FlashGuru Blog

There is an urgent role available for a Flash Contractor who can get to Central London, or is in the area for one month, possibly longer. ?20 per hour, 8 hour day working on some Music sites and games. Any queries, drop me a line using the Contact Me link on the right.

Good for 7 days only, a 25% discount on the purchase of Actionscript Viewer 4.06 is being offered to readers of Burak KALAYCI’s blog. Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the release of Actionscript Viewer 1.0.

Keep up the good work Manitu Group.

Just a little note to all those people who sent in feedback on the new site design. I dont have the time to reply to your emails individually at present but i have taken your thoughts into consideration and i do appreciate hearing about your point of view, both good and bad.

Friendsofed have released Foundation Actionscript for Macromedia Flash MX 2004 by Sham Bhangal. A book for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the opposite direction. A practical book that assumes no previous knowledge of programming, well worth a read if you want to head on down the track of learning Actionscript.

Mike Chambers and Grant Skinner are here in London, on May 20th for the London MMUG gathering, a rare occurence. Grant will be talking about simulating nature in Flash and Mike will be showing us where Macromedia see the future of Flash. Myself, Peter Hall and Owen Van Dijk will also be there to catch up with the gang. Try and get down there if you are around.

Having recently formed my own Company, FlashGuru LTD. I felt it was time that FlashGuru’s Knowledge Base got a facelift. FlashGuru LTD’s partner company, BeamJive Consulting, did some great work on the logo - i have only heard praise about it! So i Ive been working on a few site designs and have come up with a new layout and design incorporating the new FlashGuru brand created by BeamJive.

Check it out and please send any feedback ‘good or bad’ my way, using the Contact Me link in the site navigation.

Excuse the random babble in the image, thats just sample text for me to see how it would look.

The FileSystem extension has been updated with bug fixes and minor documentation changes. An intermittent critical flaw which kept returning an error whenever a FileSystem function was called has now been fixed, so hopefully people can now use it properly.

Macromedia's own implementation of the javascript encodeURI, decodeURI, encodeURIComponent and decodeURIComponent functions are flakey, and thus we had to write our own for encoding/decoding file paths etc... which was the main issue.

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Just to clarify, the issues we found with the four javascript functions above are as follows. If your script attempts to encode/decode a large file path such as the following line of code:

[as]alert(encodeURI("file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Guy/Local Settings/Macromedia/en/configuration/Commands"));[/as]

You get an error alert that says something along the lines of "out of memory in file: test.jfl" and then flash crashes.
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