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At 6/30/09 03:13 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: They might want you to write examples of bug reports and whatnot, to show that you can do it whenever necessary. I've never had any kind of written interview before, but count yourself lucky it's not a phone interview.

yea I hate phone interviews they are shite! figured it might be bug report stuff, maybe even just something stupid about terminology or whatever.. just have to wait and see lol

Cheers

should be spiders 'cause you swallow on average about 8 a year or something like that while you sleep, they just crawl into your mouth and you automatically swallow them.

lol nasty buggers and you always walk thru their webs and get pwnd

I've got a job interview as a games tester on friday XD

just been told theres a written test.. any Ideas what to expect?, i'm kinda hoping its just example bug reports and stuff but I haven't a clue.

thanx for any help XD

At 12/23/08 05:56 AM, SimonG wrote:

At 12/22/08 03:38 PM, cronic-22 wrote: Nollie 360 flip FTW

Can't see it either

maybe cuz of Mac :O

YOU PLAY SKATE?!?!?!?!?! LOVE YOU!!!!

are you going to modofy your flash simonG?

luv cronic

At 12/23/08 08:38 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: I voted.

Now vote on mine kthnx.

http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/25006 /posts/420844.aspx

i just voted, btw wasnt thta get 20 votes the most annoying achievment ever

cronic-22 (round my mates cant be arsed to logout-logon)

I dont know any php stuff im quite crap at that side of things lol

if you could help that would be awesome!

Thanks

Matt

A Foreign Exchange rate feed FROM the pound to US Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar and the euro I found this site does exactly what I want but the dude wasn't happy with it :|

so if you can help with this the site is here (thats not good enough >:(
http://www.exchange-rates.org/AddCustomC ontent/RatesTable

so i would like another source like the above.

sorry for the stupid question but clients can be right annoyances

cheers in advance

Matt

fuckin' wicked mate :) good job

and thanks for that!

Matt

I have this code for an actionscript clock

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

	time = new Date();
	mil = time.getUTCMilliseconds();
	s = time.getUTCSeconds();
	m = time.getUTCMinutes();
	h = time.getUTCHours();
	seconds._rotation = s*6+(mil/(1000/6));
	minutes._rotation = m*6+(s/10);
	hours._rotation = h*30+(m/2);
}

how can I offset this so that it is displayed in different timezones

any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Matt

I went there and found some code so thanks for that.. I found a way of making it drop up but it is really glitchy as in when you mouseover it for the first time it appears in the middle..

the code works perfectly as a drop down I just don't know how to modify it any more. I have already posted the code I've used.

any more help would be excellent

Thanks a lot

Matt

To make a HTML/ Javascript clock from scratch... there's lots of free ones online but they have stupid advertisements that work on mouseover that i don't want.

any help would be awesome thanks guys

Matt

yea i do mean drop down menus but instead of going down they go up as my nav bar for the site is at the bottom of the page...

here is my current javascript:

<style type="text/css">

#dropmenudiv{
position:absolute;
border:0px;
border-bottom-width: 0;
font:normal 12px Verdana;
line-height:18px;
z-index:100;
}

#dropmenudiv a{
width: 100%;
display: block;
text-indent: 0px;
border-bottom: 0px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}

#dropmenudiv a:hover{
background-color: white;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">

var menu1=new Array()
menu1[0]='<a href=""><img src="venture.jpg"></a>'
menu1[1]='<a href=""><img src="profile.jpg"></a>'
menu1[2]='<a href=""><img src="approach.jpg"></a>'
menu1[3]='<a href=""><img src="aims.jpg"></a>'
menu1[4]='<a href=""><img src="business.jpg"></a>'
menu1[5]='<a href=""><img src="development.jpg"></a>'
menu1[6]='<a href=""><img src="growth.jpg"></a>'
menu1[7]='<a href=""><img src="innovation.jpg"></a>'
menu1[8]='<a href=""><img src="expansion.jpg"></a>'
menu1[9]='<a href=""><img src="property.jpg"></a>'
menu1[10]='<a href=""><img src="collab.jpg"></a>'
menu1[11]='<a href=""><img src="contact.jpg"></a>'


