http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellenm1@aol.com Wed, 16 May 2012 12:15:12 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000970.html Symptom: hyperlinks that worked in a Powerpoint file no longer work in the published Presenter or Powerpoint presentation based on that Powerpoint. This is because Flash Security treats local content differently than the content on the internet. The solution is to put the published files onto a web server and access it using the URL (like: http://yoursite.com/yourpresentation.htm).... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000940.html Flash Firebug is a great tool for debugging Actionscript 3 SWF files, similar to the way regular Firebug helps debug Javascript and CSS when using Firefox. But the current version of Flash Firebug, 3.0.3, has a bug that causes it to display this error: No SWF files with AS3 detected on this page. You could try reloading the page.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000911.html A customer called me the other day with a problem with Adobe Presenter. Video imported onto a slide would not play, no matter whether imported by Powerpoint's insert functions or through Presenter's own import functions. To fix this problem, first update the Flash player to the latest version.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000886.html Captivate 5 removed the need to answer this question: it only publishes in ActionScript 3 format, and correspondingly limits the compatibility of the published SWF file in certain situations as described below. But if you are using Captivate v. 4 or earlier, you may still be wondering which to choose.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000781.html The JW Player is a very popular open-source media player which not only supports many video, audio and image formats, but has many scriptable behaviors. Here we'll make use of the JavaScript API to generate as many players as you want on a page. The generated players all have separate event listeners to keep them from interfering with each other.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000737.html Sometimes it's helpful to have a quick reminder of how button events work within nested clips in ActionScript 2. [ TRY DEMO ] A button nested inside another button OR inside a MovieClip that has buttonEvents assigned to it will not work. (Button events include: onRollOver, onRollOut, onDragOver, onDragOut, onPress, onRelease and onReleaseOutside). This is due to the way Flash... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000734.html This is an example of how to create a javascript-based Playlist selector for a JW FLV player. The playlist selector menu has 3 sections that toggle open and closed when you click on them. This allows the user to switch playlists, choosing from various topics. The source code has not been cleaned up, but you should be able to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000716.html A while back, I worked on a flash game that teaches medical professionals how to find objects in a cardiac cart. A cart with 6 drawers isshown at left. When a drawer is clicked, it slides in from the top of the screen so that all the objects inside can be seen. The object of the game is to drag... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000701.html NOTE: this has been revised to make it more flexible, and allow multiple streamers and multiple video types, using the same code. This is a script that allows you to add as many JW FLV players to a page as you want, using a single block of code. The players all have separate event listeners to keep them from interfering... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000700.html Update 12-18-09: Longtailvideo has apparently resolved this bug with its player v.4.7beta. At this time v. 5 does NOT have the fix in it. The code changes that fixed the bug can be seen here: [Changes to RTMPModel.as] A few months ago, we installed Red5 0.7.0 on a Windows server to stream Flash video inside the firewall. This server... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000698.html One of our content experts wanted to use Powerpoint to create an interactive presentation. Although Captivate would probably be the ideal choice, she only owns Adobe Presenter, so I suggested she use that to convert the Powerpoint for the web. The problem is that Presenter, by default, shows a navbar on the side and a playbar below the presentation. In... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000690.html The JW FLV player is a versatile, customizable and scriptable flash video player, available from Longtailvideo.com. The player was recently upgraded, and many details in the scripting and playlists had to change to remain compatible. I'm posting examples of some of the players I've created lately, using the latest version of the player and SWFObject. Versions Player: JW FLV player... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000689.html The JW FLV player is a versatile, customizable and scriptable flash video player, available from Longtailvideo.com. The player was recently upgraded, and many details in the scripting and playlists had to change to remain compatible. Since it can be difficult to figure out the details of the necessary changes, I'm posting examples of some of the players I've created lately,... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000688.html If you have ever opened a VOB file from a DVD in Quicktime, you've probably noticed that there is no sound. When you examine the properties of the file, you'll see that it is an Muxed (Multiplexed) MPEG2, which means that the audio and video are interleaved together into one transport stream. Apparently Quicktime is not yet capable of dealing... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000592.html Another item I need to keep looking up: how to get the attributes of an XML item. Here, per the ever-helpful Senocular, is the definitive note on the subject. E4X (XML used in ActionScript 3) has new operators to access values in XML. One operator is the @ operator which accesses attributes. It can be used in place of the...