A colleague of mine just pointed me to an example on the FlashProjector web site. The example is on their front page, labelled “Web browser inside Flash” in the Showcase section. Immediately I gasped. Not at the functionality because SWF Studio has had that since version 2. I gasped at the sight of my own Flash component being used without my permission. I recognized it immediately because he didn’t even bother to change the look of the resize and drag handles.
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Northcode’s SWF Studio 3.1 has been released. This release comes out not too long after the 3.0 release in July. Why so soon? We wanted to release around the time Macromedia was releasing Flash 8, the new features kick ass, and all the hard work that went into 3.0 is still paying off by speeding up the time it takes for us to add new features and make bug fixes, so we were able to get the new stuff in pretty fast.

So what’s new? (more…)

Flash is not retarded and SWF Studio is not broken. What the hell am I talking about?

I’ve been asked a few times about carriage-returns, linefeeds, and new lines with regards to SWF Studio and Flash textfields.

Since you can read and write text files from and to the user’s system with SWF Studio and Flash, inevitably someone will want to place some of this text in a Flash textfield. Well there is a behaviour of Flash textfields that is not documented: text written into a Flash textfield will have \n (linefeed) characters converted into \r (carriage-return) characters. This means that when you dump text into a textfield and then process that text later, your text is different. Any processing routines will have to account for this conversion.

So how does this relate to SWF Studio? (more…)

Actually, SWF Studio V3 went live July 11th at 8:51pm (EST). Since I didn’t have a blog at the time I thought I’d post about it now.

V3 represents a HUGE milestone for me. It was the first public product that I was a part of from inception to release. It was also a long time in the works (nearly 2 years from initial planning).

SWF Studio V3 includes an ActionScript API, which I helped create. I make sure not to take credit for the API. Although I wrote the ActionScript and played a significant part in it’s outcome, the Northcode team built V3 and the API is merely a segment of the whole. The API was forged with the rest of the application into what you see now.

Check it out: SWF Studio V3