I suspect that the method behind the screens that runs the garbage collector is quite complex. I think that in mo

Re: [Flashcoders] Passing vars with the the timer and events

2008-03-14 Thread Muzak
Old articles, but a must read: http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/as3_resource_ma.html http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_resource_ma_1.html http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/understanding_t.html http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_weakly_refe.html - Origi

[Flashcoders] transition

2008-03-14 Thread marcellouz
hi all, anyone out there who knows how to manage this type of picture transition effect? http://www.schierke.com/ thx, marcel ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] transition

2008-03-14 Thread jonathan howe
I looked at some of the transportation photos: Looks like they are just tweening the brightness instead of the alpha and the photographs are all lit such that it appears more directed than it really is (it looks like it is radiating from the sun but really the sun is just the brightest spot, so it

Re: [Flashcoders] transition

2008-03-14 Thread Helmut Granda
any specific kind of transition? the transition i noticed was a simple fade in and fade out. Is that what you were looking for? On 3/14/08, marcellouz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all, > > anyone out there who knows how to manage this type of picture transition > effect? > > http://www.schier

Re: [Flashcoders] Passing vars with the the timer and events

2008-03-14 Thread Cory Petosky
Erik, Thanks for being more diligent than I was! I assumed the "let it run for an hour while eating dinner" test case was enough, too! This behavior is much more sane than my initial assessment, and I'm certainly glad to have been shown incorrect. :) On 3/14/08, Muzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] transition

2008-03-14 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/ wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=0983.html this should help (note actionscript 2) On 14 Mar 2008, at 14:10, Helmut Granda wrote: any specific kind of transition? the transition i noticed was a simple fade in an

Re: [Flashcoders] transition

2008-03-14 Thread marcellouz
thx a lot for all the response! marcel On 14.03.08 16:18, "Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/ > wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=0983.html > > this should help (note actionscript 2) > >

[Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Dave Segal
It's time for me to get a new computer and I have heard so many horror stories about Vista that I am thinking of switching to Mac. What tools are people using to develop on the Mac. I mostly Flash IDE, FlexBuilder, FlashDevelop, SWFMill, SWFDump, HaXe, FlashTracer - are these available on Mac? Also

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
I know you're asking for more specific info, but, hey: Just get a Mac and run Parallels or VMWare. I run XP on my Mac. I also have Vista installed under Parallels for when a customer calls up with a Vista-specific problem, but otherwise I never use it. Dave Segal wrote: It's time for me to

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Zeh Fernando
It's time for me to get a new computer and I have heard so many horror stories about Vista that I am thinking of switching to Mac. What tools are people using to develop on the Mac. I mostly Flash IDE, FlexBuilder, FlashDevelop, SWFMill, SWFDump, HaXe, FlashTracer - are these available on Mac? Als

RE: [Flashcoders] Arabic and other character sets text entry

2008-03-14 Thread Karina Steffens
Hey there, I just saw this thread :) I do tend to hang on Flash Tiger more these days (Hi Kerry!), but I was skimming through some threads here and this has caught my eye. The Hebrew project has been a total headache, but in the end I found one solution out there that was very helpful as a starti

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Muzak
Is anyone using Vista and enjoying it? Yup.. once UAC (User Account Control) is disabled, Vista is just fine. This is my current config (home made): Antec Sonata III case NVidia Geforce 8800GTS 640MB Intel Core Duo E6850, 3.0 GHz MSI P35 Platinum 4095 MB RAM (CORSAIR TWINX Matched DDR2 1066

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Cory Petosky
Speaking of Ubuntu, I do my Flash development on an Ubuntu box. Flex Builder 3, the Flex SDK, and Flash Player 9 run fine on it. If you really need the IDE, you can VMWare, Remote Desktop, or plain-old dual boot into your commercial OS of choice to run it. Nowadays, you can buy a cheap Windows mac

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Jason Van Pelt
Does disabling UAC make the OS any faster, or just less annoying? I personally work on mac and pc (win xp) and I find the flash interface on the mac intolerably slow. I tend to develop on the pc and export the final swfs (with the designer's fonts ;-) ) on the mac. Jason Van Pelt Interactive Dev

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Wagner Amaral
First of all, let me say this: Overall, I think Mac is a pretty decent platform for creating Flash, I'd even say it's the best. Ok, now the bashing ;) I've worked at some companies who used Windows XP, and others (including the current one) who use Mac OS X. And between these two, the best one is

