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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for October, 2003

Flash 2004 Sample App: Class Builder

Tuesday, October 28th, 2003

First, my manager showed me how to set a breakpoint in an external file yesterday (after he asked me how and I couldn’t tell him). Call me dumb cause you knew this 2 years ago (hey, your neat). In the debugger, when it says, “The Flash Player is paused so that
breakpoints may be [...]

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I know their are other primers out there (<a href=”http://www.person13.com/articles/index.jsp”>Joey Lott: ActionScript 2.0 Primer</a>, <a href=”http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flashmx2004/as2-01.php”>Dave Yang: ActionScript 2.0</a>) but I think it is my duty do provide this information as simply as possible because of the current agitated feelings of AS1 vs AS2 (<a href=”http://www.waxpraxis.org/archives/000133.html”>case 1</a> and <a href=”http://www.waxpraxis.org/archives/000134.html”>case 2</a>). My goal is [...]

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Went digging and found this neato property:
_global.style.modalTransparency = 50;
When you create a pop-up (remember my disable the entire movie code?), it creates a fullscreen movie clip so you can create modal dialogues. However, I couldn’t see it, and thought that was kind of dumb, so went looking to see how the PopUpManager created it. [...]

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Media Temple Goes Flash… partially

Sunday, October 26th, 2003

<a href=”http://www.mediatemple.net”>Mediatemple.net</a>, my hosting provider, orignally had their website done in HTML and these phat CSS based menu’s. This morning, looking to see how to get my email to work with Outlook Express, I noticed their menu is now done in Flash, as is the frontpage.
I don’t see the point in doing the front [...]

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I don’t read much. From disregarding instruction books on my Nintendo games to only touching the new <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/”>DevNet</a> articles when I want confirmation in my hard won beliefs. I feel I learn better through doing.
So, I figured I’d give the DataProvider a try with the new components in F-two-Fo (F24/Flash 2004). [...]

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