[Flashcoders] AS2: attaching movieclips in custom classes

2008-05-20 Thread Allandt
hi Is it possible to attach a movieclip in a custom class in actionscript 2? here is an example class com.BannerApp extends MovieClip { //Constructor public function BannerApp() { // clip structure for movies var mcBackground:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("mcBackground", "mcBackgro

[Flashcoders] as2: loading font with external swf

2008-05-21 Thread Allandt
Hi I'm trying to use an external swf to load a font for use within another swf but I'm having problems - i suspect the problem is that the swf with the font in is loading after the swf that is calling it could you take a look at the object for me please? in the flash movie: import com.SharedFont

RE: [Flashcoders] multimap.com flash api?

2008-06-04 Thread Allandt
; > There's a Javascript API which I'm sure could be ported > > http://www.multimap.com/apidocs/1.2/ > > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of allandt > bik-elliott > Sent: 03 June

Re: [Flashcoders] animate mask like liquid

2008-06-06 Thread Allandt
tp://www.soundstep.com/blog/2008/05/08/line-bitmap-drawing-with-tweener-be > > zier/ > > > > Romu > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of allandt > > bik-elliott > > Sent: 06 June 2008

[Flashcoders] [solved] scope issues with onLoadInit

2008-06-11 Thread Allandt
ah nevermind - it needed to go to another clip - it was loading them all into the same clip (mcTempLoaderClip) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] please help with scope issue

2008-06-11 Thread Allandt
hi guys i'm having real bit of trouble here and i'm not sure what the way out is i need to store a reference to a clip and an loop var (i) so that an onLoadInit can read them - i've tried storing it in the listener object but it gets overwritten on each iteration here is my method private funct

[Flashcoders] mac osx style dock x position

2008-06-11 Thread Allandt
please help - i'm going mad on this I've gotten my dock to scale exactly as i want it to - going from 55% of it's size up to 100% and then back down to 55% but i just can't get the positioning right no matter what i do here is my onMouseMove code that does the scaling - i've commented out my abor

Re: [Flashcoders] Insert breakpoints and run debugger withoutFlash CS3?

2008-06-16 Thread Allandt
problem is that he's probably autoresponding to the post acknowledgement as well a script caused the browser to run slowly would you like to stop the script - Original Message From: Flash Coders List To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Insert breakpoints and

Re: [Flashcoders] Insert breakpoints and run debugger withoutFlashCS3?

2008-06-16 Thread Allandt
/kick - Original Message From: Flash Coders List To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Insert breakpoints and run debugger withoutFlashCS3? Date: 16/06/08 09:41 > > Äàííûé ïî÷òîâûé ÿùèê íå îáðàáàòûâàåò ïîäãðóçêè, çàÿâêè è ïðî÷èå ñîîáùåíèÿ. Âàì íóæíî íàïèñàòü íà àäðåñ

[Flashcoders] flash and paypal

2007-04-23 Thread allandt
i'm going to be producing a site which sells some exclusive, single and multiple (ie shopping cart) products which i'd like to do in flash. the client wants to use paypal to begin with (it's a startup). Does anyone have any experience with using flash with paypal? Can you recommend any good

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and paypal

2007-04-24 Thread allandt
super-useful guys, thankyou how secure is this? are there any passwords or seller account details sent by flash to paypal? Quoting Jordan Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: That was helpful John! FYI, it seems your Google Checkout code is broken! Cheers On 4/23/07, John Hattan <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and paypal

2007-04-24 Thread allandt
thanks guys. You've been amazingly helpful <3 flashcoders Quoting John Hattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You don't send passwords to paypal. Just the transaction details (item numbers, quantities, and prices) and your paypal address. The user enters all the secure stuff on the paypal site so you

[Flashcoders] urgent - multimap.com flash api?

2008-06-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hi does anyone know of any implementations of multimap.com's api in flash? I've looked online but can only find a javascript api. thanks alz ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/fla

Re: [Flashcoders] bitmap icons embedded with AS3 become blurry

2008-06-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott
has it been rotated at all? On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Gregory N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's my problem. > I'm using some stuff (icons drawn by designer) from flash 8 swf in my AS3 > project. > Embed tags work great, except the following: > if an icon is a gif/png image

[Flashcoders] multimap.com flash api?

