[Flashr] simple tag search

[Kelvin Luck]

Hi Gloria,

I'll put some answers in below:

gloria kao wrote:
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> If you open up the fla you will see there is a small dot in the top left
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> hand corner. This is an instance of "FlashrSimpleSearch" and is
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> associated in the library with the class com.kelvinluck.flashr.example.FlashrSimpleSearch.
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> I did see there exists the movie clp in the stage but still didnot know how to attach the .as code to the movie clip.
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> 
> I double clip the movie clip, and there is nothing inside. And it seems that there is even no instance name for the movie clip.
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The clip is associated with the class in the Library. This is how AS2 
works. There is plenty of examples on the internet or I would recommend 
Colin Moocks Essential Actionscript 2 ( http://moock.org/eas2/ )

> I try to search over the Internet and I found a page 
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash8_bestpractices_05.html, which
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> describes some ways to use "Using External ActionScript Files", but it still didnot say much about your approach. 
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> 
> Could you tell me another resouces about Flash AS2?

This isn't the best reference - a quick search on google came up with 
these which look better:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/actionscript/actionscript.html
http://www.ultrashock.com/ff.htm?http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flashmx2004/as2-01.php

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> 
> Another thing with the "local content can't access internet content" flash security restriction problem is, 
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> I already went to the Adobe website to trust file in my local location, why it still doesnot work?
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> 
> Sorry to ask so many question!
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This restriction isn't normally a problem. It doesn't apply when you are 
testing within the Flash IDE or when the swf is on a web server and 
these tend to be the places where you see an swf...

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> Gloria
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Hope that helps,

Kelvin :)