Counting 134 news feeds from fellow bloggers, check out http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs and somewhere in there you will find mxer.com In any case, it is a great source for information on many other Macromedia products and topics. The MXNewsAggregator is powered by the fullasagoog...
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Read MoreI frequently check out www.actionscript-toolbox.com, by Helen Triolo for insightful tips and experiments and noticed she has a new one, explaining in full detail all about things you can do with shape definitions. This experiment shows how to have a vector image draw itself with FLash MX. Very well done and explained. Check it out: http://www.actionscript-toolbox.com/… She also has a vast (I mean vast…) library of useful AS scripts in her FAQ section....
Read MoreI noticed in Visual Studio.Net there is a very neat feature that can be implemented in the next version of of Flash. By wrapping the comments in the code with XML tags such as: //comment here VS.NET has an option to compile an XML document called doc.xml which contains all these comments structured with the namespace, class and method they belong to. This would be a great feature for components and any other piece of code that requires documentation, which is pretty much a standard. It could even produce the right skeleton XML for the help section in the reference panel, when building components. Just a...
Read MoreI had used this site a while back, but it has grown quite a bit since then. A search on Flash tutorials returned almost 150 results. All levels, all topics. (among them, some old and not so useful ones) There are also many other common topics. If you are stuck or just want to learn, you may want to check it out:...
Read MoreI was using the scrollpane component in a project and found this bug/tweak. I have several button and only one scrollpane component. Clicking on the buttons, loads different movie clips into the scroll pane with setScrollContent();. Sofar, so good. The problem is when you realize that these clips are dynamically created with duplicateMovieClip() when the swf loads. So all clips exist when they are loaded into the scrollpane, but when a clip is replaced by another using setScrollContent(), this happens (line 75) of the ScrollPane component: FScrollPaneClass.prototype.setScrollContent = function(target){ this.offset.x = 0; this.offset.y = 0; // remove or hide the old movie clip if ( this.content_mc != undefined ) { if (target!=this.content_mc) { this.content_mc._visible = false; this.content_mc.removeMovieClip(); this.content_mc.unloadMovie(); } } …… Notice the last two lines? This will get rid of any dynamically created movieClip and that is the reason why I was able to load a clip into the scrollPane only once. Once replaced by...
Read MoreI had seen C# code somewhere and it seemed strikingly similar to actionscript. So, I had just finished a simple scripted animation movie in Flash and attempted to re-create the same in C#. It took me a while to figure it al out, but here it is. Without a doubt there is a lot more depth in C#, but all in all , the concept, syntax, events, methods and classes are not much differently used than in AS. If you code in AS, don't shy away from a complex language like C#. Anyways, check out this experiment here:...
Read MoreWell…I don't. I don't think I had heard of Macromedia till early 1998. But if you want to see what the site looked like in those days, try this: www.macromedia.com or see many other snapshots of the site taken between 1996 and today at www.archive.org...
Read MoreInfluxis has recenly upgraded to Flash Communication Server 1.5 and also upgraded all accounts with more concurrent connections. If you already have your own hosting and need to experiment with FlashComm, they are a good option. They only offer FlashComm and at a very affordable price too. 10$ per month buys you 10 connections (ofcourse the bandwith is limited…, but for experimenting purposes, I think it is a good deal). They also have a nifty application to managage your application folders and move your files with ease. Check them out at:...
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