I set myself a little challenge yesterday, I wanted to see just how quick it was to develop in Flash Lite, that being a major selling point. My chosen project was a (greatly simplified) version of Jermain Andersons TV Guide application. I’m not sure exactly how he put his together, but I can talk about how I went about it. I’ve also provided all source code and a demo at the end. ...
I guess this is as good a time as any to announce the Flash Mobile Community site. The original aim was to allow developers to share SWF’s for testing on a variety of devices, but it now aggregates relevant news feeds, members can publish their own blogs and discuss anything Flashy. All made possible with Drupal (which I am seriously impressed with). Flash Mobile Community can be found at: www.flashmobileforum.org
For those using Natural Docs, after the barrage of related posts on MXNA, FullAsAGoog and today’s great news. I’ve just finished a quick GUI in Java for those on Mac/Linux (using MTASC! ;)) and Windows of course. I haven’t got a Mac machine so if anyone cares to try it, please let me know how it goes! More info and download/source here.
Thankyou… thankyou… Patrick for your efforts and Alessandro for pointing this out! http://www.sephiroth.it/blog/2004_12_10_weekly.html#110267803977774175 p.s. Looking at the CVS, Mr Mineault has also added Service Browser functionality (from the IDE?).
Oh dear 🙁 This one really can mess up a game or application if you are publishing for Flash 6 player (or 7 in depending on coding restrictions), or at least have you stumped for a few minutes….. Your mx.transitions.Tween’s can simply stop responding, or even better, your sprites dissappear (depending on the order the following occurs). Here’s an illustrated problem: This can occur in a purely AS2 (class based app), but I’m going to simplify it for now and put in some timeline based code. If you are using the Tween class to perform some animation, for example, I have a “ball_mc” on stage. I use the following on the timeline: ...
For anyone wishing to use the Yamago File upload component in a Flash 7 movie, it requires a little bit of tweaking. I wrote about how to do this in this FlashCoders thread: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?1:sss:123252 Update: Ok so Chattyfig password protected the archives, which is completely understandable, so I’m pasting my replies here: …case sensitivity in MX2004 strikes again 🙂 Just change the Object.registerClass from: Object.registerClass(“idYamzbrowser”, Yamzbrowser); to Object.registerClass(“idYamzBrowser”, Yamzbrowser); and… Ok I dug into it a little, and found a few things to get it started… ...
Here’s a thing. You attach some MovieClip to the stage and try to style or set a components properties that resides within it, only to find your efforts are ignored. Imagine you have a library symbol containing a button, and with the following AS2 class bound to it: import mx.controls.*; class App extends MovieClip { var a_button:Button; public function App() { a_button.enabled = false; // ignored } } The reason the setting of .enabled is ignored, according to EAS2 is that Flash works from the outside in, so a child movie can see it’s parent upon creation, but not the other way around. Now this doesn’t apply to intrinsic properties, such as _rotation or _alpha, just properties and methods you have attached to a MovieClip sub-class/component through a class. ...