Flash printing in SWF error in Flash CS3.

Not sure if anyone else has seen this before but, one of the designers at work was trying to use PrintJob() and for some reason the printed page was showing with a blue tint. I thought it was odd, so I gave it a crack. Sure enough, blue hue on everything. Even when I tried to use print() I would get the same blue freakin hue.

We spent a lot of time looking at it, but found out that when we looked at the swf outside of the Flash IDE the blue went away. So word to the wise, if you get the error just try it outside of the Flash IDE.

alternativa game 3d engine demo

Alterntiva has got a demo of their 3d gaming engine they are creating for their online gaming enviroment.

About Alterntiva Game:

Alternativa Game is a multiplayer flash-game for browsers. Our game takes place in this time in a big virtual world, and is based on a social interaction.

Project’s goal is to give an opportunity to make interesting play for different kinds of players.

Together or alone, players build their financial empires, make political careers, criminal groups, complot in a fights for influence and territory, buy and sell, organize businesses, and of course simply chat and have fun.

Players can move around, interact each other: chat, fight, change objects, buy and sell (un)real estate, develop skills and physical conditions.


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shape of Sound

Shapes Using Sound Effects - video powered by Metacafe

Ill SItes: OZ

http://www.scifi.com/tinman/oz/

GSkinner's Spelling Plus Lib

Grant Skinner just announced a very nice full featured client-side spell checking engine, Spelling Plus Library (SPL) for purchase.

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AIR embedded SQL database: What’s new in beta 2

Paul Robertson has got a quick read on what's new in beta 2 in regards to the SQL setup.

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AIR Beta 1 to AIR Beta 2: Package changes

Now that AIR Beta 2 is out there are some modifications to packages.

flash.desktop.TransferableData and flash.desktop.TransferableFormats;

Are no longer in the flash.desktop package. You have to use:

import flash.desktop.ClipboardFormats

So if you are calling:

TransferableFormats.FILE_LIST_FORMAT

you now call:

ClipboardFormats.FILE_LIST_FORMAT

Also I noticed you can't just call:

stage.window.close();

To close a window. You now have that placed in the NativeWindow object:

var window:NativeWindow = stage.nativeWindow;
window.close();

Flash object scaling..

So I had this issue where I had to get a flash object on the page to stop scaling after it reached a certain height and width. It needed to lock the swf file so that the browser's scoll bars can appear and the content doesn't get lost.

I found an extension to the SWFObject called swfforcesize from PixelBreaker.

I also did a little example here

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Mr. Pig

My guy Alex Solis has got an ill shirt design entered in for threadless! Give him votes!