Mouse bad, keyboard good
I know these things aren’t really supposed to be difficult, but at least have your Flash guy take out the trace statements before you publish.
I was just surfing as I noticed something funny going on in FlashTracer. Like I said, no biggie, but may serve as a warning for other Flash devs.
Probably only interesting if you’re based in Norway (yet, who knows?), but I thought I’d give you all a heads up that FUGN – Flash User Group Norway is starting up again after a lengthy summer vacation.
The first meeting is this coming monday, and the details can be found at the FUGN website (^^). If you’re Oslo-based; Get your ass over there.
I couldn’t possibly code in anything but TextMate. Hell, I even blog from TextMate. And since I’m lazy by nature I wanted a better way to import classes from my class library. The TextMate ActionScript 3 Bundle Simon Gregory offers a nice auto complete functionality that lets you define a list of classes to choose from on triggering.
While this is indeed very nice, the solution is really only suited for your most frequently used classes as putting your entire class library in the list would render it unusable. So something else was needed.
I just finished a presentation on Flash for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), and taking a page out of Aral Balkans book I thought I’d do a summary and share it with whoever you crazy people are. As Arals, my slides don’t make much sense on their own, so I’ll walk you through my presentation instead of just giving you a link to my keynote file.
This code was written by a far less awesome version of me and using it is strongly discouraged. You should go here and use that code instead. Do it. You’ll thank me.
I’m an avid user of Twitter. I’m also a Flash developer so it figures I had created a Twitter badge in Flash to display on my old blog. I even had a tutorial on how to do it. The thing is; Twitter all of a sudden decided to close off their feeds to Flash. By changing their crossdomain.xml 1 the pretty much messed up any Flash apps out there talking to Twitter. A tad frustrating, but oh well.
This just means we’ll have to be a bit more creative when we create Twitter stuff. To get the Actionscript and the clever solution for the cross domain issue, read on.