Elizabeth Lattanzio

DigiStars…

Elizabeth Lattanzio — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:14:16 +0000

I wrote a mini Flash app that creates these images dynamically. Every time you reload it, you get a different shape and a different color combo. I like seeing how the colors turn out.

Post Apocalypse.

Elizabeth Lattanzio — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:49:34 +0000

Things after the apocalypse seem so much quieter… Fair warning: I am a little obsessed with Instagram. I don’t work for them so I’m not trying to sell you anything (it is free) I just love it. This was at some reservoir in NJ.

Broken and lost.

Elizabeth Lattanzio — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:29:55 +0000

Beginning stages for Dominic’s tat… gotta get going on that actually.

Birds of a Feather.

Elizabeth Lattanzio — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:26:00 +0000

Ever notice how many bird phrases there are… Birds of a feather, love birds, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush… hmm. Another Instagram job.

AS2 Pseudo RSL

Elizabeth Lattanzio — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:35:33 +0000

For a current project I had to find a way to break up an AS2 library so the base classes would be loaded and additional classes would only be loaded if necessary. Online advertising tends to be very picky about their initial file size load. So, after a bit of research and some earlier failed attempts at an AS3-like RSL, I decided to use self encapsulated swf files. Each with the classes pasted to the main timeline. Yuck, I know but it works. That done I can simply load in the swfs and feed in the related data after load. Again this is a little tricky since AS2 doesn’t have a straight forward way of checking for an element’s load time. But using the Movie Clip Loader class it was no problemo. Glad to get that initial file size down from 17k to 6k. Woot!
var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var mclL:Object = new Object(); _screenMc.attachMovie("blank", mc, _screenMc.getNextHighestDepth()); mclL['ref']=myDataObject; mclL.onLoadInit = function(target) {

target.init(myDataObject);

} loader.addListener(mclL); loader.loadClip("class.swf", holder);

Communicating with Embedded AS3 swfs in Flex app

Elizabeth Lattanzio — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:54:55 +0000

Working on a project today trying to work between two different embedded swfs in a flex application. Actually one is in a dialog q d the other is in a module but same difference. So in the past we had worked with swf/flex communication with little difficulty. The swf in the module worked fine but the one in the dialog was throwing errors saying the function we were looking for wasn’t there. Grr.

After a bit of testing and troubleshooting I realized that though these files were being loaded into SWFLoaders, they were being loaded using different methods. The swf in the module was being added using the source property and a full URL. The swf I’m the dialog was being embedded from a local folder. Ah ha! All I needed to do was use a full URL for the dialogs swf – which was tricky – and voila! My swfs can communicate!

AS2 HtmlText Href listener

Elizabeth Lattanzio — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:28:38 +0000

So a colleague of mine was working on an RSS reader that linked the title of the feed to the feed url. Problem was he was lumping all of the text into one htmltext field. This was fine until we realized we havefor something a colleague was working on we needed to be able to run a tracking script when a user clicked on an htmltext href link. After a fair amount of Googling, I found the answer here. As this was a truly glorious find, I named myself “Queen of the Mountain,” of course. Anywho, the code joshiverson so generously provides is this:

function myFunc(arg:String):void {

trace ("You clicked me!Argument was "+arg);
}
myTextField.htmlText ='Click Me!';

By inserting the asfunction into the href and listing the function, you can call the function from within the html text. I thought that was sort of the coolest thing ever. You may ask why not just use AS3′s event listener (TextField.LINK) as joshiverson also describes. Well this is for a banner, which many Flash banner ad developers may know still requires us to use AS2 to meet publisher specs, which is a debate for another time. :/ For now I have stretching my google and problem solving skills!