Re: [Flashcoders] Stage instances, nested clips frames (AS3)

2008-11-13 Thread Olivier Besson
hi, this old as3 feature has upset so many people that, as far as I remember, this has been fixed in flash player 10. Meanwhile, you have to resort to tricks, sorry I don't know which one is the best. This one seems to be what you suggested:

RE: [Flashcoders] ComboBox + Custom Cursor , AS3

2008-11-13 Thread Karim Beyrouti
Yeh - this might not work - I already have a similar structure, and as the ComboBox adds the List to the stage. I tried to find a 'lockRoot' type of solution for AS3 - but no joy there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Stransky Sent:

[Flashcoders] XML transformation

2008-11-13 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I have a load of data loaded from a server as XML which is essentially a flat list. Nodes in the list have a child node defining a target and many nodes have the same target. list nodetarget1/targetdatablah1/data/node nodetarget1/targetdatablah2/data/node

Re: [Flashcoders] Stage instances, nested clips frames (AS3)

2008-11-13 Thread jonathan howe
Great links, Olivier! One of the additional oddities called out in the second link: if i trace the number of children i get 1 still, but if i do getChildAt(0), it traces null on the first frame That is something I noticed myself but forgot to include in my link. Really amazing! I am going to

[Flashcoders] Drawing BitmapData - thinner lines?

2008-11-13 Thread Sander Schuurman
Hi cool list, I am trying out some dynamic drawing to bitmapData. It works well, only my drawn lines are a bit chunky and thick. ( see http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/118/exampleyu5.jpg ) How can I make the lines a bit thinner and more 'organic'? I know it's possible... I checked out some

[Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread FlashDev
Hi Guys, Im having a wired problem with a flash project ive been wroking on for some time now. The application works fine on my localhost for me but will not work properly when the client views my localhost. http://flashdev.dnsalias.org:8081/PartyDelights/pd/ Basically, when the flash loads

Re: [Flashcoders] Drawing BitmapData - thinner lines?

2008-11-13 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
that lessrain example is crazy good. Not sure about the thickness thing - are you drawing the rule with a thickness of 0 and not 1? On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Sander Schuurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi cool list, I am trying out some dynamic drawing to bitmapData. It works well, only

Re: [Flashcoders] XML transformation

2008-11-13 Thread Muzak
The list can have large numbers of entries - in the order of 1000's Do it on the server.. making sure the data structure is as you want it to be. Why one would use xml with 1000's of entries is beyond me though :) regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Glen Pike [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Paul Andrews
Works for me exactly as you describe in both FF2.0 and IE 7.0 - Original Message - From: FlashDev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:26 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues Hi Guys, Im having

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Glen Pike
I was okay too - I would possibly consider client stupidity / ineptitude at this point and maybe diplomatically walk through the problem with the client. There could be a host of problems - the type of image being sent, the browser used, the network, etc. For dev work, I would recommend

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread FlashDev
Thanks Paul, i cannot recreate the problem either! I dont know what to do! - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews To: Flash Coders List Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues Works for me exactly as you describe in

[Flashcoders] targeting an event listner to a button inside a movieclip?

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Knauf
First time posting on this list, hope y'all can help with this one, it should be easy, but having gone through what seems to be every possible permutation, I can't get it right. in the main movie, there's a button named upperoffice, and the event listner correctly triggers the

Re: [Flashcoders] Drawing BitmapData - thinner lines?

2008-11-13 Thread Steve Mathews
Make sure you line is draw as a Hairline and not a thickness of 1. Or if you draw the line dynamically (in code) then make sure to set the line style to no scale. Like this: shape.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x00, 1, *false*, LineScaleMode.NONE); Steve On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Sander

Re: [Flashcoders] XML transformation

2008-11-13 Thread Keith
Here's a my quick and dirty stab at it, may or may not be what you looking for: function transformXML(node:XML):XML { if (node.name() == target) { [EMAIL PROTECTED]id]=node.text(); node.setChildren(node.parent()..*.(name()==data)); } if (node.name() == node) {

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Joel Stransky
You can always get a stand alone version of IE6 here. http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone In my tests: IE6 7 - no blue or white pattern image shows up FF - just the blue image shows up Chrome - just the blue image shows up attached is the image I tried. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:23

Re: [Flashcoders] XML transformation

2008-11-13 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
This should work: private function rearrengeXML(original:XML):XML { var rearrenged:XML = new XML(tree /); for each (var node:XML in original.node){ if(rearrenged.target.(@id == node.target).length()){ rearrenged.target.(@id == node.target).appendChild(node.data) }

