RE: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-17 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
>From an eLearning perspective, anyone dealing with a browser-based LMS will need to start planning for HTML5/JS/CSS unless something new comes out that that is not currently on the radar. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun

Re: [Flashcoders] Stage video

2011-06-16 Thread Gregory Boland
you can take Flash CS5 and point it to the latest Flex SDK build. And then you should be able to compile against that version of Flash. If you open Flash and then open the the Flash Program preferences --> Actionscript 3.0 settings --> Flex SDK path will be an option I would start here to find t

Re: [Flashcoders] is there a dsp lib with analysis using zero crossing in as3

2011-05-12 Thread Gregory Boland
there's probably something like that in Andre Michelle's tonfall library http://code.google.com/p/tonfall/ there are some classes in there that make it easier to process audio signals, but I don't know if there is something doing exactly what you want. If you only want something to evaluate when

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-21 Thread Gregory Boland
went to google put this into the search field FLVPlayback adobe livedocs First link at the top: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/video/FLVPlayback.html perhaps your not putting in the correct words into google? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Bob Wohl wrote: > Wha

Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 - Android debugging

2011-01-12 Thread Gregory Boland
ADB is the android debugging device that you need to install separately from the CS5 android extension. I would check out the android development help pages. The instructions are pretty good http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html greg On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Glen Pike wrote: > H

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: Poptropica

2010-12-23 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
om: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Gregory Boudreaux > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 12:07 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: [Flashcoders] Poptropica > > Isn't there a Poptropica programmer on the list? >

[Flashcoders] Poptropica

2010-12-20 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Isn't there a Poptropica programmer on the list? My daughter is addicted... but she needs help. She said she lost her her ship on Earth and cannot locate it. Is there a way she can easily find it? Sorry for the slightly off topic question... but I am in crisis mode here. gregb ___

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: Poptropica

2010-12-20 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Gregory Boudreaux Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 12:07 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Poptropica Isn't there a Poptropica programmer on the list? My dau

Re: [Flashcoders] (From a PDF?) Getting bitmap data successfully

2010-12-02 Thread Gregory Boland
best way to do it is to convert the PDF to a SWF and then work with it as a SWF. Something like this will do it http://www.swftools.org/ You can load the swf and each page of the pdf will be a frame of the swf On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > I need to pull in a PDF and be able to

RE: [Flashcoders] Adobe software used to build Wired magazine

2010-11-17 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
what it actually is. What is your read on it? On 11/17/10 10:15 AM, "Gregory Boudreaux" wrote: > That is good info Looks like Q2 of 2011 is the target date. > > gregb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@ch

RE: [Flashcoders] Adobe software used to build Wired magazine

2010-11-17 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
That is good info Looks like Q2 of 2011 is the target date. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Gregory Boudreaux Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 9:58 AM To: Flash Coders List

RE: [Flashcoders] Adobe software used to build Wired magazine

2010-11-17 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
magazine Found this one right after I sent: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/ On 11/17/10 9:22 AM, "Gregory Boudreaux" wrote: > For the iPad... my fault. > > Thanks for the info. I will do a little searching to see if I can f

RE: [Flashcoders] Adobe software used to build Wired magazine

2010-11-17 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
he iPad. So it might depend on just how custom or innovative a solution you're looking for. That being said, my knowledge is all second-hand, so take it with a grain of salt. .m On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Gregory Boudreaux wrote: > Does anyone know what software Adobe used to

[Flashcoders] Adobe software used to build Wired magazine

2010-11-17 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Does anyone know what software Adobe used to build the Wired magazine app for the iPhone? Is it available for purchase or is it something they are still working on? Thanks. gregb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://ch

Re: [Flashcoders] locating point on object

2010-09-14 Thread Gregory Boland
I believe this will help you http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/index.html On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Lehr, Theodore wrote: > Is there a way to tell where you click on an object - for example if you > have a square that is 100x100 and you clicked in the middle you could get >

RE: [Flashcoders] Apple backing off. Why?

