Just a quickie to say that my IE version of Flash 8 hasn't auto updated itself yet. I'm guessing it's something to do with the me installing and uninstalling that plugin so many times (using Flash plugin switcher) that it doesn't really know whether it's coming or going anymore. Though I'm sure there's an even better technical reason out there for this behaviour (or lack of it). If anyone can shed any light on why IE's stuck on version 8, I would be interested to hear. I updated Firefox manually to the version 9 player.
Archive for July, 2006
26
Jul
Flash auto update
19
Jul
Flexing my brain
I've just finished reading an article over at http://www.actionscript.com where Jesse Warden answers 10 questions on Flash & Flex. Question 4 really piqued my interest: "4. Coming from a Flash perspective, what was easy about learning Flex and what was the biggest challenge?". Jesse answers that question in 7 parts, here's part 2: Continue reading ‘Flexing my brain’
I was making a few modifications on a clients Flash 6 AS 1.0 movie yesterday, and can’t believe I spent about 30 minutes debugging what I perceived to be an issue AS 1.0 has with embedding fonts. In actuality, the trouble lied with my ability to take code that I’d copied from an AS 2.0 project and remove any typed variables - totally overlooked this (been in the land of AS 2.0 for too long!) I had created a typed textFormat variable. My bad - but man it was hard to debug, no errors where thrown… the only clue was that when I converted the project to AS 2.0 (and spent 20 minutes recoding various functions) it worked. So this morning I thought I’d get to the bottom of why AS 1.0 doesn’t work with embedded fonts - even though I’ve used them countless times before in AS 1.0 projects.
The moral of the story - always remember where you’ve come from, even if you don’t intend on EVER going back ;-)
10
Jul
Who popped my cherry?
Wow, so this blogging stuff’s pretty powerful… and a little scary. It seems the aggregator I’ve been visiting for the last couple of years has decided to add me - and I didn’t even need to ask! As I don’t quite have a handle on how this actually happened, it seems a bit mysterious to me at the moment. Am assuming it’s got something to do with RSS? I was contemplating sending an email to Geoff Bowers, the master of fullasagoog.com, but as I haven’t yet, I’m wondering how in hades my blog and the posts I’ve made so far have magically appeared on fullasagoog this morning.
Was kinda biding my time so I could get a proper about page up, and make some visual changes to the site. The site kinda feels a bit nude to me at the moment, ahem, so you’ll have to excuse me while I continue to dress it up.
I’m ecstatic that I’m on the site (kinda a weird feeling going there first thing in the morning and seeing your name up in lights… cue dreamy music and dellusions of grandeur), I’m just hoping someone a bit more learned in the ways of the blog can shed some light on the mechanics of how it happened.
This is my first foray into the flex world, and I’ve chosen to take some baby steps by extending a component that was published by Narciso Jaramillo over at http://rictus.com/muchado/ . As I’ve never published code that I’ve “extended” before, if I’m doing this in a way that would contravene the GPL licence that is attached with the original component I’d really like to know.
[drum roll please….]
Behold, the live reflection component with blur effect slider. The example is published with source - which incidently is an absolutely brilliant way of getting to know Flex.
I think it would be more realistic if the blur started gradually and increased as it went away from the panel. Not sure how I’m going to do that though…
Now to come up with some brilliant visual effect ideas of my own ;-)
It seems that clicking the “About Adobe Flash Player 9…” takes me to a URL that doesn’t exist: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/fl4about
What gives? Surely there’s a redirect from the old Macromedia site to the Adobe one?
Or have a I managed to snag Adobe/Macromedia in the middle of some technology changeover…?
EDIT: Man, I’ve gotta stop doing that - all is well again….
