Friday, July 6, 2007

I am testing the display of some code, since I am migrating CSS and other things, I'd like to try to ensure a sweet transition when the DNS changes take place. This is just a piece of larger code stuff.

package
{
 import flash.display.DisplayObject;
 import flash.events.Event;
 import flash.display.Sprite;
 import flash.geom.ColorTransform;
 import flash.events.MouseEvent;
 import flash.text.TextField;
 import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
 
 // XML-Specific
 import flash.events.ErrorEvent;
 import flash.xml.XMLDocument;
 import flash.net.URLLoader;
 import flash.net.URLRequest;
 
 /**
 *  AS3.0 Class to provide user selection of various
 *  Flash-specific resource documentation/files.
 * 
 *  Author: Eric E. Dolecki
 *  Copyright: 2007, Eric E. Dolecki
 */
 public class Resources extends Sprite
 {
  private var BaseColor:Number = 0x414042;
  private var RollOverColor:Number = 0xCCC2C0;
  private var SelectedColor:Number = 0xF15B40;
  private var navArray;
  private var nCurrentSelection:Number = 0;
  public var sectionId = "";
  
  // XML-Specific
  private var urlLoader:URLLoader;
  public static var data:XML;
  
  public function Resources()
  {
   navArray = new Array();
   xmlLoader();
  };
 }
}

Labels: AS3, Code

Okay, so here are rumors galore about the Flash Player coming to an iPhone sometime in the future. There are three things that I can see wrong with the player on the iPhone (and with some genius they could all be sorted).

1. Battery life. Someone needs to make a player that isn't Flashlite, but consumes a lot less CPU to do its rendering - taking advantage of the hardware more. I am sure the iPhone does this on its own already with all the speedy transitions. Give that to the Flash Player, and that would be a big help.
2. Edge sucks, so we'd have to worry a little about the size of most Flash content, how it gets cached and eats memory, and how it would perform on a slow connection (something most of us have simply forgotten about). A caching mechanism or something could possibly help.
3. The iPhone gesturing might get confused with Flash content underneath it that also sucks up mouse events? Probably not, but maybe. Depending on how the Flash was developed, it could make things weird, especially for full-screen Flash apps and websites. This is probably the easiest thing to fix.

Labels: Flash, iPhone

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Well, this isn't live but I have redone a bunch of things using PHP and mySQL instead of ASP and .mdb. I had to learn PHP and SQL on the fly, and it took a while to do some basic things, but I am LOVING PHP right now. It seems so much more powerful than ASP (at least for the things I am interested in).


Once this MediaTemple hosting gets its DNS switch, smoooooth sailing and back to podcasting and other things. Loving (mt).

I just returned home from Cancun with the family and we had a truly amazing time. We stayed at the Royal Sands, and they have the best pool setup I've seen in some time. I took a lot of photos I plan on uploading to Flickr soon, some of them turned out rather well if I say so myself.

While we were gone, the iPhone launched, so we missed a lot of the hustle and bustle of postings and general internet frenzy surrounding it, but I have seen since coming home that generally it launched well and the reviews are quite positive. Minus the Flash integration... I give it the boo in regards to that. I wonder if the "mouse" interaction spoiled things in how the touch screen is employed. Think about it.

Anyway, just a quick jaunt in the post editor and now I'm off to catch up on real-life things and hopefully get the new site in order for some DNS switches.

Hello (mt).