var menu2=new Array()
menu2[0]='<a href=""></a>'
menu2[1]='<a href=""></a>'
menu2[2]='<a href=""></a>'
		
var menuwidth='165px'
var menubgcolor='white'
var disappeardelay=250
var hidemenu_onclick="yes"


var ie4=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

if (ie4||ns6)
document.write('<div id="dropmenudiv" style="visibility:hidden;width:'+menuwidth+';background-color:'+menubgcolor+'" onMouseover="clearhidemenu()" onMouseout="dynamichide(event)"></div>')

function getposOffset(what, offsettype){
var totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? what.offsetLeft : what.offsetTop;
var parentEl=what.offsetParent;
while (parentEl!=null){
totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? totaloffset+parentEl.offsetLeft : totaloffset+parentEl.offsetTop;
parentEl=parentEl.offsetParent;
}
return totaloffset;
}


function showhide(obj, e, visible, hidden, menuwidth){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.style.top="-500px"
if (menuwidth!=""){
dropmenuobj.widthobj=dropmenuobj.style
dropmenuobj.widthobj.width=menuwidth
}
if (e.type=="click" && obj.visibility==hidden || e.type=="mouseover")
obj.visibility=visible
else if (e.type=="click")
obj.visibility=hidden
}

function iecompattest(){
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function clearbrowseredge(obj, whichedge){
var edgeoffset=0
if (whichedge=="rightedge"){
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollLeft+iecompattest().clientWidth-15 : window.pageXOffset+window.innerWidth-15
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetWidth
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.x < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure)
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure-obj.offsetWidth
}
else{
var topedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop : window.pageYOffset
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop+iecompattest().clientHeight-15 : window.pageYOffset+window.innerHeight-18
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetHeight
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.y < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure){ //move up?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure+obj.offsetHeight
if ((dropmenuobj.y-topedge)<dropmenuobj.contentmeasure) //up no good either?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.y+obj.offsetHeight-topedge
}
}
return edgeoffset
}

function populatemenu(what){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.innerHTML=what.join("")
}


function dropdownmenu(obj, e, menucontents, menuwidth){
if (window.event) event.cancelBubble=true
else if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation()
clearhidemenu()
dropmenuobj=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("dropmenudiv") : dropmenudiv
populatemenu(menucontents)

if (ie4||ns6){
showhide(dropmenuobj.style, e, "visible", "hidden", menuwidth)
dropmenuobj.x=getposOffset(obj, "left")
dropmenuobj.y=getposOffset(obj, "top")
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")+obj.offsetHeight+"px"
}

return clickreturnvalue()
}

function clickreturnvalue(){
if (ie4||ns6) return false
else return true
}

function contains_ns6(a, b) {
while (b.parentNode)
if ((b = b.parentNode) == a)
return true;
return false;
}

function dynamichide(e){
if (ie4&&!dropmenuobj.contains(e.toElement))
delayhidemenu()
else if (ns6&&e.currentTarget!= e.relatedTarget&& !contains_ns6(e.currentTarget, e.relatedTarget))
delayhidemenu()
}

function hidemenu(e){
if (typeof dropmenuobj!="undefined"){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.visibility="hidden"
}
}

function delayhidemenu(){
if (ie4||ns6)
delayhide=setTimeout("hidemenu()",disappeardelay)
}

function clearhidemenu(){
if (typeof delayhide!="undefined")
clearTimeout(delayhide)
}

if (hidemenu_onclick=="yes")
document.onclick=hidemenu

</script>

with this on the table where i want the button:

<td width="161" height="50"><a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><img src="About.jpg" width="157" /></a></td>

Thanks

Matt

Hey I'm just wondering how to make drop down menu's.. that go up. I have the buttons that need the menus in separate columns on their own row.

