From the Fiddler website:
Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.
Simple really. Introduced to me by Chris Preece, this is a Microsoft-made free debugging tool which shows you all of the header information and file requests that your browser makes. It’s works with IE, and also claims to work with other browsers (I’ve never tried this though) Read More…
Ever used getURL(); for loading new pages in Flash? That’s how you load a new page. Obvious, huh?
In 97% of situations it works fine. The other 3% it doesn’t* I’ve had a rough ride with getURL unexplicably not functioning. Turns out that it works if you omit target parameter of the function call, it works. Remember that next time you get stuck…
* Please note, statistics are made up on the spot.
I’m surprised I haven’t come across FlashDen before, but here’s the deal…
FlashDen sells premade flash ‘bits’. It’s like a marketplace, with every user able to buy and sell flash files, all for pretty reasonable prices. (We’re talking $2 – $30 here.) And the files are anything from Preloader bars to fully-featured xml-driven portfolios. It’s worth a look.
This post all stems from a project I’ve been working on very recently, making a drop-down menu in flash, that sits in a HTML page. What we’re talking in relation to here is, getting flash to execute JavaScript DOM functions.
Now, there are couple of ways for Flash to interact with its host page. The first one that springs to mind is getURL(), the same function that enables flash to load webpages. The second requires a little more preparation, and is ExternalInterface.call(). Both have an upside and both a downside. One’s old-school and one’s new-school. There are however, real reasons why you should use one instead of the other in different situations. Read More…
Unusual name, great blog. Run by Dave Child, and focusing on everything from marketing ideas to programming cheat sheets, it’s certainly worth a visit. Theres’ a host of decent articles, and the website practises what it preaches and looks very good for it.
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