2010-09-09 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Probably a little of everything. Also, there's going to be about 50 tablets released in the next year... most of which will probably play Flash. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Bill S

Re: [Flashcoders] double barrelled TweenMax instances

2010-04-05 Thread Gregory Boland
if you make a new instance of TweenMax you have to calls its .play method to trigger it On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael < michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com> wrote: > Hi list... > > I'm trying to call a function twice in a row, and have some TweenMax > instances fire up. They ar

RE: [Flashcoders] What good is a Controller?

2010-03-31 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Here are a few helpful links to get you started if you've haven't already seen them. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/migration.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/migration.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/runtimeErrors. html gr

Re: [Flashcoders] Prevent children from listening to parent mouse events

2010-03-28 Thread Gregory Boland
there are several ways to combat this but i think what you want to use is ROLL_OVER and ROLL_OUT on the parent instead of the MOUSE_OVER and MOUSE_OUT. rollover and rollout are different as rollover ignores the children, check out this post http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1948052

RE: [Flashcoders] xml: counting parents

2010-03-23 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
In our organization, I can find any employee ID and their Manager's ID. Do you have that information available? I once built an AJAX app that functioned as a tree view of an organization by knowing who an employee's manager is. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyf

Re: [Flashcoders] Event.COMPLETE Question

2010-02-22 Thread Gregory Boland
e.target isn't your loader info, its most likely the Loader itself. the target is where the event bubbles from, and the currentTarget is what was applied the listener so what you are looking for is e.target.content and that is whatever you loaded in On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Susan Day wro

Re: [Flashcoders] Has everyone seen this yet?

2010-02-16 Thread Gregory Boland
guys, according to Lee Brimelow who was tweeting from the MWC in Barcelona its a tablet running the Android tablet OS http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/02/15/android-tablet-adobe-nvidia/ looks pretty cool greg On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: > I think the statement was ju

RE: [Flashcoders] Distributable Player Solution (aka: Mobile Packager)(yet again)

2010-02-16 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Check out that link I just posted. Wired Magazine is all over this already. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Murphy Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:35 PM To: 'Flash Coders Li

[Flashcoders] Has everyone seen this yet?

2010-02-16 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Pretty cool. http://mashable.com/2010/02/16/wired-magazine-ipad-demo/ gregb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] [beno's eyes only] I Must Be Asking This Question Wrong...

2010-02-05 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
I tried to stay out of the Beno discussion... but this one is funny. I can just see all the "Team Beno" merchandise hitting the shelves in time for Christmas. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Be

RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-04 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:07 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash Gregory Boudreaux wrote: &

RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-04 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Also Flash is playing a bigger role in corporate eLearning, especially after Adobe ended support for Authorware... and all the third party development tools that publish .swfs. In addition to Adobe Connect with its presentations and virtual classroom features. My personal opinion is that Jobs is

Re: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-03 Thread Gregory Boland
with any luck they will succeed in getting flash player 10.1 on all future cellphones using the ARM chip and will bring the ability to have apps on many cellphones not called iphone On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael < michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com> wrote: > > adobe i hope you

RE: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

2010-02-01 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
I got nothing on IE8 either. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:59 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Clearing Cache

2010-01-14 Thread Gregory Boland
yea i'm with Glen, do what he said On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Glen Pike wrote: > Use the "cache killer" method when loading in dynamic data - if you are > using a URL to load the data, append a "?tm=" + new Date().getTime() to it > or similar. > > > > Lehr, Theodore wrote: > >> Is there a

Re: [Flashcoders] Clearing Cache

2010-01-14 Thread Gregory Boland
how dynamic are we talking here? a little more details please On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Lehr, Theodore wrote: > Is there a way to clear the browsers cache via Flash? I have a movie that > is very dynamic in the data it shows - I want to make sure the users are not > getting an old view..

