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I don't think so.
Trying to keep track of users, logins, logouts and their messages without storing them somewhere is gonna bog your server down even more than using a database. Maybe you could do...

your asking too much.

no matter what your gonna need some "middle-ware" like php or asp installed on the server.

a flash chat with a txt file is not soo good.

I would say a simple solution...

Whoops, I ment no you can't if the flash movie that is doing the loading is outisde the protected zone. I'm pretty sure if you login to the protected zone and the flash movie is behind the protected...

Nope.

It didnt look like I was going to get any help on this one so i wrote the function myself. I'm not sure how efficient it is but at least I works. I'm still wondering how many times I could call this...

To do that the "right way", look into a flash/php/mySql setup with sessions!
A text file to hold passwords is a bad bad thing, security wise

~Dev

You must always call session_start() if you want to use the $_SESSION or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS arrays. This function not only starts the session it continues a current session.

~Dev

Hi,

is parsing a string the best way to find the relative path to the root of a website?
If i use this "finPath()" function in all my <img src> tags will it bog down the server?

I wanted to...

Hi,
I think you were having trouble becuase of 2 things.

1. the word Menu is a reserved word in flash, try nameing your class something else like CustomMenu

2. (more important) in your class...

I made a TextField prototype out of the above code and moved this messy thread to a freshy:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=510327

Hi Fellow Flashers,
I wrote this prototype that adds a dropshadow to any TextField object. It works great as long as the TextField object is on the _root. If I try to use the prototype on any...

Well here is what I came up with, I'm not so sure this is the most efficient way to do things if anyone has a better way please let me know.
test is the name of my dynamic textfield on the stage(I...

oops that was simple, I got it to work like this(test is the name of my TextField):


origProps = new Object();
for(var i in test){
origProps[i] = test[i];
trace("property: "+i+" =...

Hi,
I'm trying to figure out whats the best way to duplicate a TextField with the EXACT properties of TextField it was duplicated from. I want to grab all the properties from the original...

Your Welcome. For simplicities sake your method of doing this will work fine.
~Dev

maybe you are using the wrong operator in your if statement?

1 equals sign is the assignment operator, 2 equals signs is a equality operator. you want to use == in an if stament like this:...

Hi All,
I was just dabbling around and I came up with this class, I thought I would pass it on for all you AS 2.0 addicts. I'm still learning so Feedback is appreciated. Is there a way to implement...

I'm making the LoaderBar class, today. I'll post it whn I'm done. Maybe we can combine our coding efforts?
~Dev

nice work.
you da man cancer!
I would like to try eliminate the need for an external preloader movie, and just create a loader bar with the drawing API, the displays with createEmptyTextField(,...

all the component code is there, pretty interesting stuff I might add:

local:
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\First Run\Classes

I found this in the docs:
Changing skin properties...

That would be just beautiful.

I vote yes, Who's gonna write it?

PS: who would vote NO?

~Dev

Hi all,
I was wondering how people are targeting the flash 6 player with AS 2.0 in regard to a preloading class.
I tried implementing a loader class written by Ralf Bolkenburg into my own classes....

Opps I found the problem. I had a space in my ASImageException class filename. It was ASImageException .as

Hi all,
I'm trying to implement my own custom Error class within a class I wrote called ASImage.

ASImageException.as:


class ASImageException extends Error {
public function...