Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
classes used in oop are generally separate .as files (in flash) that are templates that create custom objects which interact with each other (it is possible to program oop as a single file using as1-style prototype chains but these are outdated and frankly painful) a class would consist of

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
muddle through it and they invariably become a massive burden to anyone that has to work with them so please don't try to side step the work of learning how to code good luck a On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:19 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: classes used in oop

Re: [Flashcoders] Back On Course, Still Problems

2009-12-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
dammit - i missed the beginning of this thread - where's the archives please classic ax On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Matt Gitchell m...@moonbootmedia.comwrote: We've gone from rudimentary Flash to jungle exile to treatises on human behavior bouncing off the Illuminati on the way to

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 to iphone app

2009-10-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
don't swfs compiled from c run faster in the plugin than ones compiled in actionscript? i thought i read that if so - the potential also exists here doesn't it? a On 9 Oct 2009, at 01:13, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: Yes, it is an assumption not based on any fact. My opinion right now as I

Re: [Flashcoders] as3 to iphone app

2009-10-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
/sign makes the 4 books on iphone development i bought a bit of a non-starter - i wonder if you can edit the iphone project once it's done and how they're dealing with multitouch / accelerometer data (or is that already built in to FP10.1?) On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Anthony Pace

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

Re: [Flashcoders] strange error when removing sprite from parents display list

2009-09-28 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
Pablo Califano califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com The stack dump looks like .NET, indeed, so it's probably a bug to be fixed in FlashDevelop. Have you considereded sending a bug report with a mininal sample to reproduce the problem? Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2009/8/22 Allandt Bik-Elliott

Re: [Flashcoders] Testing

2009-09-16 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i always use this is a test do not adjust your set a On 11 Sep 2009, at 23:57, Glen Pike wrote: 8,16,32 Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Aaap ya missed 3 ;) Karl On Sep 11, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Glen Pike wrote: 1,2,4 -- Glen Pike 01326 218440 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk

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

2009-09-14 Thread allandt bik-elliott
] to access 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 least in this situation

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);

[Flashcoders] Extra information in classes

2009-09-08 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
* @author : Allandt Bik-Elliott * @company : thereceptacle.co.uk */ and more recently a changelog /** * @changelog: * 2009_09_03 : reason : change */ but I've been thinking about refreshing my practises. I think I'll

Re: [Flashcoders] strange error when removing sprite from parents display list

2009-08-22 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
FYI This compiles correctly with flexbuilder so it seems it's a problem with flashdevelop (and not the flex sdk or my code) pity really, - i was really enjoying a flash ide-less workflow (could use flexbuilder - it's awful) a On 19 Aug 2009, at 11:42, allandt bik-elliott

[Flashcoders] strange error when removing sprite from parents display list

2009-08-19 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys i really hope you can help me with this: i'm getting the following error from the flex_sdk_3 when compiling with flashdevelop 'undefined' is an unexpected token. Expecting white space. Line 1, position 58. at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) at

[Flashcoders] bounce easing function for tweener

2009-08-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys I've been looking around for a way of modifying the bounce easing function for Tweener but I'm not having much joy (I've taken to doing a series of tweens in the onComplete function to fudge it). I've seen http://timotheegroleau.com/Flash/experiments/easing_function_generator.htm which is

Re: [Flashcoders] mac vs pc

2009-08-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
had a quick look around and found this list http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Features:Generation does anyone have the fdt version? fdt does have control-t but it's a different shortcut - flexbuilder has nothing of the sort (this like this are the reason i didn't like it)

Re: [Flashcoders] How to compare two audio files with actionscript?

2009-08-10 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
have you seen anything like this? http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=8E9A0 just trying to get a feel for what you are trying to do a On 10 Aug 2009, at 09:35, johnny lee wrote: Where are the Actionscript Sages when you need them :( On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25 AM, johnny

Re: [Flashcoders] button overlay appearing under textfield?

2009-08-10 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
= false on a container to switch off inputs for all the child sprites. Glen Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hey guys this is probably a silly bug but i've got a very strange occurance i've got a method that is supposed to create a textfield with an invisible button on top but, even tho

[Flashcoders] mac vs pc

2009-08-10 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
but this is for my take along, work machine. So the question I'm really getting to is, how many people use osX (using windows in boot camp doesn't count) and how many are using windows for their main work machine and what kind of software setup are you using? thanks for your time guys Allandt

Re: [Flashcoders] mac vs pc

2009-08-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott
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 one but i thought i'd throw

[Flashcoders] button overlay appearing under textfield?

2009-08-07 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
hey guys this is probably a silly bug but i've got a very strange occurance i've got a method that is supposed to create a textfield with an invisible button on top but, even tho the traces come out correctly, i can't seem to stop the textfield obscuring the button if they're added to the

Re: [Flashcoders] button overlay appearing under textfield?

2009-08-07 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i've taken to putting the button overlay into a separate sprite but i would be interested if anyone has any insights as to why this happened as it seemed a bit random to me ta a On 7 Aug 2009, at 17:32, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hey guys this is probably a silly bug

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flash full screen examples

2009-08-07 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
wow that site is the cows udders - you might say it was moo-velous a On 7 Aug 2009, at 17:57, Paul Andrews wrote: Merrill, Jason wrote: Those California Milk Processors are loaded. :) Fortunately they didn't go for a cheesy website.. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flash full screen examples

2009-08-07 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
the milk of human kindness is running thin with these puns :D On 7 Aug 2009, at 19:21, Kerry Thompson wrote: was it the cream of the crop? It was until they started skimming the profits. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] [JOB] Flash/Flex Developer, San Mateo, CA | 75-120k

2009-08-03 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
~noses through portfolio whassat? On 31 Jul 2009, at 16:41, Matt Gitchell wrote: Jeez. Sorry about that, folks. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex - could you point me at an old thread please?

2009-07-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
thanks nate - i'll check it out i also found a thread on the ultrashock forums here http://www.ultrashock.com/forums/flex/mxml-do-we-need-it-87269.html best allandt On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote: Hey Allandt, I posted a while ago on my blog about Flash

[Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex - could you point me at an old thread please?

2009-07-16 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
. I'd really appreciate any input you might have or be able to point me to thanks a lot Allandt ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Video Class Problem

2009-07-15 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
if you add an event listener to the stage to listen for Event.RESIZE, you can then resize your video object to match the stage's dimensions hope this helps a On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm creating a custom shortcut class to play videos

[Flashcoders] separating MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP from MouseEvent.CLICK

2009-07-12 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
hi guys quick question - is it possible to separate a MOUSE_UP event from a CLICK event? i have a mouse listener function that does the following: [code] private function grabListener(e:MouseEvent):void { switch(e.type)

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection problem...

2009-06-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
could you post your local connection code on both swfs plx? a On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, BOYD SPEER bsp...@shaw.ca wrote: I have two .swf's in a web page - one is embeded in the body of the page and the other is loaded into an iFrame on the same page (it is not embeded in html.). I

Re: [Flashcoders] mathematics of an elipse

2009-06-19 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
thankyou very much - i'll take a look best a On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Ivan Dembicki ivan.dembi...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Charles, You can build many ellipses through your points. More data needed for ellipse unique define. Also you can see old bezier classes

[Flashcoders] mathematics of an elipse

2009-06-18 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey guys I have have a maths problem that i'm having trouble solving, despite repeated attempts on Google. If i have an angle and a distance (n), plus one of the axis lengths (say the minor, y), how would i find out what the remaining axis length (x) was please? I've drawn it out here (let me

Re: [Flashcoders] understand getChildByName

2009-06-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
the name of a movieclip used by getChildByName() is the value that's in it's myMC.name property. When you place something on the stage manually and add a name into the properties dialogue box, it's this that you're affecting a On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: Hi Kurt,

[Flashcoders] dynamically attached not smoothing using BitmapData?

2009-06-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hey guys I'm having a problem with using smoothing on my loaded bitmap images with AS3 and I was wondering if you could help, please? Here is my code: [code] private function sendImageLoadEvent(e:Event):void { var nCurImg:Number = _arImageArray.length;

Re: [Flashcoders] dynamically attached not smoothing using BitmapData?

2009-06-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
if he has an as3 version. If anything, you could get the logistics from it and apply. HTH Karl Sent from losPhone On Jun 3, 2009, at 5:18 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys I'm having a problem with using smoothing on my loaded bitmap images

Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
You could try something like http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Search-and-Replace-String-1.0/2913to add html tags to the text string if it was in as3, you could probably do this much better with regular expressions a On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Kevin Bath

Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Running windows with bootcamp

2009-05-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i've had very few problems with mine and i've used it for developing (in flashdevelop in parallels alongside flash in osx - there's a lengthy post about creating the environment perfectly on the flashdevelop boards) and also gaming (in boot camp). The apple graphics drivers are pretty good

Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Running windows with bootcamp

2009-05-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
on a side note, the next version of os-x will be 64-bit ( http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/) and windows 64 bit can be installed on it (http://simpable.com/software/mbp-64bit-vista/) best a 2009/5/8 allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com i've had very few problems

Re: [Flashcoders] hitTest unreliability

2009-04-29 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
my guess is that you're actually passing over the whole clip you're hitTesting against in the time it takes for the frame to go by - you could try saving the previous mouseposition and the current mouseposition and then testing to see if the path between them crosses your clip On Wed, Apr 29,

Re: [Flashcoders] Best Tutorial Sites?

