Comments 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…):
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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
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 ismy_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 GummessInstructional DesignerUniversity of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
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
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_13686Thanks,Jen.
Glen,Where did you find that alphaTo() method? I can’t find it in that link that you provided.T
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.//quoteUsing 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.