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Originally Posted by FLASHPULSE

"Scary Maze game" seems to hide the mouse (using Opera and IE) when previewing on KoolExchange.

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Yea i just relised that then you could just right click to get out of it
but you could edit the code so that it doesnt do that.

Submitted a file tonight that I made for a forum question that will show how to save dynamically created filenames using PHP.

I was going to submit an example of a single button that uses the "Add To Cart" feature of PayPal payments but instead submitted a button code generator that will let you guys generate the script so you can use it on any buttons you wish (or clips as buttons,etc). Just fill in the blanks. This way it's re-useable and more of a "tool".

It will generate both "Buy Now" scripts and "Add To Cart" scripts.

Requires Windows 98+ . Submitted tonight.

Chris, your PPgen looks great, but shouldn't you allow decimal amounts in the price field? Well made otherwise and very usefull.

I'll add the decimal point and see if I can get the download replaced. I left it out at the last minute because I noticed some oddities with rounding numbers but will add it back.

EDIT: I have the updated. I just need to swap it out.

Thanks to Tim Moore and Alex White the Exchange has crossed the 100 file mark !

Great additions guys. :thumbsup:

Ditto to all who have been kind enough to donate their files for the benefit of other Koolmoves users. :grouphug:

Is there a file in exchange that allows you to accept emails from your site to send newsletters to the emails submitted if so what is the name of the file. See the picture for an example of what I'm talking about.

You can adapt the e-mailer by Brett to send whatever autoresponse you want, or if you are simply collecting e-mail addresses for later mailings, cut down Chris's version. Both use php so you will need that available on your server, otherwise look at brett's 'local' mailer, submitted this week.
Brett's is called e-mail form with error checker
Chris's is called Loadvars Mailform
Both to be found in the input forms section.

You probably need to store the emails and names in a database then use a form for yourself to create the email to send then using the database to send the emails.

So yes you can do it. It is not a trivial thing to build and most of the hard work is PHP and not really relevant to Koolmoves really. Look at Chris's many examples of sending and recieving data to the server and you might get a good start on how to do it. But read up on MySql and PHP to build your database and the access to it.

Hi,
Thought you might like to take a look at this http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.cordon/
any coments would be good

Mark

I'm now in a position to let go of the full html editors (as well as other items soon to be released) I have made with Koolmoves.

Although there are html editor components for Flash itself, Koolmoves has none so it's useful for people who want the WYSIWYG for input textareas without the constraints of pulling in an external Flash component into your Koolmoves movie. As Koolmoves source it also lets you edit look of the editor and make it match whatever graphics or layout you need as well as it's ancillary scripting (tweaking the knobs).

What I will do is shrink it down and nest the whole editor into a single master clip that resides on one frame total. This way anyone can pull it into their Koolmoves movies (or save as template,etc) and NOT have it impact their existing timeline scripting. I will code a master submit button so everyone has the affected html textfield ready to POST so it's easy to tie the variable to anything you want. Maybe it will end up as food for thought towards a component down the road. Who knows.

I'll have it packaged and submitted by the weekend.

Great news Chris, look forward to that.

Appreciate it.

I'm clearing out all old code so there will be things like how to do internal Paypal carts (1 XML based, 1 MySQL based), the Blog system I was using recently, the V2 version of the myBBS forum (integrates the full html editors), the standalone html editors (two flavors) and just a bunch more being submitted. Sorry it's all not ready immediately but all have to be converted from personal use items (I actually used all of them) to downloads. I just yesterday decided to dump it all when I wrote about the first editor coming so trust me it will all arrive at some point to the Exchange.

Sounds like Christmas is early this year!

Yeah eh eh eh.... Bret says rubbing his hands together.

HTML Editor submitted.

Preview of Submission

Visual Usage Example

Chris, let me be the first of many, I'm sure to say well done, great tool.
I made a projector of it, having made txt17 selectable beforehand, and it sits on my desktop as a really quick and easy text creation tool, from which I can do a copy and paste.

I did try to post out from it using
subbut.onPress=function(){

var send_lv = new LoadVars();
send_lv.action = "send";
send_lv.box1 = "&txt1var=" + txt17.text;
send_lv.sendAndLoad("newform.php", result_lv, "POST");
}

Any ideas wht this didn't work?

A full sendAndLoad would be similar to this:

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var result_lv= new LoadVars();
    result_lv.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
      //do something
    } else {
    //do something else 
    }
    };
    var send_lv = new LoadVars();
    send_lv.message = txt17.text;
    send_lv.sendAndLoad("somebackend.php", result_lv, "POST");

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sorry mate, forgot to say thanks.

Hi Chris, got the posting sorted now thanks, its working fine.
What I have been trying to do, without success is to load the existing document in, which then can be amended. What I tried was to use the usual
loadVariables("mytext.txt?" + getTimer(), _root);
which gets the old text in, then populate an off stage text box with that, then use a button to make txt17.text = the .text of my new field.
When I tried this, it came up as undified, because the text failed to populate, and I assume that must be associated with the level, because when I come 1 back out to the root level it will populate, but then I cant get it to transfer over to txt17 on the lower level.
Hope this makes sense.
Can you help?
Cheers

Pretty much using the same methods you do now with the other parts of the suite.

