Posts by agraddy

Hey Matt,

I work a lot with loading external images and have not ran into this issue with Firefox that I can remember (I have ran into a weird Firefox cache issue where if Flash tries to load the same file twice before the first call has finished loading, Firefox does not update the progress for the second call, but that was with an mp3).

It’s kind of difficult figuring out what the problem is without seeing the code that is being used.

Is this something you built yourself, or is it something you bought from FlashDen (if you bought it, I would recommend contacting the author).

If you made it yourself or inherited it, I would recommend posting the loading / alpha effect code on http://pastie.org/ and give the link here so we can see what is going on.

Hi stereocourier,

As the others said, you need to republish your swf. After you make the changes to the flashden.as file, you need to open the FLA file with Flash. Then you need to publish the swf. To publish on Windows, you simply press ctrl+Enter. I’m not sure what the Mac command is. On Windows, you can also publish from the control bar by going to Control->Test Movie (this is on the CS3 version of Flash).

After you have done that, upload the swf file (it will have been updated) to your server.

Hope this helps.

I can tell you that I’m seeing copies of my FlashDen work all over the place though, and I only refer to files that are 99% copies, but I am proud of that and wish those files good luck.

Bobocel, thank you for bringing an example that can be discussed.

Being a new author here, this is an issue that really brings me a lot of concern. I disagree that the example you provided is anywhere near a copy of the file. Yes, they are both accordions, but accordions are a very generic web element – there are only so many ways you can design an accordion (even Flex has an accordion built-in http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/mx/containers/examples/AccordionExample.swf )

By looking at the XML for the two files you linked to, it is clear that the files are not anywhere near the same (not to mention one is built in AS2 and another in AS3 ).

As a new author, I’m glad that copyright issues are attended to (my sheriff badge has to do with an author distributing assets files that they did not have the rights to), but it scares me that vague design similarities would be considered a copyright issue by some.

From the sounds of it, it seems that if enough people emailed support about the file Bobocel linked to, then that author would have their file disabled and warned that he better not do it again when it is clear to me that his file isn’t anywhere near a copy.

I guess I just wanted to express my concern. It seems that issues like this aren’t dealt with in a transparent way by FlashDen and it seems like it is something that could happen to any author.

I’m looking forward to the blog post mentioned in the email fifty got.

Saafi is right…ignore my advice. You only want to use contain if you are checking if an object that is already defined is on the display list.

I think my brain saw “check if movieclip exists” and thought “exists on the display list”...sorry for directing you wrong.

Glad you were able to get to the right code on your own

This would be the way I would write it:

if (!contains(contactMC)) { //code; }

Although your method works too.

then they should go to sites like kirupa-com, actionscript-org etc.

My personal preference would be for FlashDen to become like those sites. It benefits everyone because it grows the community.

It would be really nice to get an official response from FlashDen regarding this topic. Something along the lines of:

- We recognize the problem and we are considering ways to work around it.

- We don’t think it is a problem and have no intention of changing the forum sections.

- We agree it is a problem, and will be updating the forum in a month (tomorrow).

- We do not think it is a problem but we are interested in getting more community feedback.

- Some other response

Right now it seems we keep going around in circles, and I don’t want to keep wasting my time posting my thoughts on the issue if nothing is going to change.

To reiterate my thought one more time. I would like to see a separate freelance forum and have that forum be the only place where freelance requests and responses can be posted.

Could we please get an official response?

I would definitely recommend keeping everything in one database unless you have a specific reason to split it up into multiple databases.

Many tables won’t make your app slow – how you access those tables and how well the tables are optimized will determine how fast your application is.

Why do you want to use multiple databases?

If you are looking for an AS3 tweening engine, I recommend GTween by Grant Skinner. It is MIT licensed so it can be used in FlashDen projects.

Although, since you aren’t selling any FlashDen items, I guess whether or not you can use it for FlashDen projects doesn’t really matter.

What do you get when you run a trace(this) right before you call the second event?

Did you try my casting suggestion?

It’d be really nice if Pastie wasn’t the recommended way to share code.

Hopefully, it makes sense what I was trying to post.