2009-04-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Glen Pike wrote: gotoandlearn.com 3 On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: www.focusonflash.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Pace Sent: donderdag

Re: [Flashcoders] Smart Preloading

2009-04-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
- I Sioux den...@isioux.nl wrote: Hey Allandt, Thanks for your reply. I already found that one.. it was linked to from the earlier mentioned Greensock. Seems like that one can't load mc's from the library aswell.. I actually want to switch of the load before 1st .. and when entering

Re: [Flashcoders] Smart Preloading

2009-04-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
or you could add everything to an external library file and load that with your other assets On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:28 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: i must admit, i still add internal (non-added on frame 1) assets to a frame (after my preloader

[Flashcoders] formal qualifications

2009-04-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hey guys I'm one of those flash coders that has come into the industry by starting as an enthusiast while doing print for a living and realising that i had more affinity with actionscript than many of the people i was talking to in digital departments and going full-time but I don't have any

Re: [Flashcoders] Smart Preloading

2009-04-16 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
in as3, i'd recommend looking up the Loader class in the helpfiles :) On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Dennis - I Sioux den...@isioux.nl wrote: Hey, Tried to use a UILoader to check the bytes loaded of a single movieclip(in the library).. but this isn't working. Has anyone got a suggestion

Re: [Flashcoders] Smart Preloading

2009-04-16 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
there is something called bulkloader that i've seen used a few times but it might be a little surplus to requirements On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.ukwrote: Sorry, it's a SWF preloader. As for preloading clips in the library, that's not what it's for..

Re: [Flashcoders] ul mad spacing

2009-04-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
out of the new Text Engine stuff in FP10, but it probably is not worth the time and effort for doing li's - maybe for curiosity's sake though :) Glen allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: hi guys I am loading some xml with css to do my text but one of the things that's been

Re: [Flashcoders] Particle Playground, Flash 10 General Purpose Comuting with Pixel Bender

2009-03-26 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i'm using rc2 which i think is the latest a On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:04 PM, mike cann mike.c...@gmail.com wrote: I personally havent done any haXe yet. Have you got the latest version of FD running? 2009/3/24 allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com can anyone

[Flashcoders] do we still have to check to see if loaded 10 bytes?

2009-03-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
in as2 there used to be a thing where you had to check to make sure loaded was above 10 bytes or it would sometimes give a false reading (so you might see if (this.getBytesLoaded == this.getBytesTotal() this.getBytesLoaded 10) for instance) does the same apply to as3 or can i safely leave that

Re: [Flashcoders] Particle Playground, Flash 10 General Purpose Comuting with Pixel Bender

2009-03-24 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
can anyone recommend a good set of tutorials compatible with both haXe and flashdevelop - i started going through the ones on haXe.org but they bang on about a bunch of files that don't seem present in my flashdevelop project (i suspect they are hidden). The flashdevelop ones seem to be missing.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Future - Unity3D, iPhone and performance

2009-03-20 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
loved this post and think it will be a great discussion if some of the heavy hitters on this list get involved Unity is an amazing piece of tech and will be a big player in the future (anyone who doesn't believe should spend an hour with cartoon network's www.fusionfall.com) Adobe has

Re: [Flashcoders] using applyFilter with a BitmapData object (AS2)

2009-03-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
), create a new bitmap and specify a source bitmap to the applyfilter call. If you don't want it to be destructive, attach the bitmap to a movieclip first, and set the filters on that. HTH JC On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote

[Flashcoders] using applyFilter with a BitmapData object (AS2)

2009-03-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hi guys I have a question - if I use a ColorMatrixFilter on a BitmapData object, does it work like mc.filters = arFiltersArray in that it is non-destructive to the mc (it can be removed) or is it destructive (once you apply it, you can't then un-apply it)? ta a

Re: [Flashcoders] money question AJAX style apps or flash?

