Comments on: Uncovering some Gems within Flash

By: Srinivas

Srinivas — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:16:57 +0000

anyone pls clear me this doubt
How do I define the clickable area of a MovieClip?

By: af

af — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:31:34 +0000

I have only one question:

how many years need Macromedia fittings the RIA, Webservice, streaming Integrations needs like this:

http://www.dreamfactory.com/salesforce/sforcedesktop.html

Click om Magic …! :)

Best Regards

By: John Dwight

John Dwight — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:19:38 +0000

It was great to see you at FF2k4 in NYC, Mike. I was really impressed with the Town Meeting, and I’m happy to hear about all this user testing.

I think this post and the Distribute to Layers post above points to the documentation available in Flash. It’s has gotten so wide that you almost have to go out and buy three books just to learn the basics. It’s no wonder common features miss the user.

For ex., I ran right out and got FlashMX2k4 Pro (purchaser no. 448!), and didn’t know that Flash Pro has separate code editor available only in Pro until I went to FF2k4 (or was the speaker misinformed?). I’m still looking for it.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:06:01 +0000

Doh.. I ment this one offcourse: http://www.flashvacuum.net/users/stimpson/mt/archives/2004/07/conditional_ope.html

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:03:27 +0000

This is one trick I found a while back, quite usefull: http://www.flashvacuum.net/users/stimpson/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/2

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:26:14 +0000

I’m sure it’s great having someone watching over your shoulder.

Anyway, here’s my list:
http://www.phillipkerman.com/ddw04/handout2.pdf

By: Arindam Biswas

Arindam Biswas — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:21:02 +0000

Track as Button : — > makes button events independent of other buttons on stage.

Track as Menu Item : — > present state of button event can be transferred to another button on stage.

If I am not clear, i wont blame you if you end up mailing me at arindam-residingat-arindambiswas.com

By: Flashaddict

Flashaddict — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:30:11 +0000

Agree on TCS. I never understood that option in Flash. In fact it was a question on the Flash designer exam, and it was one of the two questions which I didn’t filled in correctly! Anyone?

By: TCS

TCS — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:43:11 +0000

Quick invisible button: just draw out the shape of your desired hit area on stage; F8 -button; then go into the button and drag your shape over to the hit frame. done

One quite obscure functionality is the “Track as”
selector in the property inspector. Usage could use some clearing up for me I know.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:41:56 +0000

one of the more elusive gems i’ve come across is the rounded rectangle shortucut. If you select the rectangle tool, and click and drag on the stage to create your rectangle, before you lift you finger you can press the up and down button on the keyboard to round the edges of the rectangle.

neato!