Hi there, I'm trying to display Russian characters in my application
but they will not show, I just get spaces and exclamation marks.
I have embeded all of the character sets that I can for my font
(Serifa Blk) but the words will not show. If I use device fonts the
words display correctly (
Hiya, I normally code in Textmate and use the Flash IDE to compile my
SWFs. I was wondering if there was a faster way to compile my AS2 SWFs?
I'm on a Mac btw.
Cheers!
Ali
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Hiya, I have a custom class with a loadvars object to post to a php
script. For some reason my failed method won't fire.
Can anyone suggest why?
Thanks :)
Ali
//code from inside my class
//this is not firing
function failed(){
trace("failure fired")
}
Hiya, I'm starting planning an AS3 project and have previously used
Gmodeler to plan my classes.
Are there any similar apps that will generate my stub classes in the
same way GModeler did for AS2?
Or can anyone recommend other AS3 // OOP planning apps they find useful?
Cheers
Ali
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Hi there, I'm starting work on a project that displays information
from a database, generating text fields and loading swf clips and
pngs dynamically with the layout defined in the data passed from the
database (this will specify an xml file from a library that holds the
layout for the page
Hiya, I can't seem to get the JSON.decode() method to work. I have
read a couple of blog tutorials and the string is tracing fine but
when I pass it I get the message:
Error: Unexpected j encountered
at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONTokenizer/parseError()
at com.adobe.seri
Can't seem to find anything on this.
Has anyone any experience of this?
Cheers,
Ali
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Hiya, I can't understand why the dimensions I've set in my app class
aren't being implemented. If someone could have a look at my code and
show me the error of my ways I'd be very happy :)
Cheers,
Ali
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package {
import flash.events.*;
import flash.display.Sprite;
Hiya, if anyone could send me links to nice animations of flowers
blooming in Flash I would be very grateful.
Cheers and have a great weekend,
Ali
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Hello, I'm being passed a string that has a reference to an object in
dot-syntax like this: "myOb.property.property2.property3"
The object targeted may be a varying number of levels inside of the
top-level object.
I have tried to write this by turning the string into an array and
then cr
8, at 04:48, Kerry Thompson wrote:
Ali Drongo wrote:
Hello, I'm being passed a string that has a reference to an object in
dot-syntax like this: "myOb.property.property2.property3"
The object targeted may be a varying number of levels inside of the
top-level object.
I have tr
Hiya, is there a way I can add breakpoints to my code and execute it
block by block now I am not using the Flash IDE?
Thanks,
Alistair
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Hi Kerry, apologies for posting the same question twice I did this by
accident.
I'm compiling using the fcsh command line compiler from Textmate
rather than the Flash IDE.
Thanks,
Ali
On 13 Jun 2008, at 17:46, Kerry Thompson wrote:
Ali Drongo wrote:
Hiya, is there a way I ca
Any chance of a translation?
:)
On 16 Jun 2008, at 09:20, EDELSTAR wrote:
Данный почтовый ящик не
обрабатывает подгрузки, заявки и
прочие сообщения. Вам нужно написать
на адрес, присвоенный Вашему СПО.
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Do you think it'll send every time there's a flashcoders post?
On 16 Jun 2008, at 09:35, Ian Thomas wrote:
I'm guessing it's an away/vacation message.
Ian
2008/6/16 Ali Drongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Any chance of a translation?
:)
On 16 Jun 2008, at 09:20, EDELST
Hey Karim, thanks for your tip.
Will this work in AS3 too?
Thanks,
Ali
On 16 Jun 2008, at 10:45, Karim Beyrouti wrote:
Hmmm... so, here is a little trick I used to use. In the _root of
your movie, make a global function like;
_global.breakPoint = function (){
var setBreakPointHer
Thanks for your reply :)
I'm compiling using open source Flex, using the fcsh command line
compiler supplied as part of the Flex 3 SDK. I'm compiling using
Simon Gregory's bundle for AS3 / Flex for Textmate. My problem is I
don't know how to insert breakpoints by adding code to the .as file
You could decompile the SWF using a decompiler, Eltima do one. This
will also give you any custom classes that are used.
Hope this helps,
Ali
On 17 Jun 2008, at 10:33, Piers Cowburn wrote:
I'm trying to nail down where a reference to an unwanted class is
coming from, and I need to be able to
Hello there, thanks for checking my post. I have a bunch of jpgs that
I've imported into my library and have given class names, they
default to extend the BitmapData class. When I try and instantiate
them I get an error message saying I need to pass them 2 arguments.
Here is my code:
var
Hey there, I need to build a photo-sharing app that has photosets and
allows each image to have a comment/title much like Flickr (as well
as upload capabilities). Is anyone aware of anything already out
there that might help me?