2009-03-04 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
for the answer. Good points. allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: The company i'm at at the mo uses flash for advertising, navigation and impressive landing pages for sites. simpler forms of navigation will move to ajax imo while more complicated pieces (carousels, 3d

Re: [Flashcoders] money question AJAX style apps or flash?

2009-03-03 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
The company i'm at at the mo uses flash for advertising, navigation and impressive landing pages for sites. simpler forms of navigation will move to ajax imo while more complicated pieces (carousels, 3d etc) will stay as flash advertising will stay as it is - flash is the smallest, most efficient

Re: [Flashcoders] Javascript Flash resizing ...

2009-02-20 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
awesome - thanks On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:15 AM, SJF sjf...@gmail.com wrote: Try this - http://code.google.com/p/resizetoolkit/downloads/detail?name=ResizeToolkit_v.95.zipcan=2q = Haven't used it myself yet, but it looks like a robust technique/set of classes.

[Flashcoders] LoadVars problem

2009-02-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hi guys I'm having problems with a LoadVars object. I need to POST some variables to an external script and pass the result to an xml object so I'm using a LoadVars object with the LoadVars.sendAndLoad() method to send out the information and to recieve the response. The problem I'm having is

[Flashcoders] Re: LoadVars problem

2009-02-17 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey all don't need an answer on this as the issue has resolved itself (and i suspect that the answer is that there is no answer) thanks anyway a Hi guys I'm having problems with a LoadVars object. I need to POST some variables to an external script and pass the result to an xml object so

Re: [Flashcoders] orkut - Invitation to join from Omar Fouad

2009-02-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
already on facebook, myspaz, linkdin and something else i can't remember the name of - i'm a bit burned out on social network sites On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Omar Fouad 8678358898537157...@mail.orkut.com wrote: You have been invited to join Omar Fouad's (omarfouad@gmail.com)

Re: [Flashcoders] UK freelance flash opportunities

2009-02-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i've had loads of work from neil clements at major players - try there a On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Paul Steven paul_ste...@btinternet.comwrote: The economic downturn has finally taken its toll on my work load after many years of keeping the wolves at bay. If anyone can point me in the

Re: [Flashcoders] maths query

2009-02-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
) / _mouseDamping); } else { _velY = 0; } //App.debug(mouse Move + _velX + , + _velY); } allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: hi guys I'm working on a carousel and i have a quick question about adding a non-active area

Re: [Flashcoders] Starting a new thread

2009-02-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
it's all good - i've responded to your other email bset a On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ricardo M. Portilho ricardo.monteiro.porti...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] to increase and decrease the size of a video

2009-02-06 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i would recommend going to a site like the awesome http://gotoandlearn.com/and trying to roll something for yourself there is a scrollbar tutorial here http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=71 which will show you how to build a slider which you could then apply to the scale of the video player a good

[Flashcoders] maths query

2009-02-05 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys I'm working on a carousel and i have a quick question about adding a non-active area in the middle at the moment, the carousel will move forward and backward based on the mouse's position in relation to the center of the carousel but I'd like to widen that by nDeadzoneRadius here is the

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClip Opacity

2009-02-05 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you need to embed fonts to change the alpha / rotation of a textfield (even if it's the containing clip that's being alpha'd / rotated so the real question is how to embed the fonts in your doc how have you tried doing it so far? On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:09 PM, K-Dawg kdaw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] Does Flash fire any event(s) when...

2009-02-05 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you could certainly increase / decrease the scale of a clip/sprite containing a video playing flv could you start a new thread in future, please? - i find these hijacked threads really hard to follow thanks On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Ricardo M. Portilho ricardo.monteiro.porti...@gmail.com

Re: [Flashcoders] instancing my own components (still new to AS3)

2009-01-28 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
could you put your init() method call in a setter? On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Gregory N greg.gousa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, as allandt suggests, you should provide a default value for constructor param Unfortunately, it's not the only problem with components (at least in CS3) For me

Re: [Flashcoders] [AS in general] Question corcerning a math formula

2009-01-27 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you need to add it to a string and work out if the extra 0 is needed (maybe with the modulo (%) comparison operator), in as2, and then manually add the zero to the string when you output to your textfield do a search for as2 timers / digital clocks and you'll come across the technique a On Tue,

Re: [Flashcoders] [AS in general] Question corcerning a math formula

2009-01-27 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
would that work for the number 2:20 tho? doesn't flash remove zeros at the end of decimal values? a On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Sidney de Koning sid...@funky-monkey.nlwrote: Hi Jimmi, Look at this then, To truncate Numbers in Actionscript: Three decimals: var yourNumber:Number =

