We are working with FDT since version 1.5 and think that it is by far the best ActionScript tool out there; we tried FlashDevelop, Sepi and all the others. Most of the people we work with are using FDT and most of them are pretty pleased, though some of them are a bit shocked when they see the price tag...
Hi there... we've been busy these past couple of days so there wasn't much time for new posts - sorry. But here is a little update.
While developing a flash website (AS3 & SWFObject2.0) that heavily depended on opening URLs in a new browser window we came across the popup blocker problem that the use of navigateToURL causes. When trying to open a new window firefox'/IE's popup blocker will block the window and display its warning. After googling for some time we came across some neat workarounds:
After struggling for some weeks now, I finally found a good implementation of the MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL event for my Mac. Pixelbreaker - who already had a great AS2 MouseWheel script - just posted the new AS3 version. Read more about it on the pixelbreaker-blog.
Have fun ...
Hi ... while building the fullscreen-videoplayer I came across the problem, that I was using an old SWC for the fl-package within Eclipse. With the recent Flash Player 9 Update 3 release, Adobe added some real nice features to the FLVPlayback component (e.g. the enterFullScreenDisplayState() method).
Today I tried to create a fullscreen-videoplayer using Flash CS3's own FLVPlayback class. Everything worked fine ... untill I tried to remove the videoplayer from stage while it was still loading the flv-videofile. The player wouldn't stop streaming the file, it just kept on playing the video - even after i had removed it. I googled in hope to find an easy solution to this problem and found this post by Bluekylin.
So I tried this line:
In AS3 you finally have the possibility to close a Loader request using the Loader.close() function. The so far loaded data is cached, so when you initialize a new Loader it continues. This is working pretty well.
