Re: [Flashcoders] File under BIZARRE: Keyboard Freezes Game, Wiggling Mouse Unfreezes

2005-10-28 Thread James O'Reilly
ed updating my movie to Flash 8 FLA format and publish down to player 7. I have over 40 individual swfs and no interest in mucking around with something that currently works. JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net

Re: [Flashcoders] scroll dynamic MC help

2005-10-28 Thread James O'Reilly
Works nice. Good job! JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net Buck Ruckman wrote: i created one for this site: http://www.frogtoggle.com/twistedhip It responds to the scroll wheel, has the hold-down-the-

Re: [Flashcoders] cast string to a boolean value

2005-10-28 Thread James O'Reilly
How about doing something like: var myNewBool:Boolean = (yourFlashVar == "true"); JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net Matt Ganz wrote: hi. i'm receiving FlashVars in my object and embed

Re: [Flashcoders] Drawing/painting applicatin examples ...

2005-10-28 Thread James O'Reilly
FYI, wysidraw didn't load for me with Firefox and Flash 7 plugin. JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net Merrill, Jason wrote: Check out the product made by the folks who host this list - really n

Re: [Flashcoders] SWF Decompilers

2005-10-28 Thread James O'Reilly
27;d be interested to know how you get on, obfuscation is quite a popular (and emotionally charge) topic round here. HTH, Alias On 10/27/05, James O'Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Question about protecting my swfs. If I use external AS2 classes and compile my swf, will thos

Re: [Flashcoders] flash8 bug dynamic textfield not displaying text on stage

2005-10-28 Thread James O'Reilly
s anyone else experienced this? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- _______ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMe

Re: [Flashcoders] Why Flex?

2005-10-27 Thread James O'Reilly
MXML looks a lot like the VTML language MM used to extend Homesite. I wrote an ASP.Net add-on suite for Homesite using VTML and that wasn't so bad. MXML looks pretty similar. JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synerg

Re: [Flashcoders] Why Flex?

2005-10-27 Thread James O'Reilly
Thanks! I'm actually excited about jumping in now. It's making me wonder if some of the larger Flash apps I'm maintaining now wouldn't benefit from a port to Flex. I'll have to look into the server licensing to see if it makes sense for the projects I have in mind. I guess my next step is g

Re: [Flashcoders] Singleton and Listeners is a bad combination

2005-10-27 Thread James O'Reilly
d more list types. There are probably other solutions as well. JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net Martin Klasson wrote: Hi Coders. I got a class which I thought would be improved by using the Singleto

[Flashcoders] Why Flex?

2005-10-27 Thread James O'Reilly
I haven't used Flex yet and I know little more than of it's existance. I'm pretty accomplished with Flash/AS 2.0 OOP, classes, custom UI components, JSFL, etc. and I'm happy using MX 2004 Pro. I guess I'd classify myself as a programmer by desire and a designer by necessity. My question for

[Flashcoders] SWF Decompilers

2005-10-27 Thread James O'Reilly
'm really interested in protecting is in external classes rather than inside the FLA? Does the same go for compiled clips or custom UI components? JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia,

Re: [Flashcoders] What's This Mean?

2005-10-25 Thread James O'Reilly
uot; Notice no semicolon at the end of the line. JOR _______ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net Kent Humphrey wrote: Strangely enough, I've been getting the same errors (I'm new to this external .as thing), but whe

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with .as files

2005-10-25 Thread James O'Reilly
go to the aso.com folder I simply delete the domain or domain.project folder I'm currently working on prior to publishing. JOR _______ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net eugen pflüger wrote: maybe namespace

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with .as files

2005-10-24 Thread James O'Reilly [JOR]
ated. Every time you make a change to the class you need to delete the aso. Stupid, I know. I'm looking forward to trying that extension Michael mentions. Cheers, JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.sy

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with .as files

2005-10-24 Thread James O'Reilly [JOR]
n! I was thinking about writing a JSFL command to delete those aso files but this saves me the trouble. Boy is it a pain to keep that folder open and delete the files manually before each publish. Can't believe Macromedia hadn't thought of this?? JOR ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Casting stage MCs as MovieClip yields null?!

2005-10-24 Thread James O'Reilly [JOR]
ome.nested.clip" Let me know if you find your problem, JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net Scott Whittaker wrote: Hi there, I have discovered what appears to be a bug in Flash (player 7): I have a class method which takes an obj