Monthly ArchiveMarch 2009
20 Mar 2009 02:55 pmNews
Just upgraded to version 2.7.1 of WordPress. Apparently my previous plugin update broke some old posts.
Right-clicking one of my swfs and selected ‘View Source’ won’t work for the time being. I think I’ll try to make some changes on how I do that stuff in the near future.
At the moment, “View source” links to
http://almostflan.com/2008/09/05/using-a-custom-class-as-an-mxml-base-to-completely-style-a-titlewindow/flex/sandbox/srcview/index.html
and it should link to
http://almostflan.com/flex/sandbox/srcview/index.html
I’ll fix this later, but first my taxes…
20 Mar 2009 02:40 pmStuff
I recently updated some plugins and it appears to have broken some of my stuff. Working on it.
Thanks to DDDan for pointing this out.
05 Mar 2009 06:36 pmAdventures in Flex
Recently I’ve run into the problem of controlling the size of an embedded swf movie in a Flex application. The size of the stage in Flash didn’t match the size of the SWFLoader-loaded component in Flex for some reason. I tried putting a Canvas around it and using the clipContent field, but that didn’t. After a few hours of pain, though, I did get a somewhat reasonable solution.
This post should also serve as a very light example of applying a mask.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
<mx:Canvas mask="{myMask}">
<mx:SWFLoader source="path/to/mySwf.swf"/>
<mx:UIComponent id="myMask"
creationComplete="myMask.graphics.beginFill(0xff0000);myMask.graphics.drawRect(0,0,360,541);myMask.graphics.endFill()"/>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:Application>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
<mx:Canvas mask="{myMask}">
<mx:SWFLoader source="path/to/mySwf.swf"/>
<mx:UIComponent id="myMask"
creationComplete="myMask.graphics.beginFill(0xff0000);myMask.graphics.drawRect(0,0,360,541);myMask.graphics.endFill()"/>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:Application>
Here, the size and location of the rectangle you draw in the myMask determines the visible area of the swf.
I haven’t yet cooked up an actual example showing what this actually does - maybe I’ll do so later…
On a different note, if anyone knows of a quick way (perhaps a wordpress plugin) to post an example coded in Flex Builder, let me know - it would be much appreciated! Right now, I’m bundling a release build and manually pushing it up each time with no regard to specific posts, then hard-linking…
Maybe I’ll write something to do it…knowing me it’ll never get done…
