Post by Phil / February 12th, 2009
hi there, long time no see … but we are very busy working on some interesting projects and writing the second edition of our “workshops for flash” book.
the latter is also the reason why we are using flash cs4 more than we usually would … and especially the cs4-built-in-actionscript-editor … *phew* what a mess that is. no real auto-completion, no auto-import and the flash-help keeps opening my browser with the online flashhelp :( really annoying.
but there are some ways around this behavior.
offline browser solution:
http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/12/09/offline-as3-language-reference-no-air-application-necessary/
air app:
http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2008/12/09/air-app-as3-language-reference/
great stuff :)
cheers
Post by Aron / November 5th, 2008
Recently we had the problem to change the embed setting of tons of textfields instances inside of at least a gazillion MovieClips. We got the FLA-file from a designer (we maybe haven’t briefed enough… :) ) and wanted to use them in a lib swc for a AS3-only project. So we started to change them “by foot”, internship work, damn it!
Finally we came up with the idea to write a jsfl script which does the job.
There you go: Change Textfield Embed Settings.jsfl
As zip: ChangeTextfieldEmbedSettings.zip
Copy the file inside the command folder here:
Mac: /[user]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS3/en/Configuration/
Windows: \Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\language\Configuration\
How to use:
Create a dummy TextField on the timeline and set it to the embed setting you want to apply to all TextField instances of all MovieClip timelines inside the library. Make sure that this TextField has the same font name as the TextFields you want to apply the setting to. Select this TextField and run the script by clicking “Change TextField Embed Setting” inside the Command menu of Flash.
The script now opens every MovieClip of the library and searches for TextField instances. If found and the font matched with the previously created dummy TextField, the new embed setting will be copied.
Note: The script only works with MovieClip library items and TextField of the type “dynamic” or “input”. Only the embed settings of the dummy TextField will be applied, all other properties will be ignored.
Post by Aron / October 7th, 2008
Great news from our favorite ActionScript Editor FDT. After we post the Unofficial FDT Buglist the Powerflasher (the Company behind FDT) came with an update to version 3.1 (which fixed some of the mentioned bugs and added new features). Some day later they initialized (just like we suggested) a public buglist. We will transfer the open bugs to them and close our post.
Thanks FDT Team. We are looking forward to the future of the best ActionScript editor on earth.
Post by Phil / September 10th, 2008
Keith Peters started hosting the great 25 lines contest (again) – a contest where you can do anything you want only it has to fit into 25 lines of ActionScript 3 code.
I’m really curious what people will contribute. There are some nice prizes up for grabs … go, check’em out.
And now we only have to come up with an idea of our own … mmmm.
Cheers, phil
Post by Aron / August 19th, 2008
UPDATE: There is a official buglist now. Please read this post.
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…
However we have the feeling that since the release of FDT 3.0 Enterprise the development stocked somehow. In our daily work we found a lot of small and big bugs, more or less annoying. Some of them are so obvious and we are wondering why they don’t get fixed. The Bug section of their forum is sadly not usable for “real bugs” since its full of posts like “Help me, my FTD is not working”.
So we decided to publish our own unofficial buglist. Of course, we sent them to the FDT team too and when a bug is fixed we’ll update the list asap.
Read on ›
Post by Phil / April 8th, 2008
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:
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Post by Phil / February 12th, 2008
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 …
Post by Phil / February 6th, 2008
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).
To get access to the fl-package within your Eclipse/FDT3-project you have to include another linked SWC (besides the playerglobal.swc). I just created a SWC using the newest fl.video classes. So if you are using FDT3 and are in need of these classes – just grab them: Download the FL_PACKAGE.swc.
cheers
Post by Phil / February 4th, 2008
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.
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Post by Aron / December 15th, 2007
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.
But: Not inside the Flash IDE! It took me hours to find out. Yeah, i know, i should have known better… :) So don’t worry, inside the Browser it works just fine.
BTW: We’re using Charles to test the preloading functionality. Charles also allows you to protocol the sent and received remoting data both inside the Flash IDE and Browser (Firefox / IE). Charles is not free, but it’s worth the money!