RE: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
He does have the makings of a best-selling novel. >Beno, have you ever considered that programming is not for you? So far >you have had a ton of help on a very simple example and very little of >that assistance seems to have stuck. >What you have now is a real hotpotch of the "solutions" provi

RE: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of beno - Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:18 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Gregory Boudreaux wrote: > What is setting "e"

RE: [Flashcoders] New portfolio site online (and some 10.1 issues withit)

2009-12-08 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New portfolio site online (and some 10.1 issues withit) Hey Gregory, Thanks! The insects are basically 2 concepts combined: One where the particles are gravitated towards a center point(street light) and the other where they have their own random 'wandering'

RE: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
What is setting "e" in your code? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of beno - Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:38 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Pro

RE: [Flashcoders] New portfolio site online (and some 10.1 issues withit)

2009-12-08 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Looks good. How did you do the insects around the street light? gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Meinte van't Kruis Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:38 AM To: Flash Coders List Subje

RE: [Flashcoders] The Flash Debug Player

2009-12-04 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Nice to know... Thanks! gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:29 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] The Flash Debug Player Hi,

RE: [Flashcoders] The Flash Debug Player

2009-12-04 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Thanks everyone! I'll try it and see what I get. gregb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] The Flash Debug Player

2009-12-04 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
What does the Flash Debug Player do exactly? Does it affect your browsing experience when you are not trying to "debug" anything? Thanks. gregb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinf

RE: [Flashcoders] Still Infinitely Looping

2009-12-01 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Still Infinitely Looping Yep works a treat on Windows 7 .. been using it since Windows 7 beta and no problems at all. Gregory Boudreaux wrote: > Does FlashDevelop work on Windows 7? I've never tried it, but this > discussion has me curious now. > > Thanks. > > gregb > >

RE: [Flashcoders] Still Infinitely Looping

2009-11-30 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Does FlashDevelop work on Windows 7? I've never tried it, but this discussion has me curious now. Thanks. gregb -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Monday, November 30, 20

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP and XML

2009-11-19 Thread Gregory Boland
while your on the subject of bad habits, here's a list of coding conventions and best practices to use as a reference. http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions I still haven't looked at the whole list yet and I'm not sure how relevant it all is, but its a handy link to

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP and XML

2009-11-19 Thread Gregory Boland
either way works... its a 6 of one half a dozen of another type situation so you could say dispatchEvent(Event.COMPLETE) from your XMLLoader class and put the data into a public var that your class listening can access. Or you could make a custom event like this dispatchEvent(new XMLEve

Re: [Flashcoders] Testing before removing a child

2009-11-18 Thread Gregory Boland
try .numChildren property On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Alan Neilsen wrote: > I am using loader_clip.removeChild(ldr); to remove child objects from my > loader clip, and I want to test if a child object is there before removing > it. I thought it would be something like > if (loader_clip.child

RE: [Flashcoders] Update TextFields after SharedObject was updated

2009-11-02 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Hello. I've been working with Shared Objects recently and this is what I've found... btw, these are only my assumptions on how they work. (local only) If the object doesn't exist, Flash creates an object in memory to use while your app runs. Nothing is written to disk until you close the app or

Re: [Flashcoders] [MEMORY LEAK]

2009-10-01 Thread Gregory Boland
Thanks, T > > -Original Message- > From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com > [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Gregory > Boland > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:39 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] [MEMORY

Re: [Flashcoders] [MEMORY LEAK]

2009-10-01 Thread Gregory Boland
TS, what is the content that you are loading from this external swf every 30,000 milliseconds? It is feasible that what you are loading is causing the memory of the Flash player to increase? I never saw where you ready the swf itself for garbage collection. I see that you are setting the loader

Re: [Flashcoders] best way to use external interface

2009-09-28 Thread Gregory Boland
yup just like that On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Gustavo Duenas < gdue...@leftandrightsolutions.com> wrote: > Ok, thanks, so it should work this way right? > > Gustavi > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Gregory Boland wrote: > > thats essentially it. >>

