art,website and SEO » source code http://artfantasy.revivalx.com Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:21:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 [PHP] navigation http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/12/05/php-navigation/ http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/12/05/php-navigation/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:24:23 +0000 admin http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/?p=442 This basically does what the 1st one does but with more strings and a different seperator rather than ‘&’. I don’t really want to go into too much detail on the thread so if people are confused or need explaining, reply or PM me.

That’s it for the navigation as I am not going to do the other due to they’re everywhere else and I wanted to be different and show everyone this method.


<?php
if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == “SoD”)
print “owns you!”;
else
print “don’t front!”;
?>

Description: Instead of calling files like ( index.php?str=blah ) , you could do ( index.php?SoD ) and it would print out “owns you!”. You can add more strings in there, this is just an example.

$vars = explode(“,”, urldecode(getenv(‘QUERY_STRING’)));
$v1 = array_shift($vars);
$v2 = array_shift($vars);
$v3 = array_shift($vars);

switch ($v1) {
case ‘first.1′: {
print(“This is v1, first string case ‘file.php?first.1′.”);
break;
}
case ‘first.2′: {
switch ($v2) {
case ’second’: {
switch($v3) {
case ‘third’: {
print(“This is v3, the last case ‘file.php?first.2,second,third’.”);
break;
}
}
}
}
}
}

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]]> http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/11/14/javascript-variables-part-1/feed/ 1 Pro Flash Techniques(part3) http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/11/10/pro-flash-techniquespart3/ http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/11/10/pro-flash-techniquespart3/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:32:45 +0000 admin http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/?p=355 Improving perceived load performance

A problem that effects Flash to this day is load performance . Most times, an HTML page and it’s content is downloaded and displayed before a Flash piece has finished downloading, leaving a blank white space in your page. The following techniques “fakes” the initial frame of a Flash piece with a bit HTML/CSS . The actual Flash piece is hidden outside of the web browser’s viewport while downloading its assets. When ready for display, the Flash piece can call a bit of JavaScript, using Flash Player’s External Interface to display  the piece. We use this technique to improve perceived performance when loading our Flash media pod at www.kontain.com

Resources:

This particular implementation  uses the excellent SWF Object library to load and embed our Flash piece. SWF Object is available at www.deconcept.com .

The HTML and the full code can be found on www.webdesignermag.co.uk

<html>

<head>

<script type=”type/javascript” src=”swfobject.js”></script>

<script type=”type/javascript”>

The CSS(CSS code goes here)

The JavaScript(JavaScript code goes here)

Flash and ActionScript: Frame 1

Place “placeholderImage.png” on the stage in the first frame.

Flash and ActionScript: Frame 2 and beyond

By this time, the first frame has been downloaded and is ready for display. Call the “showFlash” JavaScript function from the second frame.

Import flash.externalExternalInterface;

…

ExternalInterface.call(“showFlash”);

Dynamic font

A key area of any style of website is its font headers and other copy elements. Although Flash includes features to embed entire fonts in your library, a little ActionScript 3.0 allows you to select only characters that will be used in your project. This may not be a big deal with smaller fonts but can slow up the loading process if the font contains multiple languages and special graphic characters. Runtime type allows fonts to load only when needed. Characters must be converted to Unicode (example,”A” becomes “U+0041”).

Int, uint Number

Typing in general boosts the speed of AS3 code. When it comes to numerical variable types in Flash, the platform shows some unexpected behavior.

Most developers commonly believe that appropriate use of the “new”(in AS3) int, uint data types will result more optimized code therefore better performance . With other languages this is generally right in practice as well, but it is different with AS3.

In reality unit types perform quite slow and they show quite a fluctuation in each case. Surprisingly , Number types execute quite fast, only a slightly slower than int.

Avoiding uint types everywhere you can, appropriate use of int types and Number types will result better performance in reality.

