Flash 9

Using Flash with light box and vis versa

Video tutorial on every thing flash - check out the one on the FUSE toolkit

Sometimes I do wonder what I'm doing most of the time looks like here another library that I glanced and never put the pieces together what was going on. For the last hour I've jsut been trying to figure out how the whole library works.

Been struggling trying to get some flash presentations up and running today, some what different to what goes on with powerpoint.

Here’s what I discovered - when creating screens the first screen in a stack attached to that parent is displayed with the parent (that just he way it is) and counted as a whole and every subsequent screen is independent.

Why do I see a message prompting me to “click to activate and use this control” when I roll my mouse over a Flash animation?

This is a result of the latest Internet Explorer update.

Microsoft recently lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way Internet Explorer displays OBJECTs and EMBEDs in webpages. Microsoft then decided to update its Internet Explorer browser with changes requiring user input to display and activate ActiveX based media.

The latest release of adobes anticipated flash 9 has emerged in beta mode, not sure really what to expect as I’ve moved away from using flash in development projects as I didn’t think the infrastructure was in place to support growth in the market. Don’t get me wrong flash does have its place and you can roll out different types of projects pretty quickly.