News, Source files, and Extensions for Macromedia Flash and Fireworks. http://www.senocular.com/ senocular@hotmail.com (Trevor McCauley) en-us Once upon a time I started an AS3 Tip of the Day thread over on the kirupa forums. It helped people to get ramped up with AS3, especially in transition from AS2, and I think people dug it. Not too long ago, I continued with the tip of the day concept, but this time with JavaScript instead of ActionScript. The result was another kirupa forum: JavaScript Tips of the day!. It's already at 100+ tips, and though new tips are no longer daily, new tips are still frequently coming in. A list of t... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=809 Looks like my host upgraded the backend of my site without letting me know, so things have been down for a few days. I apologize for that. I think I have everything back up and running now.This does help motivate me in moving some of this content off the site and to some other service where it might be more accessible. I've already done this for the Fireworks extensions... err, at least their source files on github. I'll probably do the same for the rest of the content as well. It's all legacy... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=808 I still remember my first time learning Flash. It was Flash 4. I believe the 30 day trial had just been released and I was recovering from an operation, bedridden for most of the summer. My only friends were a TV and a computer.It was on that computer that I discovered flash and started to create animations to help fuel my creative fire. Naturally, the operation had an influence of what I created, as seen with "Suddenly Seeking Surgery" (I had been going by the username BirdE230 at the time).... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=807 Someone recently directed me to an article from reinegger.net called Adobe Fireworks – a super hero that is hard to kill!. It struck a chord with me, particularly with it's point that Fireworks will continue to live and grow thanks to people who create extensions for it. There was even a link to senocular at the end of the article referencing the many extensions I had posted back in my heyday. Clicking on the link I came to realize that the last FW extension I posted was in 2008! For t... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=805 As I mentioned before, I was working on a "tutorial" concerning versioning within the Flash Platform. This is now done enough to share: Flash Platform Versions. It's a little heavy, and more of a brain dump than a tutorial, but hopefully it can shed some light. There is one big takeaway: Nothing is in sync anymore. For example Flash Player is currently at version 10.1. Flash Professional, which used to be in sync with Flash Player, is now at 11. Additionally, though the latest SWF version f... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=804 The new revision of the Transform Tool is still a work in progress. The tool is still in beta but now updates - including new source code - will be made available through a new tutorial page. Feel free to contact me with comments or suggestions.I can't say that a lot of progress will be quickly, especially since the holidays are arriving, but I wanted to make sure what I had was made available publicly. http://www.senocular.com/?entry=801 If you haven't already heard, A beta version of Flash Player 10.2 is now available from Adobe Labs. New features include enhanced video performance, support for IE 9, custom cursors (which I'm most excited about), and enhanced full screen. More information about the release can be found in the labs site and I'm sure in the many other posts around the web that covered this.What I'd like to address is something else that's new with this release that you might not pick up on at first: the SWF ver... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=800 For a while now, I've been slowly working on a successor to my original ActionScript 3 Transform Tool. The code for that original version was a little hacky and if nothing else, complicated and confusing.Even though it looks the same, this new version greatly improves on the old. In fact, it was written from the ground up to be more modular, easier to understand and, hopefully, easier to use.This new version is currently in beta; there are a few minor issues I'd still like to work out, but it ... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=799 As mentioned in the recent Security Domains, Application Domains, and More in ActionScript 3.0 tutorial, you have the ability to load SWFs from another domain into your own SWF's security domain when using the Loader class. What wasn't covered was error handling, or specifically, what happens when this fails. In fact, I'll tell you now: a SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR event occurs. This gets dispatched from the Loader's contentLoaderInfo object (a LoaderInfo instance) when a cross-domain ... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=798 Part 2 is now up. Whereas part 1 covered security domains, this second, and final portion of the tutorial covers application domains. I don't think I'm quite as comfortable with the explanations in this half of the tutorial, but at least its a good few pages shorter than the security half. Also, when writing the portion covering runtime shared libraries, I didn't realize that as of CS5, Flash Pro also started including some framework additions to make dealing with the process a little easier (n... http://www.senocular.com/?entry=797