2008-06-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hi sorry if this is a repost - i wasn't sure if my last attempt got through i've been asked to try and find a way of incorporating multimap (from multimap.com) into a flash site but as far as i can see, there's no programming api for flash (only javascript ).

[Flashcoders] animate mask like liquid

2008-06-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hi folks maybe you guys can help me. I've been asked to explore how to animate a mask to look like it's liquid. currently the mask is amended every frame by placing a circle which looks a little spotty. It would be nice to get a more 'airbrushed' feel to what is being done (it's been suggested th

Re: [Flashcoders] animate mask like liquid

2008-06-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott
ep.com/blog/2008/05/08/line-bitmap-drawing-with-tweener-bezier/> > > Romu > > -Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of allandt > bik-elliott > Sent: 06 June 2008 10:01 > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: [Flashcoder

[Flashcoders] looking at the maths for an osx style dock

2008-06-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hi guys - i queried this a few days ago when all the messages were disappearing into the hole - i've amended my code so it's pretty darn close to what i want but not quite basically, i'm writing an osx style dock and at the moment, the scaling is working perfectly but the positioning is a bit flak

Re: [Flashcoders] Is it possible to display "&" in the xml file

2008-06-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott
it should be fine if you're outputting it to mytextfield.text but if it's going into a textfield.htmlText then it should be converted On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:14 PM, ACE Flash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey there, > Is it possible to display "&" in the xml file? I tried to convert it to > %26,

Re: [Flashcoders] looking at the maths for an osx style dock

2008-06-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott
;Of eric e. dolecki > >>Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:19 PM > >>To: Flash Coders List > >>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] looking at the maths for an osx style dock > >> > >>sorry for the OT response, but man this code makes me so glad > >>I don

Re: [Flashcoders] looking at the maths for an osx style dock

2008-06-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott
>>Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:19 PM > >>To: Flash Coders List > >>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] looking at the maths for an osx style dock > >> > >>sorry for the OT response, but man this code makes me so glad > >>I don't do AS2 anymore ;) >

Re: [Flashcoders] looking at the maths for an osx style dock

2008-06-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott
static, with only the moused over icon scaling and moving nXPercent = (nXPercent > 45) ? 45 : (nXPercent < -45) ? -45 : nXPercent; this._x = this.thisX - nXPercent; thankyou very much alz On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:50 AM, allandt bik-elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Flashcoders] delegate.create query

2008-06-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott
the delegate questions have kinda hijacked the other question i've asked so i'd like to have a separate discussion here if i can i've got a method that broadcasts a message to the instancing class but if i delegate it, it doesn't seem to work here is my original method with the anonymous function

Re: [Flashcoders] pythagoras question

2008-08-31 Thread allandt bik-elliott
yeh - that's what i did On 30 Aug 2008, at 21:10, Merrill, Jason wrote: A simple solution could be to create a sprite to draw the line onto, and add a listener to the sprite to see if it was clicked on. Jason Merrill Bank of America Enterprise Technology & Global Risk L&LD Instructional Tec

Re: [Flashcoders] fun with embedFonts - NOT

2008-09-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott
ld, italic etc) that you are trying to use. I remember there being some buggy- ness when trying to embed in AS2 and that was one of the work arounds that I had to use. hth. B. On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:05 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: H

Re: [Flashcoders] RESUME: Senior Flash Developer (2)

2008-10-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott
at what point do daily job updates become spam? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] streaming mp3s not consistent

2008-10-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott
ent wrote: If it's event sounds, it sounds you should download them all at first. L Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) a écrit : what would be the netstream method to do this please? On 6 Oct 2008, at 12:40, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hi guys i have a quick question regardin

Re: [Flashcoders] mac vs pc

2009-08-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott
FlashDevelop) to Mac at the beginning of the year, not a huge difference on balance as each are annoying in their own way. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) < alla...@receptacledesign.com> wrote: i'd completely understand if nobody wanted to touch this on

Re: [Flashcoders] retreieving a node that contains a specific attribute from an XML list.

