RE: [Flashcoders] ComboBox Halo

2006-06-15 Thread Steven Sacks
When I experience crazy behavior like this in Flash that absolutely shouldn't happen, I take a few steps. 1) Save and compact. Quit Flash. Restart my computer. 2) If that doesn't fix it, I try deleting the component from the library, save and compact, quit Flash, relaunch, put the component

RE: [Flashcoders] Accepting 1 parameter with 2 possible types in amethod?

2006-06-15 Thread Steven Sacks
You could also leave off the typecasting on the argument. You don't have to type your arguments in AS2, and the compiler won't complain. If the methods inside the argument check what type of argument it is, then it's pretty apparent to anybody reading the code why there is no type on the

RE: [Flashcoders] ComboBox and Other Flash Components

2006-06-15 Thread Steven Sacks
I've created a ComboBox. Strangely when I open the combobox, the field with selections goes under the other components...??? Is it on a lower layer in the timeline? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

RE: [Flashcoders] xAL and xNAL

2006-06-15 Thread Steven Sacks
All xNAL Action. Hawt. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Newman Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:44 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] xAL and xNAL Hello all, Has anyone done any work with these

[Flashcoders] Flashcoders Archive Broken

2006-06-14 Thread Steven Sacks
The Flashcoders Archive is broken. How can we elitists lecture newbies to search the Flashcoders archives if it isn't working correctly? ;) I realize that you are providing a free service, but if we are telling people to check the Archives before asking the list and the archive isn't working,

RE: [Flashcoders] checkbox component label - can it wrap?

2006-06-14 Thread Steven Sacks
Does anyone know if you can set a checkbox component label to wrap if required. Why don't you set its label to and put your own multiline textfield next to it? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash coders content degrading

2006-06-13 Thread Steven Sacks
Before Flashcoders was around, people had to solve their Flash problems on their own. After Flashcoders was around, some people didn't know about it and had to solve their Flash problems on their own. Bottom line is - the solutions are out there and many people don't take the time to try and

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash coders content degrading

2006-06-13 Thread Steven Sacks
The problem with a list named FlashNewbies is that help vampires, or newbies who don't want to actually do any work, tend to avoid newbie lists and go straight for the advanced ones because that's where they perceive the advanced people to be. Why ask a noob how to do something when you can ask

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash coders content degrading

2006-06-13 Thread Steven Sacks
Bottom line is if someone gets stuck they are going to find help where they can. To tell you the truth I would post just about any place to be able to get an answer just so I can go to sleep one night this week. Some of us are not action scripting for fun. We are working in the real

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash coders content degrading

2006-06-13 Thread Steven Sacks
Why not hire a designer? Precisely my point. Hence, a designer should hire a programmer if they need some programming done. :) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Flash coders content degrading (Mark Winterhalder)

2006-06-13 Thread Steven Sacks
You do realize that this is, and always has been, an unmoderated list, right? Now that isn't true at all. I remember back in the early years the OT police jumped on anyone who posted OT stuff. Brendan was behind most of that, and since his departure it seems the list has slowly gotten more

RE: [Flashcoders] XML diff

2006-06-10 Thread Steven Sacks
Try RegEx. Flash 8: http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/08/29/regexp-flash-8-using-externalinterface/ Flash 5,6,7: http://www.jurjans.lv/flash/RegExp.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] XML diff

2006-06-10 Thread Steven Sacks
I will check it out - I had thought that was for regular expression support? Do you have an example of how that would diff two xml files? Here is an outstanding tutorial on regular expressions, how and why they're used. http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorialcnt.html Good luck!

RE: [Flashcoders] reposition MC on release

2006-06-07 Thread Steven Sacks
Don't use on (release) {}, use btn.onRelease = function() {} in the frame. Putting on (action) {} methods on button and movieclip instances is for designers who don't know how to code. When you assign button actions to movieclips or buttons, unless you use this, it's going to refer to the

RE: [Flashcoders] What does this code mean and What are Inspectables ...

2006-06-03 Thread Steven Sacks
They are for AS2 components. http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-38760.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: OT: Anyone got a good CSS book to recommend?

