quiet in here at the moment...
Flash has been losing steam for a long time.
The base of noobies got away from Adobe. The tools are too expensive and
complicated.
The players and platform too disjointed with: PC Flash, phone Flashlite, Linux
Flash and no Apple Flash.
Buyers want
hi All,
Checking out CS4 IDE. The menu text size too small to read on a 1920x
monitor - is there a way to make it bigger?
thanks,
Dave
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it does work.
hth,
Dave Matthews
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advanced Rollover Physics/Math...
Do you know kinda where to start... I'm trying to figure out how I would
program the awareness of the elements.
There must be some kind of idle position, and every element
. Inside Flash!
...Except, there is no way for us to unload any of that independently hosted
work.swf from the Flash based zoomer interface - even when we unload/replace
the parent 'internalWindow.swf' containing the other guys.swf.
bummer,
Dave Matthews
http://www.2GoTo.com
p.s. The zoomer
... time to look
into Sliverlight - i guess - nice.
Dave Matthews
http://www.2GoTo.com
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:55:41 -0700
From: Steven Sacks
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 memory management - loaded content
To: Flash
hi All,
Our app is designed to load Flash content examples and widgets from outside
servers - anyone on the web can enter a URL.swf into the demo list and those
.swf's are loaded as visitors view different areas of the site.
Many of the examples we've experimented with setup processes
Trying to use AIR,
Wasted six hours yesterday.
Tried tutorials, samples form the web, reinstalling updated player,
uninstalling AIR upgrades, reinstalling AIR upgrades... no luck finding -
fixing - creating a 'descriptor file' for any sort of tutorial or tutorials
from the web...
hi All,
FlashCS3 with the newly released AIR additions installed wants a 'descriptor
file'!
Ah, what is this and why didn't Flash make one when the special Air publish
tool is used?
thanks,
Dave_Matthews
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hi all,
What is the correct syntax to target any named symbol on stage, please?
Looking for the event target or something like that - just can't find the
exact syntax to look it up in Moock's book!
The app has many named symbols on stage, trying to use same 'widget' to
hi all,
Haven't seen a list posting from flashcoders for several days...
wondering what's up?
Maybe hotmail is stopping the list.
Seems weird, any feedback appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave Matthews
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good call Hans,
Agreed. This list may one of the most 'decent' i have ever seen and the
tone of the response scared me too.
We have all worried about our work being stolen by others - ridiculing
another for these same concerns violates the tone of 'our' group.
I also think the original
Google blocks transparent Flash in DIV layers,
Google skips/blocks pages with DIV layers holding Flash published using an
invisible background.
We used a DIV layer for Flash content published with a transparent
background over a non-scrolling html background for a full Flash site, the
DIV
hi All,
Using flash_cs3 / as3.
Having no luck using mouseEnabled = false;
Tried alpha = .22; which does make the target object change to semi see
through, so the correct object is being addressed and getting instructions.
This is for loaded content in a zooming app where the content
hi All,
Working with Flash_cs3_as3 trying to position a content_holder hard coded
on the timeline, it is structured like this:
content_holder.frame.mask.loadtarget.loadedClip
When checking the scaleX/Y of the content_holder object it is showing the
larger scale of the loadedClip that is
window, delete layer/add new layer/add new
instance from library... still some stupid extra anchor point or center
point in way the wrong spot.
How do i make it stop, or is this some sort of 'feature' in this
unfinished pile of slop?.
thanks,
Dave Matthews
:57:31 -0500
From: dave matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Swf not loading at run time
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
hi JohnT,
The path to loaded .swf files changes when accessing from an HTML page
hi JohnT,
The path to loaded .swf files changes when accessing from an HTML page on
the net - it is different than the IDE/authoring environment.
For example, with all .swf's in the same folder, the path is direct, the
main.swf loads peers from the same folder.
When main.swf is
What is going on here please?
Create a three frame AS3/Flash9 clip.
Place a textbox/number on each frame: 1,2,3.
ActionScript panel, frame one = gotoAndPlay(2);
ActionScript panel, frame two= gotoAndPlay(3);
ActionScript panel, frame three = gotoAndPlay(1);
Test movie.
Stalls the
hi All,
What is the syntax for a continuous loop in AS3?
Have working code for a code loop using mouse down - one frame-main
timeline, but can't figure out how to maintain the rate of movement when the
mouse is stationary with the mouse button still in down position.
thanks,
Dave_Matthews
hi all,
Noticed Flash9/CS3 is offered as a separate download and/or upgrade($199)
is on the Adobe site now.
Has anyone purchased and received it yet, or is this just a preorder deal?
thanks,
Dave_Matthews
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Check your browser cache to see the boat load of garbage they load with
every page.
If we did that to our clients they would dump us fast!
We should have a contest to demonstrate how they should fix that mess.
