[Flashcoders] RE: PDF2SWF - or other means to convert bytestream PDF to SWF??

2006-10-02 Thread Ettwein, Josh
I hope they don't find out that the PDF is also stored in memory while it's converting! Next they'll ask you to convert the file without it ever actually going into RAM! >>> Haha, that's about where I'm at with this project! Seriously though, if it were me, I'd tell them it has to be in a temp f

[Flashcoders] RE: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 20, Issue 80

2006-09-28 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Ray, While you're correct that flashpaper can create pdfs OR swfs, if you read my original post, I'm not only solely interested in creating SWFs, I'm more specifically in need of the ability to create an swf FROM a bytestream pdf, as Jason was correct in saying. The workflow is like this: SQL Ser

[Flashcoders] PDF2SWF - or other means to convert bytestream PDF to SWF??

2006-09-27 Thread Ettwein, Josh
I have a need to consume PDFs with the flash player - no problem in the past - just use PDF2SWF to convert to multiframe SWF and loadMovie. The problem I'm having now is that the specs I've been given require that no PDF files be stored on the server, so the PDF can't physically exist, even in a te

RE: [Flashcoders] Littleloud: Flash Developer Position

2006-06-09 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Heh.. That's exactly what I was just thinking. Wow...where do I sign up? :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:28 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Littleloud: Flash Developer Position >> but you re

RE: [Flashcoders] LF: Flash representation of Board of Directors network

2006-05-15 Thread Ettwein, Josh
http://www.theyrule.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Brown Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 1:51 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] LF: Flash representation of Board of Directors network Does anyone remember the URL

RE: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation

2006-04-20 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Lol... I was there for 3 weeks surfing last summer and became obsessed with the language - it's very fun to learn and speak. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:33 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation

2006-04-20 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Sorry, I forwarded it to the list, I figured everyone might want those resources you mentioned. I forgot I was writing to the list in indonesian though... My bad! :) I tried the second one, works pretty well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation

2006-04-20 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Mas Anggie, Terima kasih banyak... ini sempurna! Josh -Original Message- From: Anggie Bratadinata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:43 AM To: Ettwein, Josh Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation A friend of mine uses this pretty flash plugin

RE: [Flashcoders] XML->PHP->FLASH

2006-04-20 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Oh yeah, I totally agree with you. If the packets of data are small, no reason against just using XML/Xpath. I meant use AMFPHP for larger datasets, where XML's verbosity becomes an issue. Personally, I use AMFPHP for everything, but that's only because I've been using it for several years, and I'v

RE: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation

2006-04-20 Thread Ettwein, Josh
ubject: Re: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation JSFL if you have the patience: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2004/09/jsfl_jxlwithrow.html - Original Message ----- From: "Ettwein, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006

[Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation

2006-04-20 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Just curious... I haven't endeavored to use a 3p tool like this in years, so I'm wondering what, if anything people are using to generate text effects nowadays? Short of hand-animating it yourself, of course. Josh ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] XML->PHP->FLASH

2006-04-20 Thread Ettwein, Josh
If you're already using PHP on the server side, I can't see why you wouldn't use AMF - it's binary, where xml is not, and is far more verbose to send across the pipe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaw, Matt (MTVN) Sent: Thursday, April 2

RE: [Flashcoders] Macbook pro issue

2006-04-12 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Yes. It's running in an emulator (rosetta), correct? You're going to have performance issues with any software that's not optimized for the Mac intel chip, which is pretty much everything at this point, if I'm correct. I've actually heard that a lot of the "pro" apps like Motion, etc. won't even ru

[Flashcoders] AS2 slideshow question

2006-04-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
So before I start with the question, I'll throw out there that yes, I am rebuilding a wheel here that has probably been done 100 times over, but client wants this built and is paying for it, so there it is... Now to the question. I have created a series of AS2 classes to handle the functionality o

RE: [Flashcoders] Active X and Microsoft IE ...

2006-04-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Grden Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:52 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Active X and Microsoft IE ... I wouldn't disagree with you at all on that Paul. I might disagree abo

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash e-commerce site

2006-04-03 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Off the top of my head, I'd say you would want to use it for an e-comm site because it is rather well suited for that, imho. The persistent state is perfect for this sort of thing, and allows for the entire checkout process to happen without browser refresh. As far as security goes, put it on an ht

RE: [Flashcoders] lil' help with amfphp... works locally, not uploaded...

2006-03-29 Thread Ettwein, Josh
ith amfphp... works locally, not uploaded... I think the /browser folder doers this? example: http://www.thelargeglass.com/amfphp/browser/ Let's you test the basic service? On 3/29/06, Ettwein, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you create a simple page that creates a new instance of

RE: [Flashcoders] lil' help with amfphp... works locally, not uploaded...