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Steven Sacks
All that being said, btw, do NOT, I repeat DO NOT get Windows Vista. If anything will make you want to switch to OSX, it's Vista. Stick with Windows XP until Vista SP3 comes out, and even then who knows. I know die-hard Windows guys who think they might go Mac when XP fails to keep up with t

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Steven Sacks
FlashDevelop is not, and probably will never be, since it's made with .NET framework. FlashDevelop beats every other editor hands down for Actionscript development. TextMate is great for other languages, and decent at AS, but FlashDevelop is truly the finest example of what an Actionscript ed

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Claus Wahlers
Dunno if that has been mentioned, but if you are NOT a command line guy, like me, and want a kick ass non-CLI SVN client, by far the best option is TortoiseSVN, which afaik is only available for Windows and beats the crap out of everything else i've seen. This one tiny software is the main rea

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Claus Wahlers
Claus Wahlers wrote: Dunno if that has been mentioned, but if you are NOT a command line guy, like me, and want a kick ass non-CLI SVN client, by far the best option is TortoiseSVN, which afaik is only available for Windows and beats the crap out of everything else i've seen. This one tiny s

RE: [Flashcoders] transition

2008-03-14 Thread Jesse Graupmann
http://www.websector.de/blog/2007/08/28/tweener-as3-extension-for-color-prop erties-_brightness-_contrast-and-_saturation/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of marcellouz Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 6:21 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flas

RE: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Rob Emenecker
Dave, When I get my next new/replacement workstation it will be a dual quad-core Intel (or whatever is newer) Mac Pro. You can run OS X, Windows, etc. The only thing I would not do it pay Apple's predatory pricing for additional memory sticks, RAID controller, additional drives, etc. Just get th

RE: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Rob Emenecker
> Otherwise, i'm very, VERY unreligious about operating systems, > because i frankly think they all suck in one way or another. You've got a lot of nerve being rational and objective making that statement! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chat

[Flashcoders] GUI SVN

2008-03-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm not a command line guy either, but I backup my files to a ubuntu box, and I also develop my php directly on that box. I'd love to run SVN but without the command line. Is there a good GUI SVN for linux? Thanks. Claus Wahlers wrote: Dunno if that has been mentioned, but if you are NOT a c

Re: [Flashcoders] GUI SVN

2008-03-14 Thread Cory Petosky
If you use Gnome, you can use these Nautilus scripts for a Tortoise-like experience: http://marius.scurtescu.com/2005/08/24/nautilus_scripts_for_subversion If not, you have RapidSVN: http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/ On 3/14/08, Andrew Sinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a command line guy e

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Muzak
Faster, donno.. doubt it. Less annoying, definitely. UAC doesn't allow you to run as a true administrator, disabling it does. I've found Flash CS3 to be less responsive than Flash 8 though. The AS editor can't keep up while typing. Vista needs lots of ram, that's why I got plenty ;-) - Orig

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Muzak
I probably shouldn't ask ;) but "utter garbage", why ?? I've been running Vista for a few months now with zero problems. The only thing that bothered me was UAC, which I have disabled. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: "Steven Sacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List"

Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Muzak
I use subclipse with FlexBuilder/Eclipse http://subclipse.tigris.org/ - Original Message - From: "Claus Wahlers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac Dunno if that has been mentioned, but if

Re: [Flashcoders] GUI SVN

2008-03-14 Thread Andrew Sinning
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Re: [Flashcoders] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-14 Thread Keith
This is a useless topic. Sorry that I have to put it that way. -- Keith H -- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] AS3 XML Namespaces Hell

2008-03-14 Thread Jason Van Cleave
I have an app that is was pulling some XML like this with this i could load xml and eventually get an XMLList with private function onXMLLoaded(e:Event):void { var xml:XML = new XML(e.target.data); var items:XMLList = xml.item; } Now that we have move it over to a

[Flashcoders] Re: AS3 XML Namespaces Hell

2008-03-14 Thread Jason Van Cleave
Ok, I have it at least working with the below code through a roundabout way and would love to hear a better one... private function onXMLLoaded(e:Event):void { trace(this, "onXMLLoaded"); xml = new XML(e.target.data); var strippedXML: