At 4/23/09 01:29 AM, SilvaWolf wrote: when you push the button, it should pop up another text box for you to put in another URL. I can't seem to find a tutorial on how to do this, so any help would make things a lot easier.

read up on document.getElementById(); and the innerHTML property

you need a better understanding of how variables and their scopes work

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionsc ript/tricks/scope.htm

At 4/20/09 05:13 PM, KrazeyOne wrote: im still at a loss here. should i have any sources listed from my ad revenue? (like my userpage, for example) or will it not show up until i get a specific amount of impressions/clicks?

yeah sources don't show up until they actually make money

I don't think even the flash forum can help now

At 4/17/09 12:38 PM, DearonElensar wrote:

At 4/17/09 12:11 PM, DanielZ wrote: The only drawback is that IE users won't be able to see your favicon, but really, who cares about iE?

43.3% of the people who browse the internet, according to w3schools.

Yeah the whole "screw IE" attitude, while valid, isn't a very good idea. Love it or hate it we have to design for it, if you choose not to the only person you hurt is yourself.

At 4/17/09 12:34 PM, kris008 wrote: also what about these noobs who post loads crappy vids onto the portal everyday, will they b makin loads money for spamming the portal? cuz thats rubbish if thats how it works.

they might be lucky to get a a few pennies out of it

http://www.favicon.cc/

Proper validated xhtml is more likely to display correctly across browsers and mobile devices. You'll still have issues with IE but we have to take what we can get sometimes.

At 4/16/09 12:43 AM, UberCream wrote: 1. Does this mean that in-flash API ads won't make us any more moneys?

No, why would it? API and in-page ads are both tracked on the graph

2. I know that atleast one person must have viewed my userpage since I registered for revenue sharing, because there is one more response to my latest news post than there was before. How come when I check the amount of revenue that I made, I still don't have a list under where my graph should be that states that I got one userpage view, probably giving me maybe, one hundreth of a penny. Does it only tell you about views once you have enough revenue to be greater than or equal to one cent?

from Tom on page 3:
"The graph only tracks items that have either made money or had at least 1000 impressions. The chart only tracks things that have made money... So taking that under consideration it hopefully makes more sense. The ads are a majority performance-based, so clicks and/or sign-ups."

At 4/15/09 10:23 PM, polles wrote: I just noticed something -

I have a website and I use the google adsense service to put ads on it. I got about 600 impressions and 26 clicks and I have $15. On newgrounds, I have about 1020 impressions (? clicks) and i got $0.84. What's with this? (the counter on the website says like 60 but theres somethin wrong with it)

not only do clicks play a huge part like liljim said, but we're talking about two entirely different advertising networks. When companies purchase ads they offer to pay out in varying rates based on clicks and/or impressions. These figures can vary greatly week to week on the same network, let alone different ones.

At 4/15/09 06:06 PM, HorrificMonster wrote: It might make sense to have a radio button available for users who want to put an ad in their flash but are too lazy to set up the API. Then, if it's activated, a short ad plays before the actual flash game/movie plays.

Setting up the api ads really is not that hard. The point of the api ads is that they stick with your submission no matter where it goes on the internet. It's not worth investing the time in your idea because it's just a worse version of what is already available.

Anyway.. the new interface is great! It's nice to see everything gathered in one place for viewing. The new graph is also much more streamlined and convenient.

At 4/14/09 05:48 PM, Tygerman wrote: OK, I have a flash game that plays exactly how I want it to play when I test it or play the swf file.

However, I have embedded it into my website and all the Time objects seem to move slower than they should.

This only happens in the HTML and I have no idea why this is happening. Has anyone experienced this before/know what to do about it?

This is caused by the browser itself, not the actual html. Try upping the fps a little and checking the result.

At 4/14/09 05:06 PM, ShortMonkey wrote: Cheers. I'm not a coder so I'll post in their help forums. If anyone does know please post here though.

you really don't have to be a coder to search through html though- even something simple like doing a text search for 'private' and/or 'message' in the page source might shed some light in the meantime.

At 4/14/09 02:30 PM, Skeddels wrote: Can anyone tell me how to create a PHP that is shown to allow another PHP load? For example, I have a site in PHP that takes some time to load. How do I make another page that is shown while the first page loads in the background?

Something sounds wrong here.. a php page shouldn't take very long to load at all unless your code is written poorly, or you're really doing some excessive processing. Or your host sucks.

Is it something else on the page that causes this? the images? some other component?