Re: [Flashcoders] best way to use external interface

2009-09-28 Thread Gregory Boland
thats essentially it. Syntax is slightly different if (ExternalInterface.available){ ExternalInterface.call("openMyWindow");} } make sure to import flash.external.ExternalInterface; and when u tell it what the name of the method in the javascript is leave off the () On Mon, Sep 28, 2009

Re: [Flashcoders] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-09-24 Thread Gregory Boland
Pedro, The flashcoders list is not someone's email from some guy named Marc. It is a list of people who all subscribe and can send emails to help get questions answered or help answer questions. the list is not a real person so I'm not sure how much luck your gonna have inviting it to be friends

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading local files with query strings

2009-09-14 Thread Gregory Boland
how about just escaping the ? symbol &# 063; On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Álvaro Saraiva wrote: > Hi Ian, > The reason i'm using query strings it's because the same swf must to > respond in different manners according the parameters passed. > I'm catching the paramenters in loaded swf (its

Re: [Flashcoders] 1120: Access of undefined property

2009-09-03 Thread Gregory Boland
static function, they have a limited scope, can't see class variables unless their static On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Isaac Alves wrote: > could someone please tell me why in the following script , the flash > runtime doesn´t recognize the var counter? > 1120: Access of undefined property co

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #2044

2009-08-31 Thread Gregory Boland
one addition to this is if you are loading something using a cross domain policy you might need to tell your loader to check for a cross domain policy using LoaderContext class.. it would look like this.. _loader = new Loader(); var context:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(); // set

Re: [Flashcoders] controlling an movie clipo from an external swf (SOLVED)

2009-08-25 Thread Gregory Boland
.buttonX.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeMe); > function closeMe(e:MouseEvent):void{ >removeChild(contactLoader); > } > trace("completo"); > } > contactLoader.load(new URLRequest("contactUs.swf")); > addChild(contactLoader); > trace("contact&

Re: [Flashcoders] controlling an movie clipo from an external swf

2009-08-25 Thread Gregory Boland
you can't access another swf's timeline till its loaded. Look at what your writing, you have to account for the time it will take for the movieclip to load in greg On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Gustavo Duenas < gdue...@leftandrightsolutions.com> wrote: > Hi coders I have this function and I

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash security issue

2009-08-21 Thread Gregory Boland
ilds the files > and > I simply download a stuffit file that contains the html, swf and support > files. > > > On 8/21/09 10:08 AM, "Gregory Boland" wrote: > > > create an .exe file so that when you run it from a CD you can run it > > standalone. Not sure

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash security issue

2009-08-21 Thread Gregory Boland
create an .exe file so that when you run it from a CD you can run it standalone. Not sure about what your using, if it allows you to do that but maybe if you create a wrapper swf and load the other swf into your wrapper swf you can create an .exe file greg On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Bill

Re: [Flashcoders] How to add a DisplayObject into a container without using addChild() method.

2009-08-17 Thread Gregory Boland
if someone handed me some code and the worst thing that they had done is wrote expressions long-handed, I would consider myself extremely lucky. lets get over ourselves... greg On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > > Code bloat is one of the seven deadly sins (gluttony). > > Thi

Re: [Flashcoders] dispatch a custom Event in a simple class file

2009-07-09 Thread Gregory Boland
you call the event on the constructor... you add the listener to the event after you make a new instance of that class, so your adding the listener AFTER dispatching the event On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Merrill, Jason < jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com> wrote: > You have "testInitialize" as

Re: [Flashcoders] flv video width/height

2009-06-30 Thread Gregory Boland
the default size of a new VideoObject is 320 X 240, i imagine that your constructor is empty upon instantiation. greg On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Davide Di Blasi wrote: > Hi Andrew , > normally you can check the flv dimension by onMetaData handlers of > NetStream in As2, > I think there sh

Re: [Flashcoders] Sound.extract

2009-06-25 Thread Gregory Boland
Ben, Your going to want to perform an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and move from the time domain to the frequency domain. And to be more specific I believe you are gonna want to perform a Discrete Fourier Transform. I know a lot of work has been done on this in C and perhaps you could find somet

