[Flashcoders] Re: design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread SJF
Furthermore, I suggest taking a look through the samples in the Adobe Flash Developer Center (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/?navID=samples). The first link (New Flash ActionScript 3.0 samples - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/samples/) has some downloadable source files that might assist you

[Flashcoders] How do you access this mailing list ...

2009-01-07 Thread SJF
I find the flashcoders mailing list very helpful and often pick up new ideas/techniques from what people post. Just wondering how people access this mailing list. It would be great if you could configure the SearchCoders Dashboard (which is a nice little air app - see link http://www.searchcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Auto Reply: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
I know... Joel Stransky wrote: This is getting annoying. 2009/1/7 Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bis einschließlich 9. Januar 2009 nicht erreichbar. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Peer Schmidt-Soltau ( p...@masterkitchen.de) oder Frau Hannah Witopil (han...@

Re: [Flashcoders] Auto Reply: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8

2009-01-07 Thread Joel Stransky
This is getting annoying. 2009/1/7 > Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. > > Ich bin bis einschließlich 9. Januar 2009 nicht erreichbar. In dringenden > Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Peer Schmidt-Soltau ( > p...@masterkitchen.de) oder Frau Hannah Witopil (han...@masterkitchen.de). > > Vielen

[Flashcoders] Auto Reply: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8

2009-01-07 Thread jk
Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bis einschließlich 9. Januar 2009 nicht erreichbar. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Peer Schmidt-Soltau (p...@masterkitchen.de) oder Frau Hannah Witopil (han...@masterkitchen.de). Vielen Dank Johannes Killinger Master Kitchen GmbH Aud

Re: [Flashcoders] Hi Flash Coders List, you were invited to join the gamer's social network

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Watts
> I apologize for this really bad spam mistake. Apology accepted! > It was completely unintentional, but someone thought it was a > brilliant idea to invite every contact in Gmail as a default feature. > If I knew it was going to do that I wouldn't have. I know it was unintentional. For anyone e

Re: [Flashcoders] Hi Flash Coders List, you were invited to join the gamer's social network

2009-01-07 Thread John Giotta
I apologize for this really bad spam mistake. It was completely unintentional, but someone thought it was a brilliant idea to invite every contact in Gmail as a default feature. If I knew it was going to do that I wouldn't have. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM, jdgiotta wrote: > Hey Flash Coders L

Re: [Flashcoders] Thoughts on new features in CS4

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
In advance I would like to apologize for what may seem to be, and quite possibly is in some cases, a rant. I have used it while on contract, and it is not all that great. For animation it is okay and sprites points bones and IK are great; yet, no coding improvements, other than not having to b

Re: [Flashcoders] Hi Flash Coders List, you were invited to join the gamer's social network

2009-01-07 Thread John Giotta
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM, jdgiotta wrote: > Hey Flash Coders List, > > Your friend jdgio...@gmail.com (jdgiotta) has invited you > to join the new social network for gamers, Playfire.com. > > Click here to check it out: http://www.playfire.com/?rc=48b6b6387783ecc9 > > At Playfire.com, you ca

[Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)

2009-01-07 Thread Zeh Fernando
Hey list, Do people here work with AIR? Or is there any better-aligned mailing list? Anyway. I'm using AIR 1.5's NativeMenuItem's .keyEquivalent and .keyEquivalentModifier. That feature is pretty cool and works like this: var item:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem("Do Whatever"); item.

Re: [Flashcoders] Thoughts on new features in CS4

2009-01-07 Thread Ashim D'Silva
One app the does everything would be terrible. You'd have to pay for features you don't want and will have to run an incredibly beefy program that will take the strongest of systems down. Maybe at some point, maybe when quantum computing is around!, but till then I'd say it's organised well.That ho

Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Joel Stransky
@Jason I'm talking about the oreilly book Actionscript 3.0 Design Patterns by William Sanders and Chandima Cumaranatunge. Enter chapters are shifted off the page but there are addendum on the site. Also, MVC's are made up Observer, Strategy, and Composite patterns. Those need to be understood firs

Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Taka Kojima
I will agree with you in that people that glibly swear by frameworks for every project annoy me and usually end up getting in the way of projects. I always sit down and approach each project individually, each one is unique and has different requirements. If it's something small and simple, why go

Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Leandro Ferreira
Well It's your job as a developer to be able to priorize one thing over another... development time, scalability, flexibility, speed, etc.It always depends on what It's more important for the project. Leandro Ferreira On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: > But I am trying to u

Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
But I am trying to understand why you would go through all that trouble, when calling the function in the parent, if it is a very small application unlikely to be expanded upon, is so much simpler? maybe for code re-use in a bigger application sure; however, doesn't it seem weird that tightly