Any help would be greatly appreciated I'm really stuck on this :( and it's kind of depsperate

thanks in advance

Matt

thanks for that... How are these programming languages implemented? as in how do you do it?

Can you run them through flash or not or are they purely text based coding?

Sorry I actually know nothing about this sort of coding

Thanks

Anything about VML or VRML coding, what's the difference between them?

Im looking to make a rounded edge cube that spins as the mouse flicks over it with all the faces as clickable buttons. I have gone as far as I can using actionscript but now I'm looking into other coding methods as A/S just doesn't cut it.

any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Matchbox

how would I change this code

theScene["image"+i].contents.attachBitmap(flash.display.BitmapData.loadBitmap("image"+i),1,false,true);

to attach a movie clip instead of a bitmap?

thanks in advance

Matchbox

Sorry for the double post but this is really doing my head in lol

I can e-mail anyone the flash file or the SWF to show what i mean.

Thanks

The advice to charge £100 a page i think is absurd. Your prices can and should be all over the place. And also your price should mirror your skill and reputation.

you say that but i know people who get loads of work charging £200 plus per page in the west end but I do agree try and make your prices seem attractive but make sure its not so low that its not worth doing

no worries good luck an all that shiz

I do a lot of flash Design and Development website building etc.

umm usually If its a Big job like a full site build etc, I charge by the job at about £100 per page/section so from about £200-£1000 for the whole thing.

A few things to factor into your cost:

how much content
how complex
how much programming is required
do you need to have a special image viewer coded etc.

if its only a little job I charge by the hour, i think the going rate these days is about £10 - £20 an hour and up depending on how good you can do the job really. But if your looking to go seriously into the business you may have to drop that or work to budgets for clients. I've had to do quite big jobs for pretty much nothing just to get the client on board as work is quite hard to come by because competition in this field is so strong.

hope that was useful if not a tad gloomy lol

Matchbox

onEnterFrame would use musicmc.gotoAndStop(2) once and the music would start playing once I enter the frame that the my music mc is on. The problem is, is that the music does not stop once I exit the frame.

-on the exit frame (the one where you don't want the music) try putting, _root.stopallsounds();

or (this might not work but)

_root.stopsound("name of sound you want stopped")

hope thats helpful

Matchbox

instead of gotoAndPlay(scene "22") try something like gotoAndPlay(_root.scene 22) Flash really doesn't like going to other scenes using actionscript lol....

as for doing it in movie clips it is a HELL of a lot easier to do everything that way

using movieclips for example in your sonic character you can have different frames for different animations E.G:

10 frames of sonic running with a gotoandplay(frame 1) at frame 10 so it loops the run

and say 10 frames for dying. so at the end of your health bar i.e when it reaches 0 you can put _root.sonic.gotoAndPlay(beginning of dying frames say frame 11) and have a stop on the end of that and then _root.gotoAndPlay(gameover screen) or summin.

and all of the animations etc would all go in the one sonic MC saving a whole bunch of scenes.

you could make a whole game in one MC if you really wanted.

but yea anyhoo

dont know if thats any help

I have this ridiculously long code to make my little cube spin around with the mouse and my own images. Im just wondering how I can make the images work as buttons to.. loadMovie (main.swf, /holder) sort of thing.

Heres my code:

Stage.scaleMode = 'noScale';


var rotations = {x:0, y:0, z:0};


var boxPoints = [{x:-100, y:-100, z:-100}, {x:100, y:100, z:-100}, {x:-100, y:100, z:-100}, {x:-100, y:-100, z:100}, {x:100, y:-100, z:100}, {x:100, y:100, z:100}];

this.createEmptyMovieClip("theScene",1);
theScene._x = 200;
theScene._y = 200;

focalLength = 300;


createImages();


theScene.onEnterFrame = function() {

	rotations.x -= this._ymouse/2000;
	rotations.y += this._xmouse/2000;

	var points2d = pointsTransform(boxPoints, rotations);

