9 Jun, 2006
Adobe representative, Phillip Miller, recently guested Copenhagen, and during his visit he gave further insights into the upcoming client, Apollo.
When first introduced at MAX 2005, Kevin Lynch talked about Apollo being a browser substitute for offline browsing of HTML and Flash. Since the merger with Adobe, Acrobat Reader has of course been introduced into this project. Philip Millers recent talk about this stated, that it would be available for all platforms (Win, Mac and *nix), and that a beta was to come within the next year.
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6 Jun, 2006
I recently promised, that if I couldn’t find a valid URI-parser in ActionScript 2, I would create and release my own.
I’ve thus created my own built on simple string parsing functions (as opposed to using some regexp implementation, which is still not natively supported until AS3). It does not properly handle invalid chars of an URI (like spaces, special characters and more), but assumes an URL-encoded URI of some sort.
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6 Jun, 2006
When using FlashVars variables are pushed directly from the HTML-embedding of the Flash instance into the main timeline – _level0 that is.
To avoid having _level0.some_flashvar spread around the code without knowing, whether they exist, where they are used and more, I normally use a dynamic singleton FlashVars-class for first parsing these in the main timeline, and subsequently using this singleton class when loading vars.
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