SEPY and using tiny little videos
These posts have nothing to do with one another, other than being helpful component tips, but for the sake of not overrunning this blog with more boring coding stuff :), I combined these two notes into one little article.
- Adding .flv files as additional assets
- Using SEPY to edit actionscript code which will be using the EW class file
Recently, several groups have brought up good scenarios where they would like to use a Flash Video File (.flv) as an additional asset for their ad instead of using the AdWonder component. Most of these have to do with the fact that the videos are: really short and rather small. The reason these videos are not good candidates for using our videoScreen component is because tracking is rather silly since the videos are so short you’re going to see 100% view-through rate, and you’re probably tracking the button that starts them if there is one. Also, bandwidth detection doesn’t really apply since the video is small enough to behave rather well regardless of bandwidth.
Because of all this, you may now add small FLVs (under 100k) as additional assets to your ads. To reference the absolute path of this video, you may use the following: path = EW.baseURL+”blah.flv”; Please note the following: FLVs will be checked to make sure they are smaller than 100k, we cannot guarantee that sites which require streaming will accept this, and you will need to publish the ad through our component panel for local testing to work appropriately.
Secondly, many of our users are devoted ActionScript developers, and, as such, they have their own methods for editing ActionScript code with other applications. Some have asked recently about SEPY and if they can use it in conjunction with our EyeWonder code hints. After a quick search around the office, one of our developers (thanks Justin) noted that this is just as easy as adding the path to our class file using SEPY’s autocompletion classpath. If anybody has used this and liked it a whole lot, be sure to let me know!
- Classpath on a PC using Flash 8: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\Classes
- Classpath on a PC using Flash CS3: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\en\Configuration\EyeWonder\AS2Classes\
- Classpath on a Mac using Flash 8: [username]/library/Application support/Macromedia/Flash 8/en/Configuration/Classes
- Classpath on a Mac using Flash CS3: [username]/library/Application support/Adobe/Flash CS3/en/Configuration/EyeWonder/AS2Classes/