2009-09-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott
also if you're tracing xml, you could try trace(myXML.toXMLString()); which will make sure that even the root node of the xml is traced a On 13 Sep 2009, at 06:39, Cor wrote: Try this: trace (conteudo.slide[...@id); trace (conteudo.slide[...@id); trace (conteudo.slide[0].tit); -Orig

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: retreieving a node that contains a specific attribute from an XML list

2009-09-14 Thread allandt bik-elliott
ss the content. I was trying to do that without using a for loop , but maybe it wouldn't be possible. anyway I believe there's no need to avoid a loop here, even if there's 1200 nodes in my XML, right? Allandt, I actually didn't understand the use of toXMLString(), at le

Re: [Flashcoders] Catalyst

2009-09-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott
i'm with you on the mxml pushing old ladies into the road tho a On 26 Sep 2009, at 23:29, Anthony Pace wrote: Anyone try catalyst? Does it only output to flex style code that make babies cry, or does it output do pure AS3 too? ___ Flashcoders mai

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott
you will never want to as2 again ax On 8 Dec 2009, at 22:36, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Greg, I see your point. I am more familiar with AS2, so oops. I will be migrating soon. I promise. Karl On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Greg Ligierko wrote: I don't think, because braces are not required wh

Re: [Flashcoders] how clearInterval in AS2 when swf unloaded from parent

2009-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hi just trawling through the posts and don't know if you managed to fix this problem if you're having problems with unreferenced variables in as2, there is always the _global object to fall back on. It's not a good thing to use all the time but basically you can attach a property and pass

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 -> Objective-C

2010-03-16 Thread allandt bik-elliott
I think of the .h files as interfaces - it makes sense after that Sent from my iPhone On 16 Mar 2010, at 18:59, "Eric E. Dolecki" wrote: I have heard that one should know C before diving into Obj-C. I did not do that as I wanted to dive in quicker. Once you get your head around memory mana

[Flashcoders] does akamai multiplayer stream mp3s?

2011-10-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hey guys i'm trying to answer this question for myself but the answers don't seem to be forthcoming. can the AkamaiMultiPlayer class be used with mp3s? The documentation and a browse through the code seems to indicate that it does but does anyone here have any experience with doing that? thanks

[Flashcoders] using NetStream to stream mp3 audio

2011-10-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott
mp3 player with NetStream * using the akamai test mp3 streaming url * rtmp:// cp67126.edgefcs.net/ondemand/mediapm/ovp/content/test/video/nocc_small.mp3 * @author Allandt Bik-Elliott */ public class MP3Streamer extends Sprite { private var _nc : NetConnection; private var _ns : NetStream; p

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Player 11 and Flash Professional CS 5.5 (11.5)

2011-10-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott
i found this link ( http://tophuman.blogspot.com/2011/03/set-flashdevelop-to-use-flashplayer-11.html) which is about setting up away 3d and fp11 with flashdevelop (google search was: flashdevelop flash player 11) and there's a few 'how to set up to use x 3d engine and flash player 11) type posts ou

[Flashcoders] tips for designing games for kids with special needs

2011-10-25 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hey guys we've been given a brief to design / develop several games for kids (6-12) with special needs and i thought maybe some of you have had some experience with this kind of development? are there any tips that you can give me as i start researching this or maybe point me in the direction of

Re: [Flashcoders] tips for designing games for kids with special needs

2011-10-25 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hrough hoops to make their site accessible, so she > can point you to more information on accessibility standards. > > Cordially, > > Kerry Thompson > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:57 AM, allandt bik-elliott > wrote: > > hey guys > > > > we've been given a bri

Re: [Flashcoders] tips for designing games for kids with special needs

2011-10-26 Thread allandt bik-elliott
/ydn/posts/2010/03/csun_international_accessibility_conference/ > > Cordially, > > Kerry Thompson > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:15 PM, allandt bik-elliott > wrote: > > thankyou very much guys > > > > On 25 October 2011 16:11, Kerry Thompson > wrote: > > > >> I spent 3-4

[Flashcoders] trying to understand how to get tone from a sound (microphone)

2011-11-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hey guys does anyone have any references / links to help me understand how to extract the note / tone / pitch from a sound captured from a mic i have a view to deal with the mic and i am capturing the output correctly but i need to understand how to check it for specific pitch ranges here is my

