Added balloon notification to flash widgets

Filed under: Flash — Wrote by Campbell on Friday, September 9th, 2005 @ 1:29 am

Yep quick on tonight cause its late! I have added the API for flash to call nitification balloons on the taskbar Icon while the widgets are hidden. Flash can specify the Title, message and the time it stays on screen for.

This method has overloads for a couple of combinations. I only wish flash had overloads. I have spent most of the time trying to find a way to render the flash movies transperancy. MAn this part is hard. I have faked it for now by setting the movie background to the same color as the widget ummmm the big blue square that takes up the screen when you hit F6. This color is of course  configureable. So I still have to find a way to render the activex control transperancy :o ( please help if you know. I have a few more nights to spend on it and then I will release a beta….but Im still waiting if I should wait till flash 8 is released so that people can use the external interface. I still have to make a Fabultor class file which holds all the methods for things like showing the message balloons etc.

If you dont know what Flabulator is then look back over the last couple of posts. They should explain it all. 

Once again comments are welcome!!

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  • Comment by Tim Walling | September 9, 2005 @ 2:32 am

    Don’t rush it. Wait for 8 to come out and use the ExternalInterface.

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