FlashICT.net

I was searching this morning to try and find a solution for an image resizing problem. Basically I’m looking for a way to import and replace and existing image in Flash. Using the same solution I use for my ContentGenerator.net applications I can easily import and replace images, but the problem comes if the new image is a different size from the original one. My idea is to somehow track / read the image properties and then get Flash to resize the new image accordingly.

Anyway I couldn’t find much to help, but I did come across a Flash site that I’d never seen before – Oddhammer.com….

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Following a bit of research I’ve discovered why I’ve been experiencing so many issues with Urlencoding (as explained in my previous post).

From this page – http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/urlEncoding/ – it would appear that the + sign becomes %2B as I thought. However, it also explains that is urlencoded as %20 or +. This means that any urlencoded text that contains the + sign will change this to a space.

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Didn’t take long! If you look at ‘about this site’ on the new impressive looking Adobe Motion Design site you’ll see the following listed:

It has to be fairly obvious that the main product line will be as is shown in the above image. It is certainly a powerful product line and probably what most web design professionals will already use. Nevertheless ….

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Hopefully this isn’t a sign of things to come. The wonderful Macromedia site is now the site formally known as Macromedia. The carefully crafted menu bar is a rather ugly grey, the background has turned white and the Adobe logo is now clearly displayed at the top of the site, accompanied by an ugly badly aliased Macromedia graphic:

It just all looks rather clunky and thrown together . You can read more about the actual design changes here. I guess it all makes sense as Adobe has to demonstrate how all the Macromedia content is now part of Adobe. I also suppose the fact that the main business has related to the company takeovers rather than any huge investment in stylistic changes. However, it is beyond doubt that the Macromedia website in recent years has been an excellent example of brilliantly crafted and user orientated web design. It will be an immense shame if the Macromedia design disappears and is replaced by a bland Adobe design.

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