USA Today article: "In a Flash, cell phones could be dynamic"
The following USA Today article by Jefferson Graham is about Macromedia and mobile technology. Some interesting tidbits about the growth of Flash in this area - great for developers and designers alike.
www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-04-12-macromedia-usat_x.htm
Older but related news is the Nokia deal that was signed earlier this year:
www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/nokia_flashtechnology.html
And the developer release of Flash Lite, so you can start developing mobile phone apps right now (if you have one of the phones in the list...):
Comments
hawt.
Posted by: mikey | April 13, 2005 12:36 PM
Jen,
When trying to develop for FLash Lite, it is a bit dificult to find Flash 4 documentation. Do you have any info on that?
Thanks,
Moca
Posted by: Moca | April 13, 2005 10:21 PM
Greetings,
I am trying to fade up a movie clip from an alpha of 100 to 0 dynamically. The article at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/tweening_print.html was very helpful. However, the code I'm trying to implement is
my_mc.alphaTo(0, 3, "linear")
...in which the movie clip (my_mc), fades to 0 in 3 seconds.
I've imported transitions and easing classes successfully in my FLA file, but I can't implement this code, even though the "help" in Flash MX Professional 2004 seems to suggest that I can do this.
Thoughts? Advice? Extremely grateful in advance.
Glen Gummess
Instructional Designer
University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Posted by: Glen Gummess | April 15, 2005 10:15 AM
Hi Jen -- I'm trying to download your "Using Flash for the First Time" - (gnome) file. I choose to save to a file when I download, and the file ALWAYS opens in Dreamweaver, and I get an error message that the file won't open. What am I doing wrong. I have tried this MANY times. I even tried opening it from the Macromedia home page . . . same error message. Many thanks, Rosemary
Posted by: Rosemary Trexler | April 23, 2005 08:01 AM
Hi Rosemary,
The files that you're downloading for most Developer Center articles are in a compressed ZIP format, so you need to extract the source files before you open them in Dreamweaver or Flash. Here is a tech note that explains how to download and extract files from the macromedia site:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_13686
Thanks,
Jen.
Posted by: jdehaan | April 25, 2005 08:21 AM
Glen,
Where did you find that alphaTo() method? I can't find it in that link that you provided.
T
Posted by: Terry | April 25, 2005 04:28 PM
Glen, were you looking in Flex documentation? The alphaTo isn't in the Flash docs...
You can use complex tweens, which is in the article.
//quote
Using similar code, you set the _alpha property to fade instances in and out, instead of _x, as shown in the following code snippet:
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
new Tween(ball_mc, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 100, 0, 3, true);
HTH,
Jen.
Posted by: jdehaan | April 26, 2005 11:39 AM