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19 Flash Lite – how does it affect game developers? With Flash MX 2004 Professional it is now possible to create Flash games that will run on mobile phones. These devices are greatly limited in their memory, screen and processors when compared to a modern desktop computer. For this reason Macromedia have created a Flash player that is scaled to suit the limited capabilities. In this chapter we will walk through the limitations inherent in the new player and examine how the ActionScript you write has to be different in style from the script you use to target the latest Flash player for desktop machines. Flash Lite features With Flash MX Professional 2004 there are two versions of the Flash player installed on your desktop development PC. When developing with Flash Lite it is essential that you set the player version to ‘Flash Lite 1.0’ in the Publish Settings dialog. One feature of Flash Lite is that it is device dependent. Some features differ on different devices. So the first step in creating any content is to get hold of the latest content development kit (CDK) for the device that you are developing for. Kerning, spacing, bold and italic styles are not supported in Flash Lite when using Dynamic or Input text fields, so be careful when creating content not to use these features. Most Flash Lite devices have no mouse-based navigation. Lacking a mouse there is no support for ‘dragOver’, ‘dragOut’ and ‘releaseOutside’, and draggable movie clips (‘startDrag’ and ‘stopDrag’) are not supported. Sound support is very limited: only MIDI and MFi (Melody Format for i-mode) are supported. Consequently special techniques have to be used when testing the content on a desktop PC. See the section on Using Sound for details. Flash Lite string methods Strings are not handled using the JavaScript methods; instead they use the Flash 4 implementation (Table 19.1). Starting with Flash Lite The easiest way to get started with Flash Lite is to use a template. Open Flash MX 2004 Professional and click on the ‘Create from Template/Mobile Devices’ button. If other projects are already open then simply choose ‘File>New...’ and select the ‘Template’ tab. Try any of the NTT DoCoMo options. 309
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Contents at a glance Introduction x
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Contents in summary Chapter 15: Maz
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Introduction: Learn to write Action
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Index Arrays: board games, 246-8, 2
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Index Ideas, plans, 136-7 IE see In
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