Re: [Flashcoders] trying to understand how to get tone from a sound (microphone)

2011-11-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott
peak > to get sub-FFT-bin accuracy. > > Code can be found here: > > http://gerrybeauregard.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/real-time-spectrum-analysis/ > > It relies on my FFT which can be found here: > http://gerrybeauregard.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/an-even-faster-as3-fft/ > >

Re: [Flashcoders] trying to understand how to get tone from a sound (microphone)

2011-11-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott
holy crap - i've been playing with this so far and it's amazing - thanks so much for your help a On 23 November 2011 14:44, allandt bik-elliott wrote: > fantastic - thanks very much > > a > > > On 23 November 2011 14:33, Gerry Beauregard > wrote: > >> M

[Flashcoders] air for ios error: could not load keystore file

2011-11-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hey folks i'm having a bit of trouble packaging an air app for ios (working fine under android - sigh) in flashdevelop and hoped you might be able to help the error is could not load keystore file (password may be incorrect) i've checked the actual p12 keystore file with the following adt -check

[Flashcoders] [SOLVED] air for ios error: could not load keystore file

2011-11-29 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hey all it turns out that i'd managed to transpose the DIST_CERT_FILE with the DEV_CERT_FILE set IOS_DIST_CERT_FILE=cert\developer_identity.cer :: i had this in IOS_DEV_CERT_FILE set IOS_DEV_CERT_FILE=cert\keystore-ios.p12 set IOS_DEV_CERT_PASS=password set IOS_PROVISION=cert\myapp.mobileprovisio

[Flashcoders] anyone heard of spongecell?

2011-12-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hey all i've been asked about a company on madison ave in new york called spongecell (http://spongecell.com/) who say they can get rich media style banners in standard placements (the bit that my pm is interested in is the video banners, the example of which was an amex banner at http://spongecell

[Flashcoders] server side conversion from swf animation to movie

2012-01-16 Thread allandt bik-elliott
hey guys does anyone know of any server-side utility to take a flash animation (i'm thinking something scripted with pre-canned vector animation and user generated text-based dialogue for instance) and convert them to a video to submit (for instance) to youtube? cheers a _

Re: [Flashcoders] server side conversion from swf animation to movie

2012-01-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott
this http://www.zeropointnine.com/blog/simpleflvwriteras-as3-class-to-create-flvs/ which could definitely get me some of the way (sounds like it's doing what you suggested) although it would be nice to have some way of recording the sound from the flash as well thanks allandt On 16 January

Re: [Flashcoders] Games FlashBuilder/swc's

2012-01-31 Thread allandt bik-elliott
so you are using the timeline a lot and you'd like to move to a code framework? i highly recommend lee brimelow's site: http://gotoandlearn.com as a great starting point for any research project you are thinking about. Adobe has launched the Starling framework for creating 2d games that use the gp

[Flashcoders] looking for a face-detection / blink detection as library

2012-05-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott
Hey guys I'm looking for a face detection or, more specifically, a blink detection library for a project I'm on and I was wondering if anyone on this list has had any experience with this kind of work? thanks ob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@

Re: [Flashcoders] looking for a face-detection / blink detection as library

2012-05-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott
u.edu/techreports/pdf/2005-012-blink-detection.pdf If anyone has anything else to add, I'd be really grateful best ob On 18 May 2012 11:51, Mike Duguid wrote: > might want to have a look at the face.com api > > On 18 May 2012 11:18, allandt bik-elliott wrote: > > > Hey gu

Re: [Flashcoders] looking for a face-detection / blink detection as library

2012-05-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott
at 11:43 PM, mogs10 mogs10 > wrote: > >> hi again > >> > >> > >> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:19 PM, allandt bik-elliott > wrote: > >>> Thanks mike > >>> > >>> thought i would share what i'd found on google so far -

[Flashcoders] classpath issues

2008-03-17 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
hi guys i hope you can help me with this: i am trying to set up a library of classes that i can re-use in my actionscript but i keep getting the following errors: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: SimpleRectangle. 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method SimpleR

Re: [Flashcoders] classpath issues

2008-03-17 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GT&O Innovative Learning Blog & subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) Sent: Monda

