flash 7 core objects and methods

[ev]

im sure most of u have already seen this, but heres a nice table with some of the core objects and their properties and methods in the flash 7 plugin.  im sure there is a lot more that they have added into the production flash 7.

http://code.audiofarm.de/XTrace/xtrace_player7.html

i was really excited about the CSS possibilities but take a look at the textfield StyleSheet objects, it makes me think that it will act more like a textfield textformat.  there is a parseCSS method, so it doesnt seem like we can simply assign html text that includes <style> tags... there is an onLoad method, but no load...im sure that will be implemented later so it looks like we cant really have html in our textfield, but rather only html text, <img> and <span class=""> to style our text, i was hoping for being able to use <link> and <style>. i would like at least support for @import in the style sheets, but im not getting my hopes up.

im really really really really really hoping that they will have some kind of xpath implementation for searching xml like there is in CF.  do u guys think that its likely?  id also like to see a parseDate implementation.

ev

[vesa kortelainen]

Thanks for showing the link Ev,

im really really really really really hoping that they will have some kind of xpath implementation for searching xml like there is in CF.  do u guys think that its likely?  id also like to see a parseDate implementation.

ev

I don't think it's gonna be likely to have xpath implementation in Flash 7.

[ev]

i found out that they do.  its in the xml component in pro edition.  this will open up a lot more possibilities with flash and xml.  combine that with CSS and the drawing API and doing an xhtml renderer would be a piece of cake.

ev

[Musicman]

Hi,

so just add a few more lines of code to pass embedded javascript to the flash movie, and you will have a wprking browser within a text field.
Due to macromedia sandbox, it will not acquire virus from the outside browser

Ok, that's future,
but does anybody have an idea why "AS2 cannot be written in the edit page, only in external files"?

Musicman

[Mike]

wow nice to hear   that just wet my appetite even more