	movieClip3PointTransform(this.image0,points2d[2],points2d[0],points2d[3]);
	movieClip3PointTransform(this.image1,points2d[5],points2d[1],points2d[2]);
	movieClip3PointTransform(this.image2,points2d[0],points2d[2],points2d[1]);
	movieClip3PointTransform(this.image3,points2d[4],points2d[3],points2d[0]);
	movieClip3PointTransform(this.image4,points2d[3],points2d[4],points2d[5]);
	movieClip3PointTransform(this.image5,points2d[1],points2d[5],points2d[4]);
};


function createImages() {

	var i = 6;
	while (i--) {

		theScene.createEmptyMovieClip("image"+i,i);

		theScene["image"+i].createEmptyMovieClip("contents",i);

		theScene["image"+i].contents.attachBitmap(flash.display.BitmapData.loadBitmap("image"+i),1,false,true);
	}
}


function pointsTransform(points, rotations) {
	var tpoints = new Array();
	var sx = Math.sin(rotations.x);
	var cx = Math.cos(rotations.x);
	var sy = Math.sin(rotations.y);
	var cy = Math.cos(rotations.y);
	var sz = Math.sin(rotations.z);
	var cz = Math.cos(rotations.z);
	var x, y, z, xy, xz, yx, yz, zx, zy;

	var i = points.length;
	while (i--) {
		x = points[i].x;
		y = points[i].y;
		z = points[i].z;

		xy = cx*y-sx*z;
		xz = sx*y+cx*z;

		yz = cy*xz-sy*x;
		yx = sy*xz+cy*x;

		zx = cz*yx-sz*xy;
		zy = sz*yx+cz*xy;
		tpoints[i] = {x:zx, y:zy};
	}
	return tpoints;
}


function movieClip3PointTransform(mc, a, b, c) {

	mc._visible = pointsIsVisible(a, b, c);

	if (!mc._visible) {
		return;

	}
	var m = mc.transform.matrix;
	m.tx = b.x;
	m.ty = b.y;
	m.a = (a.x-b.x)/mc.contents._width;
	m.b = (a.y-b.y)/mc.contents._width;
	m.c = (c.x-b.x)/mc.contents._height;
	m.d = (c.y-b.y)/mc.contents._height;
	mc.transform.matrix = m;
}


function pointsIsVisible(c, b, a) {
	var db = b.x-a.x;
	if (!db) {
		return (a.y>b.y == c.x>a.x);
	}
	var dc = c.x-a.x;
	if (!dc) {
		return (a.y>c.y == b.x<a.x);
	}
	return ((b.y-a.y)/db<(c.y-a.y)/dc) != (a.x<b.x == a.x>c.x);
}

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance!!!

Matt

Cheers guys

How to convert .swf files into .3gp for free?

I want to put some of my flash movies on my phone

Thanx :)

Matt

hey Thanx for your help!!

I got it sorted in the end just needed a bit of fine tuning!

THANX!!!!!!

Cheers for that It kind of works but when you click, it only jumps back one frame

is there anyway of making it play?

Thanx
Matt

I'm Trying to make an image viewer kind of like the one on this site:

www.elviscommunications.com (under the our work section)

I can get the frames to move forward but i cant get them to reverse.

on (release) {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
play();
if (_currentframe == 15) {
stop();
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}

this is the code that makes it go forward I just need an .. on (release) { reverse to frame 1}

I would really appreciate your help

Many thanks in advance

Matt

Cheers for that, got it all working and what not XD

Hey!

Right i have some movie clips that have an avoid mouse actionscript on them... this code works fine but i need to have them with a boundary so they are encased within a circle and cant escape...

its just to look nice on a web site I'm making really.

heres a download link to the .fla

www.the3rdedge.com/client_folder/avoidmo use.fla

I have already tried a few variations of boundary code but none of them have worked... :|

any help would be excellent, could you post the code in your reply or email me the file (mat@the3rdedge.com) :D please

thanx in advance

Matt