Thanks in advance:)
Ali
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I believe there's an open source collaboration that has been started
to create something like Saffron. There's different rumours as to
what is happening with Saffron so this group is building it's own:
http://flair-flash-flex-air.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-source-saffron-
like-uml-tool.html
Al
Hi there, I've noticed this happen before and can't figure out why. I
have built a simple class that is passed a reference to the timeline.
The class then moves an object on the timeline repeatedly using the
TweenFilterLite class.
My problem is that the second time the moveShape method is c
Hiya, how do you think you would do this? Can anyone point me to some
tutorials or give me a snippet?
Cheers!
Ali
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a
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Ali Drongo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hiya, how do you think you would do this? Can anyone point me to some
tutorials or give me a snippet?
Cheers!
Ali
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From: Ali Drongo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:47 AM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you do this? (animating gradient
fillcolours)
Thanks for your reply allandt, I can see how Twee
Hiya, I need to make a game quick and wondered if anyone could direct
me to some engines, classes or source that I could use. The game can
be pretty straight forward, a shoot em up, tetris style game, I've
come across loads out there I just wondered if anyone had any
recommendations.
Cheer
Hi there, I have to build a video player that plays a video with a
number of chapters that the user can skip between. The chapters need
to play sequentially also and also.
Is there a way can get an flv to buffer from a new chosen point of
playback? (i.e. if the user skips to chapter 6 bef
chapter links that load in as they
become
available. You'll need to use cue points for this. I still haven't
worked
out the finer points of this approach, mostly because I'm using the
chapter links as 'summary' markers also.
HTH
Paul
On Thu, July 24, 2008 11:03 am,
Hi there, thanks for checking my post.
I have a rectangular movie clip that is nested inside of another clip. I
want to scale, rotate and reposition the holder clip so that the nested
movieclip is the same size as the stage.
This sounds like quite an easy thing to do but the rotation makes everyth
Hiya, I'm loading a bunch of flvs into netstream objects. I initiate
the download of each and then as soon as I have the duration from the
meta data I close the connection. This is giving me errors in my
browser "Operation could not be completed (WebKit Error Dom" and i
cant read the rest.
Hi there, does anyone know if it is possible to upload a PDF into a
Flash application and view it inside a movieclip so it can be resized?
I believe this can be done using Flashpaper; Is it a tricky process?
Also, is it possible to save to PDF an image created in Flash or only
PNG/JPG?
Than
Hi there, I want to achieve the effect of seamless magnification a bit
like the Mac OS dock but rather than having individual icons magnified
I want to have a seamless magnification kind of like a blob as in this
image:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/65140/Picture1.png
I think I could achieve
code, just have
the X position of the distortion gradient follow the mouses and
voila,
your done.
Ali Drongo wrote:
Hi there, I want to achieve the effect of seamless magnification a
bit
like the Mac OS dock but rather than having individual icons
magnified
I want to have a seamless magnif
Hi everyone, sorry to flood the list with requests, I will put a bit
back soon ;)
I have created SWF that loads another SWF into it. This loaded SWF
contains a movie clip that behaves like a camera zooming round the
stage. This works fine when I load the external SWF in.
My problem is tha
Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a viewable,
scalable moveiclip?I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I
find are a few years old.
I would like the user to be able to upload a pdf then view it in the flash
application and move it about, scale and rotate
Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a viewable,
scalable moveiclip?I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I
find are a few years old.
I would like the user to be able to upload a pdf then view it in the flash
application and move it about, scale and rotate
Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a viewable,
scalable moveiclip?I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I
find are a few years old.
I would like the user to be able to upload a pdf then view it in the flash
application and move it about, scale and rotate
Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a
viewable, scalable moveiclip?
I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I find are a few
years old.
I would like the user to be able to upload a pdf then view it in the
flash application and move it about, scale and
Thanks for all of your replies guys and apologies for sending this
email a few times, the googlemail server hasn't been reporting that
the mail was sent.
It sounds as if this is going to be tricky in AS.
I guess this could also be done in some server-side PHP relatively
easily, maybe conve
k to a pdf.
Cheers,
Ali
On 12 Aug 2008, at 09:35, Ian Thomas wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Ali Drongo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for all of your replies guys and apologies for sending this
email a
few times, the googlemail server hasn't been reporting that the
mail
Hi there, I'm using the Delegate class and can't figure out how to
call methods of another class.
I think there is an easy answer to this, any suggestions whole-
heartedly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ali
Here is the syntax I'm using:
import Thermometer
class Animator{
var therno:Thermom
n Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Ali Drongo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there, I'm using the Delegate class and can't figure out how to
call
methods of another class.
Delegate.create(thermo, allowInteraction)
should become
Delegate.create(thermo, thermo.allowInteraction
Hiya, I can't see the wood for the trees with this one. I;m getting an
error message of type mismatch when I try and add 1000 onto the date
to increase it by 1 second for a timer.