Re: [Flashcoders] understand getChildByName

2009-06-17 Thread Gregory Boland
you might be experiencing a related issue regarding accessing properties of an AS2 swf inside an AS3 swf. I know that you have limited interaction with an as2 movie loaded into as3. Try loading an AS3 swf into there and see if you have the same issue greg On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Kurt D

Re: [Flashcoders] SWF address

2009-06-10 Thread Gregory Boland
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=107 On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Gustavo Duenas < gdue...@leftandrightsolutions.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know how could I use the swf adreess? I have it downloaded but > it seems that there is no > a how to guide in the Asual Site, would anyone point me

[Flashcoders] JSON Experiences

2009-05-20 Thread Gregory Boland
Dear list, I am looking into using JSON to bring data into Flash as opposed to XML and I wondering what other people's experiences have been with it. People tell me that its much easier to use than xml and easier to implement. Does anyone know of a good place to see some AS3 code that uses JSON

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating for loops for event listeners

2009-05-01 Thread Gregory Boland
Store your buttons in an array then for loop through the array If you have instances of them on stage already and are not creating them dynamically then its a little more work but u could still pass a reference of each button into the array greg On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:10 PM, wrote: > > > I

Re: [Flashcoders] E4X question

2009-04-30 Thread Gregory Boland
Mike, take the XMLList that you have and run a for each loop on it looking for a match at the name attribute for each (var element:XML in FloorPlanData.floor){ if(eleme...@name == thisLabel){ return element } } or something along those lines Hope this is what you were asking gre

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Loader() stupidity

2009-04-20 Thread Gregory Boland
Paul, try to localize your error. Pull this code out and put it in a separate swf and see if that is still happening. I'm assuming that your assetLoader is a class variable. Doesn't look like anything from here is an issue. You don't have a custom Loader class that is interfering with the Load

[Flashcoders] Add Child Failing in wrapped .NET code in IE7 only

2009-04-15 Thread Gregory Boland
Dear List, I have a strange one here... I am loading in external swfs and Bitmaps, and I am using them as a logo on a button. I put them inside a MovieClip from the library and linked to a class that gives it button functionality. Everything works fine before I integrate it into another develo

[Flashcoders] this._livePreviewMask - what is analog in AS3?

2009-02-19 Thread Gregory N
I have a component which is built based on user parameters. And I'm trying to make a Live Preview for it. The problem is that too many things, including the visual size, are determined at runtime and/or in component inspector. So, sometimes part of the picture (in Live Preview) is cropped. In AS2,

Re: [Flashcoders] component def doesn't pass params to constructor?

2009-02-19 Thread Gregory N
On 2/19/09, Muzak wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Gregory N" > To: "Flash Coders List" > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:17 PM > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] component def doesn't pass params to constructor? > > >>

Re: [Flashcoders] component def doesn't pass params to constructor?

2009-02-19 Thread Gregory N
am I missing something trivial? On 2/19/09, Gregory N wrote: > Muzak, > > Nice addition, thanks for pointing to it. > Frankly, I'd prefer to avoid calling commitProperties() after *each* > of the setters... > Anyway, this way looks better than my enter_frame trick :-) > &

Re: [Flashcoders] component def doesn't pass params to constructor?

2009-02-19 Thread Gregory N
et prop"); >return _prop; > } > public function set prop(value:String):void { >trace("Rectangle ::: set prop"); >if(value != _prop) { > _prop = value; > propChanged = true; > commitProperties(); >} > } > } &

Re: [Flashcoders] component def doesn't pass params to constructor?

