Re: [Flashcoders] Flash plugin preinstalled starting with what browser versions?

2006-07-26 Thread Paul BH
this should help: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html On 7/26/06, Doug Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to make a business case for one of my clients, and in order to do so need to know when (the specific IE, Opera and Firef

Re: [Flashcoders] what's the best tutorial for the bitmapdata API

2006-05-26 Thread Paul BH
thanks for making a contribution to my holiday fund Chuck ;) On 5/26/06, Lewis, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul, Great reviews on the book. I just ordered it myself. -- Chuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul BH Sent:

Re: [Flashcoders] what's the best tutorial for the bitmapdata API

2006-05-26 Thread Paul BH
shameless plug ;) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590595327/sr=8-1/qid=1148661464/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-2889515-5262501?%5Fencoding=UTF8 On 5/26/06, mike cann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i personally like senocular ZenDoc, lets u output ure docs in a number of formats such as JavaDoc or MMDoc: www

Re: [Flashcoders] How to make flash more strict with errors ?

2006-05-10 Thread Paul BH
thats a very open question, even though it may not feel like it. here are some of the things you can do to try and reduce things happening unexpectedly: 1: In your classes make your variables / methods private unless they absolutely must be public. 2: Strictly type *everything* - this may seem l

Re: [Flashcoders] Quick n diarty date request

2006-05-02 Thread Paul BH
it depends on your level of accuracy: lets say you want to know if the date was the same day: var allowedDiff:Number = 24*60*60*1000 //24 hours,60 mins,60 secs, 1000 millisecs trace(Math.abs(date1.getTime()-date2.getTime) wrote: you ca try comparing elements of it such as getDate() and getMont

Re: [Flashcoders] Text editor - Selection trouble.

2006-04-12 Thread Paul BH
if memory serves, this exact thing is covered in Sam Wan's book on OO programming in actionscript its quite an old book, and the code is AS1, but for what you're doing I think it might just get you where you wanna go... url for the booko:http://www.wheelmaker.org/ On 4/12/06, Magnus Askenbäck <[

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

2006-04-09 Thread Paul BH
... > > > On Apr 9, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Paul BH wrote: > > > I second what Steven says - to give you a bit of perspective, I worked > > on the relaunch of fhm.com about a year or so ago, and we looked into > > what implications there would be for requiring end users to

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

2006-04-09 Thread Paul BH
I second what Steven says - to give you a bit of perspective, I worked on the relaunch of fhm.com about a year or so ago, and we looked into what implications there would be for requiring end users to have flash to be able to use the site. As part of this, we used a thing called browserhawk to unde

Re: [Flashcoders] >> while

2006-03-22 Thread Paul BH
also, bear in mind that prior to flash 8, createTextField returned nothing, so following on from Dannys: _root.createTextField(dtd, dt, 0, spa1, 100, 15); dtdObj = _root[dtd]; dtdObj.text=spa1; dtdObj.border=true; dtdObj.selectable=false; On 3/22/06, Danny Kodicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: [Flashcoders] Alphabetize XML

2006-03-20 Thread Paul BH
dont know enough about how you are getting this XML, but if you have any way of sorting the structure at the server, it'll be a whole lot quicker... On 3/20/06, Martin Weiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just parse it in mode: to object: {name:Alice,title:foo} and push to > array > > the use

Re: [Flashcoders] amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread Paul BH
no problems - kind of figured that'd be the case... On 3/17/06, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the REST method down - but I'd prefer to use wsdl... just not sure > how to contruct the parameters (yet). thanks though :) > > On 3/17/06, Paul

Re: [Flashcoders] amazon web service

2006-03-17 Thread Paul BH
doubt its any use to you, but I ended up using their REST endpoints rather than wsdl... code is at home and can send over the weekend if you dont get a good wsdl answer... On 3/17/06, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have sample code of doing a search for album art using the

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Configure Eclipse for use with Doxygen??

2006-01-23 Thread Paul BH
I havent looked into this, but this may help? http://www.statik1.com/mt-weblog/archives/92.html On 1/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to configure Doxygen to work with Eclipse. > > In Eclipse when I choose the the compiler path for Doxygen I always get the

[Flashcoders] file upload script

2006-01-22 Thread Paul BH
Hi there, does anyone have a really simple file upload script in ASP.NET that I can use with flash? I got the following from oreilly, but not sure how best to adapt this to work with filereference... <%@ Import namespace="System.IO"%> Uploading a File Dim savePath As String = "C:\temp\" Sub

Re: [Flashcoders] efficient htmltext.reduce() function? orsimilaridea?