2006-06-02 Thread Steven Sacks
Try this: http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting the selection

2006-05-30 Thread Steven Sacks
That's one of those slap on the forehead ones that getcha everytime! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Wttewaall Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 2:47 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Getting the

RE: [Flashcoders] Printing without print dialog box in an exe

2006-05-26 Thread Steven Sacks
So what you're asking is if anyone on a Flash coders list knows how to code a Visual Basic wrapper to override Windows OS print dialog boxes? I think you would have more luck taking this question to a VB users group where people would have more experience with those two environments that are

RE: [Flashcoders] Printing without print dialog box in an exe

2006-05-26 Thread Steven Sacks
I apologize if that sounded gruff. I should have added a winky after the first sentence. ;) It's 5:30am here, hehe. Long night coding. -Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:18 AM

RE: [Flashcoders] problems with dynamic text field autosize property

2006-05-26 Thread Steven Sacks
Use question.textHeight not question._height -s -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Brantley Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:32 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] problems with dynamic text field

RE: [Flashcoders] OOP 101: Is import really necessary?

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Sacks
Also interesting to note here. If you make two layers in the timeline and in the top layer you put x = 10; And the bottom layer you put trace(x); you'll get 10. However, if in the top layer you put import SomeStaticClass; And in the bottom layer you put SomeStaticClass.someMethod(); It

RE: [Flashcoders] eLearning built in Flex

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Sacks
The writing on the show (I'm a huge fan and have suspended disbelief for a long time) has become extremely weak over the past few episodes. They force extremely unrealistic reactions from people and have characters completely ignore stuff going on around them. Tell me. If the earth shook, there

RE: [Flashcoders] XML Parsing

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Sacks
Or you could just use XML2AS function XML2AS(n, r) { var a, d, k; if (r[k=n.nodeName] == null) r = ((a=r[k]=[{}]))[d=0]; else r = (a=r[k])[d=r[k].push({})-1]; if (n.hasChildNodes()) { if ((k=n.firstChild.nodeType) == 1) {

RE: [Flashcoders] XML Parsing

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Sacks
that might explain this to me? It's a bit over my head at this point. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:02 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] XML Parsing Or you

RE: [Flashcoders] gotoAndStop and Frame labels as Numbers

2006-05-23 Thread Steven Sacks
What's the problem with using a single letter before the frame number? Such as, f2, f18, f50, etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fitzpatrick, Kevin Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:33 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] Local Shared Objects

2006-05-20 Thread Steven Sacks
I must have missed the original post. I thought he had one swf loaded in another. SharedObject is a misnomer because it makes people think it's shared between multiple swfs, but it really is just shared between multiple sessions, so to speak. LocalConnection is how you share information between

RE: [Flashcoders] load data

2006-05-18 Thread Steven Sacks
view/copy/edit/delete files Or CRUD. Create/Read/Update/Delete. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf

RE: [Flashcoders] CD ROM dimensions?

2006-05-18 Thread Steven Sacks
As a former Director programmer and desktop application developer, with 10 years experience in the industry, I have one thing to say to Flash developers who have little to no experience developing desktop applications. Changing a user's resolution without asking them first is a HUGE no-no. Don't

RE: [Flashcoders] Local Shared Objects

2006-05-17 Thread Steven Sacks
Did you try setting your variable to the shared object again after the change? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Saelhof Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:00 PM To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Local

RE: [Flashcoders] Local Shared Objects

2006-05-17 Thread Steven Sacks
to help. I basically set it up so that each time it tried to read from the object it would get a new reference first. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:17 PM

RE: [Flashcoders] load data

2006-05-17 Thread Steven Sacks
I have a feeling that Flashgrrl is actually a guy faking his gender to get more help from all the lonely guys here on Flashcoders. It is scientifically proven to work in other online places (chat rooms, MMORPGs, etc.) so it's that big of a stretch that it would work here, too. ;)

RE: [Flashcoders] load data

2006-05-17 Thread Steven Sacks
to Actionscript if that's okay with the group. -Flashgrrl --- Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a feeling that Flashgrrl is actually a guy faking his gender to get more help from all the lonely guys here on Flashcoders. It is scientifically proven to work in other

RE: [Flashcoders] url encoding in flash?

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Sacks
Just a tip: you should not use a GET to make any kind of changes on the server, only to request information from the server. Use POST to make changes on the server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob costello Sent: Monday, May

RE: [Flashcoders] \r

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Sacks
No way! They cut corners with their string object handling in Flash? I don't believe it! ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fumio Nonaka Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:20 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re:

RE: [Flashcoders] Serial Port Communication

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Sacks
Flash has no access to the OS. You must use a 3rd party wrapper that allows it, or Director, which does also. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of varfoo Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:36 AM To: Flashcoders Mailing List Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] Serial Port Communication

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Sacks
By the way, if you don't want to embed the Flash in Director, you can launch an invisible Director movie which would launch your Flash executable and then have an embedded SWF in Director communicating with the Flash executable via LocalConnection. Just one idea. -Original Message-

RE: [Flashcoders] Anyone here responsible for Fancy Pants?

