Basic Flash-tips #3: Improve your Align skills
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 –> ctrl+alt+shift+9
Basic Flash-tips #2: Runtime-errors with row-numbers
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.
Basic Flash-tips #1: Potapenko Extensions
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
TextField gets cut
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.
The smallest things can take the longest time
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 to set stage.scaleMode in the [...]
Resolution of textures
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 that is just my system [...]