What you need for displaying is the Loader class, or more specifically it’s content property, which is a DisplayObject.  Like so:


//create new Loader object
var myLoader = new Loader();
//set up a listener
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(
Event.COMPLETE,loadComplete);
//trigger the load
myLoader.load(new URLRequest("my_image.gif"));
//
function loadComplete(evt:Event):void {
//clean up the listener
evt.target.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(
Event.COMPLETE,loadComplete);
//add the image to the display
addChild(evt.target.content);
}


So basically the difference is this: Loader for display objects, URLLoader for data connections.

This time though I thought to employ google, and turned up a neat little extension on flashguru: Flash Auto-Save.

Pay no attention to the comment about it not working on CS4, I’ve installed it and it works fine.  The only thing to be aware of is that it needs to be visible at all times, and hiding it in a panel group will stop it working.

I hope this saves more people a bit of fury

It is possible to find the dimensions of a SWF using PHP’s  getimagesize() function.  Here’s an example:


print_r(getimagesize('example.swf'));

// Outputs:
//
// Array ( [0] => 400 [1] => 300 [2] => 13 [3] => width=”400″ height=”300″ [mime] => application/x-shockwave-flash )

Having finally got round to trying something, anything, on my Red Hat box, I decided that I should install Python. As if learning one new thing isn’t hard enough, I wanted to learn by doing something else I had no idea how to do. Great idea. I had forgotten that there was once a day that I didn’t know DOS commands until the LINUX terminal was in front of me and I had to navigate to a folder, now I know how my parents feel.

So what does it do? Well, it allows you to upload data in 50MB chunks (so sharing larger files is awkward). Your data can be stored in a variety of folder types: personal, shared and public. I’m sure those names are fairly self explanatory, but I’m going to drone on about them anyway.

(more…)

You can just save your grab as a jpg, png, bmp or compressed file, but before you do that you might want to edit it, adding text and graphics. Alternatively you can copy it, upload it, mail it or open it in a pre-selected editor of your choice.

The built in editor seems pretty well featured at a glance, the only obvious omission being an option to resize. I can see this getting a lot of use.

I sleep now, the rest of the design can wait.

Last weekend I wrote a tutorial on an AS2 sliding tile puzzle game I wrote a little while ago. It was my first attempt at writing coherent instructions for others to follow, so I was very pleased when it was accepted by the wonderful folks at </dream.in.code>. Thanks to Chris et al!

For anyone who isn’t familiar, DIC is a large community of programmers and web developers who are very helpful and knowledgeable on a huge range of technologies.

Here’s the direct link to the tutorial: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic45655.htm

Enjoy!

You can read Daniel Glazman’s blog here.