Re: [Flashcoders] flashvars - swfObject not working

2010-07-29 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello Michael, You have to get the FlashVars parameters from the root.loaderInfo object. I know, I know how it feels, and I wouldn't be able to certainly tell you why it is passed through the root.loaderInfo pointer, although it /can/ be quite logical. When you get used to it, it gets

Re: [Flashcoders] flashvars - swfObject not working

2010-07-29 Thread Cedric Muller
a few times already. Thank you very much for the reminder. - MM -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:02 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweener still in development

2010-06-24 Thread Cedric Muller
hi a! I am afraid no :( http://zehfernando.com/2009/tweener-4-years-later-a-post-mortem/ hth hi guys does anyone know if tweener is still being developed as the updates seem to have gone quiet for the last year(ish)? thanks a ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] on the iPad

2010-06-09 Thread Cedric Muller
As it is built now, the iPad is the ultimate consumer device, meant primarily to consume media, not to produce it. That's why, in its first iteration, it has no native printing application, no camera, no USB ports for peripherals. But the impulse to make it into something else, a

Re: [Flashcoders] ticker

2010-05-28 Thread Cedric Muller
or just assign some 'onComplete' handler to your tween, reset your object to tween 's position to the right of the screen and (re)start tweening. rinse and repeat. Cedric Hehe - Just giving you a nudge in the right direction - you have to look up some info - try googling for flash tween

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Cedric Muller
Don't bother :) Apple is doing its own playground in its own special island + walled gardens how could they develop a flash concurrent that would sit on the 'ubiquitous' side of things ?? The same ubiquity than with Quicktime Player or Safari ? :D (sorry, but ... these only work on

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Cedric Muller
and Quicktime are absolute piles of shit. People talk about Flash crashing a browser? Quicktime is just as bad. Complete shit. iTunes is just as bad as Outlook when it comes to bloatware. Not to mention a horrible to use piece of software. [/quote] amazingly true On 10 May 2010 08:02, Cedric Muller

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Cedric Muller
Right now I'm more of the opinion that rolling your eyes and moving on is the right thing to do. +1 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Cedric Muller
that's a fact :) (not about the man on mission or the hair, but about the air Jobs has, which isn't AIR btw) **Did he really post that? I am hoping you are referring to the grey hairs on Steve's head and not a man on a mission. O.o Karl On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Newsletters Bag

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Cedric Muller
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/ quake_ii_runs_on_html5.html http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/ quake_ii_runs_on_html5.htmlseems that html5 isn't as crappy as some people are making out. ever tried to run it on an iPhone, or best: iPad ? :)

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agr eement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhon e Compiler

2010-04-13 Thread Cedric Muller
After all this discussion, I've decided to suck it up and give these a read: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/referencelibrary/ GettingStarted/Learning_Objective-C_A_Primer/index.html#//apple_ref/ doc/uid/TP40007594 http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Cocoa/

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agr eement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhon e Compiler

2010-04-12 Thread Cedric Muller
What's truely lovely in this darkened story: Flash has a community!! Yes, it has :) Moreover, this community is stronger than what I thought I can now see how the community isn't only made of preachers and all. You can't get the flashonomy down. (and today I stumbled upon the WePad,

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-09 Thread Cedric Muller
So many interesting power struggles going on right now between Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Google. Makes you wonder who will come out on top. Apple vs the World ? Are they idiots or what ?? Definitely: Apple will come down. Speaking about the cleaness of code :S The MS days are far

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-09 Thread Cedric Muller
Peter Elst: http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2010/04/09/apple-versus-developers- this-time-its-personal/ apple-versus-developers-this-time-its-personal It does feel personal: 1. Apple want to lock you into their products. 2. They can't force consumers, so they force developers. 3. Their

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-09 Thread Cedric Muller
Sorry, I didn't meant 'heroes' but thought about 'apps' that get sold ... because 180'000 apps certainly means there are a lot of crap and non-sense. another list, there should be a bunch of application developpers HEROES that get together and build this killer app the iphone won't have.

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: I Must Be Asking This Question Wrong...

2010-02-03 Thread Cedric Muller
The fact that someone has elected to unsubscribe because of your postings should tell you that your going about it the wrong way. The list is less active nowadays than it was a few years ago. Nevertheless, I don't think putting guilt (or responsability) upon beno would do any good. I

Re: [Flashcoders] Bizarre Issue

2009-12-15 Thread Cedric Muller
These MC have dynamic text boxes and images... they ALL start out with alpha = 0... dynamic images ? Do you mean that the images get loaded dynamically ? You are, maybe, starting to show the scene when it is not fully loaded ... :| hth, Cedric

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Cedric Muller
Again ??!? Beno, you promised you would buy these books and study. And you promised to build bricks first before trying to build a skyscraper. Cedric I really feel like you are trying to build a ferrari without taking one automotive class. To understand the logic, you need to establish

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Cedric Muller
I know we all love Beno, and we really tried hard to make it work, that's how this list is ;) But, it should end, shouldn't it ? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Cedric Muller
won't black out. Back to Flash ? yea, that's what I have been doing for the last 8 years now :( On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li wrote: Again ??!? Beno, you promised you would buy these books and study. And you promised to build bricks first before trying

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Cedric Muller
I don't know, I think it has more to do with humility and being humble ... are we ? Beno, In the spirit of your recommendations and opinions regarding criticism, allow me to be blunt with you in the manner you find most effective. Considering everyone here has expressed a negative

Re: [Flashcoders] Re:Trying to set multiple images to 'export for AS' with JSFL

2009-12-02 Thread Cedric Muller
but it isn't a MovieClip, is it ? A MovieClip can contain a (or multiple) Bitmaps, but a Bitmap cannot contain a MovieClip, so are these really the same ? and if you take lots of them: lots of Bitmaps are better than lots of MovieClips. ... or you can convert a MovieClip to Bitmap, but the

Re: [Flashcoders] Baby Step #2

2009-11-18 Thread Cedric Muller
otherwise (if you haven't) you should buy a serious book ;) You know, I just moved back from a 3rd world country (the Dominican Republic) where I went broke (it was wonderful). I learned to survive on very little in the process. And I ain't changing those habits. I don't buy nuttin

Re: [Flashcoders] Who uses Adobe Flex?

2009-11-18 Thread Cedric Muller
The cool thing is the future :) Adobe wants to correct this bias; Flash Builder will happen, and the distinction between Flex Builder and Flex framework will melt. There we will be happy and everything :) The IDE is about to get all dressed up for a sexy evening ;) Now, if one could,

Re: [Flashcoders] Infinite Loops

2009-11-18 Thread Cedric Muller
that's the problem. I suspect external calls, all one line after the other, in the timeline, and maybe the timeline's playhead gets over this code every frame ? main.hatAndFace(); main.eyeball1(); main.eyeball1(); main.rightHand(); ... beno, could you try: public function init():void {

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Coders List

2009-11-18 Thread Cedric Muller
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ hth, Cedric What is the Flex equivalent of this mailing list? -- --Joel Stransky stranskydesign.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with First Flash Movie

2009-11-17 Thread Cedric Muller
Hi, Could you try the following ? (you were doing addChild on 'mcHatAndFace' class, but I know you want the instance to be added to the display list, not its class) Main.as: package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import com.greensock.*; import com.greensock.plugins.*; import

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with First Flash Movie

2009-11-17 Thread Cedric Muller
1) Just open your FLA in Flash IDE 2) In the PUBLISH panel, you have a textfield input named Class: --- this is the document class, just leave it blank 3) retest with the revised code hth, Cedric On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.netwrote: beno -

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with First Flash Movie

2009-11-17 Thread Cedric Muller
, you will grab a lot from there. http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/ hth, Cedric On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li wrote: 1) Just open your FLA in Flash IDE 2) In the PUBLISH panel, you have a textfield input named Class

Re: [Flashcoders] Baby Step #2

2009-11-17 Thread Cedric Muller
who's the Instance who's the Class symbol ? mcHand --- Class symbol mcHandInstance --- instance when you want to change x and y on **any** instance, who do you target ? the Class or the instance ? :) var mcHandInstance:mcHand = new mcHand(); addChild(mcHandInstance); mcHand.x =

Re: [Flashcoders] Baby Step #2

2009-11-17 Thread Cedric Muller
this looks like you have not set the linkage in your symbol properties panel, have you ? (ie: is 'mcHand' really defined somewhere ? somehow ?) hth, Cedric On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li wrote: who's the Instance who's the Class symbol ? mcHand

Re: [Flashcoders] Baby Step #2

2009-11-17 Thread Cedric Muller
, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li wrote: this looks like you have not set the linkage in your symbol properties panel, have you ? (ie: is 'mcHand' really defined somewhere ? somehow ?) That was it :-) I'm currently studying the Adobe online docs...really good

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with First Flash Movie

2009-11-16 Thread Cedric Muller
Hi Beno, I think you are close ... but far :S, but close :) public class Main extends MovieClip --- this is your class declaration public function Main ():void --- this is your class's constructor (first thing being called when you do a 'var main:Main = new Main()' class mcHatAndFace --

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Pricing a Freelance Project

2009-10-12 Thread Cedric Muller
I heared you could take your estimate and multiply it by Math.PI: that's the correct estimate. estimates of the amount of work needed are almost always off by a factor of ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 to iphone app

2009-10-08 Thread Cedric Muller
But if the Adobe 'AS3 to iPhone' developpers (the ones working on the Objective-C code generator) do their work correctly, there is little room for an AS3 developper to fill in. I mean, in the end, it is about optimization; this will make the difference. If optimization is fine, then this

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Socket is broken and I need help from Adobe or any Socket Expert

2009-09-17 Thread Cedric Muller
? Sockets (not in AIR) are fine by me. I am surely missing the obvious here, but sending a 100k data to my socket in Flash works like a charm. Regarding your trace output, it seems the socket fails at the second packet, like it is loosing it is progress what if you do

Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic text loaded from database.

2009-08-19 Thread Cedric Muller
Hi Omar, I did develop a dynamic arabic site using TextLayout Framework http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/ It all went well. hth, Cedric I'm creating an e-Library that consents users to read text from a pdf source and display it into a dynamic TextField in Flash. But I am

Re: [Flashcoders] mac vs pc

2009-08-13 Thread Cedric Muller
I didn't say people who used it were retarded, I said the program was. I am retarded, as I neither use FD nor FlexBuilder ;) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Package problem in Flex

2009-07-24 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello, this should work: package com.pearson.utils { public class PlaceItemsInSeries { public function PlaceItemsInSeries() { trace(Place Items in Series Class); }

Re: [Flashcoders] weird whitespace issue

2009-07-06 Thread Cedric Muller
hello tom, you mean the whitespace from the start of the paragraph ? isn't it some paragraph start margin ? cheers cedric hey all, just in the final stages of finishing a project and have come across something i've not seen b4, which is a problem ;) basically have a look here...

Re: [Flashcoders] franch Symbols not showing

2009-04-10 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello, - from where does the data come (ie: are you loading a xml ?) - are you using a custom font that could not have the desired characters ? (this happens sometimes with free fonts) Cedric I tryed to embed Latin and Auto Fill but still those symbole not showing (*é à) * On Fri, Apr

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Text Engine

2009-02-17 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello Glen, Assuming you have a TextFlow instance called 'myTextFlow), you can tweak the paragraphFormat property: var paragraphFormat = new ParagraphFormat(myTextFlow.paragraphFormat); paragraphFormat.textAlign = right; // left, center, justify, start, end (start/end is useful for RTL +

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Text Engine

2009-02-17 Thread Cedric Muller
oops, I misread your question, sorry. Regarding a TextLineFactory (ie: the simple text engine): a) you can directly pass the paragraphFormat attributes to the 'createTextLinesFromString' http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/textlayout/flashx/textLayout/factory/

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Text Engine

2009-02-17 Thread Cedric Muller
ok, ok, then I am totally offroads, once again :D sorry Glen :( oops, I misread your question, sorry. Regarding a TextLineFactory (ie: the simple text engine): a) you can directly pass the paragraphFormat attributes to the 'createTextLinesFromString'

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash White Screen of Death

2009-01-02 Thread Cedric Muller
.. otherwise flash would complain that it needed a reinstall. See the coments at: http://www.negush.net/blog/5005-unknown-error- optimizing-byte-code/ Goodluck! - Original Message - From: Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li To: Flash Coders List Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash White Screen of Death

2009-01-02 Thread Cedric Muller
FD or FB, but if you don't, I'd recommend using FD, if you're running windows; it's free and it works out of the box; you only have to configure the path to the Flex SDK and that's almost it). Hope this helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2009/1/1, Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li: Hello

[Flashcoders] Flash White Screen of Death

2009-01-01 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello, I am facing one of these White screens, and I must admin I am quite lost. The project has more than 100 classes, and works fine if I comment some of the 'imports'. The options / solutions provided in this technote http:// kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: a historical question ...

2008-12-31 Thread Cedric Muller
hmmm, vines, okaaaye, for me this always was / is / will be Grand Skinner :) The Vineyard is in Grant's Garden :D #just a try, just a try# Cedric I don't think it was Moock. It was probably Joshua Davis - http://ps3.praystation.com/pound/v2/ or this guy - http://levitated.net/.

Re: [Flashcoders] Join me on Bebo

2008-12-31 Thread Cedric Muller
now it's time for some antisocial action ;) Who cares? There are already too many social media networks. You can join all of them! On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Matthew Muller matthewmul...@gmail.comwrote: It's for human beings and some clever chimps dude, oh and maybe web

Re: [Flashcoders] RESUME: Senior Flash/Flex Developer - NJ/NJ/CT

2008-12-26 Thread Cedric Muller
For Capital Markets Placement ? :D :D Sorry, but thanks for all the jokes ;) That was a cool christmas present, again thanks I'm assisting a Senior Flash/Flex Developer locate a full time position in the tri-state area (NY/NJ/CT). He has been working in Flash since it first came out and

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic flipping

2008-12-11 Thread Cedric Muller
Should be ok with FP10 TextLayout http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/ I am off for some arabic UTF-8 xml tests this week-end. I will let you know what I come up with. Cedric Yes, I would've thought that when using UTF-8 it would go just fine? It's good to know. What about Flash

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic flipping

2008-12-05 Thread Cedric Muller
properly when those are the only characters in the document. As soon as you introduce a Western character, it must automatically switch the justification and by doing so it flips the order of the Eastern words. On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Cedric Muller wrote: :( Did you see this post ? http

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic flipping

2008-12-05 Thread Cedric Muller
, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Cedric Muller wrote: :( Did you see this post ? http://joeabiraad.com/design/how-to-write-arabic-in-flash-8/36 hth, Cedric @Cedric It is weird and crazy.I know it's happening, so there's no need to show the client. PS I haven't taken hallucinogens in quite sometime so

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic flipping

2008-12-05 Thread Cedric Muller
properly when those are the only characters in the document. As soon as you introduce a Western character, it must automatically switch the justification and by doing so it flips the order of the Eastern words. On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Cedric Muller wrote: :( Did you see this post

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic flipping

2008-12-04 Thread Cedric Muller
OT but could you open the XLS and take a snapshot of the text, and then send to your client, to check if it is correct. Then, if ok, could you copy / paste this text into another document (like word, txt, xml) and take snapshots in order to send them to your client ? I find 'the order of

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic flipping

2008-12-04 Thread Cedric Muller
people see it too. Mike Grunwald McDill Design 626 N Water St Milwaukee, WI 53202 414.277.8111 mcdilldesign.com On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Cedric Muller wrote: OT but could you open the XLS and take a snapshot of the text, and then send to your client, to check if it is correct. Then, if ok