At least I recall you saved to text.

Chris, sorry but I'm being thick here,
I've got a text file called page1.txt that I saved from the editor using php,
It has 1 variable called txtpag1var
how can I load that back into the editor?

Nice job Tim :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


Stoke: I have complete confidence you will figure it out :)

I haven't, thats why I came here for some help.

Other than the example load I posted I don't plan on supporting it. Anyone who can not get it to do what they want please feel free to email me for a full refund :)

Just thought if you built something, you might want to help people use it, Whatever.

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Originally Posted by Stoke Laurie

Just thought if you built something, you might want to help people use it, Whatever.

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You know what, I quit drinking coffee and smoking this week so I'm going to ignore that last comment so I don't say things I can't take back. I'll leave it at "Sorry you feel this way".

Chris, we are not going to fall out over this, look back up the thread and see who it was that thanked you for the tool, and I thought seeing as it's purpose was to edit text, it would be great if it could load text and save text, that all.
ps good luck with the fags.

I've done all I can.

The html editor will most likely be the last for quite a while. Soon I'll be yesterdays news.

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Originally Posted by Chris_Seahorn

I'll be yesterdays news.

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Doubt that very much, :thumbsup: I'll take what you,ve just done, thanks and go and make it work. See, thats another half hour without fags done!!! (ps I'm still not packed up!)
Cheers

That works a treat!
so now I can load and sent, just what I needed.
Thanks Chris

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I'm getting ready to submit my Koolmoves MySQL Blog system and wanted to post a bit here about it first.

Some of you are familiar with it because I personally used it. Unlike the Forum submission this one has an admin panel that can be run online but I suggest you run that locally using full urls in the movie, reasons are obvious :)

After using it two or three months I added commenting abilty for anonymous users so it could be commented to by anyone. All comments are held until the admin approves so it's negates a spam issue. Problem is I never coded an admin section to handle the comments (I approved or dissaproved in phpmyadmin). Right up front I have to apologize for that. If I get free time down the road I will add it but most likely others will beat me to it.

The articles themselves can be added, edited or deleted from the admin included so as far as that you will be fine. Like most of my stuff it will need some artistic flair (especially admin) because I'm not a visual coder and most of my stuff is graphically challenged (I focus on dynamic data and making it work and leave good looks to those who know how :)) The blogger I purposely made simple and clean so it would emulate a PHP blogger. It blogs like a monster. It uses the WYSIWYG html editors for both admin posting in admin and commenting for users in the online blogger itself and stores the flash html in the database natively. This blogger also includes backends that will RSS 2.0 out all articles (wrapping the articles themselves in CDATA tags)on the fly. Although RSS validation will WARN about the textarea syntax, it will validate and present you with a cute little RSS graphic if you test validation. I again chose to store this way on purpose so I could more easily re-use the data in other Flash textarea fields in other movies.

Once I get some comments added and populate it with some fake posts (using lorum ipsum) to create a MySQL dump as well as debug the backends I will get it submitted for the holidays.

Scouts honor :)

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Wanted to add to those in the know that Stoke and I have worked out our past discussions.

Also I have setup a forum for anyone needing help with any of the code I submit to the Exchange or who just want to PM me and chat. Since I'm on a self served website I ask users to keep forum posts specific to my code and any general KM questions should be handled here at the official forum. Mine is hidden until you register (instant process without email verification) so it helps keep my band low so I can work on other movies (all mine are dynamic so every drop helps).

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Originally Posted by Chris_Seahorn

Wanted to add to those in the know that Stoke and I have worked out our past discussions.

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To those of you who know me well will know this is the best news I've had all week. :)

Setting the blog system (myBLOGG) up for submission today. It uses two routines in particular that Wilbert offered here in the forum (fading in/out text and API Thin Scrollbars) and am crediting him for both in the source with a link to his site. This will be housed at Flashkit too so I felt I should mention.


To Wilbert, first...thank you :)

Second, if you would rather I just credit your name and not your website feel free to let me know today. I will write it whatever way you wish :thumbsup:

Hi Chris,

Only my name will do :)
Great that you are releasing the source to the public :thumbsup:

Will do Wilbert :thumbsup:

Thank you again. There are snippets of you in all my stuff (since you really are the point man on components for KM) so I may have need of this blessing again and will write it that way as well in any included :)

The setup is going well and the Blog frontend itself is already ready. The backends just finished up cleanup and I'm on the admin panel now. Should be in later today or evening after I write a bit of setup instructions.

I'm sorry my code isn't better commented. It's too hard for me to attempt to teach PHP and Actionscript with commenting and a lot of my stuff will assume a certain understanding of both (which is why my stuff is normally only downloaded by a particular type of KM user) just to save me a ton of time. I have a lot of stuff coming and if I try to write detailed comments for each section I will never get it released. Sorry again.