Flash in its essence began as a tool for creating vector animations on the
web. The Flash Player was designed specifically as a lightweight animation
viewer to display those moving vector objects which are in their simplest
form, mathematical equations that describe complex shapes made up of points,
lines, curves and fills. However, nowadays developers and designers are using
Flash to do a lot more than just animation, today we see Flash being used for
everything from interactive banner ads to games and large applications with
complex user interfaces. We are now pushing Flash to its limits and our frame
rates are starting to suffer as we continue to develop content that is more
application centric.
The Flash Player has had obvious performance limitations for some time no... (more)
Part 1 of this article (Vol. 1, issue 3) covered a general introduction to
the Extensibility Layer and discussed the fundamental DOM and the
relationship between different parts of a Flash document and their associated
objects. It introduced the History panel and showed you how to build your own
Flash panels. In this installment we take an in-depth look at XML2UI and
Flash dialog boxes.
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I've been playing around with the Tree Component in great depth and have
found a few discrepancies which I feel are major pit holes. After a lot of
searching, it was also clear that many other developers have come across the
same issues. My main gripe: the tree component's support for horizontal
scrolling is not very useful. I expected it to work like the ScrollPane's
horizontal scrollba... (more)
Tip #1: Neat Fix - onLoad Bug
I have heard so many people moan on the many community forums and mailing
lists about the onLoad event handler not working with loadMovie and although
I have already posted a fix for the problem
(www.actionscripts.org/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=13830), I found this
very small and functional fix that does the same thing, a while ago on the
Flashcoders Ma... (more)
This Command will delete all empty keyframes on the selected layers. This is
useful when you get a messy file from your designers and want to tidy it up a
bit.
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Guy Watson (aka FlashGuru) has been a well-recognized figure in the Flash community for around four years, supporting the community with tutorials and source files, moderating the large Flash community forums, and running his own Flash resource Web site - FlashGuru's MX 101. Guy was one of the two developers that created the award-winning zoom interface for Relevare and now works for Endemol UK, the creative force behind reality television, producing programs such as Big Brother and The Salon. Guy now spends most of his time developing Flash games and applications for high-profile clients such as Channel 5 Television, Ladbrookes, and UK Style.
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