After wishing for years that Flash would automagically insert the name of a newly made MC as its instance, I finally grew antsy and make this little JSFL command:
if (fl.getDocumentDOM().selection.length > 0){
for(i in fl.getDocumentDOM().selection){
path = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[i].libraryItem.name;
mc_name = path.substr(path.lastIndexOf(“/”)+1);
fl.trace(‘clip = ‘+mc_name);
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[i].name = mc_name;}
}
A friend of mine just bought a new system with Vista, but after installing CS3, all of his old Photoshop plugins just don’t work. Hopefully it’s only a problem with the Data Execution Prevention. We’ll find out soon enough. Just in case, here’s some additional links to use for troubleshooting:
Here’s a nifty little trick I figured out, used in conjunction with the Firefox extension User Agent Switcher:
Description:Â Â Â iPhone
User Agent:Â Â Â Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
App Name:Â Â Â AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)
App Version:Â Â Â Version/3.0
Platform:Â Â Â Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3
Y’know, I’m still amazed by how much Flash Professional has to offer, even after using it for almost a decade. Sure, I’d worked with rulers & guides in photoshop, etc, and I had forgotten they’re also in Flash too because I never really needed them.
This morning, I was looking for a good way to properly align elements inside of a MC without having to edit it within the stage’s context each time. Guess what? Those silly guides remain specific to each MC, not to the stage in general as I previously thought. Oh, Macromedia Adobe, what would I do without your geniuses? (I guess try an annoying workaround like I always do.)
if (System.capabilities.isDebugger) {
this.loadMovie("external.jpg");
} else {
this.loadMovie("images/external.jpg");
}trace2 = function(s, r_all) {
if (!t_txt){Â Â Â //create new textfield if none exists
this.createTextField("t_txt", 1, 0, 0, 1, 1);
t_txt.autoSize = true;Â Â Â}
r_all ? t_txt.text = s+"\n" : t_txt.text += s+"\n" ;
};
Will be useful for an upcoming Flash gallery that dynaically loads images. I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel, but apparently I was too impatient to find the wheel. 😛
FlashGuru Consulting – Flash Extensions/
Also, they have some cool tutorials
Macromedia Flash Studies
http://jrgraphix.net/research/
Useful Drawing and Design Tutorials and Resources
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13133
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