Ref: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/types_in_as3_in.html

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]]> http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/11/10/pro-flash-techniquespart3/feed/ 0 Pro Flash Techniques(part2) http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/11/05/pro-flash-techniquespart2/ http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/11/05/pro-flash-techniquespart2/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23:35 +0000 admin http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/?p=343 How  to make a class or package import optional at compile time

Lets say you are using a package for debugging and want an easy way to turn it on and off. The idea behind it is that turning it off would also remove the import for obvious fill size reasons.

This handy solution is made possible constants. If you define a constants. If you define a constant, for instance CONFIG::DEBUG, to a Boolean value you can turn a block of code on and off from the compilation point of view.

In Flash IDE, you can set those constants in PUBLISH SETTINGS> “Settings…”>”Config constants”.  For other editor you can set the flex compiler command line options as follows:

-define=CONFIG::DEBUG,true .

I have a package level function, called log(), that I use in place of trace() to output in the JavaScript console. Here is how I use the compiler constant to turn that feature on and off.

public function log(…args):void

{

CONFIG::DEBUG

{

[callthe debug package and pass the arguments]

When CONFIG::DEBUG is set true, the log is calling the debugging package. Otherwise, the compiler ignores the entire block. Log() turns into an empty method. All references to my debugging stuff are removed, therefore not imported.

All I have to do so is change one constant and all my log() methods are disabled.

Squeeze for speed

So you’ve spent all that time optimizing your assets , have you considered your data?

While file compression is nothing new, here’s simple solution you may have overlooked. As sites become more complex and data driven, users expect content to download at faster and faster rates, and we often find ourselves trying to optimize our work as much as possible. One area that focused on is the way we load data into our Flash sites.

XML is by far and away the ‘standard ‘ in regards to maintaining  a dynamic Flash website. We figured out that I could optimize the size of XML files being loaded into Flash by compressing them. In order to do this, we turned to GZIP compression and the ability of Flash to read binary data. Since then, we have made it a standard to incorporate  GZIP compression into my workflow when involving XML data, where the resulting compressed     XML file is 85-90 percent smaller than the uncompressed original.

My process works as follows:

  1. We choose the desired XML file we want to compress and run it through the GZIP compressor.  The output is saved as a binary GZ file.(You can download the GZIP compressor at http://www.gzip.org ). Compression can be done via a manual process or an automated (for example via a CMS).
  2. In Flash, I load the.gz filevia URLLoader, making sure I set the URLLoader’s dataFormat property to binary.
  3. When loaded, we save the data as a ByteArray ,uncompress it, and reset its position property to 0;
  4. Using the method readUTFBytes on the byteArray object and passing the property bytesAvailable, we convert the loaded binary file into a String which in essence is the XML we are looking for.
  5. The last step is crating my XML object, which is created by passing my converted string into the constructor.

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  1. First you need to find or create an image no bigger then 150×200 pixels. Import that into the library, open up your library and drag it onto the stage.
  2. Then, if need be you can scale your image down by selecting it. Press Ctrl+Alt +S  at the same time to scale your image down 50 percent.
  3. Then click on your image and press F8 to convert it to a Movie Clip, making sure your registration point is centred . Then delete your Movie Clip from the stage.
  4. Open up your library and right click on your Movie Clip and select linkage  and choose ‘Export for ActionScript ‘ and name the class “Image” with a capital”I”.
  5. Now name your only layer “Action”, press F9 to open up your actions panel and copy the ActionScript that is. Then Ctrl+Enter to test your movie.

Using Code injection to write with Javascript code in your AS file.

When playing with ExternalInterface.call(), sometimes you need to do more than just calling a function. For instance you can define a Javascript function that you’ll be using later. ??

This is simply done by using an XML:

Var initObJS:XML=

<script>

<![CDATA[

Function(objlD)[

Try

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You should have received a license with this distribution explaining the terms under which Shadowbox may be used. If you did not, you may obtain a copy of the license at http://shadowbox-js.com/LICENSE

For more information, please see the Shadowbox website at http://shadowbox-js.com/.

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