Re: [Flashcoders] Cache Killer... is it bulletproof ???

[Mike and Stephie]

Hi David !
Yes this mostly seems to work quite well. The thing is to make sure that 
all assets are called using this random string-- that none sneaks 
through unintentionally

Kind regards
Prema

David Bellerive wrote:

I've read that appending a random query string ( example : new Date.getTime() ) 
to the URL of assets (images, sounds, XML files, etc.) loaded at runtime in the 
Flash Player ensures that these assets are always loaded from the server 
instead of being loaded from the cache.

I've tested this on Windows XP in IE5, IE5.5, IE6, FF1, FF1.5, FF2, Opera 8, 
Opera 8.5, Opera 9, Netscape 7 and Netscape 8 and it seems to work very well.

However, I haven't been able to test this on a Mac or on Linux.

Is this method bulletproof (it works in all browsers on all operating systems)?

Is this something that you would really rely on for big projects?

Has anyone ever used this method and had big problems with it or even minor 
glitches?



 

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Re: [Flashcoders] Append variables to SWF server-side

[Mike and Stephie]

HI Mick !
Consider the open source utility SWFMill
Providing the server is compatible with one of it's builds then

  1. Get a PHP to do : swfmill swf2xml [swfname.swf] [file.xml]
  2. Edit the XML file which step 1 produces from PHP
  3. Get PHP to do: swfmill xml2swf [fiel.xml] [swfname.swf]

This should do the job and SWFMill seems to work brilliantly on content 
up to Flash 8 (Goes a bit funny on Flash 9/Flex)

Hope this helps
Post more if it doesn't !


Mick G wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way to add data to a SWF file server-side?

Eg. I have a swf that site on my server. I want users to be able to 
select
an option from a dropdown such as Select a color: BLUE. This would 
then send

them a SWF to download that has the variable color=blue embedded into the
SWF. I guess this would mean the server would need to recompile a SWF 
which
would require large CPU so I'm not sure if this is possible but 
thought I'd

ask anyway.
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Re: [Flashcoders] >> webcam

[Mike and Stephie]

Try wowzamedia.com!


Amir T Rocker wrote:

Sure, but only local - means no one else can see you.

// get the camera
var cam = Camera.get( [opt. camName ] ) ;
// attach the camera on the vid display
videoPanel.attachCamera(cam) ;

thats it - nowe you have a working camera - but no way to show it to 
others or record anything.

For that you would need FCS / FMS.

hope i could help.
best regards

Amir Rocker

Am 09:45 AM 2/26/2007 schrieben Sie:

Is there a way to have a webcam in a web site without flashcomm ?

Thank you
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Re: [Flashcoders] Cleaning HTML for use in Flash 8

[Mike and Stephie]

Hi David !
We found that in out situation that the big drama was getting tables to 
render.

We use this component:
http://www.flashrelief.com/tablemaker/features.html
for that part of it.
What it requires is that the code is xhtml compliant and will break if 
it isn't
You can use one of the variants of HTML tidy to sort out the code, as 
long at the code architecture isn't screwed up too much
We found that to import the XHTML into Flash as XML also works quite 
well and is more tolerant, but doesn't include the tables

I

If the huge database of HTML pages is legacy then methods as above would 
be helpful.
If the HTML pages are currently being created it could be a good idea to 
first translate to xml then apply an XML transform to convert them


All of these ideas are high level -- if you need drilldown then just 
post again

Kind regards


David Townsend wrote:

Heya All,

 


I am currently working on a project where I am receiving a huge database of
html pages that I need to convert into xml to drive a flash application. 

 


>From memory, many current html codes do not work in Flash and I was
wondering if anyone knew of a way of cleaning up the code, preferably in
php, so that it will work in Flash, and not make the xml file invalid. 

 


Has anyone ever done something like this? I'd love some guidance on the best
way of approaching the problem.

 


Thanks!

 


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Re: [Flashcoders] Finding our way within Flash Architecture

[Mike and Stephie]

Hi Ron !
Thanks very much for your response -- we'll take a look
Kind regards

Ron Wheeler wrote:
Actionstep and Haxe address your concerns and are probably more like 
Delphi as development environments with the higher level functions 
that ActionScript does not provide.


Ron

Mike and Stephie wrote:

HI People !
Great list and we've seen a lot of incredibly useful stuff go past.
We're considering deepening our flash skills which are currently at 
an integration level.
We notice with AS2,AS3 that there is some considerable (probably 
necessary) complication over AS1.


In a recent job we noticed that to retrieve an item dynamically from 
a combobox it took several lines of code
yet in Delphi which we are more familiar with and is a full blown 
programming language it takes one.


The sense we get is that it is considered pretty evil to use AS1 -- 
it seems to be deprecated

-- we're encouraged in Flash 8 examples to use AS2 at least.

But with a component oriented architecture wouldn't it make sense to 
have a deeper component level language, then integrate with a light 
scripting level language?


Are we getting the wrong end of the stick?
We're looking for enlightenment.
Thanks again for a great list
Kind regards
Mike and Stephie
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[Flashcoders] Finding our way within Flash Architecture

[Mike and Stephie]

HI People !
Great list and we've seen a lot of incredibly useful stuff go past.
We're considering deepening our flash skills which are currently at an 
integration level.
We notice with AS2,AS3 that there is some considerable (probably 
necessary) complication over AS1.


In a recent job we noticed that to retrieve an item dynamically from a 
combobox it took several lines of code
yet in Delphi which we are more familiar with and is a full blown 
programming language it takes one.


The sense we get is that it is considered pretty evil to use AS1 -- it 
seems to be deprecated

-- we're encouraged in Flash 8 examples to use AS2 at least.

But with a component oriented architecture wouldn't it make sense to 
have a deeper component level language, then integrate with a light 
scripting level language?


Are we getting the wrong end of the stick?
We're looking for enlightenment.
Thanks again for a great list
Kind regards
Mike and Stephie
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