2009-02-19 Thread Gregory N
Michael, Haven't you read my reply to one of your prev. questions? Well, let me quote it here again: === Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] my component not instancing properly on timeline It seems your problem is similar to one I had with my components. The matter is that, unlike their behavior in AS2,

Re: [Flashcoders] my component not instancing properly on timeline

2009-02-13 Thread Gregory N
Michael, It seems your problem is similar to one I had with my components. The matter is that, unlike their behavior in AS2, in AS3 (CS3) components setters of [Inspectable] parameters are called lo-o-ong AFTER constructor As described here http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1181 So, even if I set

Re: [Flashcoders] instancing my own components (still new to AS3)

2009-01-28 Thread Gregory N
2009 at 10:27 AM, Gregory N wrote: > > > Yes, as allandt suggests, you should provide a default value for > > constructor param > > Unfortunately, it's not the only problem with components (at least in CS3) > > For me, the worst one is about [Inspectable] parame

Re: [Flashcoders] instancing my own components (still new to AS3)

2009-01-28 Thread Gregory N
Yes, as allandt suggests, you should provide a default value for constructor param Unfortunately, it's not the only problem with components (at least in CS3) For me, the worst one is about [Inspectable] parameters (and their setters). As described here http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1181 setters a

Re: [Flashcoders] display trace() in text field

2008-12-04 Thread Gregory Boland
t; Good morning everyone. > > > > Is it possible to display trace actions in a text field? Gregory Boland | IconNicholson Flash Engineer, Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +1 212.981.0563 mobile +1 201.600.6269 295 Lafayette Street, New Yo

Re: [Flashcoders] text line overflow

2008-11-17 Thread Gregory Boland
___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Gregory Boland | IconNicholson Flash Engineer, Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +1 21

Re: [Flashcoders] XML optimization

2008-10-30 Thread Gregory Boland
list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> > ___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcod

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems creating a drag and drop

2008-09-26 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Is your target a movieClip with a graphic inside? Try this... for (index= 0; index < count; index++) { trace(aButtons[index].dropTarget.parent); } gregb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS Sent: Thursday, Sept

RE: [Flashcoders] Problems creating a drag and drop

2008-09-25 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Just a guess here... Try adding the event listeners to the draggable objects before you add them to your array and not in a for loop... see if that makes a difference. gregb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS Sent: Wedn

Re: [Flashcoders] FW: External flv security issue...

2008-09-23 Thread Gregory Boland
't telling much on the subject... > > Does anyone know something about this issue? > ___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > ___

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Your Best CS4 Upgrade Guesstimate

2008-08-18 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Double it... and use the excess to go to a few conferences! gregb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 12:45 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] OT: Your Best CS4 Upgrade Guesstimate Hi

[Flashcoders] Re: select non-default microphone in as3+FP9

2008-08-08 Thread Gregory N
Oops, it's already reported in Adobe Bugs: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13318 Well, this means I'll have to write custom "select microphone" :-) On 8/8/08, Gregory N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, as far as I understand, if the system has tw

[Flashcoders] Re: select non-default microphone in as3+FP9

2008-08-07 Thread Gregory N
x27;d called Microphone.getMicrophone(0). So far the only solution I can think of is to select LAST mic in the Microphone.names array... Of course, I can make even a custom drop-down to select microphone... but shouldn't security panel do this? On 8/8/08, Gregory N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[Flashcoders] select non-default microphone in as3+FP9

2008-08-07 Thread Gregory N
Hi all, I have an app where a stream (video+sound) is recorded on user machine and send to FMS. Previously this ap was written in AS1 for Flash Player 6, And my is AS3 for Flash Player 9. Everything works ok,,, until they want to use DV camera instead of webcam :-). So: If they use webcam, they c

[Flashcoders] AS3 and FMS 2 - connect.rejected on local machine

2008-07-14 Thread Gregory N
Hi all, Posted this to Flashcomm several hours ago, but got nothing except some spam server reply I'm developing a FMS 2 + AS3 application with local FMS installation. The SWF is MXML based, compiled with FlashDevelop. The problem is that any attempt to connect to "rtmp:/..." is refused a