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Paul Andrews
Maybe a Flash 10 issue? I'm still using FP9. Paul - Original Message - From: Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues I was okay too - I would

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread FlashDev
Hey Glen I just cant understand why now after months of development this problem has occurred! It was working fine untill a week or so ago! - Original Message - From: Glen Pike To: Flash Coders List Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 -

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread FlashDev
The white image is directly underneath the blue image, you will have ot click and drag the image to see the white one! I have IE 5, 5.5, 6 7 and ive tested on all of them with no trouble! FF, Chrome Opera all work fine for me too! What version of flash player are you guys running? im on

Re: [Flashcoders] XML transformation

2008-11-13 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Cool thanks for the help guys: Currently looking at XML vs RecordSet / AMF, but I will still need to parse some XML methinks and the transforms look a lot nicer than my hack! Glen ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Paul Andrews
All good for FP 9,0,124,0 Paul - Original Message - From: FlashDev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues The white image is directly underneath the blue

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Cross Browser Issues

2008-11-13 Thread Joel Stransky
WIN 9,0,124,0 debug Still does not work in IE. IE6 does throw an alert to continue loading the content of this page. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All good for FP 9,0,124,0 Paul - Original Message - From: FlashDev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash

[Flashcoders] Fwd: Reasonable Expectations (might be off topic)

2008-11-13 Thread Bo Parker
I have recently completed a project for a client that involved a heavy video component (by their request). I went to the nines on this one with a streaming server from akamai to help with the video load time. The main swf file weights in at 96K. The sub swfs that load in are about 50K.

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: Reasonable Expectations (might be off topic)

2008-11-13 Thread Jim McIntyre
Bo Parker wrote: I have recently completed a project for a client that involved a heavy video component (by their request). [snip] The ones that weren't working were IBM thinkpads running a 1 ghz celeron processor with 512MB of RAM. That's the only thing that I can think of that is caused

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: Reasonable Expectations (might be off topic)

2008-11-13 Thread Muzak
The client elected never to launch the project because they couldn't get it to work on a couple of their employees internal machines. What do you mean with couldn't get it to work? Some time ago we launched an all video website (for a movie) and we had some serious issues getting it to play

Re: [Flashcoders] Drawing BitmapData - thinner lines?

2008-11-13 Thread Joel Stransky
In lineStyle(), set the pixelHinting param to true. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure you line is draw as a Hairline and not a thickness of 1. Or if you draw the line dynamically (in code) then make sure to set the line style to no scale. Like

[Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-13 Thread Anthony Pace
What is a fair price for a simple photo gallery, in AS3, that loads the photo data from an XML file? I said between $280 to $350; given the hours it would take me, plus some contingency time. Did I under quote? over quote? what do you think? Still new to this independent stuff.

Re: [Flashcoders] targeting an event listner to a button inside a movieclip?

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel Boey
Michael, Fix 1 (more like Issue 1) is probably the issue you're facing: http://curtismorley.com/2007/08/15/flash-cs3-flex-error-1009-cannot-access-a-property-or-method-of-a-null-object-reference/ I've made similar tests that scripts just don't work because the objects are not there yet even

Re: [Flashcoders] targeting an event listner to a button inside a movieclip?

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel Boey
Michael, (It slipped my mind, this) OR - you could use ADDED_TO_STAGE EventListener in that frame, and have a function wrap around your button listener code. Should do the trick. - Daniel - On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Daniel Boey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, Fix 1 (more like

Re: [Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-13 Thread dr.ache
Anthony Pace schrieb: What is a fair price for a simple photo gallery, in AS3, that loads the photo data from an XML file? I said between $280 to $350; given the hours it would take me, plus some contingency time. Did I under quote? over quote? what do you think? Still new to this

Re: [Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-13 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, depends on whether you are writing it from scratch or not. Seeing the huge amount of foto galleries already outthere including open sourced components etc you could save some time by just using one of those. Then it's just implementation time x your hourly rate. greetz JC On Fri, Nov 14,

Re: [Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-13 Thread Latcho
Also depends where you are located. In the Netherlands we ask as much as 60 to 90 /hour. But then your coding speed counts in too. I think there are a lot of simple viewers out there like (randompick): http://theflashblog.com/?p=225

Re: [Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-13 Thread Carl Welch
Good point. I'd recommend using SlideShowPro. It's cheap ($29), looks slick, and you'll be done in no time - your client will be none the wiser and you'll be $350 richer. http://slideshowpro.net/ Cheers, -- Carl Welch http://www.carlwelch.com http://www.jointjam.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On