I'm trying to load an image by its URL in javascript. It will be changed dynamically from flash. How do I display an image from a variable with the URL in it?

Thanks,
Joe

Hey Renae!

Yeah, its been a LONG time and it feels as if I'm starting over here but hopefully I get some good content to use. It would be great if you contributed but obviously I'm not forcing anyone to do any work they don't want to do!

So funny that you recognized me.

- Joe

We've got about 3 great little clips from NG members but we sure could use a lot more. Remember this is a great opportunity to get your name out in the public!

At 11/20/09 09:18 PM, Mexifry wrote:

At 11/20/09 08:58 PM, Jams44 wrote: Still open for plenty more!

- Joseph

Something that might help the readers gain some interest is to make your claim sound more legitimate.

Here's a few questions I though of that might help people jump on board this.

Do you have a website?
How long have you been in music?
What's some of your background?
What are the frame rate specifications?
Where's a link to the song that we are animating to?
What does the animator get in return? Money? Credits?

http://radiantstatic.com is my basic portfolio site, nothing spectacular
I've been in music as long as I can recall, I've worked for a record company here in Syracuse for almost a year now and I've been writing/performing for about 4 years. None of this has to do with the topic at hand. Its not even my music we will be animating to.

The frame rate doesn't matter, as long as it fits with the sound clip provided. That means its 30,60,120, or 240 bpm which can be easily translated to fps if needed. Just use the audio file.

As I mentioned earlier, the audio can't be released until the release of the video itself, not my rules, its the label's rules. And also, as mentioned before you will receive credit in the credits for your work. I'm not getting paid for this, its just a project I'm working on. Certainly a great thing to add to your portfolio. Post if you are interested.

Still open for plenty more!

- Joseph

Hey Guys,

As a part of the ongoing promotions the record label I work for is doing, my studio concepts class will be shooting a music video for one of the bands. Right now, we are coming up with ideas but I am looking to do something along the lines of this:

http://vimeo.com/1781230

So what I am asking is this...
If you would like to have one of your animations featured in the music video as well as your name in the end credits, shoot me an email or post here.

We are looking for characters that are very similar to those in the video posted above, they will be imported into After Effects and placed accordingly throughout the video. While we already have basic characters for the main focus of the video we are trying to gather many many many more.

http://radiantstatic.com/files/audio/120 bpm.mp3

This is an audio file you can sync your animation to. Snare/Bass drums are 1/2 notes while bass drum is played every 1/4 note. The animated character(s) must be on a blank stage. Size is not really an issue, the bigger the better (easier to size down). If you'd like to do more than one character, go for it. You'll probably get your credit text in a fancy color or something, haha. Please refrain from adding any background elements into the animation. For multiple characters, please use multiple .fla project files.

Also, in the style of the animation posted above, we would appreciate that all submissions be frame by frame. However, there are always exceptions.

Anyways,
If you are interested, drop me a line at jams44@gmail.com or post here.
If you have any questions, post away.

PS
I can't play you the song and I can't tell you the band/artist. I'm sorry, but I have to follow rules too.
When all is done, everyone will be free to watch/download.

Love,
Josepn

Anyone?

Okay, so I have an assignment (I'm in art school) that requires me to use Word as the main medium for a project. Without going to far into the whole objective of this project, I need some help.

I need to get a period (as in ".") on the last line of every page. There is only one period on every page and it must start on the left side and end on the right side. Each period must be one space to the right of the period on the previous page. Now, is there anyway I can run a script to do this for me? I'd rather not manually make 150+ pages and move the period across myself but I may have to.

I know this seems utterly and completely ridiculous, but maybe there is some sort of automation I can use.

At 11/17/09 11:48 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: First, where ever you copied that from, it's archaic. It's possible to do exactly the same thing with half the lines.

Second, your drag function is backwards. It should be left, top, right, bottom.

No matter which way I switch it, it still only drags downwards. And the script was taken from a tutorial that revolved around playing audio files from an XML file list. Sadly written in AS2. If you have a suggestion on how to better write it, please elaborate.

At 11/17/09 12:26 PM, henke37 wrote:

At 11/17/09 11:08 AM, Jams44 wrote: The math for the volume is correct.

No, it is not. The volume increases as it is moved downwards. This clearly is the right scenario in your picture, the one marked as "do not want".

I'm aware. I was explaining that the basics behind the volume was right or else it wouldn't work in the first place. It's not that I need to take a class on linear functions because this is the only time I will be working with Flash/ActionScript. Just lookin' for some help.