Re: [Flashcoders] TextField motion

2008-03-18 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
you could put it into a sprite and apply alpha / transformations to that code: import flash.text.TextField; import flash.text.TextFormat; import flash.display.Sprite; var myTextField:TextField = new TextField(); myTextField.text = "Križev pot"; my

Re: [Flashcoders] TextField motion

2008-03-18 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
you should import the Timer and TimerEvent classes On 18 Mar 2008, at 14:04, Pedro Kostelec wrote: Yep you are right. myTextField.x++ should work, but when i put it on a timer i get an error : access of undefined property myTextField Here's the code import flash.text.TextField; im

Re: [Flashcoders] need:: Flex 3 & AS3 // tutorials, links, book recs.

2008-03-19 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
someone pointed out the website, gotoandlearn.com on the flashnewbie board which has been brilliant for me (even blogged it - link in my sig if you want it) a Allandt Bik-Elliott thefieldcomic.com e [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 18 Mar 2008, at 09:41, Sidney de Koning wrote: You can check out the

[Flashcoders] reparent child to halt scroll

2008-03-20 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
lToLocal(globalPoint); // if (localPoint.x > 5) // { // mainTitle.x = localPoint.x+5; // } // } as this didn't work, i started trying to reparent the mainTitle:SimpleTextField to the nonscrolla

Re: [Flashcoders] reparent child to halt scroll

2008-03-21 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
noone have the time to look at this one? On 20 Mar 2008, at 15:25, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hi guys i'm a bit stuck with a project i'm working on. I have a timeline which all runs off a scrollbar similar to the one in the kirupa forum (http://www.kirupa

Re: [Flashcoders] reparent child to halt scroll

2008-03-24 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i guess this one's not something you guys want to touch eh? never mind then a On 21 Mar 2008, at 10:16, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: noone have the time to look at this one? On 20 Mar 2008, at 15:25, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hi guys i'm a bit st

Re: [Flashcoders] books for flash programming

2008-03-24 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
gotoandlearn.com learnflash.com flashkit.com essential actionscript 3.0 (colin moock) i'd start at these a On 24 Mar 2008, at 07:21, Naveen Bhaskar wrote: I am a flash designer and I am in intermediate in programming.(AS2). anybody pls tellme what are the good books I can refer. or is the

[Flashcoders] referencing a public method gives unexpected result

2008-03-25 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
Hi guys quick question really. I have a Scrollbar class with a public method, arrowPressed (e:MouseEvent), that i'm trying to call from another class, TimelineArea(), using objects with the same name with the lines: left_arrow.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, scrollbar.arrowPresse

Re: [Flashcoders] referencing a public method gives unexpected result

2008-03-25 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
+ (dir * scrollSpeed); Tweener.addTween(slider,{percent:total, time:0.5}); // Tweener tween added to add friction to arrow presses - God bless Zeh and chums! } [/CODE] a On 25 Mar 2008, at 12:29, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: Hi guys quick question really. I have

Re: [Flashcoders] referencing a public method gives unexpected result

2008-03-25 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
then i've given all of the left_arrow and right_arrows .names of "left_arrow" and "right_arrow" a On 25 Mar 2008, at 14:15, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: replaced the Scrollbar method with this [CODE] // executes when the up arrow is pr

Re: [Flashcoders] referencing a public method gives unexpected result

2008-03-25 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
8, jonathan howe wrote: I'm interested in opinions on this, too... Is that comparison (e.target == left_arrow) the best way to find out what your target object is? ... and would strict equality make a difference? -jonathan On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Recep

Re: [Flashcoders] Custom DrawRectangle Question

2008-03-26 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
It seems to me that that would work as a Sprite too - less memory overheads (not by much, mind, but it'll help if there's a lot of them) also, would you be better off making your class variables protected or private? Those variables are being set by the constructor, anyway, and if you use g

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-26 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i've never used tweenlite but i have used tweener and one of the things that blew me away was the ability to tween properties and variables rather than just clips/sprites example from current project: [CODE] // read/write percentage value relates directly to the slider public function get pe

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-26 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
no total it only really matters with flash banners where you have to keep below a ridiculously low filesize (usually 20-30k for expanding ones) to not delay the content on the site on sites / media it doesn't really add up to that much On 26 Mar 2008, at 13:11, Matt S. wrote: One thing

[Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
esn't wait for the data to be loaded before trying to read it: CODE var xmlurl:String = "path/to/xml.xml"; var xmlDoc:XMLLoader = new XMLLoader(xmlurl); xmlDoc = xmlLoader.doc; trace (xmlDoc.toXMLString()); /CODE this would equally apply to an image loader, i guess thanks in ad

Re: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:51 PM To: flashcoders Subject: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data hi guys i am trying to set up a class to handle my xml (will be instantiated for each xml file) but i

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i couldn't afford to pay my bills on those prices On 27 Mar 2008, at 16:15, Dwayne Neckles wrote: Yea guys I I know we are off the issue topic. but its disgusting... i could be wrong but I feel getacoder and elance all i feel cheapen us as coders and "flashers".. but this is a digression..

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
it's bad enough to try to understand someone elses code when you speak the same language - it must be damn near impossible if everything's in chinese On 27 Mar 2008, at 16:45, Kerry Thompson wrote: Laurent wrote: sick. If you want to know for how little money projects are proposed and

Re: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
AIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:30 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data thanks jason - i've done this and it's working, i just wanted you to take a look to ma

Re: [Flashcoders] multiple skins for V2 scrollbar

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
grab this pdf http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/flash_as2_components_help.pdf and go to the section called "Creating new component skins" QUOTE "If you want to use a particular skin for one instance of a component, but another skin for another instance of the component, you must open a t

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i worked at The Online Studio where a lot of their actionscript gets outsourced to india and like you said, it's a little bit behind but overall very good AS2 code On 28 Mar 2008, at 15:03, Merrill, Jason wrote: I'm assisting with an Actionscript outsourcing project right now with some Fl

Re: [Flashcoders] Krugle?

2008-03-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
looks like a good organisation tool as well as a useful search tool On 28 Mar 2008, at 15:26, eric e. dolecki wrote: Anyone ever use Krugle.org to search for AS source code? I just ran into the site, and I am not sure what to think yet. For other languages it might be better, but I'm curren

Re: [Flashcoders] TextField.bottomScroll

2008-03-31 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
yeh - put a bunch of 's in at the end because of this - i thought it was only html dynamic text that did this but i guess not. Never found a solution a On 31 Mar 2008, at 14:05, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... I'm encountering a weird scenario where a TextField's bottom scroll isn't

[Flashcoders] AS3 MouseEvent target?

2008-03-31 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i can do to get around it please? thanks a lot a Allandt Bik-Elliott thefieldcomic.com e [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] AS3 MouseEvent target?

2008-03-31 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i can do to get around it please? thanks a lot a Allandt Bik-Elliott thefieldcomic.com e [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 MouseEvent target?

2008-03-31 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i have the moock book but i couldn't get my head round the bubbling phase and how it affected me - i need to look into it a bit more i added mouseChildren=false but it made the entire event stop - even on the objects that were working before, and i didn't even get the error is this because

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 MouseEvent target?

2008-03-31 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
mfTextField.text = e.target.rolloverText; trace (e.target.rolloverText); mouseFollower.visible = true; } } really hope you can help because i'm stumped (and it's 12.15 am ;) ) a O

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 MouseEvent target?

2008-04-01 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
ah yes - i couldn't get the mouseChildren to work before when i had drawn in the movieclip but now i've separated the container movieclip from the drawn-in shape, it' s working thanks for your help guys here's a copy of my code in case anyone else is interested: CODE // on xm

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 MouseEvent target?

