I am developing in rails and have some programming background.
I’m looking for help with Action Script 3, but most of my googling turns up “copy-paste” style answers from designers who don’t understand code, and the solutions rarely work.
Where do I go to find Action Script programmers, rather than designers?
To give you an idea of what I’m trying to solve, here’s where I’m currently stuck:
- Get the flash file to communicate with rails
- trying with json, I’m not seeing any requests to the rails server, and I can’t tell where the block is. I’m not sure if I’m encountering security issues with the browser trying to stop communication, or if I’m missing something somewhere.
- Get the flash file to redirect the browser
- I assume this is difficult because it’s a security issue, so what’s the solution? put javascript on the page, call the flash from javascript, get flash to communicate with javascript and then get javascript to get the browser to redirect?
I think overall it would be good to get some tools that helped debug the communications, requests in and out of flash. I can use wireshark, but I think what I need is something that can tell what flash is trying to get the browser to do, and how the browser is responding.
I think SO is a good place to get prompt and useful help / guidance. So, I’d ask here.
Other than that, I’ve been participating in these 2 groups for some time.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Flash_tiger/
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
You’ll find some nice and knowledgeable folks over there. Though I’m under the impression that lately these lists are not as active as they used to be a couple of years ago (but maybe that’s just me comparing them to SO, which is a very different beast, with a different dynamic).