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-21 Thread Cedric Muller
Jason, no pun intended. Adobe, pun intended: this marketing bu**s**t I think the term Flex is kind of confusing people though, as it can mean different things just like Flash cam. Sometimes people use Flex to refer to the framework and SDK, sometimes as Flexbuilder, sometimes as the

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-21 Thread Cedric Muller
] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:07 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash You are right. I may have been mislead here, but I still think that a site like EcoDaZoo or sites done by agencies like Gringo, or Firstborn are Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-21 Thread Cedric Muller
and that's when you don't do liquid layout in Flash ;) Yep - but to be honest the .fla still contains all the links to the external assets. Erm, Ian, all you need to reference in the FLA is ONE Class file; and that class file can then contain ALL the references to all the subclasses; so

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
This is by far the only problem of Flex. Cedric Apps that are not skinned or have some nice graphical touch to them are kinda disappointing, like the BMW site that was posted.. very poor IMO. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
Getting back to the original question, Ross, another benefit of the Flex compiler - whether you're writing MXML or AS3 - over the Flash IDE is that all the source files for a Flex app (barring assets - images etc.) are text files. Text files are much easier to deal with in version control

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
Please let me be the mad analogies professor here: Flash is the Industrialization. Flex is the factories. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
do prefer personnality over technicity. Reusability ? yes, and no. I reuse my brain, that's it. ... and, of course, parts of my code :) but I am a Flex virgin (let's say so), so this message is personal, of no help, and no consequence On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Cedric Muller

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
This is what make great men you know. The mass, hmmm, is just the mass. You are welcome to your opinion but enjoy the solitude of your perspective. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
and command-line stuff are not to do with the Flex _framework_ (UI, classes etc.) but to do with the Flex _compiler_ and environment. You don't have to touch MXML or embed any of the Flex classes to be using the Flex compiler and environment. HTH, Ian On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Cedric Muller

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
If I can, I will let you show some of my works, modest works, but I say it out loud: Flash is brilliant. You shouldn't forget that Flash is brilliant for vector artwork and timeline animations. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
and others have said, it's great for non-standard UIs or for lightweight sites. It'll be interesting to see how Catalyst plays into all this. Ian On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Cedric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this I understand. As I view Flex, it is definitely the way to go. I even

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash

2008-11-20 Thread Cedric Muller
sorry about the flood ;) precision: Flash/Flex/AIR is brilliant!! Flash Lite is something I would like to hide. If I can, I will let you show some of my works, modest works, but I say it out loud: Flash is brilliant. You shouldn't forget that Flash is brilliant for vector artwork and

Re: [Flashcoders] h264 video looks blurry/crappy in flash

2008-10-29 Thread Cedric Muller
, B) Søren MOTION INTERACTIVITY dslnc studio - www.desilence.net +34 93 268 0953 / +34 61 555 9963 (mobile) On Oct 24, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Cedric Muller wrote: do you, by any chance, use the video.smoothing = true ? by looking at the video, it seems this option is set

Re: [Flashcoders] h264 video looks blurry/crappy in flash

2008-10-24 Thread Cedric Muller
do you, by any chance, use the video.smoothing = true ? by looking at the video, it seems this option is set to true hth, Cedric Hey All Has anybody experieced h264 video being more crappy when played through flash instead of i.e. the quicktime player If you compare these two: In flash

[Flashcoders] Flash CS4 stage width x height

2008-10-16 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello list, What are the width + height capabilities of flash 10 ? up to CS3, only 2880 x 2880 were possible. Now I have a 4 full HD screens setup that would need to be handled by Flash :( Any ideas ? tia, cedric ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] CDATA whitespace issue

2008-10-16 Thread Cedric Muller
I don't have the answer, but since you are using html, can't you just add br instead of linebreaks ? p class=headingHeading/pbrpDescription from xml./p Sometimes, I strip linebreaks from the text I parse in xml, but by doing this, you have to know for sure when you can apply such