At 11/17/09 01:31 AM, henke37 wrote: I don't think that you are considering the height of the handle itself in the calculations. The limitation box is restricting the registration point, not the full object. (But that's just my guts speaking, not something I looked up)

For the volume issue, you are not doing the right math. You should take some classes in linear functions and figure out what the issue is.

The math for the volume is correct. If anything it's just inversed. It's proportionally risng and declining within the restrictions of the slider. It just so happens that the slider is out of place and that it is going down.

I originally had this working in a left to right position. However, due to space restrictions I needed to convert it to a vertical volume bar, this is where I ran into problems.

Can anyone else help?

Okay,

So I've been slaving away working on this stupid translucent flash player bar thing. Anyways, I can almost see the light but I've been stuck on one problem and one problem only. I'm trying to make a vertical volume bar and slider. As you drag the slider up the volume does up. As you drag the slider down, the volume goes down. However, the slider isn't staying within its constraints. In fact, it is directly the volume bar but still holds the height constraints. However, as the slider goes down, the volume goes up. Here's my code and attached is an image of the problem.

this._parent.volume1.dragger.onPress = function() {
		startDrag(this, true, this._x, 0, this._x, this._parent.volBG._height);
		_root.toolTip._visible = true;
		setInterval(draggableTip,100);
		function draggableTip(){
			_root.toolTip._y = _root._ymouse;
		}
		this.onEnterFrame = function() {
			var p = (this._y/this._parent.volBG._height)*100;
			this._parent._parent.sound_mc.sound_obj.setVolume(p);
			
		};
	};
	this._parent.volume1.dragger.onRelease = function() {
		delete this.onEnterFrame;
		stopDrag();
		
	};
	this._parent.volume1.dragger.onReleaseOutside = function() {
		_root.toolTip._visible = false;
		stopDrag();
		
	};

Does anyone have any information on how I should go about making a flash audio streamer that is fred data from a XML file. I essentially need control buttons, volume control, text display, and a progress bar. Any suggestions? Anyone willing to help me out?

At 11/15/09 05:46 AM, hdxmike wrote: Well like said JS might be better but i would do it in flash completely because it would be shit easy and i could get some nice music player visualizations and browsers n shit but thats just me

shit

I'm going to try my best to stick within flash, far more resources to specific instances of projects. An example: a flash audio streamer/player. Also, the player will just be simple audio controls, Back PAuse Play Forward and possibly a status bar.

At 11/15/09 05:37 AM, andy70707 wrote: not as far as I know, I know you can do it with adobe AIR but I have never figured out how to do that. Your best solution would be to stick the part of the background the flash player would be on in the actual flash underneath the transparent area, so it looks semi transparent.

Actually, just found a link to do so, so I've answered this question but I've got a couple more.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/trans parency.htm

At 11/15/09 05:20 AM, ZuiGe wrote: Go to the Flash portal, open a random flash, then scroll up and down.

Yes, it is possible but doesn't work very well as you see. The movie starts twitching and moves to odd spots. I think the only way to do what you're trying to do would be using javascript, not flash.

I think you misunderstood the concept. The movie will not be moving.

Anyways, now that I got that problem solve, can anyone direct me into how I can go abouts making a flash audio streamer that feeds off a XML feed??

Worked perfectly, thank you!

Hi Everyone,

Long time no see.

Here's my question:

I asked the programming forum for help regarding creating a bar on the top of a webpage that remains static as the page is scrolled. My reasoning for asking this is because it will contain a flash music player that will be feeding off an XML script (Artist, File Location, and Image file location). Thing is, I'm trying to make the bar translucent while keeping the album art at 100% opacity. I can load the image art using javascript from flash but my main concern is, can I embed flash and still uphold translucency. In layman's terms, is there a way to "see through" the flash player to the content below? This may be really easy but seeing as I have little to no Flash/ActionScript knowledge (although I'm sure to learn from this project), I'm not sure if this is possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

- Joe

PS Attached is an image to explain what I am doing.

Alright,

First of all - long time no see, haven't been to the forum in a while but maybe you guys/gals can help me.

Question:

I'm working on a page that will have a bar across the top that will contain a music player as well as album art. I am attempting to get the bar to have some sort of translucency to it to allow the background to be seen through it. However, the bar will also have an image that will not be translucent near the left side that will contain the album art. How would you go about doing this? Any links that could help me out? Does anyone know exactly what to do. The content on the page will be scrollable and this bar as well as the album art will have to be static (stay in place). Right now I'm just worrying about this, as I will ask the Flash forum for help with the player itself. The album art will be displayed and updated via javascript from the flash player.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am attaching an image in case you are confused.

Thanks in advanced,
Joseph

Nah, I'm not coding the blog nor is that image mine, it was just a good example. If I needed a blog I'd just use wordpress or something. It's thecomcept though that I need to know how to do. Any help would be great.

Hey NG, long time no see,

This idea has always confused me so maybe someone can help. I'm trying to make a monthly archive list of blog entries.

Example: Near the green bar under ARCHIVE
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3416/
blogka5.jpg

Essentially, in PHP and mySQL, I want to find out if there are any posts in a month (all posts are time stamped) and if there are any at all, print that month as a possible accessible link. I could just manually add a month as months go by but thats lame. And I don't want a month being displayed if there aren't any posts in it.

I'm just confused :)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe

update to 8.10. If it doesnt work, try a reformat and/or try another distro. I just switched from Ubuntu 8.10 to Mandriva and am in love. All I can suggest.

Smulse is right. You all (who contradicted him) are fucktards. The solution to the question would be sIFR or else use generic Windows fonts. I left this forum a long time ago because people started to act like immature twats. I now see that it hasn't changed.

At 9/24/08 07:34 PM, putzpie wrote: Depending on weather you want to be taken seriously or not as a programmer, you should follow standards.

Depending on the weather? ha just playing, i haven't been here in a long time.

PS - its "whether"

Okay,

So I've been off PHP for a while and have been having some trouble with a script. The script allows login by checking database for username/md5'd password. Then after setting session it allows access to any page with the protection script on it. Thing is, it won't let me in and sends me to the "restricted" out.php page.

 
<?php

$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'user';
$dbpass = 'pass';

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die
								('Error connecting to mysql');
$dbname = 'member';
mysql_select_db($dbname);

$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = md5($_POST['password']);

$qry="SELECT user FROM data WHERE user='$username' AND md5_pass='$password'";

$result=mysql_query($qry);

if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0) {
	//Login Successful
	//Regenerate session ID to
	//prevent session fixation attacks
	session_regenerate_id();
	$member=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
	$_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID']=$member['id'];
	//Write session to disc
	session_write_close();
	header("location: index_in.php");
	exit();

}	
else {
print 'User doesn\'t exist!';
}
?>

Now, index_in.php is just a basic page but is protected by this authenticate script:

<?php
//Start session
session_start();
//Check whether the session variable
//SESS_MEMBER_ID is present or not
if(!isset($_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID']) || 
	(trim($_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID'])=='')) {
	header("location: out.php");
	exit();
}
?>

If it's denied it sends to the out.php page. However, the login is returning positive but the actual setting of the session is returning NULL. can anyone help me out. Excuse me if I didn't use the code tag properly!

Ah correct me, I just read the first post :(

I like the design a lot. Slicing and making it CSS valid is your next step. Since it appears that none of the content is capable of stretching, you won't have to worry about expandable content boxes. I don't know why people are posting validation links considering its just a background image, there isn't anything difficult about making that valid. Slice that up and make it work brother

Hey Guys/Gals,

I'm doing a website for my service hours at school (donate time/money) and I have the layout all set out and what not. Now what I am looking for is an easy to use content management system that is easy to use (possibly used by children). I looked at Drupal but it's far to complicated for what I need. I need something that can easily be placed into an existing layout (easily themed).

I also need something along the lines of....

home page
calender
individual pages
ability to make new pages

And I'm trying to find this all in one system, even if it has mods or extensions thats fine. I just don't want to make the people wait by writing the bitch out so...

Any help would be great!

- Joe

By the way, I'll do it. I have plenty of time this week, so shoot me an email. jams44 at gmail dot com

How do you expect anyone to work if you don't have a set price? Give us an estimate, don't be shy, if its too much we'll say so, if its low we'll say so.

Eh...around?

Apple offers a dev center specifically for web apps and pages for use on the iPhone.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcen ter/

As for the PSP....who uses that?

jk

http://www.brothercake.com/site/resource s/reference/psp/

okay I got one of the gaps to close. I did it by using

[code]margin-top 0px !important;[/code]

Now all I need is the bottom one, tried a ton of combinations still to no luck!