2006-03-29 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Can you create a simple page that creates a new instance of your class and spits what would be sent to flash via amf to the screen instead to see if the class file is not barfing silently on the remote server? Could it be handling of whitespace in the class file - although I think this was fixed in

RE: [Flashcoders] Using Flash with Ruby on Rails

2006-03-24 Thread Ettwein, Josh
It was also the only way to get a safe buzz when going out with friends at a party if you were training and couldn't have alcohol. Not saying it was smart... It is really safe though when used properly, like anything else. :) It was legal, and OTC till 1990... -Original Message- From: [EMA

RE: [Flashcoders] Using Flash with Ruby on Rails

2006-03-23 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Yeah, a RoR port of remoting would be dope. Hmm... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Royer Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:49 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Using Flash with Ruby on Rails Hi All, Was consideri

RE: [Flashcoders] Browse folders from flash

2006-03-21 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Right... I am an idiot. :) I was doing 5 things at once and lost track of what you needed. Sorry! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felipe Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:46 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcode

RE: [Flashcoders] Browse folders from flash

2006-03-21 Thread Ettwein, Josh
You could use PHP (or whatever serverside lang you've got) to do a directory listing and use "is_dir" to build youreslf a list of directories. Pass that into flash using remoting/loadvars/xml/whathaveyou and display a list of dirs in flash with the full paths as properties of the dir objects you di

RE: [Flashcoders] Browse folders from flash

2006-03-21 Thread Ettwein, Josh
...and in mx04, you would need to use javascript or some other slightly kludgey solution, like the yamzbrowser one. Basically use a hidden form field and javascript to trigger a 'press' of the 'browse' button on the hidden form in a 0% height frame or some such thing. I have used it in the past wit

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-14 Thread Ettwein, Josh
I like that one... Selamat pagi pak, btw.. Apa kabar? Dimana anda? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anggie Bratadinata Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 8:49 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title? "Fl

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Sorry for the rest of you who had to put up with this... My apologies. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:50 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title? So th

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Dude... Chill, seriously. This little "subthread" has gotten so OT now, its ridiculous. Please note, I never mentioned Mexicans - unfortunately you were the one who took it there. I mentioned going to Mexico, as in the country. FYI... I live just minutes north of the border (and lived in Mexico Cit

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
I like that one. Is the applicator like a popsicle stick? :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of clark slater Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:15 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title? Rich.Internet.Ap

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Come on, lighten up, man... They were jokes, and clearly in no way directed at anyone on this list. Unless of course, you *do* hang out in front of the CompUSA, in which case, I'm sorry. I'm getting back to work. And no, it wouldn't be politically incorrect; Call me a redneck all you want - if what

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
My old one (biz card) when I owned my own gig said simply, "Weapons Expert". That got a lot of second glances, and broke the ice on a lot of conversations, that's fer sure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ryanm Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Haha... I just about spit out a mouthful of sprite reading that. Not to mention that if they were here in California, they'd immediately be given driver's licenses, free health care and waivers for tuition to CA state colleges. Turns out I'm paying off $50K in student loans for the next 30 years fo

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash and server side databases

2006-03-01 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Yes. Doa a search for flash remoting. You'll find volumes of info. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alberto Florentin Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:04 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash and server side databases

RE: [Flashcoders] setInterval inside created Clip

2006-02-24 Thread Ettwein, Josh
How about... Note I added some dummy values to vars to get it to work in my environment. The last param is optional, but I figured I'd throw that in there in case you weren't aware of that one. var rootRef =_root; var vItemCount =1; var newName ="test"; rootRef.work.createEmptyMovieClip(newName,

RE: [Flashcoders] any nice free PHP or .Net library to generate SWF

2006-02-24 Thread Ettwein, Josh
I haven't used it in years, but when I did, Ming was really great. Ming.sourceforge.net, I believe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chall3ng3r Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 1:00 AM To: FlashCoders List Subject: [Flashcoders] any nice fre

RE: [Flashcoders] opportunity - paypal flash cart

2006-02-10 Thread Ettwein, Josh
ice total/size/color.. nothing to get your panties all bundled up. sorry that this email ever passed your eyes. blu skies. for most. "Ettwein, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Probably because your initial requirements listed seem contradictory to what you're saying no

RE: [Flashcoders] opportunity - paypal flash cart

2006-02-09 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Probably because your initial requirements listed seem contradictory to what you're saying now. Unfortunately, $1000 is *not* a lot of $$, and you're talking about more than just actionscript work on this, by nature of the fact that you want the fulfillment portion done under that $1K as well. I do

RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

2006-02-02 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Dude, that's some funny shit. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Winterhalder Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:22 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? On 2/2/06, Cedri

RE: [Flashcoders] AMFPHP for commercial projects

2006-01-26 Thread Ettwein, Josh
I've been using it for over 4 years on large-scale production projects for clients like Sunkist, Shea Homes, The Irvine Company etc... a lot of high-traffic sites with a lot of concurrent users. No problems, ever. And like Mike mentioned, the PHP code itself is really quite simple, if you don't lik

RE: [Flashcoders] remoting and record-sets and paging

2005-11-14 Thread Ettwein, Josh
s. In order to activate the pageable recordset feature, the methodTable (in the php class)must contain the attribute "pagesize". d On 14-Nov-05, at 11:28 AM, Ettwein, Josh wrote: > Unless a major upgrade has been done to amfphp, it does not support > (natively) pageable records

RE: [Flashcoders] remoting and record-sets and paging

2005-11-14 Thread Ettwein, Josh
Unless a major upgrade has been done to amfphp, it does not support (natively) pageable recordsets. I could be wrong though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Krysak Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 11:16 AM To: Flash Lists Subject: [F