I'm sure I am doing something wrong that is patently obvious but I'm
not sure what and this is driving me mad!
->
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Mon, 15 Sep 2008
Hiya, my onLoadProgress / onLoadInit Delegate events won't fire. I've
compared this class with other examples and I can't see where I'm
going wrong.
Any help really really appreciated :)
Ali
Here's my code:
import PreLoader;
import Display;
import mx.utils.Delegate;
class LoadManager {
Sweet as a nut.
Thankyou Glen!
On 16 Sep 2008, at 12:46, Glen Pike wrote:
Hi,
You should just be able to add "yourself" as a listener without
creating the extra object:
initLoader.addListener(this);
Then make sure you implement all the listener functions for MCL
I have no idea why this isn't working. I have created a container
movieclip then set it's visible property to false in a number of ways.
I can only hide the mc if I change the alpha but I need the clip to
have no visibility so the user can't interact with the buttons on it.
Any suggestions
getClip_mc
holder_mc._visible = false;
holder_mc.targetClip_mc.loadMovie("etc"); //or use loadClip
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2008/9/16 Ali Drongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have no idea why this isn't working. I have created a container
movieclip
then set it's visible property
Hiya, I need to code some tweens that scale movieclips containing
bitmaps. At the moment I'm using TweenMax and, when I scale the images
they look distorted, the same way they do if you scale bitmaps on the
timeline.
Does anyone know of a way I can avoid this distortion?
Thanks!
Ali
Hiya, I want to create something very similar to visualthesaurus.com,
dyamically generating nodes with labels that are linked by elastic.
I'm thinking of using the APE from cove.org
If anyone can point me in the way of any tutorials/alternative
approaches or existing source that would be ama
Hiya, I'm building a DVD that will allow the user to open powerpoint
and wmv files on their computer by clicking on buttons.
The user will already have Windows Media Player and Powerpoint
installed and the files will exist on the DVD.
How can I trigger the actions to launch these files?
Than
dictionary/actionscript_dictionary372.html
Kevin N.
Ali Drongo wrote:
Hiya, I'm building a DVD that will allow the user to open powerpoint
and wmv files on their computer by clicking on buttons.
The user will already have Windows Media Player and Powerpoint
installed and the files will exist on the DVD.
How ca
Hi there, I'm passing a variable to my swf through a query string like
this:
htp://www.mydomain.com/index.html?passedPage=180
I have my main AS2 class that is the root class and have tried to
access the variable like this:
trace("PASSPAGE SET:"+this["passedPage"]);
Hi there, I have a square sprite that contains a background sprite on one
layer with another layer containing various shaped sprites. Each of these
sprites is a custom class that gives a mouse event.
My problem is that if I capture the mouse_over event for the container
sprite for some reason i get
- I Sioux wrote:
> you could set mouseChildren = false; on the the container.
> This way the child mc's won't capture any mouse events.
>
> Dennis
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Hi there, I'm saving a bunch of colours as a string then using this string
later to colour objects in the same way. Something is going wrong though as
the colours I am getting back are not the same as the ones I put in.
If anyone could point out where I'm going wrong I'd be really grateful, I've
g
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Hi there, I'm animating some letters that are dynamically created in their
own sprites across the screen as if they are being fired in a stream.
Currently I am using a fixed width font so it's straight forward to find
their final position. My problem is that I need to use a non fixed-width
font and
ith the single
> > > letter
> > > > in???
> > > >
> > > > Maybe mask the stream area out. Start each letter at x -
> > letterWidth,
> > > > increase the x after each interval, when the letter reaches x=0,
> create
> > &
>
ke >wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you get text metrics for characters / lines in the text field???
> >
> > Glen
> >
> >
> > ali drongo wrote:
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> >> Thanks for all of your responses guys,I ended up using getCharBoundaries
>
Hi there I saw a video that showed the speeded-up development for an
application that used the cove APE physics engine to create a 3D effect
board with tiles on that you could move around and stack.
I can't find this anywhere.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the project or the video that s
Hiya, I'm having quite a problem with a textfield that has a variable
defined in the properties bar that it is bound to. The variable that is set
in the var field is a property of an object like this: ActionScript Code:
object.textProperty
The object is initialized and I can trace the property fro
Hiya, I've written a class that will load multiple SWFs and then call a
passed function when complete. My problem is that when all the movies have
downloaded the passed function won't fire. If anyone could help me figure
this that would be really helpful.Cheers,
Ali
//
// LoadChecker
// this c
Hiya, I am wanting to create an effect where text will appear on the screen
as if it is being written by a pen. I am going to set about writing a class
to achieve this and wanted to get the group's thoughts on if I am going
about this the right way.
My idea is that I could create all of my text in
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