2008-04-01 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
thanks Jiri i've just got the design patterns book so i'll be digging into that at some point in the near future a On 1 Apr 2008, at 10:40, Jiri Heitlager wrote: I think the best way to learn about Event Bubbling is understanding the Composite desing pattern. This is the pattern the Displ

Re: [Flashcoders] Access

2008-04-02 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
have you tried without the line public var mc_one:MovieClip;? it's my understanding that instantiating it by physically dragging it out of the library and giving it an instance name is the declaration - the way you're doing it would give a local variable the name with no value, hence mc_one

[Flashcoders] how to check if child exists

2008-04-02 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
ventList.x = mousePoint.x; eventList.y = mousePoint.y; addChild(eventList); } /CODE hope you can help a Allandt Bik-Elliott thefieldcomic.com e [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] how to check if child exists

2008-04-02 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
iaprima.co.uk/ Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hmmm - i'm a little stuck on this i'm trying to create a pop-up (will tween but i want to get it working first) but i want it to kill any previous one that's up - how would i go about this please? here's my current co

Re: [Flashcoders] how to check if child exists

2008-04-02 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
that said, i'd still like to know how to determine if a display object is in the current display list? thanks a On 2 Apr 2008, at 16:35, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote: Place outside of the function -> private var eventList:Sprite; Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ All

[Flashcoders] embedded fonts

2008-04-03 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
wotcha i have a quick query about embedded fonts. I thought that when you used them in the movie, that you should call them by the Class name in the linkage identifier however when I try to do this, my text disappears (i have embedFonts set to true and I've triple checked the names), howev

Re: [Flashcoders] embedded fonts

2008-04-03 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
When i set embededFont = true; it removes the text! :o( - Original Message - From: Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) To: flashcoders Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:50 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] embedded fonts wotcha i have a quick query about embedded fonts. I thought tha

[Flashcoders] maximum length of an xml document?

2008-04-03 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
can anyone tell me what the maximum length i can go to is for an xml file to load into flash? i'm working on a biggie ta a ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] embedded fonts

2008-04-04 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
nts you can either use the actual font name (as you have discovered it already), or YourFontClass.fontName Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: wotcha i have a quick query about embedded fonts. I thought that when you used them in the movi

[Flashcoders] is there a maximum filename length for pc?

2008-04-04 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i am creating a hybrid cd for mac and pc and, while the mac can take ridiculously long filenames, will the pc be able to see them or will they be truncated to 25 characters? I don't want some of my images to become unreadable on one side or the other thanks al Allandt Bik-El

Re: [Flashcoders] is there a maximum filename length for pc?

2008-04-04 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
ah cool - thanks for the heads up On 4 Apr 2008, at 18:07, Ibrahim Y wrote: this article may help you http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/10/limitations-with-long-file-names- on.html Ibrahim On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] maximum length of an xml document?

2008-04-04 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
ying to work with it. AS3 expoentially faster if you have a choice. On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: can anyone tell me what the maximum length i can go to is for an xml file to load into flash? i&#

[Flashcoders] component skinning issue

2008-04-11 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
hi - just a quickie here if i change the size of a button in a component skin in my library (UIScrollBar in this case) and then test the movie, the button is stretched back to it's original size - can someone tell me what i should be looking at to correct this please? thanks guys a _

Re: [Flashcoders] component skinning issue

2008-04-11 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
pr 11, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hi - just a quickie here if i change the size of a button in a component skin in my library (UIScrollBar in this case) and then test the movie, the button is stretched back to it's original size - can someone tell me what i

Re: [Flashcoders] Why is good to extend an Event Class

2008-05-06 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i used a scrollbar class from the kirupa forum that extended the event class to accept the amount (in percent) that the bar was scrolling by - this allowed both the scrollbar and the scrolling object to receive the percent by listening to the event On 6 May 2008, at 17:21, Dwayne Neckles

[Flashcoders] alpha not working on mc with textfield

2008-05-13 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
Hi guys - this is probably something really obvious but it's got me a bit stumped (sorry it's a little OT but i can't find any answers) I have several movieclips containing a static textfield with text in using a font that I've already embedded for actionscript use (it has a * after it's na

Re: [Flashcoders] alpha not working on mc with textfield

2008-05-13 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
switch the font from the system version to the embedded version. Because you mentioned several clips, you can do this globally (if desired) using Find and Replace. On 5/13/08 10:51 AM, "Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)" wrote: Hi guys - this is probably something really obvious b

Re: [Flashcoders] Why do you compile with the Flash IDE?

2008-05-16 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
you can make a pc projector in the mac flash ide - you can do a mac one on the pc but it needs to be decompressed before it gets burnt to cd On 16 May 2008, at 13:42, Glen Pike wrote: But this can't create a Mac projector on a PC and I am guessing vice-versa. My aim was to create a PC / Ma

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