A message from the list admin: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG (was: Re: [Flashcoders] Hi Flash Coders List, you were invited to join the gamer's social network)

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Watts
Please don't send invitations to these sorts of things to the list. If you can't apply the good sense to do that, I will unsubscribe you. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM, jdgiotta wrote: > Hey Flash Coders List, > > Your friend jdgio...@gmail.com (jdgiotta) has invited you > to join the new social

Re: [Flashcoders] Hi Flash Coders List, you were invited to join the gamer's social network

2009-01-07 Thread Glen Pike
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Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Ron Wheeler
Head First Design Patterns is very easy to pick up. No typos, lots and lots of pictures, illustrations and code examples. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007126/?CMP=AFC-ak_book&ATT=Head+First+Design+Patterns http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfdp/ for a quick overview and a typical illustra

[Flashcoders] Hi Flash Coders List, you were invited to join the gamer's social network

2009-01-07 Thread jdgiotta
Hey Flash Coders List, Your friend jdgio...@gmail.com (jdgiotta) has invited you to join the new social network for gamers, Playfire.com. Click here to check it out: http://www.playfire.com/?rc=48b6b6387783ecc9 At Playfire.com, you can: Create a killer profile to show off all your games (we h

RE: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
I think just a quick answer to your questions which may help a lot is to check into understanding MVC - the Model-View-Controller design pattern. Probably one of the most common pattern used and one that other coding design frameworks use as well for part of their operations. So there are also

RE: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> I'm only just starting to understand the concepts but AS3 Design Patterns is a great book (aside from being riddled with typo's) Are you talking about the Joey Lott book on AS3 design patterns? Just curious as I was thinking of picking that one up. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instruct

Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Joel Stransky
I'm only just starting to understand the concepts but AS3 Design Patterns is a great book (aside from being riddled with typo's) It's possible you want a Command Pattern for your issue but I'm not at a point where I can say for sure. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: > I am loo

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Winterhalder
I think another compiler with a focus on more efficient bytecode would be great, but those extra convenience features give me an uneasy feeling ("embrace and extend" has caused too many problems already). So, my feature request would be an export functionality to remove all those extra features fr

[Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
I am looking to get more info on the composition of design patterns and which ones are used most often in the corporate world. Diagrams accompanied by code examples would be awesome. I have been able to find stuff in the past; yet, I really want to know what is generally preferred? I like t

[Flashcoders] re: as2 bitmapdata dispose() issue

2009-01-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ah never mind i got it bmp.dispose(); bmp = new BitmapData(169, 136, true, 0x00); mcBitmap.attachBitmap(bmp, 1); thanks alz ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman

[Flashcoders] as2 bitmapdata dispose() issue

2009-01-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys should be a quickie for someone i've got a bitmapdata object which is being written to by a quickie drawing api that i wrote. It works absolutely great. The problem is that when i .dispose() of the attached bitmap, i cannot write to it any more i've tried recreating it but with no joy -

Re: [Flashcoders] free online flash books at the toronto public library...

2009-01-07 Thread Glen Pike
Good job you are only reading the books then :-) Anthony Pace wrote: I just read the message and realized that, for someone that frequents the library, my spelling and sentence structure, outside of my essays, is not all that grand. Anthony Pace wrote: Free books available to library card hol

[Flashcoders] Auto Reply: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7

2009-01-07 Thread jk
Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bis einschließlich 9. Januar 2009 nicht erreichbar. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Peer Schmidt-Soltau (p...@masterkitchen.de) oder Frau Hannah Witopil (han...@masterkitchen.de). Vielen Dank Johannes Killinger Master Kitchen GmbH Aud

Re: [Flashcoders] free online flash books at the toronto public library...

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
I just read the message and realized that, for someone that frequents the library, my spelling and sentence structure, outside of my essays, is not all that grand. Anthony Pace wrote: Free books available to library card holders in Toronto through safari online. Awesome... I just had a read

[Flashcoders] free online flash books at the toronto public library...

