Author: Alessandro Crugnola

Xray ( The AdminTool ) becomes opensource

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript , , ,

Many of us used Admin tool for debugging flash movies in the past, being a great debugging tool (for me much better than the one provided in flash).
Now Admin Tool is an opensource project!
What is Xray?
Xray (The AdminTool) is a “snapshot viewer” of the current state of your Flash application without impacting the performance or the file size of your application. Xray’s true nature is to look into the very guts of the Flash application and dissolve the 2d myth you see on screen to a 3D tangible entity you can truly crawl through.
The downloads provided with Xray are:

Other links:

More info available at: http://labs.blitzagency.com/?cat=2
http://www.osflash.org/doku.php?id=xray_the_admintool

SplitPane component

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript , ,

I discovered today a genial component by Joan Garnet, the SplitPane component.
It uses the Macromedia ScrollPane component as basis and it has lot of really useful features.
Some of them I read from the blog post:

  • nested of SplitPanes within each others
  • orientation: horizontal or vertical
  • enable/disable component
  • event driven component
  • max/min width/height
  • separator state (expanded/collapsed)
  • separador size
  • references to each component of the panel
  • expansion direction ( leftRight – rightLeft, topBottom – bottomTop )

See a demo of the SplitPane component here
http://www.joangarnet.com/…/release_v2_fram_1.php

Paradise Lost…

Alessandro Crugnola general ,

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Holidays are finished also this year…
Back from Paradise, it’s so difficult to switch mind to the all days’ things.
This Summer we’d different holidays as we used to do; no warm sun, no beach, no hot sand.. but they were so incredible and unforgettable.
But they are finished!
So let’s start a new year.. Welcome back to everyone.
Many news will come for everyone of us with the next release of all the Macromedia products

Here the source code of the fader:

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Flying away… holidays!!

Alessandro Crugnola SEPY , , , ,

Before leaving for my holidays i just want to make a quick post about the recent SE|PY additions…

1. Quick search bar

sepy quick search

The new “quick search” bar at the bottom. Thanks to Eric Dolecki who suggested me a more usable and fast to use “search” control (thanks also to Eric new icons suggestions!)
I use Mozilla Firefox from more than one year, i love the way it has implemented the find bar, and I never thought at using it in SEPY? yes.. that’s true 🙂

2. Right border enhancement

This is directly taken from an Eclipse feature i like a lot.
For every bookmarked line or line with a “TODO” comment you will have in the right side of each document a small clickable rectangle, with different colors, which show you the absolute position of that line in the document.
When you move the mouse over that rect you will see a tooltip telling you the content of the line and click on it for move to that line.
Nothing particular, but I found it really useful.
It’s now possible to customize the words SEPY is looking for (not only “todo”, but what you want)
Moreover, with the last addition of a sqlite database once you open a document for the second time you will see all the previous bookmarked lines, and the cursor will be placed in the same position you previously closed the document.

MTASC compile

Last addition is the mtasc compile dialog.
Using this dialog window you can compile yuor script in SEPY using the mtasc compiler and see in the same dialog a preview of the created SWF.
BTW, I will leave for my holidays on Monday (destination Tallinn, Estonia).
See ya again by the end of August.. and great holidays to you all!!
http://sourceforge.net/

New Flash Player security rules

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript , , ,

Erica Norton of the Flash Player Team wrote an interesting post in the flashcoders list about the upcoming changes in the Flash 8 security restrictions.
I’m copying here parts of that post:
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In Flash Player 8, the rules are:

  • local with file system content may only communicate with other local content
  • local with networking content may only communicate with remote content
  • trusted content may communicate with both local and remote content

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The first 2 types will be publishable. For those that do not upgrade their Authoring tool, we will be providing a command line utility to convert SWFs to local with networking SWFs (and vice versa).
There will be 2 mechanisms for trusting content.
The first, many of you have seen: the Settings Manager. The second method is in the form of .cfg files placed in a specific location for the Flash Player to read.
This will enable distributors of local content, via an installer for example, to install a .cfg file to the appropriate location, thereby trusting the content. One could also provide an updater to an already distributed bit of content in order to trust those documents this way.
Please note, that one may trust a directory, which trusts all content recursively below that directory.
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There will also be an API available in ActionScript in order to detect which of the 4 sandbox types that the SWF is (remote or local: local with file system, local with networking, trusted) so that in ActionScript you can do one thing or another.

http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-July/145237.html

1st Flash Lite Game Contest!

Alessandro Crugnola Uncategorized

The community Actionscript.it MMUG, cooperating with Sephiroth.it, is organizing the 1st Flash Lite Games contest, a contest for all those who want to develop a mobile game. All the contestants must present a game made for Flash Lite 1.1, respecting the necessary qualifications described in the regulation.
The prizes are:

  1. A Studio Mx 2004
  2. A Nokia 6630
  3. A Nokia 6600

For the official announcement and the contest rules follow this link:
http://www.actionscript.it/fl_contest/regolamento_en.htm