http://devblog.projector.se Projector development blog. A place to document your experiences. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:39:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was working with the Loader class and thought that a good practice to avoid a lot of unnecessary bandwidth loadings is to clear any loading progress before I start a new one. Just to explain.. I used a array to store pages (Loaders) in the application. If the user ... http://devblog.projector.se/?p=36 In the new Flash Player 9,0,124,0 there is a lot of new security changes… If you are (like me) used webService and the server is in a other domain then you will get a sweet secure error: Server Error: [RPC Fault faultString="Security error accessing url" faultCode="Channel.Security.Error" faultDetail="Destination: DefaultHTTP"] What I did was adding this ... http://devblog.projector.se/?p=35 Here are some very useful shortcuts to position things faster on stage (PC): Turn on/off scale "To stage": ctrl+alt+8 Horizontal align: ctr+alt+(1-3) Vertical align: ctr+alt+(4-6) And another feature in the align toolbar is "Match size" wich I never used until recently. Useful when resize a background-shape to stage size. And the shortcuts for that with "To Stage" on:  ctrl+alt+shift+7 ... http://devblog.projector.se/?p=32 Have you ever been missing the row-number for an error thrown at runtime in Flash CS3, for example when working with loaded content such as XML? Just activate "permit debugging" in Publish settings and there it is. http://devblog.projector.se/?p=31 I found this flash-extension really useful. Specially the "multi edit library" feature. Select multiple images in the library and change smoothing and compression all at once. http://potapenko.com/eng/extensions.htm http://devblog.projector.se/?p=33 Annoying inssue with a centered textfield paragrah randomly get's cut off at the right end. Only solution for now seems to be to keep the the textfield paragraph left aligned and then center the textfield it self by measuring width and position. http://devblog.projector.se/?p=30 Recently pulled my hair over something that probably is quite logical. To get around crossdomain issues I placed a shell-swf on a remote server that in turn loads the main-swf. Have done it like that a thousand times before but this time I just couldn't get it to work. It turns out that i tried ... http://devblog.projector.se/?p=29 It's probably due to my lack of understanding of the program and it's principles, but how do you get it to use bitmap textures with a higher resolution? It seems as if you can't have larger images than about 4000 pixels in height without it generating memory error, but maybe ... http://devblog.projector.se/?p=28  To use javascript with banners can be a true headache. I wan't to share my exerience of the obstacles I found so far. Before you start, make sure you have the permission to use javascript on the sites. Sometimes you can sneak in your javascript in the embed-code generated by the media agencies, ... http://devblog.projector.se/?p=27 By mixing multiple layers of filtereffects you can make this nice little 3d-effect. Flashcontent var so = new SWFObject("files/filterDemo.swf", "filterDemo", "470", "200", "8", "#ffffff"); ... http://devblog.projector.se/?p=26