Adrian Parr’s Blog

I recently heard about Miro Video Convertor (a super simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and more) and went to download it this morning, at which point I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between its logo and the Adobe Pixel Bender logo. Uncanny huh?

Last Thursday I went to Flash Camp Manchester and recorded Michael Plank’s FDT4 presentation.

He does some speed coding and then demonstrates all the shortcuts used.

I have used the pre-release version of Adobe’s Strobe Media Playback to play the video.

Watch it here! (Duration 43 minutes)

Note: It’s progressive download, not streamed.

Flash Camp Manchester is tomorrow!

It is a FREE event, but you need to register online before you go.

Here is the schedule …

12:00 | Registration opens

20:00 | EVENT MOVES TO PUB!

See you there!

Visit the website for more details.

I have just spent ages trying to set the tabIndex order of a bunch of TLFTextFields in Flash CS5. With the old Classic TextFields you would have done something along the lines of …

But with the new TLFTextFields this doesn’t work. You can’t just set the tabIndex property of the TLFTextField directly. When you do, it just doesn’t work.

Then I stumbled across this little bit of info in the docs …

So, for my simple example above to work with TLFTextFields instead of Classic TextFields I ended up writing …

I hope this helps and that you get it to work quicker than I did!

NOTE 1: I’ve noticed that when the user tabs to a Classic TextField the text is selected, but when you tab to a TLFTextField the caret is positioned at the beginning and no text is automatically selected.

NOTE 2: I’ve also noticed that the selection colour for a Classic TextField is black, but the selection colour for a TLFTextField is light blue. This can look a bit strange when you have a mixture textfields on screen near each other.