In AS2, we can use the movieclip method getBounds returns 4 values: xMin, xMax, yMin and yMax, which can be traced like so:
var bounds:Object = this.getBounds(this._parent);
for (var i in bounds) {
trace(i+” –> “+bounds[i]);
}
I’m getting the dimensions of the movieclip my current clip (this) is attached to. The [...]
Man this one was nasty! The artist I work with was supplying me with fla files containing MovieClips. I’d copy and paste his MCs from his fla into my main fla. Up till this week there was no problem doing this. All of a sudden, I was no longer able to programtically use his MCs! [...]
I’m sure I’m late to this party…but what the heck, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 700m) and it’s great! The laptop, which was a nifty little machine 4 years ago (12″ screen, 2Gig proc, 1Gig RAM) was so slow it was useless – I mean, it took 30 seconds [...]
I gave a lecture last night (Oct. 28) on the current state of Flash – what’s happening with CS4 (inverse kinematics, motion editor), CS5 (iPhone porting), Flex/Flash Builder, FlashLite, etc. I’ve made a pdf of my powerpoint slides available. (If link not working due to WordPress weirdness, just try: ftp.evili.com/WhatIsFlash.pdf)
Man, I just about lost my mind (and at least an hour of my life) figuring this one out. All I could see on my timeline panel was the layer numbers, and the new folder, new layer and garbage can icons. At the far right side of the panel, at the bottom, are three gray [...]
Looks like they’ve added a lot of features that bring it up to speed vs. Flash/Flex, including HD video, new bitmap and 3D APIs, and support for SEO (which looks to be about the same as swfObject) x-platform desktop RIAs. Big upside potential IMHO is that you can code Silverlight in C#. Big downside – [...]
Running svn (subclipse) via the Flex Builder can be problematic; one common problem is when you update an entire project, you’ll also get somebody else’s html and project files, which frequently have data local to the user’s machine and won’t work on other folk’s machines. Though there’s no clear way (and damn there should be) [...]
If you install an Adobe demo program (a 30-day trial version of Flash 9, for example) and then purchase a CS3 Creative Suite Web Premium license, for example, when you’re installing the whole suite of software, it will indicate that Flash is already installed and won’t reinstall it. However, once you’ve installed the whole CS3 [...]