Re: [Flashcoders] scrollbar for pure AS3 project

2008-07-01 Thread Gregory N
Allandt and Jason, thanks for replies. This thread at Kirupa forum looks promising, I'll try it :-) It has a bit more features that my temp. "placeholder" bar As to flex components, yes, they are *expected* to do the job, but they require the project to be based on mxml file, not "as3 only". I'

[Flashcoders] scrollbar for pure AS3 project

2008-07-01 Thread Gregory N
Hello all, I'm wokring on a project in FlashDevelop 3 ans Flex 2 SDK, with "pure AS3" project type. And when it came to a scrollbar, I've got a problem :-) The matter is - Flex component requires SWF to be mxml-based - Flash CS3 component requires component instance in the library - and I don't

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes

2008-06-23 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Is there a tutorial out there somewhere on how to use the debugger? I am fairly new to Flash and just use trace statements to find my problems... but would like to learn more about the debugger. gregb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry

Re: [Flashcoders] bitmap icons embedded with AS3 become blurry

2008-06-03 Thread Gregory N
ue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Gregory N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Here's my problem. > > I'm using some stuff (icons drawn by designer) from flash 8 swf in my > AS3 > > project. > > Embed tags work great, except the follo

[Flashcoders] bitmap icons embedded with AS3 become blurry

2008-06-03 Thread Gregory N
Hi all, Here's my problem. I'm using some stuff (icons drawn by designer) from flash 8 swf in my AS3 project. Embed tags work great, except the following: if an icon is a gif/png image enclosed in mc (in original flash 8 file), it becomes blurry when embedded in my AS3 file. But if I create an e

RE: [Flashcoders] FP9 security update

2008-04-11 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
-policy.dtd On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Zeh Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.crossdomainxml.org/ > :P > > > Gregory Boudreaux wrote: > > > Thanks... > > > > Is there a resource that explains all the possible tags that can be > >

RE: [Flashcoders] FP9 security update

2008-04-11 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
Thanks... Is there a resource that explains all the possible tags that can be placed in a crossdomain.xml file? gregb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:27 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation

2008-02-20 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
You also have the option of nulling out the text on screen when you don't want to see it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:24 AM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic te

Re: [Flashcoders] pure AS3 app to use mx.* stuff

2008-02-15 Thread Gregory N
Thanks a lot, Cory, this helps, but only partially. //code in main class extending Application var triangle:FlexSprite = new FlexSprite( ); //draw triangle rawChildren.addChild(triangle); shows a triangle in SWF, but also shows an error: (output) [Fault] exception, information=ArgumentError: Erro

Re: [Flashcoders] pure AS3 app to use mx.* stuff

2008-02-14 Thread Gregory N
Glen, > ...you can have your class in the app folder > called SystemCore.as this looks like it extends a display object Not exactly :-) If It extends Sprite, the result is "grey-gradient" standard flex bg, w/o any traces of my objects. Trace commands are executed nice, however. If I make the main

Re: [Flashcoders] pure AS3 app to use mx.* stuff

2008-02-13 Thread Gregory N
Glen, thanks for your reply. Previously with AS2, I have used the Linkage / AS2 class file > method, so this is a similar thing. Look at Keith Peter's post here for > some direction: >http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=853 I'd like to mention one thing here about embedding symbols (movieclip

[Flashcoders] pure AS3 app to use mx.* stuff

2008-02-13 Thread Gregory N
Hi all, As far as I know, so called "pure AS3 project" typically uses flash classes, intristics and others that come along with Flash IDE. >From the other side, "Flex2 project" can be built with Flex2 SDK , but *based on .mxml file*. Frankly, I'd prefer to use flash-like class structure, instead o

Re: [Flashcoders] is there a way of detecting whether or not the mouse is in a movie at all?

2008-02-10 Thread Gregory N
Don't know if it's applicable in your case of expandable banner, but you can consider: 1) creating special "mouse detector" SWF in AS3 2) using it with your AS2 project via LocalConnection This can be a way to handle users' MOUSE_LEAVE event if they have Flash Player 9+ colin moock wrote: > l

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