Archives for May, 2008

Flash CS3 and the case of the missing upper-left coordinates


So I finally upgraded to Flash CS3, and I noticed something that has changed in the UI.

You see that little button I circled?
In Flash 8, that button would toggle the X, Y fields between displaying the coordinates of the selected object’s upper-left corner and its registration point. In Flash CS3, though, the button toggles between [...]

Scaring people with fullScreen


When Flash Player 9 goes into full screen mode, it pops up a little security message that tells the user how to exit full screen mode. It appears as white text on a semi-transparent black background so it is generally always visible (which is good). Still, I wondered if it could be obscured.
The message is [...]

Weird query string variable behaviour (ActionScript 2)


I just discovered some strange behaviour in the Flash player if you try to change variables passed in through the query string before the movie has finished loading.
That is:
If a movie is loaded with the URL:
movie.swf?a=initialValue
and the movie contains a script that does something like this:
_level0.a = “some other value”
the value of a will get [...]