RE: [Flashcoders] FaceBook / Flash

2010-07-21 Thread Seth Caldwell
You can iframe it in an app. I did that here: http://apps.facebook.com/startupfans However I'm trying to figure out how to get the app in a box in a fan page and struggling also. Seth -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Including class at compile w/o explicitly instantiating it

2007-08-10 Thread Seth Caldwell
Hey Rick, no need to create an instance, but do create a variable of that type, so the compiler knows to include that class in the package. var ssc:SomeSweetClass; === Or simply cast to it in your call classRef = getDefinitionByName(com.sweet.SomeSweetClass) as Class; var

RE: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-03-30 Thread Seth Caldwell
Do you guys not understand supply and demand? At least we're not faced with a functional price offering with exponential dropoff leaving the consumers without fat pockets with the only option to wait a year for the price to be reasonable. I'd imagine they could charge 5 times as much for the

RE: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-03-30 Thread Seth Caldwell
The point here is that the markets supply of products to accomplish what these products can accomplish is relatively low. Its true that the software can be duplicated at no cost, so supply in the count of goods function you're initially introduced to map to cost of goods is not what I'm implying

RE: [Flashcoders] OT - Installing PHP, MySQL?

2007-03-24 Thread Seth Caldwell
Its easy enough - is it Apache or IIS? Installation for php still has the occasional hiccup over needing to move some files into the windows directory, or not realizing older versions of dll's from previous php installations are there and screwing up your new versions install. And sometimes IIS is

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3... when to start?

2007-03-05 Thread Seth Caldwell
If you have an ounce of artist in you please avoid Flex. I would disagree with this entirely. Flex frees up an artist to focus on the areas they want to work with. If you're a UI artist, sure, avoid flex. Telling an artist to avoid flex in flash development would be like telling a video game

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex + web services Was: Remove elements from Array

2006-12-23 Thread Seth Caldwell
The answer to your question is - you can consume any web service. I reccommend you look into fluorine for a web service that will actually convert c#.net classes into AMF3 objects returned from the web service call. Certain objects do not have a direct AMF representation - your dataset class

[Flashcoders] a good profiler

2006-09-29 Thread Seth Caldwell
I'm looking for an automated actionscript profiler, one where I basically just include a file, say start and stop and it traces out percent cpu in each method of every class that is activated during that time. Anyone know of something like this? Thanks a ton if so. Seth