Re: [Flashcoders] regExp

2010-06-18 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Looks like it worked. Tried a dozen OCR sites and none could match any letters. There may be a super OCR bot somewhere, but not really worried. Anyone know of somewhere I can test further, similar to what the bots use? I figure this question may have a taboo answer, just want to be sure. Kar

RE: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
True, and Matt's pretty awesome. It is pretty hard to break in some companies without the formal education, but if you're able to pick up on-the-job experience like Matt has, you're golden. Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect Bank of America Global Learning Join the Bank of Am

RE: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Sounds like a true Aggie! :) Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect Bank of America Global Learning Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology Design Blog (Note: these resources are only available for Bank of America associates)

Re: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread jared stanley
g AGGIES! :) On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Matt Perkins wrote: > You can also learn as you go, but it's not as complete. I'm one of Jason's > coworkers - and while my instructional background isn't nearly as good as > Jason's I manage to muddle through :) > My degree is in graphic desi

Re: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread Matt Perkins
You can also learn as you go, but it's not as complete. I'm one of Jason's coworkers - and while my instructional background isn't nearly as good as Jason's I manage to muddle through :) My degree is in graphic design/illustration and I've been self teaching Flash/multimedia since '95. Been wor

RE: [Flashcoders] contextMenu getting overridden

2010-06-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
> No problem, one thought too, do both variables that call the menus (parent and child), are they the same var? this.menu? They're not the same var. Here's the structure: Parent sprite <-- contextMenu "A" - child sprite 1 - child sprite 2 - child sprite 3

RE: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
Can't recall offhand, I tried pinging him when I was writing my response, but he's gone for the weekend. I'll let you know next week. Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect Bank of America Global Learning Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructio

RE: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Thanks Jason! As usual with you, a complete answer. :-) I'm really wanting to get better at what I do. What university in Boston? That's where I call home. - MM > One of my co-workers is working on his PhD in the field from a university up in Boston. Several others on my team have post-gr

RE: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
It's actually a large field. Most major universities have a degree in "Instructional Technology" - or something named similar to that. It's also called "Educational Technology", "Instructional Design", "Adult Learning", "Educational Multimedia", "Information Design", etc. Job titles can range fr

Re: [Flashcoders] contextMenu getting overridden

2010-06-18 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
No problem, one thought too, do both variables that call the menus (parent and child), are they the same var? this.menu? Karl On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Thanks Karl. It's an interesting approach. When I read the docs, it didn't seem to be related. Anyway, I'

RE: [Flashcoders] contextMenu getting overridden

2010-06-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Thanks Karl. It's an interesting approach. When I read the docs, it didn't seem to be related. Anyway, I'm really stumped on this issue. Thanks for replying, I appreciate it. - MM -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig

RE: [Flashcoders] Job Openings at Bank of America for US/Canada

2010-06-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi Jason... I have an OT response to your post. Hope it's ok to respond here like this. For the record, I have a job that I enjoy, and I'm doing AS3 for much of my day. That said, I'm curious about your educational background. You mentioned below "these people exist" with instructional te

Re: [Flashcoders] contextMenu getting overridden

2010-06-18 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
My idea was not that accessibility pref control the menus, but allow the child object to be accessible, and in theory allow the menu to be accessible. Again, it was just a thought. Karl On Jun 18, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Thanks for the responses. When I debug, I see b

[Flashcoders] Balls Of Fire

2010-06-18 Thread John Singleton
Hi; Here's code that I found online: package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.utils.setInterval; import flash.utils.clearInterval; public class Fire extends MovieClip { private var mcFlameContainer:MovieClip; private var nStageWidth:N

RE: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
>> Merrill thought I was mixing the timer with setInterval, but all of that code was commented out. Singleton, I didn't notice it was commented out since in my reader the // was mixed in with >>, but either way, you really should just post the relevant code if you want people to look it over. I a

Re: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread John Singleton
- Original Message > From: Glen Pike > To: Flash Coders List > Sent: Fri, June 18, 2010 11:25:24 AM > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly > > t.start() ? Oh :-} Yeah, that worked. Merrill thought I was mixing the timer with setInterval, but all of that code

Re: [Flashcoders] captured or non-captured named group back references in AS3 regex

2010-06-18 Thread kennethkawam...@gmail.com
I wasn't reading your post properly :) Have you tried (?P=name) ? (or you may want try \n) -- Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 18 June 2010 15:39, Anthony Pace wrote: > I know you can have named groups, but are there named group back references > in AS3?  if so, do you have any

Re: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Glen Pike
t.start() ? On 18/06/2010 16:52, John Singleton wrote: First, a word of thanks to Glen Pike. That was slick, numChildren! Second, I like Michael Mendelsohn's idea, however, for what event am I listening? package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.utils.setInterval;

RE: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi John... You're listening for TimerEvent.TIMER. when you instance a new Timer, you pass two parameters. First, you pass the time in milliseconds, from your code, it was 15. Then instead of looping through to get 10 instances of the fireball, just run the timer 10 times. That's the second

Re: [Flashcoders] captured or non-captured named group back references in AS3 regex

2010-06-18 Thread kennethkawam...@gmail.com
Can you access using result.name ? -- Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 18 June 2010 15:39, Anthony Pace wrote: > I know you can have named groups, but are there named group back references > in AS3?  if so, do you have any examples of it working? it isn't working for > me if

