My latest project, Oxygen -The Flash Lite Developers Toolkit on FN.Wiki

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:11:22 +0200

Today, I'm very excited to release my latest free source project. Oxygen Toolkit for Flash Lite developers. It is a set of ready-to-use components for helping optimizing Flash animations, runtime memory.

The toolkit also contains Signal Meter and Battery Meter components for use in regular applications. Using these component requires zero-coding. Yes, just drag the component to Stage, and you're good to go.

I have posted detailed information about using the components and customizing them at FN.Wiki.

Download and read more here.

I have managed to post it before 1st April, so I hope the entry will be included in Contributor of the month and 2008 Code Example Challenge :D

Any comments or feedback is welcome.

// chall3ng3r //

Flash Lite: Effectively using gotoAndPlay & gotoAndStop

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:57:22 +0100

Hey all,

This is my first post regarding the Flash Lite tips'n tricks I am planning to share on this blog. So, lets get started.

As Flash Lite 1.1 supports pre-AS1 Flash 4 scripting syntax, the developer have to use tellTarget statement to access objects from deferent object.

For example if there are two objects on the stage, menu_mc and controller_mc. To perform a quick gotoAndPlay action from controller_mc to menu_mc, you might be using the following code:

tellTarget("../menu_mc") { // play SlideUp frame gotoAndPlay("slideUp"); }

While this works pretty well, but you can also do this via just a single gotoAndPlay call. gotoAndPlay and gotoAndStop also accepts paths, so you can simply pass the object path along with frame label or number to goto command. Like the same operation we did with tellTarget above can also be done as follows:

// play SlideUp frame gotoAndPlay("../menu_mc:slideUp");

You can use relative paths as well as absolute paths with this approach.

This trick is quite useful when you have to do a quick goto action, but if you need to perform multiple actions, then you're good to go with tellTarget.

Update: BTW, you can use the same trick with latest versions of Flash / Flash Lite.

Update: Scott has posted a nice example use of this tip on his blog, check it out.

Stay tuned for more!

// chall3ng3r //

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My latest project, Oxygen -The Flash Lite Developers Toolkit on FN.Wiki

Flash Lite: Effectively using gotoAndPlay & gotoAndStop