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
Free books available to library card holders in Toronto through safari online. Awesome... I just had a read through keith peters' making things move. It is totally great; yet, I wish it was more recent and used the features available in the new flash player. Apparently a lot of libraries ha

RE: [Flashcoders] Thoughts on new features in CS4

2009-01-07 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Anthony, I'm going out on a limb and guessing that the "why don't they just make it all one app that does everything" suggestion has been around longer than you've been alive. Don't lose any sleep over that one. :-D - MM > They don't care enough about users to make one application that does e

Re: [Flashcoders] Thoughts on new features in CS4

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
From an animator's perspective it as some nice new features; yet, from a coder's perspective I hate it. Even when forced to do timeline code, I still write the code in flashdevelop and then paste it in later, unless it is a very very small chunk. At the very least they could have given dreamw

Re: [Flashcoders] Patrick Jakub Jankun added you as a connection on Plaxo

2009-01-07 Thread Anthony Pace
I actually like this, as it make it easier to search through the messages for a word or phrase; as well, it makes it so sharing of code and files is a lot easier as they do not need to be stored by some dude's server. I would love it if it had code highlighting, an built in hinting when going

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Matthias Kramm
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:27:06AM -0500, Merrill, Jason wrote: > You may want to look at the haxe language and compiler which already > does what you're trying to do and see if you can compete with that haxe is a nifty project. But they're inventing their own language, which is only similar to

Re: [Flashcoders] Patrick Jakub Jankun added you as a connection onPlaxo

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Joel Stransky" To: ; "Flash Coders List" Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Patrick Jakub Jankun added you as a connection onPlaxo Sorry I have to rant. For such an elite group of coders, this email format is really anno

[Flashcoders] Thoughts on new features in CS4

2009-01-07 Thread Wendy Serrell
I was reading this blog post: http://visualrinse.com/2009/01/05/2008-in-review-flash-platform-shortcomings / And one of the commenters wrote, "New features in Flash Player 10 - e.g. 3D, bones and hardware acceleration - were all a massive let down and basically useless." I haven't downl

Re: [Flashcoders] Patrick Jakub Jankun added you as a connection on Plaxo

2009-01-07 Thread Manish Jethani
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Joel Stransky wrote: > Sorry I have to rant. For such an elite group of coders, this email format > is really annoying. It's probably an old issue but isn't there simply a > flashcoders forum like Kirupa and flashkit? It's so much easier to keep > threads together,

Re: [Flashcoders] Patrick Jakub Jankun added you as a connection on Plaxo

2009-01-07 Thread Joel Stransky
Sorry I have to rant. For such an elite group of coders, this email format is really annoying. It's probably an old issue but isn't there simply a flashcoders forum like Kirupa and flashkit? It's so much easier to keep threads together, search for recurrent questions and style code samples. On We

[Flashcoders] asdoc inheritance from built-in class

2009-01-07 Thread Romuald Quantin
Hi, I generated a doc for a single class with the asdoc tool from the SDK and I found out that I dont get the properties, methods and events from the super class: http://www.soundstep.com/blog/source/somatext/docs/ For instance, I dont see the link: "show inherited properties" I can see wit

RE: [Flashcoders] Class syntax question...

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
If you want to use a class like this: MyClass.myMethod(myargs) Then the myMethod function in MyClass should be defined as static. So instead of: public class MotionBlur { public static function coordBlur(mc:MovieClip, blurFactor:Number = 1.5) { //logic he

RE: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
You may want to look at the haxe language and compiler which already does what you're trying to do and see if you can compete with that - or at least find out what it does that you would like to do - this thread may be better suited for the osflash list only because this is the kind of thing the

[Flashcoders] Patrick Jakub Jankun added you as a connection on Plaxo

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick Jakub Jankun
Hi Flashcoder, Patrick Jakub Jankun wants to add you as a connection on Plaxo. To accept this connection request, go to: http://www.plaxo.com/invite?i=56225383&k=804845241&l=en&src=email&et=1&est=nolevels&etv=nnic1b2&el=en Thanks! The Plaxo team More than 20 million people use Plaxo to keep in

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Manish Jethani
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Ian Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Manish Jethani > wrote: > >> The first enhancement I can think of is a language extension called >> 'properties'. >> >>private var _myProperty:int = 0; >>public function get myProperty():int >>{ >>

Re: [Flashcoders] Class syntax question...

2009-01-07 Thread Manish Jethani
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Sander Schuurman wrote: > I want to make a Class that contains MotionBlur methods that I can call like > this: MotionBlur.coordBlur(mc, 1.5); [snip] > But I get the following error: (even if I just call the method outside > tweenmax like this MotionBlur.coordBlu

[Flashcoders] Class syntax question...

2009-01-07 Thread Sander Schuurman
Hi cool list, I want to make a Class that contains MotionBlur methods that I can call like this: MotionBlur.coordBlur(mc, 1.5); I have other classes wich I don't initiate and just call static methods from. The MotionBlur class looks like this: public class MotionBlur { public funct

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Juan Delgado
Take a look to the haXe compiler that is doing it already: http://haxe.org/doc/features Specially compiler features (conditional compilation, etc) and language features (enums, etc). Cheers! Juan On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Weyert de Boer wrote: > In Delphi and C# I used it to get RTTI i