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Here's a cool one: Matthew Tretter over at ex animo has come up with a particularly clever way of using JSFL to avoid redundant actionscript bytes when building complex applications by excluding actionscript classes (which you could easily do in AS2, but not so easily in AS3). Well played, jasofel, well played.
We here at squidder have a love/hate relationship with scrollbars. Partly because, while seemingly simple, they can overly complicated very quickly.
So when we wrote our latest scrollbar class, we decided to try out scrollRect. Seemed pretty strait-forward -- just pass in a rectangle and it takes care of all the masking, offset and everything. Way more efficient than setting a mask and then moving that about... or so we thought. (cue dramatic crescendo)
Continue reading Beware scrollRect: Seems great, can be nightmare..
But what if you've got an extremely complex site, with many sections, pages and drill downs that you want to make accessible? One option is to simply spit out all the content, no matter how long, into that same div. Yes, that will get indexed by search engines, but not only does it make the page you're loading very large, it also doesn't link users directly to the content they searched for.
That's where SWFAddress and mod_rewrite come in. Full deets after the jump.
Continue reading SWFAddress plus mod_rewrite = SEO bliss.
I encountered a problem yesterday in attempting to instantiate many (5-30 ish) timer objects while needing to provide each with a unique parameter. The ez solution? Create a dictionary object with whatever arguments you need to pass to your timer. Then add your timer to the dictionary. Once your timer is up, simply look up the dictionary definition for your timer event's target. Here we go:
private var dictionary : Dictionary = new Dictionary();
private function yourFunction(x:Number : void {
var timer:Timer = new Timer(500,1);
dictionary[timer] = x;
timer.start();
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, callBack);
}
private function callBack(e:Event) : void {
trace("!! my parameter = " + dictionary[e.target]);
}
To get access to this awesome class, you'll need to join Club GreenSock. 50 scoots gets you these goods and more.
Basically, its a really clever way of passing the content that you're overwriting when you use SWFObject directly into the flash. Super clean and requires only one data call. Handy for things like navigation bars, which while fancy in flash, can also easily be viewed (and indexed) without flash. Hats off, space150, hats off.
By the way, if you haven't seen the SEO rap, you owe (OWE) it to yourself to check out all of m0serious' work. Make it happen.