Re: [Flashcoders] [AS in general] Question corcerning a math formula

2009-01-27 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
cheers fella a On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Sidney de Koning sid...@funky-monkey.nlwrote: Hi allandt, 2:20 is not a number :) its a string. i think what flash tries to do is convert it to a number but fails and convert it to a string what you could do is strip out any

[Flashcoders] Using an accessor for a singleton instance

2009-01-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Does anyone know of any reason not to use an accessor in my singleton instead of a function? so would this work okay (bearing in mind - as2) class com.publicis.hp.NavData { private static var _instance:Data; public var myVar:String; private function Data() { trace(This

Re: [Flashcoders] Using an accessor for a singleton instance

2009-01-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
cheers mate On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Alan Shaw noden...@gmail.com wrote: I actually prefer your usage. The reason not to use it would be that 'everybody' expects to use getInstance(). -A On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla

Re: [Flashcoders] multiple class definition in package

2009-01-20 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
no - you'll only have access to the first class the only way you can put 2 classes in the same file is if you are setting up a singleton as the second class will be available to (only) the first class a On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:05 PM, laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: Hi, Flash CS3

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Dynamically resize Flash

2009-01-19 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
isn't there a bit of wierdness in firefox where, if you want it to be 100% width / height of the window, you need to add it to the css and apply it to the swfobject targetted div? On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Romuald Quantin soundstep.mail...@googlemail.com wrote: I sent to the

Re: [Flashcoders] multiple fonts in TextField?

2009-01-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
agreed - at this point you should be looking at stylesheets and span tags to do your styling, especially if you're doing multiple text styles in a single field - it makes it much easier to change later if the client starts going mad On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Ashim D'Silva

Re: [Flashcoders] change the origin of rotation for a movieclip?

2009-01-13 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i thought it was so rude that you were being sarcastic On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Hans Wichman j.c.wich...@objectpainters.com wrote: What I don't understand is that someone takes the time to write an elaborate answer and you have the nerve to reply with how about a real answer, some

[Flashcoders] localconnection and loading

2009-01-12 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hey folks i have a question that one of the designers has posed to me. With a local connection syncing banner, if i have one banner talking to another, but when the first banner is setting up the local connection, if the second banner isn't properly loaded, will it cause the connection to fail?

Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for actionscript video code

2009-01-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
welcome to the list On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote: Also, using the Adobe Media Encoder ( http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=77EE2) which installs with CS3 and CS4 is an extremely easy way to work with video files, adding cue points, etc...

[Flashcoders] as2 bitmapdata dispose() issue

2009-01-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys should be a quickie for someone i've got a bitmapdata object which is being written to by a quickie drawing api that i wrote. It works absolutely great. The problem is that when i .dispose() of the attached bitmap, i cannot write to it any more i've tried recreating it but with no joy -

[Flashcoders] re: as2 bitmapdata dispose() issue

2009-01-07 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ah never mind i got it code bmp.dispose(); bmp = new BitmapData(169, 136, true, 0x00); mcBitmap.attachBitmap(bmp, 1); /code thanks alz ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Scope of variables declared in for loop

2008-12-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
a method / function or a class / frame On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: How do you define a code section then? Regards Alex On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: Is there an explanation for that?

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3: Dispatching events to further listeners, but not to itself

2008-12-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
you might find that using MOUSE_MOVE is a little heavy on the processor as it can fire multiple times, even within the same frame it's probably better to use Event.ENTER_FRAME and check for the mouseX and mouseY and while you're at it, you might as well use the same listener to move the card

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 CSS + styling solutions

2008-12-23 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
what would you want to style with it? On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Jah flash@gmail.com wrote: apologies if this is a tad vague, but i'm looking for a styling solution in AS3. We're looking for something that is more along the lines of a style manager to apply CSS formatting to be

Re: [Flashcoders] Frame rate

2008-12-22 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
enter_frame events will cause the plugin to chug quite a lot i'd imagine On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: It depends. Pure AS3, so no timeline at all. If you are using ENTER_FRAME, it is triggered 3 times more often. Otherwise, I guess, it has no effect.