Re: [Flashcoders] CDATA whitespace issue

2008-10-16 Thread Cedric Muller
in the xml doc but, as you say, they could be stripped (i'm using p tags already but the net result is the same). I'm really just seeing how far i can go in my xml - the first option is my best-case scenario best a On 16 Oct 2008, at 14:01, Cedric Muller wrote: I don't have the answer

Re: [Flashcoders] Flip BitmapData with Alpha

2008-10-15 Thread Cedric Muller
I am wondering what does it change if you do: var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(source.width, source.height, source.transparent, 0x); ? Cedric Any ideas? How to flip a bitmap and preserve alpha? Elia - Original Message - From: Elia Morling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Flashcoders] RESUME: Senior Flash Developer (2)

2008-10-09 Thread Cedric Muller
LOL! I think people need to answer an as3 quiz in order to register so that only qualified people are subscribed, WHAT A GOOD IDEA :) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] MouseEvents on overlapping siblings in AS3

2008-08-29 Thread Cedric Muller
Poetry!!! and yet, a good answer Le 29 août 08 à 15:31, eric e. dolecki a écrit : Think you need to drink some bubbly - bubbling events On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Matthias Dittgen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: but imagine one of the mc overlapping the whole other mc. MovieClips: A and

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime font embedding in Flash CS3...

2008-08-18 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello Michael, try the following: 1) create a FLA, blank, empty timeline, empty stage 2) show the Library, then from the menu on the top right click on 'New font ...' 3) select the font you want to embed, give it a 'Name' with no spaces. For example: Arial Narrow (actual font name) would be

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime font embedding in Flash CS3...

2008-08-18 Thread Cedric Muller
As a precision: This technique works perfectly with AS3 (I was also using the great zarate's shared library hack with AS2). The only big drawback, with AS3, is that you have to be sure that NO single textfield with the embedded font you want to use is in the loading SWF (means: don't put

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flash - cross-platform? really?

2008-08-13 Thread Cedric Muller
For your information... BlurFilters tend to be faster on Macs. ConvolutionFilters tend to be faster on PCs. Difference is quite big if there are many of them. Did you use any BlurFilters ? hth, Cedric - Original Message - From: Ashim D'Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List

Re: [Flashcoders] Object vs *

2008-08-11 Thread Cedric Muller
Just do a Mouse.hide(); then add a Sprite to the scene that looks exactly like the mouse pointer (differences between operating systems) and animate this sprite. This is how it is done, but this isn't setting the coordinates of the pointer hth, Cedric It has been done there, after the

Re: [Flashcoders] Playing one SWF inside another when the inner swf has an audio layer with sync=Stream

2008-08-06 Thread Cedric Muller
what if you set the audio track event to 'start' instead of 'stream' ? Cedric All, More information on a question I posted earlier... I'm trying to load a SWF and play it inside another SWF. Both SWFs are targeted to use Flash Player 8, and AS 2.0 So, in the parent, I've got code that

Re: [Flashcoders] Playing one SWF inside another when the inner swf has an audio layer with sync=Stream

2008-08-06 Thread Cedric Muller
, and continues regardless of which frame is showing in the timeline. With Sync=Stream, the audio track and the frame playhead move in lockstep, which is what I need. Unfortunately, it seems to have this ugly side-effect... Cheers, Matt On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Cedric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CMS

2008-07-02 Thread Cedric Muller
Depends on what you need to do. And depends on what you are able to do. I do prefer setting things up in a clean way and develop from scratch. Some prefer using already existing systems and try to modulate / alterate / integrate. (Joomla or Typo3). Depends on your (or your team) skills and

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CMS

2008-07-02 Thread Cedric Muller
the wind blows in the flash community. Paul - Original Message - From: Cedric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CMS Depends on what you need to do. And depends on what

Re: [Flashcoders] switch statement more efficient than if...else?

