Monday, September 30, 2002
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News.Flash MX: Tooltip Component Demo by Stuart. Stuart has created a nice demo for Tooltip Component that comes with Flash UI Components Set 3
(Which is part of The Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit)
You can have a look at it Here
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Sunday, September 29, 2002
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News.Director: Director projectors for Pocket PC! Werner Sharp has just announced a public beta of the "Export to Pocket PC Xtra" for Director 8/8.5.
This Xtra will actually take your .DIR and convert it into eMbedded Visual C++ code that will then compile in the freely available eVC IDE from Microsoft. All your Lingo and cast members are converted into eVC code and assets, and compiled into a native Pocket PC application.
For Director/Flash developers who've run into a wall with the relative slow speeds of Flash rendering and ActionScript performance on a Pocket PC, this will provide an highly optimized playback engine capable of twitch game performance on the Pocket PC. Plus the power of Director.
[via: flashthefuture]
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Saturday, September 28, 2002
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Bug.Flash MX: Unable to *continue* with Auto Format! Beware that auto formatting eats your actionscript some times !!!
See the following code
for (var i = 0; i<5; i++) {
if (i == 2) {
continue;
}
trace(i);
//traces 0, 1, 3, 4 (skips 2)
}
If you apply Auto Format to the code it becomes
for (var i = 0; i<5; i++) {
if (i == 2) {
}
trace(i);
//traces 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 (OOPS!!!)
}
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Thursday, September 26, 2002
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News.Flash MX: The 'Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript' Book.
Thanks to New Riders, today I received the most awaited book written by Branden Hall and Samuel Wan
You can get more info about this book here. I will post more about this book as and when I finish reading it.
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Thursday, September 26, 2002
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News.Flash MX: Flash Remoting MX Launched.
Flash Remoting for .NET and Java App Servers now launched, for more info:
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Tuesday, September 24, 2002
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Tips.Flash MX: Corrupt Movieclip? Yesterday I faced this problem.
When I imported a audio file into a movieclip of a heavy flash file, It imported the audio but it was truncated (the end portion of the audio is missing)
I even tried importing the audio into new flash file and drag and drop it in the library but still got the same problem
Finally I managed the situation by
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Recreating the movieclip in a new flash file
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Dragging and dropping it in to my project file’s library
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Swapping the old movieclip with this new one using swap option in properties window
Then it worked :)
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Monday, September 23, 2002
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Tips.Flash MX: Problem importing sound? When our flash file becomes big and complex we often face this problem.
When we try to import the audio we get "One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them" even when you are sure that the audio format is flash compatible.
Solution?
Import the audio into a new blank flash file once done drag the imported audio from this library to your project files library.
It works!!!!
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Sunday, September 22, 2002
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Tips.General: Dedicated Project Explorer. It is always better to keep all our current project files under projects folder in properly named sub folders particularly in a collaborative environment. Also you may be keeping your project files in a server.
In such cases the following tip really helps!
You can create My Projects shortcut in the desktop. Which will open a dedicated Explorer for your projects.
Just create a shortcut with
%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /e, /root,C:\Project
as the Target.
See the Image below for reference
You can replace "C:\Project" with whatever folder you use for keeping your project files (even use a network path).
You can use the same technique for Install folder where you keep all software installation files.
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Friday, September 20, 2002
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Tips.Flash MX: Reducing the file size of Your FLA file. If your flash project includes sound, import the audio as a MP3 file instead of Wave files (convert your wave files to mp3 in your audio editing software).
This not only helps to reduce the file size of your .fla file, also reduces the time taken to publish an swf file out of it. This
Projects using wave files take longer time to publish because every time it will be compressed based on your publish setting.
When handing multiple audio and video files in a project and keep on changing the audio and video also increasing your Fla file size. In my current project which is using only one wave file of 3.5 MB size. After lot of updates Fla size became 30 MB.
Reason for this is because flash file has some unwanted junk data.
Solution for this is saving the file to a different name, using file>save as menu then the junk data is cleared and file size is reduced. My Fla file became 14.45 MB after that
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Thursday, September 19, 2002
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Code.Flash MX: Cloning objects. In ActionScript we cannot pass objects by value. It always passes objects by reference. If you need to create a perfect copy of an object you can make use of the following code. I have modified Flash Guru's clone with support for Array Objects
Source code is available at http://www.shockwave-india.com/blog/actionscript/Object-clone.as
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Wednesday, September 18, 2002
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Code.Flash MX: Splitting String to Words Array. Now I'm in the process of creating Action Script (or any script) color highlighter in flash. Which can be used in forums to post the ActionScript
As and when the user types a property or keyword it will highlight in the specified color.
I'm planning to set the .htmlText property every time he types some thing.
That is I will find and replace all the keywords with appropriate <font> tags.
This process will become complicated when the string is too long (too many looping) to avoid this what I'm planning is to split the string in to words & non words put into an Array
For example
txt="Huh! Multimedia?"
will be kept in Words List like this
WordsArr=["Huh", "! ", "Multimedia", "?"]
in which first element is the word and second is the nonword and so on
Once I have this array I can get the HTML formatting just by replacing the keywords in the array with <font color="#0000DD">+keyword+</font>
finally setting the .htmlText as wordArr.join('');
When the user continues typing with the Caret position I will find out and add it to the appropriate portion of the array or append a new element to the array.
for splitting up the words I use is available at
http://www.shockwave-india.com/blog/ActionScript/getWords.as
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Wednesday, September 18, 2002
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Code.Flash MX: Working with color HEX & RGB. If any one working with color HEX values and RGB values might find this useful
I’m in the process of creating a colorscheme component with which you can specify the color scheme of all the UI elements by just defining the base color
It will calculate the highlight, highlight3D, shadow, darkshadow colors and assign them to globalStyleFormat object.
This code is the byproduct of that and is available at
http://www.shockwave-india.com/blog/ActionScript/colorUtils.as
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Friday, September 13, 2002
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Update.Arul's Blog: Welcome to Arul's Blog! Here I'm going to share my views, opinions and code with you all
It is taking too long to update my shockwave-india.com site
So I thought of having the blog first
Regards
R.Arul Kumaran
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