Category: Flash

Came back from my trip to find that one of my collegues was given a gift of good news. Since I’m a loser, I wandered about government sites until finding my way to MM’s homepage. Won’t their referrer’s be whacked now. Anyway, saw a download link for what I thought was Central, but was really Contribute. Ignoring that as a sign to go to bed, I ventured over to the Central App Dev Center to lament some more. Found an <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/central/articles/how_it_works.html”>article</a> describing how Central will work. I liked how he said not to use _root. Pretty neat to know that your app is loaded into a _level. Helps you start thinking on how your app will work with the rest of the crew of apps it’ll be sitting next to.

Am I the only one who’s not done with Flash MX? With Central coming down the pipe, and Royale soon after, I’m constantly losing time.

I agree with Phillip’s comment, but then again, a CEO has to lace his words with marketing to entice peeps. Still, after the initiali argument on that one MM peeps blog about “taking away the timeline!?”, I still keep hope that I can switch to design mode while in Royale at any time. Not saying I know certain things *ahem* but I sure hope I can play both worlds of developement while in Royale. Designing and Coding.

I know it’s a must, though. I’ve heard more complaints in all levels of skillset message boards and lists about how programmers hate the timeline bs. *sigh* I mean, Director did ok. Hell, it had multi-threading on it’s multiuser server! I’m sure it will be phat, I guess I am just lamenting my lost innocence.

Hehe, this is nuts. Someone wanted to know how to give the function the power to clear itself without knowing of the variable that holds the interval id. I figured, “Why not put that on the Function object?”

Well, it frikin’ worked! Check it…