flash and related stuff

A truly great book, and recommended for all flashers from non-computer science backgrounds. Also all royalties donated to Amnesty International : Beautiful Code

Don’t relocate the files yourself. You have to get iTunes to do it for you.

1. Preferences -> Advanced … set the new location

2. Advanced -> Consolidate library… (this moves all music to place you just set)

Note: If you moved it manually to begin with, move it back and do steps 1 and 2. If problems persist check individual track locations in the itunes library xml file for where itunes thinks tracks should be (the trash in my case!) so move it back there (yes I moved mine back to the trash) and then consolidate.

Hope this helps someone

Help is not very helpful in this instance. Where’s the example?

I thought ah.. so it’s:

ns.soundTransform.volume=0;

when it’s actually:

var st:SoundTransform=new SoundTransform();

st.volume=0;

ns.soundTransform=st;

Anyone else think that?

Not specifically flash but all very relevant, I think these are a great bunch of podcasts: http://www.carsonworkshops.com/summit/

the awweesome fdt is evolving to 3.0 and is expected to be released at the end of july

http://fdt.powerflasher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=801

great news for those who wanna code as3 with a headguard !

Well with the entertainin Tink running LFPUG in good style, presenting tonight were Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan - both whose blogs i rss subscribe

Niqui did an interesting talk on accessibilty - which she’s passionate and serious about - kudos. Whilst accessibility is not just a noble pursuit, its financial and maybe even legal - with most of the flash stuff I have been doing of late - it could not be used by the blind. But accessibility is of course also for ppl with color blindness, ADD, motor neuron diseases etc.

Niqui showed a neat thing you can do on a mac to test how things will look for users when they turn high contrast up - System Preferences -> Universal Access. She also talked about the accessibility panel in Flash (to which a few of us raised our hands to the question ‘did anyone not know it was there?’) and demonstrated how it could be used with screen readers (all of which can be achieved with code) - i think she demoed with windows-eyes. She also mentioned windows’ jaws did not entirely accurately perform on the mac under parallels because i think of the graphics card?

Anyway my gripe about developing for screen readers I guess would be that you have to buy one to use it for more than 30-40mins - at around £800. Niqui also really recommended shadowing and working with screen reader users for great learning and understanding purposes

Aral was on good form as usual even if for 10 seconds he seemed to turn into Gaius Baltar ! He presented on his new swxformat.org. Some of what he ran thru was quite technical especially how he went thru the swf bytecode to help him work things out, something my friend/colleague mireck was doing the other day %\ (on a video editor using the ultra cool red5).

Aral is great to listen to and learn from on a variety of tech avenues - I’m gonna make a point of using regex buddy and MAMP. The whole theory behind swxformat sounded great, flash should be about experimenting, having fun, doing things quickly! It’s still in early alpha and I look forward to when its a little further down the line and seeing a good usage example to encourage me to experiment with it. Could be something that looks great for the mobile market… which seems finally to be finally getting serious for flash depoyment… the nokia N95 is looking pretty nice - flash lite 2 enabled!

Record the screen Use something like http://www.camstudio.org/

Thanks to Martin for doing this, it helped a lot, and for the link (y)

And I’m told it works well on the mac - nice1

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/introducing_flash_cs3.html