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
Never seen N? That's the best Flash game I've ever seen. Fancy Pants borrowed (was inspired by?) quite a bit from N. You can make your own levels with N, which has inspired a large community development of levels. http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html Enjoy! -Original

RE: [Flashcoders] Anyone here responsible for Fancy Pants?

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 2:00 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Anyone here responsible for Fancy Pants? Never seen N? That's the best Flash game I've ever seen. Fancy Pants

RE: [Flashcoders] Grab IP address

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
Come the f**k on. I googled get ip with javascript First result: http://www.rgagnon.com/jsdetails/js-0019.html SCRIPT var ip = new java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(); var ipStr = new java.lang.String(ip); document.writeln(ipStr.substring(ipStr.indexOf(/)+1)); /SCRIPT Do a little research

RE: [Flashcoders] Grab IP address

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
Do a little research before you answer questions, vampire. ;) It doesn't matter if that link works or not. I dind't care to verify and I wasn't providing a solution. The point is there are tons of other links that point towards the solution with one google search. Be a little more

RE: [Flashcoders] \r

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
x = str.split(\r).join(newline); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Matte Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:34 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] \r Anybody knows how I can put a \r inside an xml node

RE: [Flashcoders] \r

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
, but a friend just told me what I was looking for. lt;brgt; Its a br with the encoded. Le 15/05/06 14:38, « Steven Sacks » [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : x = str.split(\r).join(newline); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [Flashcoders] \r

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Vadneau Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:52 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] \r That should be: x = str.split(\\r).join(\r); Derek Vadneau - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Flashcoders] \r

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Sacks
You could always wrap CDATA around it. If you read the first post you would have seen that this is for an attribute of an xml node. -Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mick G Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 6:16 PM To: Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] scrollpane, dynamic forms, and refreshPane issues

2006-05-12 Thread Steven Sacks
refreshPane reloads the content of the pane. This is different than it used to be in Flash MX. The undocumented way to to refresh the contents of the pane is: sp.setScrollProperties(sp.content._width, 1, sp.content._height, 1); That doesn't help with your issue of text not appearing, though.

RE: [Flashcoders] Best SWF Wrapper

2006-05-11 Thread Steven Sacks
Seriously. Stop f**king around and get mProjector. I have coded against many wrappers and mProjector by far is the best experience, period. From how the API works to the elegant and clever way it handles the system tray icon (best solution I've seen) and direct communication between multiple

RE: [Flashcoders] Best application for notifier (aka Gmail)

2006-05-10 Thread Steven Sacks
IMO, mProjector has the best system tray code/methodology of all the wrappers. It also has the smallest executable size, smallest memory footprint, and uses the least amount of processing. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

RE: [Flashcoders] Best SWF Wrapper

2006-05-09 Thread Steven Sacks
I'm looking for some opinions on the best SWF wrapper you think is out there. The ability to save out files (XML), perhaps communicate with dbases (local/online), etc. mProjector hands down is the best performing SWF wrapper out there. It also has the easiest API to develop against. It

RE: [Flashcoders] XML Parsing

2006-05-04 Thread Steven Sacks
Anyone knows something about a ***non* *recursive* XML parser?? Why?? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig

[Flashcoders] Project 3:16

2006-04-28 Thread Steven Sacks
Project 3:16 - For Client so loved the work, that he told his one and only Designer, that whosoever listens to him shall not finish, but have eternal changes. ___ I thought you would enjoy this! ;) ___

[Flashcoders] Are you a help vampire?

2006-04-26 Thread Steven Sacks
http://www.slash7.com/pages/vampires I know there are some here...I've seen them, even if they don't see themselves (mirrors not working and all that). ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] Are you a help vampire?

2006-04-26 Thread Steven Sacks
hi hello how do I make a multi-player game in flash its got to have lasers thank you LOL! Well played. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] Are you a help vampire?