Re: [Flashcoders] colour and transform matrices

2008-12-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
/flash/actionscript-3/colourutils-bitmapdata-extract-colour-palette/ Cordially Vayu flashkompagniet.dk On 12/10/08 12:25 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys After a brief discussion with some of the devs where i'm working at the mo, i

Re: [Flashcoders] strange textfield behaviour in browser

2008-12-11 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
windows and mac machines handle fonts differently but it's usually macs that suffer problems as they need to have each weight and variation embedded separately - i didn't think windows suffered this problem? On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi JC, Thanks for

[Flashcoders] colour and transform matrices

2008-12-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Hi guys After a brief discussion with some of the devs where i'm working at the mo, i was wondering if anyone could point me at a decent tutorial for using and manipulating objects and colours using matrices. It seems to be one of those things that people only learn a teeny bit of but could be

Re: [Flashcoders] use get / set functions or make your own

2008-12-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
any code amending outside the class can be avoided if you take the (self-imposed) rule that internal/private class vars start with a leading underscore but public ones don't - that way if you need to create getters and setters, you just create the class var with the _ and the get/set without On

Re: [Flashcoders] use get / set functions or make your own

2008-12-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
, been pixelstaring too long already today;) On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep that was the article, but the original poster asked a subtly different question (unless I'm mistaken). allandt asked about implicit vs explicit getters

Re: [Flashcoders] Soma Protest

2008-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ta On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Romuald Quantin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, SVN are there: http://www.soundstep.com/blog/downloads/somaui/ Romu www.soundstep.com allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: do you have an svn repo or a google code area? On Mon, Dec 8, 2008

Re: [Flashcoders] use get / set functions or make your own

2008-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
of the actionscript get and set functions is that they are indistinguishable from public properties from the outside of the class. It's a huge improvement over Java. Ian On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:24 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys quick poll - Do

[Flashcoders] use get / set functions or make your own

2008-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys quick poll - Do you use the actionscript getter/setter functions or do you make your own, and why. I've noticed with a lot of the public domain code (like SWFAddress, for instance) that you see a lot of 'public function getVariable()' type getters instead of using the flash 'public

Re: [Flashcoders] Soma Protest

2008-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
do you have an svn repo or a google code area? On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Brenda Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Great minds think alike! I had the same vision in my head -- especially since my son works in the SOMA district for an ad agency. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] My rights - site not paid for.

2008-12-09 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
the thing about going through a specialised debt collecting solicitor is that they start very polite - they usually have 2 rounds of letters to send to the client before they start getting heavy and to be honest, if it comes to that, you're better off without the client a bad client will be more

Re: [Flashcoders] My rights - site not paid for.

2008-12-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i wouldn't tip your hand about the ftp details - it would be very cheap for him to pay someone to change them a On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Sidney de Koning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Stephen, Here in Holland we have something called 'terms and conditions' for freelancers, which you

Re: [Flashcoders] My rights - site not paid for.

2008-12-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
if the site hasn't been paid for, don't you still officially own the site files? i would put a message across the bottom of the site saying This site has not yet been paid for. To settle the invoice and remove this message please contact me at emailaddress or something similar where you get

Re: [Flashcoders] Soma Protest

2008-12-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
looks nice - thanks for the heads up On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Romuald Quantin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Not spam intended and just to try to help the community. I've built a site-demo for the framework Soma, please have a look:

Re: [Flashcoders] Audio lag on KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN

2008-12-08 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
did you use updateAfterEvent() to force it to play immediately? if not, it might be waiting for the next frame to process the event On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I'm dipping my toe into AS3 and thought I'd play around with sound by

Re: [Flashcoders] The flash job hunt

2008-12-05 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i'm with major players in london and they've kept me busy for the best part of 5 years between print and (this year) flash i also get paid within 5 days of putting in my invoice if i do it by monday 6pm the only thing is that you are kind of limited to what they pay but as it's pretty much on

Re: [Flashcoders] display trace() in text field

2008-12-04 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
function debug(s:String):Void { _root.pathToTextField.myText.text += /n+s; } then instead of trace(someString); you use debug(someString); a On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trace only sends strings to the Flash or Flexbuilder output window, so no.

[Flashcoders] adding physics to pivot object around a point

2008-12-01 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
hi guys could anyone point me in the right direction to do the following, please? I'd like an object that is dragged to correctly respond to being pulled around by pivoting around the point it is dragged by (also applying downward force to represent gravity) for example, if i hold a pencil

[Flashcoders] Re: adding physics to pivot object around a point

2008-12-01 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
So I guess what i'm trying to get at is that I'd like to apply gravity and momentum to an objects angle rather than directly to their y axis anyone have any ideas? thanks a -- hi guys could anyone point me in the right direction to do the following,

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