2008-06-25 Thread Cedric Muller
and switch on Number ? :P I read somewhere that Number was quicker than int though I still can't believe it cedric I'd always thought that the most efficient was the switch I know that the haXe compiler uses a jump table, I'm not sure about the AS3 compiler. But as already mentioned

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

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

Re: [Flashcoders] protect CSV separator

2008-06-18 Thread Cedric Muller
Can't you switch for another separator ? Instead of comma, try ___ (underscore underscore underscore) ? Cedric Hi, I'm creating a CSV file from an AIR application, the separator is a comma. How can I protect a comma when I create the String? So that it is not using as a separator,

[Flashcoders] stop posting to the list until things get cleared up (call for list admin)

2008-06-16 Thread Cedric Muller
Each post to the list will get an auto reply from edelstar, and then replies from replies, eventually until the list gets overflooded. Best is to stop posting messages to the list until the list admin can remove the edelstar account. Anyone can contact Dave Watts ? Cedric

Re: [Flashcoders] Is it possible to display in the xml file

2008-06-12 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello, add a CDATA tag dep![CDATA[Fin IT]]/dep cedric hey there, Is it possible to display in the xml file? I tried to convert it to %26, but it won't display in the flash for example: depFin IT /dep thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Is it possible to display in the xml file

2008-06-12 Thread Cedric Muller
or you could set an attribute instead of a node dep value=Fin IT / hey there, Is it possible to display in the xml file? I tried to convert it to %26, but it won't display in the flash for example: depFin IT /dep thanks ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 FTP Client?

2008-06-02 Thread Cedric Muller
try this one http://maliboo.riaforge.org/ it is open source, and working (very early version, as written) hth, Cedric Are there any FTP clients that run in AS3 for sale? Elia ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 FTP Client?

2008-06-02 Thread Cedric Muller
did you look the project's home ? http://projects.maliboo.pl/FlexFTP/ Do you think I can use this in an AS3 project in Flex2? I went to the link but the SVN appears empty to me Elia - Original Message - From: Cedric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Dynamic Variable?

2008-05-29 Thread Cedric Muller
for (var i=1; i=5; i++) { trace(this.xmlClass.xmlData[RecImageW+i]); } should work hth, cedric Another one for you... I am having some trouble with dynamic variables, basically I expect this['xmlClass.xmlData.RecImageW' + 1] to mean xmlClass.xmlData.RecImageW1, but it seems it

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening text more smoothly - AS3

2008-05-22 Thread Cedric Muller
I may be one more time wrong here, but as flash is single thread, you can do whatever you want, you won't be able to have a 'perfect scientific smoothed' scroll :( I struggled a lot with that ... I tried enterframe, intervals/timer, converting text to bitmap, displacement map filter, ... all

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening text more smoothly - AS3

2008-05-22 Thread Cedric Muller
smoother than everything: with Safari, fullscreen mode: I normally always have a stable FPS (which is 1 frame lower than the FPS set), even for big calculations, everything seems more stable and performance is improved. I always wondered why in Fullscreen mode under Safari (OS X browser)

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-16 Thread Cedric Muller
from my tests so far, this creates only one reference targetable by your code, but two instances sit in memory ... and some time after a new instance is created (given the complexity of what's created in this newly created instance), everything crashes cedric if the player revisits a

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-15 Thread Cedric Muller
This always sent me to the colliflowers. Important things should work as intended. It is not our role to do main bugs feedback (as this one is). Is Adobe paying people for finding such obvious bugs ? Cedric Francis Cheng wrote: Grant's post is helpful because he discusses the issue in such

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-15 Thread Cedric Muller
WTF ?? Steven Sacks a écrit : Thanks for the link to Alex Harui's post, Francis. It unquestionably supports my stance that only advanced developers should be using AS3 and everyone else (95% of Flash developers) should stick with AS1/AS2. Bullshit This issue of not unloading swfs

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-15 Thread Cedric Muller
The fact is: unloading a SWF (or sound) does not UNLOAD its content The fact: this is not fair, this is not professionnal, even Flash 5 people wouldn't admit such. Having to build extra methods to remove (trying to do it with a clean twist) everything has never been a problem for me (I am a

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