Re: [Flashcoders] captured or non-captured named group back references in AS3 regex

2010-06-18 Thread kennethkawam...@gmail.com
(?Pgroup) Is this what you are looking for? -- Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 18 June 2010 15:39, Anthony Pace wrote: > I know you can have named groups, but are there named group back references > in AS3?  if so, do you have any examples of it working? it isn't working for

RE: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Merrill, Jason
You're mixing an instance of the Timer class with setInterval. In order for a timer to run, you have to tell it to start. Secondly, since the method the Timer calls is _addNewFlame - that method needs to have an event specified as an argument. private function _addNewFlame(event:TimerEvent):void

Re: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread John Singleton
First, a word of thanks to Glen Pike. That was slick, numChildren! Second, I like Michael Mendelsohn's idea, however, for what event am I listening? package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.utils.setInterval; import flash.utils.clearInterval; import flash.utils.Ti

[Flashcoders] On Pulsate by Andre Michelle

2010-06-18 Thread Jim Andrews
Here is something I wrote about an online interactive piece by Andre Michelle called Pulsate: http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=192 ja http://vispo.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/l

Re: [Flashcoders] Colour Matte Live Video?

2010-06-18 Thread Henrik Andersson
Glen wrote: Good morning folks, Is it possible in Flash to take a live feed from a webcam of a person in front of a green screen, perform a colour matte operation, and display the person (without background) on the stage? You will need a custom pixelbender shader for that. I was going to wri

Re: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Henrik Andersson
The timeout runs after the loop completes. The callback will use the current value of i, and the loop leaves it at 10. So naturally, that is what the timeout will see. I fail to see the purpose of setting a timeout in a loop like this. Just move the loop to inside the timeout. This way, you ca

[Flashcoders] Colour Matte Live Video?

2010-06-18 Thread Glen
Good morning folks, Is it possible in Flash to take a live feed from a webcam of a person in front of a green screen, perform a colour matte operation, and display the person (without background) on the stage? TTFN. Glen --- http://www.glenmead.com Animation & Multimedia --- Augmented Reality

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Math in Datagrid

2010-06-18 Thread Henrik Andersson
Lehr, Theodore wrote: So I have a datagrid that I am populating via some xml like: var thisCol: DataGridColumn: new DataGridColumn("fieldFromXML"); How can I create a column that's value is the reult of something like thisCol/thatCol? Write your own data provider class. Make it give a calcul

Re: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Maybe it's because you looped through the loop before you started adding flames - e.g. i is 10 by the time the first flame is added... Can you just use the number of children already in the container to set the x position of the next flameNew? Glen __

RE: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Assuming you're using AS3, you might want to rewrite it as such: public function Fire() { mcFlameContainer = new MovieClip(); addChild(mcFlameContainer); var t:Timer = new Timer(15, 10); t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, _addNewFlame, 15); } Forget the

RE: [Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread Cor
//Try this : package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.utils.setInterval; import flash.utils.clearInterval; import fireBall; public class Fire extends MovieClip { private var mcFlameContainer:MovieClip; private var uintMakeAFlame:uint;

[Flashcoders] Dynamic Math in Datagrid

2010-06-18 Thread Lehr, Theodore
So I have a datagrid that I am populating via some xml like: var thisCol: DataGridColumn: new DataGridColumn("fieldFromXML"); How can I create a column that's value is the reult of something like thisCol/thatCol? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoder

[Flashcoders] Function Doesn't Increment Properly

2010-06-18 Thread John Singleton
Hi; The following script fully increments the value of i every time it calls _addNewFlame. I would have thought (and need) that the value of i would be incremented with each call. Please advise. TIA, John package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.utils.setInterval; impo

[Flashcoders] captured or non-captured named group back references in AS3 regex

2010-06-18 Thread Anthony Pace
I know you can have named groups, but are there named group back references in AS3? if so, do you have any examples of it working? it isn't working for me if I try \k, \ The funny thing about this situation is that I know that you can access them after exec of a regex, and I wonder why they w

[Flashcoders] Can anybody help me with including a 3dmodel in to a recording webcam?

2010-06-18 Thread Iason van der Meulen
Hi people of the flash coders list, For a while I am having this problem of not knowing how to record my webcam with augmented reality. Lets start from the beginning, I have a webcam application that records to a streaming server. This application hasn¹t bin written by me unfortunately. I have a

RE: [Flashcoders] contextMenu getting overridden

2010-06-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Thanks for the responses. When I debug, I see both contextMenus created correctly. It's just that the child one isn't showing up on the stage. The odd part is that when I comment out the parent contextMenu property, the child contextMenu STILL doesn't show up. Karl: I'm not seeing how access

Re: [Flashcoders] regExp

2010-06-18 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Ah, yes, I thought I has stated that. I am using AS2. I tried setting the Math.random first and then I used Math.floor, that seemed to work, but I put an extra catch and set up a.. if(ranCode == undefined){ ranCode = 0; } and so a zero gets added instead of any undefined and that seem

Re: [Flashcoders] regExp

2010-06-18 Thread Steven Sacks
And just to add to this, in AS3, I never use Array anymore for the very reason that passing an out of range value returns undefined instead of throwing an out of range error. So, I always use Vector. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.f