New Adobe Forums
Not what I was expecting but it will do. I’ve updated my blogroll to point to the new forum page for Actionscript.
Archive for September, 2007
Adobe Forums Update
The update was extended. I still can’t get into the Photoshop Forums. I haven’t noticed any change whatsoever on any of the different sites yet. Maybe its still not live.
Controlling Draggable Clips In AS3
Controlling a draggable clip in AS3 is a pretty simple task. Back in Actionscript 2, you would have to define the each corner of the draggable area inside the startDrag method. In AS3, this process was simplified. Now we define a Rectangle object which defines the top x and y coordinates as well as the width and height of the draggable area.
Adobe Forums Update
FINALLY! Someone over there is thinking! I hate having to use two different log-ins depending on the program I’m posting for. I applaud the change and can’t wait to see it happen.
Contact Forms Using AS2/AS3 With PHP
UPDATE : The files for this have been moved to my main site now. You can find them here.
Per request on the Adobe Actionscript Forums, this is the base code I have used for a contact form for some time now. There are a few things that need to be changed such as $toaddress in the PHP file (should be set to your e-mail address) and the mail.php call in both version of the Flash FLA need to be updated with the full path to the mail.php file after it has been uploaded to your server. Click Read More for the code.
Chatopica Widget
I strongly recommend this to anyone using Flex. The basic idea is to interconnect as many developers and designers by including the widget on every web page related to Flex programming. If you are developer or designer that uses Flash/Flex/Actionscript3, please help the community and include the widget on your site thus building a stronger, bigger network of developers.
ASP.NET IIS7 & 4 H34D4CH3
4 H34D4CH3 (A Headache). If you thought that was confusing, you should have had the weekend I had. Sunday was a day spent getting ASP.NET running on my local machine under Vista and IIS7. After hours of figuring that I’d set it all up correctly I was bewildered to find that the all import MS SQL Server was missing from the install but lucky me, I just happened to have Visual Studio 2005 laying around which I had planned to install prior to getting IIS7 running… It only took me five hours, half a case of soda and a massive headache to realize that I should have done them in that order… I wish the team running the IIS7 error management could get a job working higher up on the MS food chain because then maybe their online documentation would include some kind of direction on the proper installation path.
Using FileReference To Download PDFs (AS3)
I recently added functionality to a project that allows downloading of PDF files. I very much dislike using navigateToURL unless it is absolutely necessary and this prevented me from having to do so. The example uses the FileReference class introduced in Flash 8. The code below is for AS3 but could be modified pretty easily to make it valid AS2.
Migration Complete
WOW! At long last. I finished my first AS3 migration. The site is up and running - View Site.
Five Event States of URLLoader & Loader
This post is meant to compliment a post I made on the Adobe Forums - view thread.
On the web, a browser has a logical heirarchy it follows whenever a link is clicked or a website is displayed. This process applies to every single request whether that request comes from the browser itself or from another widget or plug-in on the current page.
Often times in Flash, requests are made to load external content whether it be text, images or other media. No matter what type of content we desire to get into Flash or into our browser, the process is the same.