Dave_Matthews
To make the mouse loose focus on drag out of Flash,
Place an invisible button in a two frame clip. Set the button to goto
next frame on roll over and stop on frame two. Second frame is blank = no
button object from first frame. Place that clip over the drag button in
your app.
When
Seeking links,
My daughter teaches first and second graders in a public school where one
of her students only speaks Spanish. Luckily, many of the kids (60%) are
bilingual and help translate. Turns out, the kids love the computers they
have access to only twice a week for forty minutes a
Agreed...
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 10:01:07 -0400
From: eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Profanity - (to Lieven especially)
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Message-ID:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
here ya go Dimitrios,
Posted a working example - Flash 4 .fla included - we do mobile.
http://www.davidmatthews.com/dad/mem_usage_example.zip ---watch the
word wrap in the URL---
Tested in player 9 and works correctly.
good luck,
Dave Matthews
--snip
to be an empty
keyframe... thus no 'load_target' no content that replaced the
'load_target.
Placing attached movieclips on different levels is more complex since we
have no way to create truly empty keyframes on dynamic timelines... i
think... :)
we'll get it working,
Dave Matthews
no prob Dimitrios,
Posted a working example - Flash 4 .fla included - we do mobile.
http://www.davidmatthews.com/dad/mem_usage_example.zip ---watch the
word wrap in the URL---
Tested in player 9 and works correctly.
good luck,
Dave Matthews
--snip
hi Dimitrios,
re: Anyone got any idea?
We had problems last year with something similar, loading 6 layers of
tiles in a 10 x 10 grid from the terraserver:
http://www.davidmatthews.com/dad/07-03-05-maplicator.swf press n slide/pan,
double click n hold slide to zoom.
Turns out .jpg's
hi,
i have the Flash 4 docs, email and i'll send them.
Dave Matthews
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:55:02 -0600
From: Kevin Aebig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 4 documentation
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Message
welcome to the party,
The basics of design patterns evolved from the timeline for me.
Flash is an 'object oriented language' - that is each symbol is an
independent 'thing' in the library.
Learning the time line and how to do a tween came first, oooh, a moving
thing on the screen.
maybe this post could be TRIMMED a bit girls?
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Message: 20
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:58:44 +0100
From: Giles Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] WSIWYG HTML text editor in Flash - follow
onquestion
To: Flashcoders mailing list
hmdakr,
part of text is not visible...! try stuff, like:
Drag/set _xScale of text box longer.
Put linebreaks or spaces after the text.
Change fonts.
Change text_box properties.
try everything,
Dave_Matthews
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:55:54 +0100 (BST)
From:
one of 'the gods of the internet' speaks,
This one hour video/Breeze presentation by Principal Scientist, Flash
Player Gary Grossman is the best, most in depth explanation of what's
happening in the Flash Platform ever published.
http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p64058844/
enjoy,
Dave
hi Steve,
This is an old bug left over from Flash 4 (and FlashLite now). It's
related to instances of objects no longer responding to coded tweens after
those same objects are dragged n dropped by the end user.
It is also related to non-embedded text fields not showing up when behind
a
. for this post.
Anyone else unable to delete a file in this space?
Anyone got a clue?
getting ready to reformat,
Dave Matthews
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A few days ago some one was asking about PayPal issues,
PayPal offers a developer's link to webassist.com for an .mxp file for
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After days of messing with it and searching forums, this showed up on a
webassist.com thread:-
Product: WA PayPal
hi Kevin,
Try poking around http://www.2GoTo.com
It's an experimental data visualization system based on an infinitely
large, non-distorting hyperbolic plane that imports .swf files as content.
It zooms from 2% to 28000% and can display hundreds of different .swf
files at the same time,
hi All,
Can an in browser.swf P2P a different end user's in browser.swf?
Got any suggestions about the best way to do it?
Why can't it be done.
thanks,
Dave_Matthews
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hi Hans,
like this? http://2goto.com/maplicator/07-03-05-maplicator.swf
Double click/hold/slide to zoom, single click/hold/slide to pan.
Dave_Matthews
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Message: 17
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:54:32 +0100
From: Van De
. So I'm guessing by you calling them internal windows that they are
nested within one main movie clip that plays the role of the main
navigator of sorts. That's the way I'm trying to do it right now.
Thanks again,
Mani
On 11/18/05, dave matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi Manuel,
Flash can
hi Martin,
If the panorama tool is a 'drag to pan' system and you need to detect the
mouse release outside of the Flash area, try this:
Place an invisible button over the entire dragged button, which might be
the whole stage. Set this invisible button to goto a blank frame and stop
on
hi All,
Lost the link to the player8 post bug posted recently... :)
Now it's time to turn this Paypal code into a Flash button:
form action=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr; target=paypal
method=post
p align=center
input type=hidden name=bn value=.888
input type=hidden
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