Top 5 things I have been listening to the past week:
CommunityMX.com has posted a couple of video tutorials on my Flash Resource Manager application.
The tutorials show:
You can view the tutorials here.
You can find more information about Flash Resource Manager from here.
I wanted to let everyone know that I am working in a new role at Macromedia now. My new title is “Product Manager for Developer Relations for the Flash Platform” (is that title long enough for you?). Basically, I am in charge of developer relations for Flash Authoring, Central and the Flash Player.
This is a new position and has two primary goals:
This position, as well as the new Technical Product manager position on the Flash team (congrats to Mike Downey), are new positions created to institutionalize communication and contact with users. We want to ensure that we don’t loose touch with our users, and that future releases of our tools and platforms are of the quality that you expect of Macromedia (something we didn’t really deliver on with our current release of Flash Authoring).
Update : Thanks for all of the offers to help test the beta. We are closing the beta for the current round, and will post again when we expand it.
Do you use Flash MX 2004 (not Pro) and want to help Macromedia test a few things out? If so, send an email to mesh@macromedia.com with the subject “Flash MX 2004”.
I recently switched back to OS X from Windows, and one of the things I missed was the ability to easily create a new FLA directly on the file system. This is much easy than opening Flash, and then navigating to where I want the file and saving it.
So, I put together a simple bash shell script called “flashme”. This basically allows you to create new FLAs from the command line. It will also optionally launch the FLA in Flash after it has been created.
Peter Hall explains the difference between AsBroadcaster and EventDispatcher on this FlashCoders thread.
Owen Van Dijk has put together a step by step tutorial showing how to use the Flash Resource Manager to read the Flex docs.
This will also work with other HTML based docs, such as ColdFusion.
You can view the entire tutorial here.
You can find out more about Flash Resource Manager here.
There has been an interesting thread on Flash Coders over the past couple of days discussing whether the Flash Player should support dynamically loading GIFs and / or PNGs.
So, which would you prefer? If we could only add one format, would you prefer we add support for dynamically loading GIFs or dynamically loading PNGs? Why?
Post your thoughts in the comments.
