[Flashcoders] RE: quiet in here at the moment
quiet in here at the moment... Flash has been losing steam for a long time. The base of noobies got away from Adobe. The tools are too expensive and complicated. The players and platform too disjointed with: PC Flash, phone Flashlite, Linux Flash and no Apple Flash. Buyers want their content/app investments to work on the high end mobile tools and that means Apple. Apple's decision to ban Flash makes sense - Firefox crawls sometimes with multiple browser windows hogging resources for several Flash ads on most pages. Flash's ease of use went horribley wrong somewhere in the last few years. It requires at least twice as much code to do the same stuff compared to earlier iterations of the language - and twice as long to learn the nuances too. Not to mention abandoning the former language knowledge base that was trashed along the way. Then there was the bone headed move of charging manufacturers for OEM player installs on devices until last year. Adobe could have owned the mobile interface market by continuing to give the player away for free, but... they outsmarted themselves by being greedy. Then there's the decision to skip working with Apple first for Photoshop releases Apple, who made Adobe successful in the first place. Adobe didn't do the existing Flash authors any favors by leaning into non-time-line Flash with Flex as the preferred authoring environment either. They could have brought all those time-line guys into the fold by offering time-line to straight code conversion as a feature of the formerly main authoring tool and taught all those folks what a correct straight to code translation should look like... they didn't, unless i missed something. Then there was the brilliant move of not killing off movie clips that were no longer in/on the time-line for several iterations of the player - how did that happen?! Fact of the matter is, there were cooler inventions/apps when the coding environment and player were simpler. The older apps ran more smoothly on lesser equipment and were more compact and quicker to deliver. Feature creep overwhelmed what used to be a stimulating and rewarding creative experience. Can Flash be fixed? Maybe. I tried an old app in the newest player the other day and it ran better than it has in years, must be the new hardware acceleration - that's a good sign. Dave ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Flash-to-HTML 5 conversion tool released
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RE: [Flashcoders] Rendering limitation? Bitmap goes poof. -- SOLVED
OK, I just figured it out and I'm posting if anyone ever has this as an issue. The bitmap that disappeared was masked with a shape, and that's what caused it to not be able to take any further filters. - MM > Filters rend to bitmaps. Said bitmaps have maximum sizes. You actually get a trace entry when this limit is hit. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 controlling timeline of a loaded swf from another site
Ok, solved it!
I forgot to put System.security.allowDomain("*") in the files that is
being loaded...
BR
/roger
On 2011-03-08 14:00, Roger Persson wrote:
Dear List,
I'm hoping that some one can steer me in the right direction, because
googling this subject gets me nowhere.
I have a banner that is loading an external swf from another site, the
crossdomain.xml is set to *.
When the swf is loaded the banner is supposed to tell the swf to play.
Isn't it possible to tell an external swf to play when it's from another
domain? Seems so, since this works fine in the IDE.
Or is there something else I should think about?
Thanks
/roger
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[Flashcoders] AS2 controlling timeline of a loaded swf from another site
Dear List, I'm hoping that some one can steer me in the right direction, because googling this subject gets me nowhere. I have a banner that is loading an external swf from another site, the crossdomain.xml is set to *. When the swf is loaded the banner is supposed to tell the swf to play. Isn't it possible to tell an external swf to play when it's from another domain? Seems so, since this works fine in the IDE. Or is there something else I should think about? Thanks /roger ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] quiet in here at the moment
That's because we are all old grizzly flashers who have scared the newbies away. Apart from that, I am still using Flash with no apparent end in sight, although I am also doing some stuff in other languages. Luckily, I am not doing it for an agency, but on a long-term project so I don't have to put up with marketing b**t telling me what I have to code in I have a question, but I will ask on another thread :) On 07/03/2011 18:11, Merrill, Jason wrote: Yep, this list has been getting rather quiet of the past month or two. Odd. So has Flash_Tiger. Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect Bank of America Global Learning ___ -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 12:55 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] quiet in here at the moment everyone still alive? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- This message w/attachments (message) is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or proprietary. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, and then please delete and destroy all copies and attachments, and be advised that any review or dissemination of, or the taking of any action in reliance on, the information contained in or attached to this message is prohibited. Unless specifically indicated, this message is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any investment products or other financial product or service, an official confirmation of any transaction, or an official statement of Sender. Subject to applicable law, Sender may intercept, monitor, review and retain e-communications (EC) traveling through its networks/systems and may produce any such EC to regulators, law enforcement, in litigation and as required by law. The laws of the country of each sender/recipient may impact the handling of EC, and EC may be archived, supervised and produced in countries other than the country in which you are located. This message cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. References to "Sender" are references to any subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation. Securities and Insurance Products: * Are Not FDIC Insured * Are Not Bank Guaranteed * May Lose Value * Are Not a Bank Deposit * Are Not a Condition to Any Banking Service or Activity * Are Not Insured by Any Federal Government Agency. Attachments that are part of this EC may have additional important disclosures and disclaimers, which you should read. This message is subject to terms available at the following link: http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. By messaging with Sender you consent to the foregoing. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