2006-04-26 Thread Steven Sacks
Guess I should not post my IM on Flash message boards any more :( Oops! Although, I have to say, I once got an off-list email from somebody who asked me for help and it lead to having a regular client (I replaced them, something I wasn't entirely comfortable with at first, but if somebody

RE: [Flashcoders] Are you a help vampire?

2006-04-26 Thread Steven Sacks
hi hello how do I make a multi-player game in flash its got to have lasers thank you Haha! That deserves another laugh. I can't stop laughing. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] Project 3:16

2006-04-24 Thread Steven Sacks
Project 3:16 - For Client so loved the work, that he told his one and only Designer, that whosoever listens to him shall not finish, but have eternal changes. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

RE: [Flashcoders] this.selected

2006-04-22 Thread Steven Sacks
A little known trick in Flash: Make a movieclip. Give it 3 frames and put frame labels on each named _up, _over, and _down Put a stop(); action on frame 1. If you assign a button method to the movieclip, like onRelease, onRollOver, etc. it will behave just like a button on its own, going to

RE: [Flashcoders] this.selected

2006-04-22 Thread Steven Sacks
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Lord Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:16 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] this.selected That's a very helpful tip Steven. Thanks! On Apr 22, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Steven Sacks wrote: A little

RE: [Flashcoders] good OOP way to re-assign class to clip

2006-04-17 Thread Steven Sacks
The most obvious and simple solution to me: Duplicate the movieclip in your library and assign the duplicate the second class. -Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GregoryN Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 8:52 PM To:

RE: [Flashcoders] Making a cd for Pc and Mac (Zinc-Director-SWFStudio - .NET)

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Sacks
What do you mean by support a cross platform database? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lieven Cardoen Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:54 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Making a cd for Pc and Mac

RE: [Flashcoders] Making a cd for Pc and Mac(Zinc-Director-SWFStudio- .NET)

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Sacks
] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: donderdag 13 april 2006 10:52 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Making a cd for Pc and Mac (Zinc-Director-SWFStudio- .NET) What do you mean by support a cross platform database? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Sacks
Are you going to update Flash 8 so it publishes flash/html that utilises the new javascript methods? I wouldn't hold your breath on that one. ;) ___ This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and

RE: [Flashcoders] Retrieving Link Text in a Text Field

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Sacks
Could you get the .htmlText of the text field and using split to pull the link out? txt.htmlText = a href=\link\; var a = txt.htmlText; var b = a.split(a href=\)[1]; var c = b.split(\)[0]; trace(c); // link There are also regex methods for Flash is you hunt around for them. HTH, Steven

RE: [Flashcoders] Retrieving Link Text in a Text Field

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Sacks
Assuming Highlander TextField: There can be only one! Flash likes to capitalize stuff and add TARGET to the href so here's the fixed (and tested) code. txt.htmlText = a href=\thesequelsucked.html\McCloud/a; a = txt.htmlText.split(A HREF=\)[1].split(\ TARGET=)[0]; trace(a);

RE: [Flashcoders] Retrieving Link Text in a Text Field

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Sacks
Is there a way to identify the contents of a link element in an HTML-enabled text field? How can I pass the text of the link to a function invoked by the link? Wait, you mean you want to pass the text of the link (inside the a tag) via the function you're calling in the link? You'll have to

RE: [Flashcoders] Making a cd for Pc and Mac (Zinc - Director-SWFStudio - .NET)

2006-04-12 Thread Steven Sacks
I highly recommend mProjector. It's the best 3rd party wrapper out there, IMO, and I've tried them all. It's the easiest and smartest to code with, it has the best performance hands down, does asynchronous communication with the OS, allows you to package all your swfs into the executable is now

RE: [Flashcoders] Help with swapdepths

2006-04-12 Thread Steven Sacks
Also, don't use on-clip methods like on (press) or on(release) That's for non-coders who are making banner ads. Instead, put your code in the timeline: btn.onPress = function() { // }; btn.onRelease = function() { // }; You'll thank me for it down the line. It's never a good

RE: [Flashcoders] Instantiate a class by string - SOLVED

2006-04-12 Thread Steven Sacks
To force a class to be imported even if no one uses it: import com.company.project.YourClass; static private var depend:YourClass; warden to the rescue! ___ This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is

RE: [Flashcoders] Manually triggering the Screens onResize event

2006-04-12 Thread Steven Sacks
You do realize that toggling _visible does not release any memory, right? Flash still tracks the movieclip in memory, it just doesn't draw it. If you're building RIAs, you should open up your task manager and watch your memory usage over time to make sure you're not using too much. I have no

