Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features Geoff Stern posted this to the Flashcoders list. This is one of those times Slashdot falls down - if I wrote a mis-informed article about open source software they'd be down on me like a ton of bricks but they can post a load of old rubbish about the Flash 6 player and it's fine :( Just for the record, you have to explicitly give permission for a site to use your microphone or web cam, and local storage is just cookies for Flash - tick the 'never' box in settings if you don't want to use them. Until someone actually comes up with an exploit this should be regarded as a load of old FUD. add comment:
Fireworks for offline .SWF generation? Played around with Fireworks MX today, some nice new features and a better interface in general - it's amazing how just separating the Bitmap and Vector tools improves the usability. One of the interesting thing is the Data Driven Graphics Wizard, that allows you to take an XML file and generate images from it (replacing placeholders in a template with the xml data), check this tutorial for an overview. I'm sure with a bit of coding this technique could be used for generating static .swf's offline. add comment:
'New' Macromedia Resources Missed this when I was on holiday, but Mike posted his regular update of new Macromedia Flash MX resources (from 29/4/02) on his blog. Lots of coverage of the MX suite launch. add comment:
Pixel Fonts in List/Combo Boxes Branden Hall is covering many of the top questions with MX - heres another great article on getting your pixel fonts looking good in list and combo box components. add comment:
Escaping Unicode Characters Jossi Fresco informed me of this feature - in Flash you can use \u to escape a Unicode character, for example to display Ç use \ u00C7 (although you can't use this technique with embedded fonts in dynamic text) - a useful workaround if your encountering Unicode problems. add comment:
