[Flashcoders] External Class & Casting

2008-06-23 Thread Gen
Hi, I have a external.swf set up with custom event firing after certain process. I tried to capture the event in the parent.swf but it fires "TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert". sample.events::[EMAIL PROTECTED] を sample.events.TestEvent. So I guessing, having same name

Re: [Flashcoders] calling public static methods on Class using getDefinitionByName

2008-06-23 Thread Wagner Amaral
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Patrick Matte | BLITZ < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I've found a way to do it, but it's not really clean. Would there be any > way to make the code better? > > Oh, right, you already found that out... That slow mail server from mine... _

Re: [Flashcoders] calling public static methods on Class using getDefinitionByName

2008-06-23 Thread Wagner Amaral
Never really tried that, but an interesting question! Here's all I got so far: var c:Class = getDefinitionByName("MyClass") as Class; // or: var c:Class = MyClass; trace( c["parse"]("false") ); I'll keep trying, maybe I can find a cleaner way On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Patrick Matte |

RE: [Flashcoders] calling public static methods on Class using getDefinitionByName

2008-06-23 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ
Ok I've found a way to do it, but it's not really clean. Would there be any way to make the code better? So writing this : var ClassReference:Class = getDefinitionByName("Test") as Class; var bool:Boolean = ClassReference["parse"]("false"); // returns false is the same as this : var bool:Boole

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Ashim D'Silva
Aha! That seems highly likely. I shall continue with renewed vigour. Cheers. 2008/6/24 Kerry Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, those sporadic bugs can be the dickens to find and fix, usually because > the code that's causing the problems is far removed from the place where it > actually crashes

[Flashcoders] calling public static methods on Class using getDefinitionByName

2008-06-23 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ
Does anybody know if it's possible to call a static method of a reference to a class created with getDefinitionByName without actually creating an instance of the object? Something like this simple example: var ClassReference:Class = getDefinitionByName("Test") as Class; var bool:Boolean = Cl

Re: [Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread Steven Sacks
Also, I'm not sure what you are trying to do with 'this.clip = clip;', but you cannot instantiate or associate a MovieClip inside an Object (which Test is), and have successful access to its properties and methods. He's using composition, which is sometimes preferable to extending MovieClip i

Re: [Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread Steven Sacks
It's a "rare" bug that is unacknowledged by Macromedia/Adobe. If you name the package folder that contains your class the same as your class name (case doesn't matter), AS2 will behave like a dumbass. It does randomly buggy behavior, and it's impossible to track down what it is because there'

Re: [Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread Steven Sacks
Because of the way everything in AS2 is centred around the MovieClip class, in order to create any kind of MVC architecture, which I gather you are trying to do, it's all about the MovieClip. You can have your Model be an Object, but your View and Controller classes, and any other visual disp

Re: [Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread Joseph Balderson
My first though is that you would have your class structure as: /[ClassTest].fla /test/Test.as /test/Model.as But that would give you a compiler error, because you're not importing Model. So you must be using /[ClassTest].fla /test/Test.as /Model.as Here's the files I am using; /Test_class_sc

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Kerry Thompson
Yes, those sporadic bugs can be the dickens to find and fix, usually because the code that's causing the problems is far removed from the place where it actually crashes. I remember spending a couple of days once on a crash bug. I'd find a problem, only to find that it was being caused by something

Re: [Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread Cor
Tr ythis import test.Test; // old:var test:Test = new Test(this); var test:Test = new Test(); test.init( ); ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Frameworks for Game Development

2008-06-23 Thread ekameleon
Hello :) - http://code.google.com/p/vegas/ EKA+ :) 2008/6/23 Pedro Taranto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - GameDataStructure: http://code.google.com/p/as3ds/ > - Lowra: http://code.google.com/p/lowra/ > > -- > Pedro Taranto > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:59 PM, August Gresens < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Frameworks for Game Development

2008-06-23 Thread Pedro Taranto
- GameDataStructure: http://code.google.com/p/as3ds/ - Lowra: http://code.google.com/p/lowra/ -- Pedro Taranto On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:59 PM, August Gresens < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Wondering what is out there as far as open source (or otherwise) AS3 > frameworks for Game Devel

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread mario gonzalez
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[Flashcoders] AS3 Frameworks for Game Development

2008-06-23 Thread August Gresens
Hello Wondering what is out there as far as open source (or otherwise) AS3 frameworks for Game Development. Looking for something that works for desktop and web based apps. I'm looking for something like AS-HIVE (which doesn't seem too active right now), with support for: * state/navigation man

Re: [Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread Jason Van Cleave
you should get compiler errors over this but did you import Model? On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Paul Evans < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > untested suggestion?!... > > On 23 Jun 2008, at 10:20, paul cunningham wrote: > >> If I have this on the flash timeline, (CS3 or Flash 8) >> import test.Tes

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Is there a tutorial out there somewhere on how to use the debugger? I am fairly new to Flash and just use trace statements to find my problems... but would like to learn more about the debugger. gregb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry

Re: [Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Evans
untested suggestion?!... On 23 Jun 2008, at 10:20, paul cunningham wrote: If I have this on the flash timeline, (CS3 or Flash 8) import test.Test; var test:Test = new Test(this); *test.init( );* is test (the variable) being confused with test (the package) ? my next step would be to try this

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Ashim D'Silva
Thanks for the response Kerry. Makes me appreciate even more the work that gets done in Flash. And although blaming the tool is easy enough I'm pretty sure its in my code somewhere. However, all the problems you mentioned I encounter often enough to spot. Plus Flash is helpful enough to tell you wh

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Kerry Thompson
Ashim D'Silva wrote: > I'm using the Flash IDE CS3 to produce a project in AS3, and Flash is > continually crashing erratically. Is there a way for me to figure out > what's causing it? I've had similar problems, and it has always turned out to be an infinite loop, memory management, a null valu

[Flashcoders] BaseUI version 2 - Flash Layout

2008-06-23 Thread Romuald Quantin
Hi everyone, I'm happy to tell you that you can use the second version of BaseUI. It will help you to handle the positions and sizes; it makes things easy when you want to manage backgrounds and assets behaviors in a liquid or fixed flash site. In this new version, I reproduce what the Flex B

[Flashcoders] as2 - method losing scope when called from timeline.

2008-06-23 Thread paul cunningham
If I have this on the flash timeline, (CS3 or Flash 8) import test.Test; var test:Test = new Test(this); *test.init( );* -- and then the class code has this class test.Test { private var m:Model; private var clip:Movie

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Ashim D'Silva
Oh, its very easily an issue with memory management because regrettably that's one of the parts of AS3 I continue to have trouble with. I try hard to pick up after myself (listeners, bitmapdata, cancel loaders, close connections), and run ActiveGraph to get an estimate. But how do you track it down

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Cedric Muller
Memory management not done right = garbage collector piling up I noticed Flash crashes very quickly when memory management is not done right. I am NOT implying that you did something wrong. I am just adding my observations to the thread. Could it be memory management ? Cedric I believe Fl

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Cedric Muller
I noticed Flash crashes very quickly when memory management is not done right. I am NOT implying that you did something wrong. I am just adding my observations to the thread. Could it be memory management ? Cedric I believe Flash Cs3 is not ready for serious projects. Nowadays I am really h