oddhammer

Just putting in a last minute pitch for a good thing:

There’s a FREE Web conference going on this weekend in Raleigh, NC that covers Flex, ColdFusion, AIR, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, and other web goodness.  The schedule looks good, there’s a networking party Saturday evening, and the hotel rate is decent.  So go.

And bring your business cards…  the next time I’m asked if I know any web gurus looking for work I need some names and numbers. 

My Mac Pro is starting to get kind of dated and I've been lusting after some of the newer/faster systems out there. I'm ambO/Sdextrous and spend my day working back and forth between a pc and a mac and had started to get tired of the minor issues I have working between the two systems so I had considered a tricked out pc with Windows 7. I wasn't too happy with Apple when they decided to change their licensing agreement and shaft Flash developers... that wasn't very cool of them.. Then I saw that Keith Peters went back to the dark side... and now.. well.. let's just say Steve's little rant sealed the deal for me.

So I'm enjoying some of the comments on his "pot calling the kettle black" tirade like this one, and this from icrontic. ha. And it's good to see some of the comments like the ones on this article... lolz.. some people do understand that while HTML5 is a great improvement, it's a very different tool from Flash.

I figure it might be Christmas before I slow down enough to go through the hassle of switching files and everything over to a new system, but when I do get that time I'll probably be getting a nice high end gaming system. One that can play Crysis.

So I was wondering if the Flash 5 Player would support the full ISO-8859 Latin-1 character set… 

So I was wondering if the Flash 5 Player would support the full ISO-8859 Latin-1 character set…  so I grabbed the table of characters from Marin Ramsch’s page and pasted them into Flash 5 and published..  did it work?  Does Flash5 support the Latin1 character set?  See for yourself

So I ran into a little trouble with an application I was working on in Flash and after some testing it looks like theres a limit on the length of a string of 64k. That’s a pretty big string, but there was a reason that I needed it to be bigger.. oh well.

 
That led me to test a few other things.  I found on this page a section on “Huge Scripts” about 3/4 of the way down the page.. where it says “it’s good practice to keep scripts smaller than 64k (compiled) per frame, it’s possible to get larger.”  So.. how much larger?  What’s the limit?  hehe..  So I created a little test SWF to see how much I could fit on one frame.  I created 5 strings, each 60k in length (that’s what?  a 16 page document for each string?) on the same frame and a text field for each one.  I published it as both Flash 5 and 6, and with fingers crossed pointed a browser at it.  It worked.  The text for all 5 strings showed up in the browser.  So..  I tried 20 strings that were each 20k.  That worked too.