2006-01-17 Thread Paul BH
so, what you are trying to do is store information, and be able to display the information as html text, *and* have a maximum size of the stored information so that the html text doesnt get too unweildly... so, the trouble you are having is that using html is a tricky way of storing your informati

Re: [Flashcoders] md5 in AS3

2006-01-16 Thread Paul BH
; To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] md5 in AS3 > > http://www.meychi.com/archive/21.php > > 2nd search result in Google > > Scott > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul BH

[Flashcoders] md5 in AS3

2006-01-16 Thread Paul BH
does anyone have a class for generating md5 hash's in AS2 or AS3? ta PBH ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] 2 Issues Optimizing JPGs and Memory Problem?

2006-01-13 Thread Paul BH
problem 1 -- I do one of two things: a) preferably have the imported image as something lossless, eg png and set the compression settings on a per-image basis - double click the lib symbol to do this... b) If I have to use a jpg, do all the compression outside of flash and make sure that the chec

Re: [Flashcoders] Generic Message Prompt Design Pattern

2006-01-12 Thread Paul BH
have you looked into the mx.controls.Alert class? On 1/11/06, Keith Salisbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a commonly used design pattern to solve the issue of a > message prompt/window which needs to act differently depending on the > message it shows. > > For example, > > the message mi

Re: [Flashcoders] Multiple Remoting Event Listeners

2006-01-09 Thread Paul BH
ok, so what you are asking here is how can I have two instances listen out to an event dispatched from another instance and only respond if it was the one that triggered the event (albeit asynchronously) a quick solution would be to add a reference to the calling class in the original call, and t

Re: [Flashcoders] status bar humbug

2006-01-09 Thread Paul BH
The solution I am using is much the same as yours: //JavaScript: function displayStatus(theStatus){ var msg = theStatus; window.status = msg; } Bear in mind though that this will not work in Firefox (and possibly Safari - havent checked on a mac) - on these browsers, Javascript ca

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul BH
; > >>To: Flashcoders mailing list > > >>Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Faster code? > > >> > > >>Thanks. > > >> > > >>Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul BH
t;Oh yeah definatly. Even though Natural Doc's syntax feels more > >>straightforward, ASDoc definately has the most beautiful output that > I've > >>seen to date. > >> > >>- Original Message - > >>From: "Paul BH" <[E

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul BH
de, I'm hiring you fulltime to work for > me! > > > - Original Message - > From: "Paul BH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Flashcoders mailing list" > Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code? > &

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul BH
I'm so glad I opened such a juicy can of worms just before Christmas ;) I just want to throw one more thing into the mix before I dissappear off to numb my family reunion with hefty doses of alcohol... So, now I think my comments before about, erm comments still stand. I see comments differently

Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData and setPixel();

2005-12-23 Thread Paul BH
I can see the two resultant images, but from your description, I still cant quite get what it is you want your grad to look like... Thats why I wanted you to post an image of what you were trying to acheieve On 12/23/05, Claudia Barnal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > Thanks for looking int

Re: [Flashcoders] BitmapData and setPixel();

2005-12-22 Thread Paul BH
any chance you can give us a diagram or something of what you are trying to acheive? picture speaks 1000 words &allthat On 12/22/05, Claudia Barnal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone? Please... > > > >From: "Claudia Barnal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Flashcoders mailing list > >To: flashco

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-22 Thread Paul BH
E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com > > > > > > >>-Original Message- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul BH > >>Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:07 PM > >>To: Fl

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-22 Thread Paul BH
Just to offer you guys a different take on this - It seems that my post was encouraging extensive commenting of code. Actually, you will find barely any comments in my code. I find that comments very often get out of date as specifications change, what in essence you are doing is repeating informat

Re: [Flashcoders] Faster code?

2005-12-21 Thread Paul BH
I think these are all great, but if I can be the voice of caution for a moment... remember that when you write code, it is for 2 interpreters: 1) the Actionscript VM 2) the person who has to go back and change stuff at a later date, which may or may not be you... Its often very easy to forget nu

Re: [Flashcoders] Adjusting standard v2 components

2005-12-15 Thread Paul BH
:) > > tx!, > > Ben > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul BH > Sent: Thu 12/15/2005 5:34 PM > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Adjusting standard v2 components > > > > Devendran, > there are actually a lot of situat

Re: [Flashcoders] Adjusting standard v2 components

2005-12-15 Thread Paul BH
Devendran, there are actually a lot of situations where that doesnt help you any - eg changing the way a button skin is drawn... Ben, this is how you should go about doin what you need to do: If you really want to change something in the codebase, you need to be using the non-compiled clips, so

Re: [Flashcoders] elegant country list

2005-11-18 Thread Paul BH
How about this as a suggestion, bearing in mind I dont know your UI at all... very often in these situations, there are 5 or 6 most likely options, so provide a set of buttons for these options , mebbe with flags, then have a drop-down with all availible countriers you ship to... On 11/18/05, Too