I have always had a habit of doing all my init stuff in the class constructor as do most other people. But today I found a GOTCHA in Flash CS4 when publishing an AIR file. I was trying to use a ProgressBar and set it’s value manually. I could not see the bar change it’s value even though there was no errors. Nothing I did made it work. This was a problem since there was no errors letting me know that there was a problem, the progress bar just did not work and that’s all I had to go off of. Later I tried to place my document class code on the timeline which made the progress bar work, leaving me even more confused and fustrated as to the problem.
In the End I found this had to do with the document class trying to set properties of the ProgressBar before the document class had a chance to be added to the stage.
Aside from my story, this may or may not ever be a problem for you , but it begs the question should this be a standered and would you follow it?
I just made a video tutorial that shows you how to:
- Create a swf with an embedded font.
- Create an application and loads that swf and pulls the embedded font from the loaded swf.
This is really simple and really smart if you need to have multiple fonts in your application.
FYI: once again for best video quality use the fullscreen button.
I believe that flash is on it’s last leg out here in st.Louis due to the lack of properly trained AS3 developers or just the lack of their presents.
I will start by stating I wish to be a part of a community that thrives on ideas and networking.
At the moment St.Louis has nether for flash developers.
Recruiters are running ramped with unethical practices. Most agencies don’t know enough about Flash technologies to really harness their potential. And to top it all off there is a genuine lack of real enthusiasm for our industry in St.Louis. I hope to change all of that!
If your a Flash, Flex or Air developer you will only be helping your own career by contributing to this Action script user group in some way or form, be it time, money equipment, location, ideas or at the very least attending the user group.
So if you would like to see this user group continue please post a comment as to why you thing this is a good idea. Maybe you think it’s a bad idea, any way post your thoughts as it will decide the future of this user group.
- Josh Chernoff.
I have made a small and dirty video on how set up FlashDevelop to work with the flex3 sdk so you can create flex applications for free. This video is to get people in the right direction so when they come to the first meeting they should be able to use the ide to develop and test with. FlashDevelop has many other uses and I wil be going over as many as I can at our meeting.
Till then feel free to watch this video and get started today using flex and Air for free.
Video Link: http://www.as3apex.com/videos/flashdevelop_demo.html
As a action script coder you have some choices you may not have known about. One of which is my personal favorite named FlashDevelop found at http://www.flashdevelop.org. One of the great things about this coder IDE is that you can easly create a flash, flex or Air project complete with code hinting of custom classes. the other really cool function of this IDE is how it can make getters and setters as well as Event Listener methods just by selecting the var or eventlistener and using Ctrl+Shift+1. The other really great thing about this IDE it’s completely free. There is also a great snipit and template system.
Now as you may already can tell this IDE is a stronger alternative for the Flash IDE where as people who use Flex my feel they can already do most of the things that FlashDevelop provides in the flex builder. Even then you can’t go wrong with FlashDevelop since you can compile with the flex SDK or the Flash IDE from with in one place.
