Flash Player 10 - ASTRO Update Beta 2 available now

Flash Player 10 beta 2 was released on 7/2/2008 and includes new features and bug fixes.

New features on Flash Player 10 - ASTRO beta 2 ::

• Rich Media
  • Enhanced Sound APIs
    
• Other Community Requested Enhancements
  • Linux WMODE
    
  • Video4Linux v2 Support
    
  • unloadAndStop
    
  • Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access

More details can be found on adobe labs flash player technology.

You can find the new version of flash player 10 beta on adobe labs download center.

Regards,

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Google and Yahoo! can search Flash SWF content now!

This is really good news. :)

Here are links for more details ::

• Adobe Developer Connection - SWF Searchability FAQ
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog - Improved Flash Indexing

Regards,

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Magics in Windows

Magic #1

An indian discovered that noboday can create a FOLDER anywhere on the windows computer which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty cool... and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole team could not answer why this happened.
Try it now, it will not create "con" folder.
(There are few ways to create folder "con"... Wait for next post...)

Magic #2

For those of using Windows, do the following :
1) Open an empty notepad file.
2) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes).
3) Save it as whetever you want.
4) Close it and reopen it.
What you see...? Guess why it is so.

Magic #3

This is something pretty cool, neat and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole team, including Bill Gates, could not answer why this happened !
It was discovered by Brazilian. Try it out yourself.
Open Microsoft Word document and type
=rand(200, 900)
and Press Enter.

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Identify all the key strokes in Flash IDE Environment

By default, when you press some key in Flash IDE Environment, in ActionScript you will not be able to handle DELETE key stroke as that is shortcut key in Flash IDE.

To handle such key strokes in ActionScript, while running an application in Flash IDE, go to swf's Control menu and tick 'Disable Keyboard Shortcuts'. Now ActionScript will listen all the key events which are shortcuts in Flash IDE Environment.

- Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Virtual Directory in WAMP using Symbolic Link

You can setup a virtual directory in WAMP using Symbolic Link. You have to create a symbolic link in Windows using following command :

mklink /D [virtualDirectoryName] [TargetDirectory]

where,

/D indicates the target is a directory and not a file. If you don’t provide this then it will take file as target by default

[virtualDirectoryName] is the name of the virtual directory

[TargetDirectory] is the target directory to which you want to link the virtual directory

For example, if you want to create a site using name ‘mysite’ and you want to link this virtual directory to the directory ‘d:\somefolder\sitecontent’, then assuming the location of wamp as ‘c:\wamp\www’ you will create symbolic link as follows :

mklink /D c:\wamp\www\mysite d:\somefolder\sitecontent

I think it would be very useful to create virtual directory in wamp so that we would not have to put all the content into www directory of wamp.

Enjoy funny videos in Gujarati - Simply Cool

Shahrukh's Darde Disko in Gujarati ::

Shahrukh's Darde Disko

Spiderman - Veer Karolio Jalawalo ::

Veer Karolio Jalawalo

Here are more videos - SURATI KAKA. Enjoy them :)

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta Released

Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.

This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Once you’ve installed Flash Player 10 beta, you can view interactive demos. You can also help make Flash Player better by visiting all of your favorite sites, making sure they work the same or better than with the current player.

Key New Features

3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity. Fast, lightweight, and native 3D effects make motion that was previously reserved for expert users available to everyone. Complex effects are simple with APIs that extend what you already know.

Custom Filters and Effects - Create your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe® Pixel Bender™, the same technology used for many After Effects CS3 filters. Shaders in Flash Player are about 1KB and can be scripted and animated at runtime.

Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout engine, co-existing with TextField, enables innovation in creating new text controls by providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures.

Enhanced Drawing API - Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful with re-styleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line.

Visual Performance Improvements – Applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration. By moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, the CPU is free to do more.

See the release notes for more information regarding this prerelease technology.

Feature Demos and Videos

Interactively explore Flash Player 10 via demonstrations of the new 3D effects, custom filters, text layout, and interactive Inverse Kinematics features. If you want to know more about how things work, check out the collection of feature tour videos, hosted by members of the Flash Player team. For those that have created their own filters, the Pixel Bender demo is your chance to see your filter running live! (Demos require Flash Player 10.)

* Release versions of Flash Player 9 are now available from the Flash Player Download Center on Adobe.com.

Enjoy the great features of ASTRO !

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

DataProvider.getItemIndex() function does not work in proper manner

In ActionScript 3.0, DataProvider.getItemIndex() method is not working properly. It mostly returns -1, as an indicator of 'Item not found' in the DataProvider.

Following code illustrates the problem ::

import fl.controls.ComboBox;
import fl.data.DataProvider;

var cb:ComboBox = new ComboBox();
this.addChild(cb);

var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider();
dp.addItem({label:"Ashvin Savani"});
dp.addItem({label:"Naresh Khokhaneshiya"});
dp.addItem({label:"Jignesh Dodiya"});
dp.addItem({label:"Alpesh Vaghasiya"});

cb.dataProvider = dp;

//get index of item 'Naresh Khokhaneshiya'
var index:int = dp.getItemIndex({label:"Naresh Khokhaneshiya"});

//following line outputs :: index : -1, which is totally wrong.
trace("index : " + index);

//set the item selected. Obviously it will give runtime error.
cb.selectedIndex = index;

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Flash Player 9 does not support Ordered List

Surprisingly Flash Player 9 does not support Ordered List <ol> tag for TextField.htmlText property. It gives output same as Unordered List <ul>. Also it does not support “type” attribute of <ul> tag.

TextField.htmlText supports List Item

tag but that is also limited. It does not support “type” attribute of

tag. It supports only “circle” as a type of

tag.

Flash Player 9 supports following HTML tags :

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000922.html

Hope that Flash Player 10 will support <ol> tag :)

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Another VERY SPECIAL day for me

29th of January' 2008 is another special day for me as I got married with Preeti.:) It was very much fun for all the other people except me and Preeti as we needed to be ideal for all the time:( .

Naresh Khokhaneshiya

Hello

Hello World,

This is my very first post on blogger.

Thanks to blogger. :)

Naresh Khokhaneshiya