Category: Flash

Ok, Macromedia’s been holding out. Discussing some Flash stuff with some colleague?s and it seems they have a component I, and another developer don’t in their copy of Flash MX 2004 Pro: TabBar.

Now, it’s not in the StandardComponents.fla, which is the source components, and I just heard there is also no TabView.as file in mx > controls in the classpath. Anyway, it’s a Halo version of the TabView component (DRK 3, Component Set 5).

Frankly, I WANT IT! Is this a DevNet subscription only type of thing?

Got the idea reading <a href=”http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/index.php?archive=2004_01_01_archive.xml#107436735658229384″>Peter Hall’s suggestion</a> for new file formats based on calling the Flash Player the Flash Virtual Machine.

When a symbol is exported in a SWF, that SWF now exposes that symbol, by linkage name, to whatever SWF has pointer to it. In reverse, when a symbol is imported for runtime sharing, that SWF now points that symbol to the SWF it’s assigned to get the symbol from.

Now, it’d be phat as nuts if we could do at least part of the above dynamically. The only new requirement would be “symbol creation”. Currently, we can create instances on the fly, but the “classes” they are derived from are hardcoded into the SWF; the symbol. This ability would allow some pretty neat abilities at runtime.

None of this, “Well, I screwed with the DataProviderAPI yesterday, but haven’t touched in 3 days”. Trust me, even if you intened to hit it again in a few days, that’s fine, but doesn’t count for this question. Seriously, wtf r u working on?

Work:
– coding & designing a front-end to selection of a module within our enterprise application

Home:
– Table Top building app
– TV Guide front-end to <a href=”http://www.theplatform.com/”>The Platform</a>
– front-end to <a href=”http://www.livejournal.com/”>LiveJournal</a> Client <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/”>Central</a> App

So, doing string parsing for this project, no big deal and suddenly weird stuff starts happening. It seems that indexOf is detecting “th_” in the word “stunt”. Ok, most programmers are cool with that… I can work with that.

But suddenly, String.split start’s doing some whacked things…