[Beta] Flash Fx (Includes SWF zoom)

[Olivier]

The scaling options are excellent Looki, great work and thanks!

[Atom]

This seems like it will be quite useful as it gets more features. Since you say about blend modes/fx type stuff i am just wondering do you plan to add support for loading of pixel bender filters? That would be really useful, even if not though having access to features that are not available in the runtime is a great idea.

[Olivier]

I've just noticed that the scaling options have no effect on application preloaders. Image preloaders are okay, except that the circular progress bar is sometimes pixely.

[Steven]

Great stuff, thanks Looki

[Looki]

This seems like it will be quite useful as it gets more features. Since you say about blend modes/fx type stuff i am just wondering do you plan to add support for loading of pixel bender filters? That would be really useful, even if not though having access to features that are not available in the runtime is a great idea.

I planned that but MMF uses a too old Flex version for that...

Olivier: Logically! You set the scale mode at start of frame - after the preloader. I hope that MMF will just have this inbuilt soon. What you could try to do is include the object in the preloader as well, and set the scale mode.

[Olivier]

How logical Looki! I tried to scale the preloader, but then at runtime the Flash Player throws an TypeError: Error #1009.
I also wish that this feature is implemented into MMF. Maybe Francois could tell us what he thinks about it?

[Francois]

Scale, blendmode and all those kinds of things will be included in the next version of Flash. And no, I do not know when (I have to finish iPhone/iPad first).
Thanks Looki for this great extension that will fill the gap until then.

[Olivier]

Thanks for letting us know Francois.

[Looki]

That's great news
Also, I know that I can focus on the actual features now (filters etc).

[Olivier]

I stumbled accross another problem Looki. When setting the scale mode at frame#1, I get the error below in consecutive frames when clicking with the mouse.

TypeError: Error #1009: Il est impossible d'accéder à la propriété ou à la méthode d'une référence d'objet nul.
	at Events::CEventProgram/handle_Event()
	at Objects::CExtension/generateEvent()
	at Extensions::CRunFlashFx/FullScreenReq()

This error is thrown by the standalone Flash Player only, not the browser plugins.

EDIT: How weird, it makes me think of another problem related to Jamie's Flash Haxx extension.