Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Shared Libraries in Central: Part One

    When using Shared Libraries in Central, you have to manually include the file’s in your application’s product XML file via the file html tag with the src attribute to the file on your website, absolute.

    I must have glazed over this in the documentation as I was wondering why my Shared SWF’s weren’t getting installed.

    …however, this still doesn’t explain why they don’t work in my app. I tried changing the export frame, changing the swf path to the website path instead of locally, and a few other things, but still no dice. Maybe I’ll figure it out tomorrow.

  • Dig the tracking, hate one of the implementations

    Via <a href=”http://www.actionscripthero.com/blog/archives/000282.php”>aSH</a>.

    If you can’t say something positive, don’t say anything at all. :: grits teeth :: Damn, that’s a hard virtue to live up to when press releases like this come along. :: deep inhale… exhale… :: Ok.

    *ahem*

    Empowering marketers to better track their results utilizing Flash is a very cool concept; hopefully helping them garner more information from their customers on responses to ads.

    However, I strongly disapprove of Macromedia endorsing the use of those annoying pop-up Flash ads. This contributes to the negative effects to Flash’s adoption, the furthering of initiatives to add Flash blocking to pop-up blocking software, and a general negative connotation towards Flash as a whole. We’re already trying to shake off the Skip-intro filth that has tarnished our foot in the door. This only makes it more diffucult and frustrating to know we’re not getting much help.

    <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2004/motif.html”>Flash Ad Kit</a>

  • Packages Rock

    No, I’m not talking about the “Package Cam” over at <a href=”http://www.gmunk.com/”>Gmunk</a>. I mean the class packages you can use in Flash MX 2004. I felt like I should be careful in using too many packages because if I let it get out of hand, I may have too much code everywhere. After <a href=”http://www.darronschall.com/”>Darron’s</a> response to Andreas and my question about them on Flashn00bz, he pretty much said it’s up to you. So, I started organizing stuff like I would with files in folders based on subject. At first, I thought it was kind of dumb… I was like, “I’m not gonna end up with frikin’ MM’s setup, like they have in their Classes folder where Flash is installed.”

    Boy was I wrong. I’ve got so many code files… and they are all organized! I couldn’t imagine NOT having packages knowing what I know now.

    Definately a must for the next version of Flash is some form of integration with Shared Libraries… not sure how, but if I don’t want to SWC everything up front to keep it still editable, I shouldn’t have too.

    Packages rule.

  • The Challenges of a Flash Developer

    Taking a break from contract & homework to lament on something I’ve been thinking about all day…