Lately I have been working on a project that has a lot of flash files that use external ActionScript files for similar functions. It helps that they have many of the functions external because you can make mass changes with one file.
For those not in the know, here is how you include an external ActionScript file:
Due to the rise in internet video, and the need for it to be easily played on different operatiing systems and browers, Flash FLVs have taken off in the last two years. In light of this phenomenon, I find myself more and more downloading FLV videos for later viewng.
The most common places you will see FLV video for the masses is of course YouTube and Google Video, but many more sites are catching on. Flash has 98% browser penetration, and works on Mac, PC, and Linux, so it is a no brainer.
At work we use a lot of fake pop-ups in Flash to show information. Everything generally works very well, until we discovered that you can click buttons in flash that are underneath a movieclip or a graphic.
The first solution was to hard code disabling of MovieClips/buttons like so:
Upon redesigning this website, I decided I wanted to do a little more with the front page. The first thing that I wanted to accomplish besides a new look was removing entire posts from the front page and just having short snippets of each post so that there would be less scrolling and a reason to view the entry/comments page.
ExpressionEngine has a built in word limiter function that can be used on template tags that produce words. My immediate problem with using the word limiter is that it would cut off paragraphs without closing the paragraph tag. I also show a lot of code within pre tags and those not being closed screwed up the entire page layout.
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