Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
At the maximum end we have the value ‘FF’ which means
15 ∗ 16 + 15 = 255
Since each term red, green and blue can take a value between 0 and 255, the maximum number of
colours that are possible is
256 ∗ 256 ∗ 256 = 16777216
A value of 255 in decimal is FF in hexadecimal and 11111111 in binary. That is, it takes 8 numbers
to define the value in binary; each of these numbers is sometimes called a bit and a cluster of 8 bits is
called a byte. Since the colour is defined using three 8-bit values there are in actual fact 24 bits used
to define a colour, hence the term 24-bit colour.
Netscape uses a different method to insert a Flash file. This is where the ‘EMBED’ tags come
in. As usual the tag has a closing ‘’ tag. Within the tag the parameters are specified
directly; ‘src’ gives the Flash movie name, ‘quality’ and ‘bgcolor’ are as previously described. Width
and height are specified in the same way as used by the ‘OBJECT’ tag. The main difference is
the way the application that will display the content is described. Instead of inserting an ActiveX
control, Netscape uses a plug-in. The ‘type’ is defined; if this is not found on the client’s machine
then the ‘pluginspage’ defines where to find the plug-in.
Tell me about query strings
Suppose inside Flash you want to set the value for the variable ‘configfile’ to ‘config/february.txt’.
You can do this very easily by altering the specification for both the ‘movie’ parameter for IE and
the ‘src’ parameter for Netscape.
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