What you're asking for is possible with ajax. Have a page that acts as a 'loading' screen, then make an httpObject request that loads in everything else from another php file. But I'd looking into the actual design of your page first before taking this route, as it is not exactly conventional.

At 4/14/09 01:32 PM, Relish wrote: phpBB sucks, use a better alternative such as FluxBB.

that's not really helping much- now that he's gone through the process of setting up a forum he probably isn't looking to change right away.

As for the css issue I'd recommend posting in the phpbb help forums, they will be much more familiar with the software.

As an alternative, open a private message on the forum and view the page souce. Look for the div that contains the message and see what ID it has. It's probably not *that* simple, but it doesn't hurt to do some digging.

Hey I just checked it on iPhone 3g and everything looked fine.

I would suggest searching for some pagination tutorials on google. Just keep in mind that most pagination tutorials are made with Mysql and the LIMIT clause in mind, so that part will have to be a little different. Instead of LIMIT in your query, you'll need to store all of your elements in an array and adjust how you select them out.

flash forum

pagination depends on how many elements there are total, how many you want to display per page, and what is being used to delimit the elements inside the text file (newline? special character?)

but I think maybe the better question is, do you really understand the script you posted and what it does?

At 4/10/09 11:20 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote: I've been learning Java for a small while now. I can write basic programs and do simple things. But one thing I have never understood are the data types, and when to use them and their main purpose.

Lemme break it down:
I understand that a int is preferably used in place of a double if I want to use a program that, say, guesses a number from 1 to 10, because a double is for a lot larger sized number. But I don't understand the float, double, char, and the like concepts. Why are they used in a situation that can be simply replaced by a long, yet if I do, I get an error? And what is a float?

To make it easier, how should I know when to use each data type in different situations?

google could have helped you pretty quick with this one:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
java/nutsandbolts/datatypes.html

To sum up- integers are whole numbers, no decimals or fractions. Longs are integers with a much larger range (see link)

Floats are floating point numbers, IE decimals. Doubles are floats with 'double' precision. To be honest I've never been clear on what exactly that means myself.

Chars are single characters, opposed to strings which can be many characters.

Instead of copy pasting, learn how to actually program in actionscript

If you want a programmer to work with you, provide examples of your artwork

and if you have questions regarding flash or actionscript, post in the flash forum

encrypt the information you pass between server and client. md5 is one-way though, so use something like rc4

encrypt the actual .swf file with something like swfencrypt

keep duplicate copies of important variables with obfuscated equivalents and run checks to make sure they stay consistent, terminate gameplay if they differ

the above methods will help and are a good start but flash by nature will never really be 'un-hackable'

You need to back up and start with the absolute basics, such as declaring variables and using arithmetic operators. And if you choose to continue with actionscript and need help, please post in the flash forum.

At 4/9/09 12:07 AM, fluffkomix wrote: is it faster to load a web page if you have a looping background where the original picture is big, and therefore it doesn't have to copy it so much, or when the original picture is small, so it has less file size but has to copy much more?

The smaller the file the faster your page will load, if this is the only thing we're considering. A smaller filesize is always better but can easily be overshadowed by other performance issues.

A page load is determined by how fast the server sends all necessary data to the client. Once that's finished the server moves on and handles another. So the less total filesize including page code and images the server has to send, the better.

Yes, a smaller background must be 'copied' more. But this is the job of the web browser and consequently, the end user's cpu that powers the web browser. It's better to reserve more work for the client to do if it's no detriment to you.

Our computers are capable of advanced 3-d graphics processing; copying a 2d image several hundred or even several thousand times once per site access is insignificant.

At 4/6/09 10:38 PM, AlexisGOAR wrote:

At 4/6/09 09:33 PM, DearonElensar wrote: Yeah, we need more information.
And i wager a guess that you won't find anyone (not anyone that is competent anyway)

Just looking for a programer that has a game idea... offering my artist skills

then post examples of your work

At 4/3/09 01:51 AM, XxTATERTHOOTHXx wrote: OMFG finding a good game with medals is hard because theyre so many maybe
newgrounds shold do what the xbox360 did medals on all games.

yeah but, it doesn't work retroactively like that. Each game author would need to be contacted, and they would have to produce a new version of the game with the medals code in it.

Read a tutorial on AS3 events and event listeners

experienced programmers don't need to talk about how experienced they are

get yourself familiar with how to use XMLSocket for starters

you should probably provide examples of your artwork

also, what language are you intending to have this done in?

Checking the file's included MIME type is not enough!
preg_match the file extension, make sure to validate with is_uploaded_file(), and then over-write with your own filename.