Sandy Tutorial Celebration Friday 2006-12-01
I’m quite happy to announce the 7:th Part Celebration of the “Using Sandy…” tutorial.
Hey, you might say, what’s so good about seven? You’re right, it may be premature. Maybe I should wait for the tenth part. On the other hand why not seven. It may seem odd, and mathematically it is.
On the other hand, seven is a magic number and deserves a little celebration. Another good reason is that I don’t know what next to write about. It may be how to use the free MTASC SWF ActionScript compiler or maybe how to use light and filters in Sandy.
Another cause for celebration is that Davide Beltrame ( whom I don’t link to yet, because his site is under construction ) has translated, or rather transposed, the tutorial into the Italian language and mode. Soon to be published. This is exciting indeed, and I’m just a little bit proud.
More on the proceedings later, and kÅ·dos to Thomas, the author of the library and Davide, my hard working translator! You know it takes a lot more words to say something in Italian, and I am wordy to start with.
You can visit my tutorial here.
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Thursday 2007-02-15
I love the tutorial. Thanks so much for putting it together.
Please take the following as “constructive editing” (I edited Colin Moock’s ActionScript books and I can’t help myself).
In part 1 it says “To run the examples in this tutorial you need Flash Player 8.0 or later.” but then you say you are using Flash MX 2004 (which exports to Flash 7). Some of the paths and screenshots in Part 2 do imply Flash 8 however.
And a few things I noticed in part 2:
1. “scene” is misspelled as “scen”
2. “once” is misspelled as “ones”
3. It doesn’t mention that your FLA needs to include a call to init(), such as:
#include “CubeTest.as”
init();
More to come if you want the feedback.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Bruce
Thursday 2007-02-15
Bruce : Thanks for your kind words and for your corrections!
They are most welcome.
Yes, it is true that most of my examples require Flash Player 8. And indeed it is a false statement that I use Flash MX 2004, while in fact I use Flash 8.
About your point 3, It is sufficient to just include the AS file in the fla action of the first frame, like this:
#include “CubeTest.as”.
The call to the init() function is the last statement in the ActionScritp file and is executed.
I’ll correct the misspellings, and you’re welcome to point out any mistakes you find.