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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...):

http://www.flash-mx.com/news/archives/000367.cfm

Comments

hawt.

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 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

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_13686

Thanks,
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.

//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.

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