RE: [Flashcoders] In the ide -detecting when the user has left the stage

2006-04-11 Thread Steven Sacks
Make a big invisible square that goes beyond the four edges, and mask out the stage area and make a button. Then you have your testing button. -Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel Saint-Victor Sent: Tuesday, April 11,

RE: [Flashcoders] Local Connection Object problem

2006-04-11 Thread Steven Sacks
LocalConnection is basically instant. I've never seen a delay and I've done quite a bit of work with it, in browser environments, 3rd party wrapper environments, browser to 3rd party wrapper, and back, etc. The only issue I know of is if you try to send a local connection message back to the

RE: [Flashcoders] combobox big problem

2006-04-10 Thread Steven Sacks
Try setting the font to _sans and see if that helps. cmb.setStyle(fontFamily, _sans); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Smith Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:54 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders]

RE: [Flashcoders] combobox big problem

2006-04-10 Thread Steven Sacks
when i delete them (i try to delete the mc container and the components) and re-create them (to delete some items and re-create the list), or just change the dataprovider a strange thing happens: Why don't you just delete items from the dataprovider? The components are made to respond

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

2006-04-09 Thread Steven Sacks
You also have to consider what users are turning off Javascript. First, Javascript is turned on by default. Second, you have to be somewhat savvy to know what Javascript is, much less turn it off, and also know what purpose turning it off serves. Third, you need to have a reason to turn it off.

[Flashcoders] Will this Microsoft ActiveX update affect Flash?

2006-04-07 Thread Steven Sacks
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/ After a forthcoming update, Microsoft Internet Explorer users will not be able to directly interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded by the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements. Users will be able to interact with such controls after activating their user

RE: [Flashcoders] preloading multiple swfs with moviecliploader

2006-04-07 Thread Steven Sacks
Here's a good solution that is used by many installer applications out there. Take the number of items you are loading and divide your progress bar into that many sections. Then, show the progress of each of those sections. Let's say you were loading 10 files. That means you're breaking up

RE: [Flashcoders] Question on attachMovie

2006-04-02 Thread Steven Sacks
This behavior is very easy to manage. Here's how I do it. You can set properties of a clip even though you cannot call methods of a clip. This is how Flash works. So, what I do is this. I have the movieclip itself call its own method. I have the attacher set its initial properties when it

RE: [Flashcoders] Question on attachMovie

2006-04-02 Thread Steven Sacks
var mc = holder.attachMovieClip(SYM_Clip, item, 10); mc.controller = this; mc.foo = something; mc.bar = 15; Inside the SYM_Clip movieclip in the library: function init() { FooTextField.text = foo; BarTextField.text = bar; } init(); This isn't the best example since you could

RE: [Flashcoders] Publish my swf direct to server

2006-04-02 Thread Steven Sacks
Dreamweaver FTP? Who uses that janky ftp program? ;) If you're on a Mac, you should learn how to upload via terminal. If you're on a PC, get the free version of WS_FTP (google it). -Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Flashcoders] Question on attachMovie

2006-04-02 Thread Steven Sacks
For me, it's just an extension of a lesson I learned from a book on OOP in Director by Peter Small called Lingo Sorcery many many years ago, which is to let objects manage themselves. Since Flash requires a single frame to pass for functions to be available on any given timeline, a nested

RE: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

2006-03-30 Thread Steven Sacks
As the system is composed of many V2-style components, many of which use interval timers to get around initialization issues, and has a lot of real-time financial data transfer going on in the background, setintervals, etc etc, that to reengineer it at this stage is totally out of the

RE: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Sacks
Is this a known Flash bug? It's not a bug. Is there a workaround? You cannot change the timeout. We've been trying to solve it for about a month. A 5 second google search would have saved you 30 days of wasted time. http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15512

RE: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Sacks
PrintJob is a poorly written class in general. Also, it runs synchronously when it talks to the system. The reason Flash throws up the alert is because for 15 seconds it is stuck waiting. The movie is waiting on a line of code to finish. Flash responds to the movie being hung, which it

RE: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Sacks
://codeazur.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=260 http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=65371 http://www.powersdk.com/ted/2005/11/macromedia-please-add.php -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Wednesday

RE: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Sacks
I would suggest that it is: there's no error in the code, and it's not that the Flash movie itself is running slowly, it's purely a result of user interaction. While the print dialogue is displayed, the Flash movie should simply not be running. PrintJob makes a synchronous call to

