PDF Xtra for Macromedia Director V 7.0

Written by on May 19, 2005 in News - No Comments

INM's PDF Xtra is an out-of-the-box solution that displays PDFs documents from Director with the true Adobe Acrobat/Reader look and feel.

  • Simplify content-heavy projects (e-learning projects, e-books, product presentations, reference tools).
  • Display and print stylized fonts, special characters, intricate layouts.
  • Repurpose existing documents from any source.
  • Light-weight download is ideal for Shockwave deployment (on Windows).
  • Supports PDFs containing Flash™, QuickTime®, and 3D.

Requires Adobe® Acrobat® or Reader at authoring and runtime.

Fastes way to detect if a radio button has been selected

Written by on May 17, 2005 in PHP - No Comments

There are times when you just need to pull the default value of a radio button selection, rather than creating and array and testing from it.

The quick and dirty solution is to place a hidden field right before those items you want to send with default values if nothing is selected.

PHP:
    <input type="hidden" name="NameOfYourRadio" value="Default Value"/>

createTextField and removeTextField

Written by on May 16, 2005 in ActionScript, Programming - 1 Comment
ActionScript:
    createTextFieldOnce = function(){
       trace("---> Text Field Created");
       _root.createTextField("cMagnitude",this.getNextHighestDepth(),0,0,100,30);
       cMagnitude.text = "Hello World";
    };

    deleteTextField = function(){
       trace("----> Text Field Deleted");
       _root.cMagnitude.removeTextField();
    };
    createTextFieldOnce();
    setInterval(deleteTextField,1000);

Loading a RSS feed into Flash

Written by on May 15, 2005 in ActionScript, Programming, Tutorials - 23 Comments
ActionScript:
    // create a new XML object
    var sports:XML = new XML();

    // set the ignoreWhite property to true (default value is false)
    sports.ignoreWhite = true;

    // After loading is complete, trace the XML object
    sports.onLoad = function(success) {
      trace(sports);
    };

    // load the XML into the sports object
    sports.load("http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/sports");

Removiing a Movie Clip on Stage with AS

Written by on May 14, 2005 in ActionScript, Programming - No Comments
ActionScript:
    //A square with id = square
    //A simple button named mca that removes the attached MCs

    this.attachMovie("square", "square1",1);
    this.attachMovie("square", "square2",2);

    square2._x =100;

    mca.onRelease = function() {
     square1.removeMovieClip();
     square2.removeMovieClip();
    }

After a long brake

Written by on May 13, 2005 in Flash Bits - No Comments

As many of you know, for a while I was away from message boards. but I am back to help a few of the newbies out there. Also I am looking forward to update the Flash Bits section along with the PHP and DW bits.