Magazine Feature
It’s not everyday you get to feature in a magazine so I’m thrilled to have two features in one month! One for .NET magazine and the other for Computer Arts.
The Flash tutorial written for .NET magazine focuses on the Text Layout Framework Panel beta created by Adobe which offers vastly improved control of type in our Flash projects and some really interesting little features like columns and the ability to add images to text fields.
The Computer Arts tutorial teaches how to simply link Flash and Flickr by creating simple querys and displaying the results in Flash. It strives to teach the fundamentals of connectivity between the two but also gives the reader a 3D Stack Panel style image viewer they can use in their own projects.
Here are some photos if you haven’t seen them yet:
If you’ve read either of these and have any feedback or are having any problems then feel free to give me a shout either on my email address me@antonmills.com or on this thread and I’ll help out.
anton.
Anton,
I was already looking for a Flickr/Flash gallery example when I saw your tutorial in July’s Computer Arts issue. Ecstatic as I was to have a tutorial in exactly a topic I couldn’t figure out, I believe your step 6 file has a bug that produces the error: “Error #2044: Unhandled ioError…”.
I tried putting my info into the script and got the exact xml I wanted:
http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=f65cd1f757eb61455cd78baf93df5dea&user_id=39494408@N02&per_page=18
but still got the Error #2044 message. I would love to get this working. Do you have an updated FLA for step 6?
Thanks in advance.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:07 amHi Dean,
I’ll have a butchers at it tonight and get back to you. In the mean time if you’d like to zip up your Flash files and send them through to hello@antonmills.com I can have a better look at what you’ve got so far and figure out what’s going wrong.
anton.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:15 amAnton,
June 18th, 2009 at 10:51 amThanks so much for responding within hours. I spent more time working with it last night with the same results. However, testing it again this morning after not changing anything still produced the same script error on publishing, but if I play the swf from the finder or in a browser, I get the images in my Flickr set to load. I’m not sure what is different. I tried the files in those ways last night. I’m emailing you an attachment in email. My files are in Step6 with “_1″ at the end of the file names.
-Dean
I tried out your tutorial as well but I cannot figure out a lot of things.
1) On step 04 what did you mean by ‘no code signing’?
2) Step 06 wasn’t clearly explained; am I supposed to replace the search string on the top or after the {else} statement?
3) Step 08 did I have to change anything here? I tried to read what your wrote on the comments for line 98 but I did not get it
4) For step 13, what did you mean by “copy the two lines as pictured above” what lines? and what picture above?
Thanks if you can help me out I am quite lost..
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:42 amHi Benjamin,
Sorry I’ve been a bit slow replying, I’ve been a bit busy with my new book that I’m literally just about to announce!
Are you still having some issues with one of the tutorials? If you don’t mind hanging on another day I’ll go through your questions tomorrow night in detail and post them on here.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:10 pmHey Anton,
I have the some Problems as the others above. Is there a solution for this?
I´m kind a lost here. So maybe you will find some time to help.
grets from berlin
July 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pmHi anton, I bought this copy of computer arts months ago and only just got round to doing your tutorial. I do however have a quick question as I’m clueless when it comese to flash. I’ve got the actual portfolio working with my images from flickr, I’d just like to know whether it’s possible display a little information about each image in the space on the left?
how could i do this?
Also, it seems whenever I try to export my movie, I have to edit the permissions for flash player to allow it to access api.flickr.com, not globally, but I have to specify the swf file that i want to allow access.
@benjamin & rgbdeluxe:
“no code signing” = “do not sign call”
the search string URL goes in at line 43 on step 11/12 and line 39 on step 6.
I left the example ones the way they already were (one is uncommented and the other is commented, yours should be in between the 2)
in step 13, just uncomment lines 83 and 82. step 14 uncomment line 87
August 28th, 2009 at 2:28 pmHello, did anyone solve the problem already? I bought the same computer arts magazine moths ago, and cannot work it out at all. Is there any website or page where I can see it is working without any problem? If anyone knows, pls let me know..
September 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm