Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
5 }else {
6 // add code for other platforms
7 }
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So what’s missing?
In truth, for a game developer, not a lot is missing from the PPC version of Flash Player rather than
the desktop one. The main features that are missing are links to the Flash Communication Server,
printing and support for monochrome displays. Whenever you refer to the absolute location of
a file you must include the ‘file://’ protocol. So if a text file used to store variable values is at
‘/Program Files/FlashMX2004Games/variables.txt’ and you wish to use absolute file names in a
call to ‘loadVariables’ then the code to use would be:
loadVariablesNum("file:///Program%20Files/FlashMX2004Games/
variables.txt", 0);
PPCs use / as the root of all files. So a file stored at the root would still require ‘/myfile.txt’ to
access. When calling files using ActionScript convert the backslash to a forward slash and replace
spaces with ‘%20’. PIE does not support percentage sizes for document elements. Therefore if
you used
New Symbol...’ from the main menu.
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