RE: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Sacks
And for the record, I am certainly no friend of the PrintJob class. It's poorly written and I've pointed out its numerous flaws in previous posts to this list. Yes, it shouldn't have been coded to work the way it does. The way it works is poorly thought out. But, that doesn't mean that it's a

RE: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Sacks
PrintJob works fine in simplistic Flash movies. Try and do anything advanced (such as a stock exchange trading system) and it will cause the alert to appear. That ain't an error with my code! Ah ha! So now we get to the bottom of it. PrintJob does not cause Flash to alert about a slow

RE: [Flashcoders] Wherefore the evils of _global?

2006-03-23 Thread Steven Sacks
Which is why you make a global namespace. _global.APP = {}; And then you set your global vars to that APP.myglobalvar = foo; -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Rodecker Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:25 PM To: Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Trying to solve this math equation

2006-03-18 Thread Steven Sacks
Hey, Thanks all for verifying that it was indeed correct. The problem ended up being my not plugging in the true values. It didn't actually work 100% correctly the first way (which I didn't notice at first so I thought the alternate equation was to blame). I solved that issue and now the

RE: [Flashcoders] movieclip actions not working

2006-03-18 Thread Steven Sacks
stop action on frame 1 stop(); m1.onRollOver = function() { gotoAndStop(20); //or play(); } stop action on frame 20 stop(); m2.onRelease = function() { getURL(http://www.website.com;, _blank); } ___

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

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Sacks
New Media Designer Either you missed the memo or you're being funny. Let's hope it's the latter. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

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

2006-03-10 Thread Steven Sacks
Interactive Developer Interactive Designer That says nothing about the technology you use to create interactivity, plus interactive is such a broad term. I mean, a Powerpoint presentation is interactive. Media Designer Media Developer Could you be any more vague? Put New in front of

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

2006-03-10 Thread Steven Sacks
Interactive Architect Far too similar to Information Architect, which is an actual job. In addition, architects don't build, they plan. In other words, this title is bullshit. To expound on the above: Interactive Day Laborer I envision a bunch of Indians standing outside of CompUSAs

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

2006-03-10 Thread Steven Sacks
Racial is not the same as racist. Let me break it down for you. FACT: Minority Day Laborers can be found outside of Home Depots. JOKE: Home Depot is a national chain like CompUSA is a national chain. FACT: Programming Jobs are being outsourced to India. FACT: Architects plan, Day Laborers do the

RE: [Flashcoders] Water transition

2006-03-09 Thread Steven Sacks
Google search for ripple effect flash 3rd result: http://www.freehandsource.com/_test/ripple.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Serge Jespers Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:44 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] HOW TO: Print a MC - first try.

2006-02-21 Thread Steven Sacks
RTFM. PrintJob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corban Baxter Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:18 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] HOW TO: Print a MC - first try. Hey guys I am looking to

RE: [Flashcoders] HOW TO: Print a MC - first try.

2006-02-21 Thread Steven Sacks
Right... Just wondered about any tutorials or peoples best practices. But if you feel like being a jerk to steam your own ego a bit feel free. I didn't think this was a jerk off question one can be wrong. Are you kidding me? Open the Help panel in Flash and search for print. It's not

RE: [Flashcoders] HOW TO: Print a MC - first try.

2006-02-21 Thread Steven Sacks
All I get is a overly huge image in black/white that for some unknown reason is skewed also. How bout it anyone have some good ideas for this first time PrintJob I am doing??? Thanks to you all! Ok this is a valid question. You're having a specific problem implementing code. Being technical

RE: [Flashcoders] HOW TO: Print a MC - first try.

2006-02-21 Thread Steven Sacks
Steve, I hope you take this in the tone it was intended Well, I felt his first question was worded in a way that made it seem that he didn't know about PrintJob. A quick look in the help panel or google would have helped him on his way. This is true for any issue people are having. There is

RE: [Flashcoders] Printing in landscape

2006-02-19 Thread Steven Sacks
I posted a solution to this a few weeks ago. Here is a link to the solution on the MM forums. Skip to the bottom post: http://tinyurl.com/e4cuf Hope this helps! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

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

2006-02-02 Thread Steven Sacks
1) If I can help it, I keep all my code in one place. All in one frame, all the better. All in one swf? Better yet. That's one of the worst things I've ever heard. Maybe you should get on medication for your OCD. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

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