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Category Archives: flash
Flash site templates that work on iPhone (& iPad)
There has been a lot of discussion on the web in recent weeks because Apple’s offerings iPhone and iPad do not (and probably will not) run the Adobe Flash Player on their in-built Safari web browser.
To some this is great news – who needs those annoying Flash Ads anyway? But to others, who recognise that [...]
Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object
Continuing with my updating an Actionscript 2 project to Actionscript 3 I’m really enjoying the optimisation possibilities.
For example, In my as2 code I had a recursive method for finding a node.
// recursive node search
private function findNode(n:XMLNode,name:String,attname:String,attdata:String):XMLNode{
var xNode:XMLNode;
if(n.hasChildNodes()){
for(var i = 0; i < n.childNodes.length; i++){
if(n.childNodes[i].nodeName == name){
if(n.childNodes[i].attributes[attname] == attdata){
xNode = n.childNodes[i];
}
}
if(xNode != undefined){
break;
}else if(n.childNodes[i].hasChildNodes()){
xNode = [...]
Actionscript 3: Inheritance Subclass and private vars
I’m currently updating some as2 projects to as3 and I had a series of 1120 compiler errors this afternoon. I’m a fan of using the ‘extends’ keyword to create customised versions of base classes.
In Actionscript 2 the subclass can access all the variables and methods of the original class. It appears that in ActionScript [...]
Also posted in Code
Tagged ActionScript 3, as3, extends, inheritance, oop, private, public
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Useful code for debugging MovieClip.localToGlobal() headaches
I hate localToGlobal. There I’ve said it. It seems that there are some things in Actionscript that always seem to throw me off – this is my main one.
Today I had another issue while adding a generic tooltip to buttons that in an assortment of sub clips and components – the tooltip needs to know [...]
Tagged ActionScript 2, localToGlobal
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SEO friendly Flash templates
This weekend I have updated my existing FlashDen template and added a new one to the queue which should be available early next week.
I have been doing some research over the past few months into making my Flash Templates more SEO friendly. Initially I avoided the SWFAddress solution as this involves editing a .htaccess file [...]
Also posted in SEO
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Guide to adding an image gallery (or other actionscript 2 component) to the mbudm#001 template
A few buyers and potential buyers have been asking me about adding an external SWF to my “Minimalist, versatile, corporate site template” on FlashDen.net. This is something I expected as the template is purposefully a ‘lite’ version – it has an inbuilt text module and support for external SWFs only. Other site templates on FlashDen [...]
SEO, small business and Flash
Whilst waiting for Google to discover my basic attempt at SEO for Flash I hav been scouring the web and getting a better idea of progress down this road. What I’ve discovered is:
There are already some great solutions out there (isn’t it always the way), but these are relatively recent – mid 2007 is the [...]
Also posted in SEO
Tagged DIY web development, flash, SEO, small business, SWFaddress
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Where in the world is Sonia Kruschev?
I recently added a flash site template to my Flashden.net folio and it seems to be selling quite well which is great. However I can’t ignore the fact that like most Flash sites it probably won’t be easily discovered by Google. With SEO being forefront in peoples minds nowadays when creating even the most simple [...]