Bookmarking in Flash: what can and can’t be done

09/30/2008 06:07 pm by zedia flash blog in ActionScript 3

I'm going to start this post by telling that you cannot bookmark a web page just by using Flash. You either have to use javascript or user interaction if you want to bookmark a page from within a swf movie. That being said, it is not the only show stopper. Believe it or not, the [...]

If you steal source code, don’t ask for help fixing it

09/27/2008 06:21 pm by Doug McCune in Actionscript

While doing some research for my decompiling session at Flash on the Beach, I came across this gem of a post on the Adobe ActionScript 3 message board. Someone posts a block of code and asks “I’m getting 3 compiling errors when I test my flash movie: could you guys give me some advice on [...]

Prana, BlazeDS and WebORB

09/27/2008 09:10 am by Christophe Herreman in ActionScript

By using Prana to create an application context for your Remoting enabled application, you want to achieve two things for maximum flexibility: don't compile against services-config.xml don't specify destinations on the client It was with the second goal that I ran into a little issue lately when I was creating an application context for a project that uses [...]

Polar Distortion with Flash 10 drawTriangles

09/23/2008 05:08 pm in ActionScript

I was playing around with some of the new drawing API features for the new book and realized I could redo the Polar distortion class I did a while back. http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1167 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1187 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1194 It was amazingly easy: And it's fast! Check it out. This will open full browser, which will slow it down, so you might want to download it [...]

External Preloader; more complex cases

09/23/2008 02:49 am by zedia flash blog in ActionScript 3

In my previous post I spoke about what would be my optimal external preloader, but I really covered only simple examples. In relations to external preloaders, there are 2 cases where it gets more complex. First, when you want to time you preloader's animation with your main content's animation and second, when you use FlashVars [...]

Unexpected Flex build error

09/22/2008 05:39 pm by Seb Lee-Delisle in Actionscript

I just had a weird one I thought I’d share on here in case anyone else has it. Or in case I get it again for that matter. I kept getting the same error from Flex Builder : “An internal build error has occurred. Right-click for more information.” After much searching and sulking I found the [...]

Actionscript3 development with FDT

09/19/2008 04:56 pm by Everyday Flash in Actionscript 3

So far I've been using Flash Develop for all my AS3 projects. But recently, as I stared to do some more serious development, I thought it's time to look for a more powerful tool. Thanks to Marcel from Slot3 and the guys from Powerflasher, since a couple of weeks I am equipped with a new, [...]

The right way to do a preloader in AS3

09/19/2008 04:01 am by zedia flash blog in ActionScript 3

I wanted to write this post for a very long time but Lee Brimelow beat me to it. But that is alright because he confirmed that the way I was doing my preloaders was a good one. In AS2 we were used to seeing preloaders in the 2 first frames of a flash movie, but that [...]

Pixel Bender levels example

09/18/2008 01:38 am by Antti Kupila in Actionscript 3

Pixel Bender is huge and is going to be even bigger once Flash player 10 officially is out (and spreads a bit so that we can start using it in commercial projects). I just love it when Adobe constantly lower the restrictions on creativity A lot of the examples we see online for Pixel [...]

Be careful how you call super()

09/17/2008 08:41 pm by Christian Cantrell in ActionScript

Here's something all ActionScript 3 developers should know about extending classes and how parent constructors are called...

Some cool books to give away [ by Thibault Imbert ]

09/12/2008 07:33 pm in Actionscript 3

I found some cool English Flex/AIR books to give away while walking in the Adobe office. I have 11 books in total : 1. Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers (5 available) 2. Getting started with Flex 3 (6 available) Just post a comment with your mail and the book you'd like to receive, I will post it for [...]

Image Events Dispatch Order

09/12/2008 12:20 pm in ActionScript

Yesterday I’ve been working with images: loading, resizing, removing, etc. I got into a challenging issue: I had to vertically position a label after an image resize - but a resize that is triggered by setting maxWidth and maxHeight keeping also the aspect ratio. I tried to get the new width and height after the resize [...]

Using the Flex profiler with a Flash Website or Application

09/12/2008 03:28 am by zedia flash blog in ActionScript 3

Ted Patrick posted on is blog a video of a presentation that was made at 360 Flex about the Flex Builder 3 Profiler. It’s a pretty interesting talk about some unknown feature and tweaks of the profiler. On of the thing I learn that I am really happy to have found was the fact that [...]

HTTPService Requesting XML from FeedBurner Gets Parsed with XSL in IE Browser

09/10/2008 05:32 pm in ActionScript

These day I’ve been fighting with this issue: trying to get the Flexer XML feed from FeedBurner into a Flex application. As many of you may know FeedBurner serves the XML with an XSL and browsers that know XSL will parse it and display it in a nicer way that a simple xml. The problem is [...]

Detect GPU acceleration at runtime in Flash Player 10 [ by Thibault Imbert ]

09/09/2008 11:43 pm in Actionscript 3

A friend of mine was reviewing a new chapter I have been writing for the Flash Player 10 and asked me if it was possible to detect at runtime if GPU acceleration was set in a current SWF. In fact, there is no native API in the Flash Player 10 which allows you to know [...]

Non-Flex ActionScript Frameworks

09/09/2008 06:13 pm in ActionScript

Back in the day, I was a big fan of ARP and developed my own framework based on ARP and Cairngorm at a company I worked for, which was pretty cool. But I’ve gotten a bit rusty lately. Working at Brightcove for a couple years on pre-existing apps and code kind of stagnated me a [...]

Adobe RIA Developer Summit in India

09/09/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in ActionScript

Having jumped on the RIA bandwagon only a few months ago, it is understandable that I haven’t heard about the Adobe RIA Leadership Summit (Oct, 2007) and the Adobe RIA Architect Summit (Apr, 2008) held in Bangalore, India. Both would probably have gone six feet over my head. But missing all news about the Adobe RIA [...]

New RIA on The Market - Pixlr

09/08/2008 04:51 pm in ActionScript

New Rich Internet Application is out on the market - Pixlr, a web based image editor, was launched on 17th of August 2008! The most interesting thing is that is created by one person and is by far the closest image editor to Photoshop. Pixlr has layers, filters, adjusments, brushes, etc. What can we say: WOW! [...]

Convex Hull

09/08/2008 01:07 pm in ActionScript

In my quest for information on Voronoi, I was led here: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/274/, and found some stuff on Convex Hulls that looked interesting. So I created this, just click away, hit a key to clear:

A convex hull is the smallest convex polygon containing all the points in a set. You can also [...]

Wipe ButtonSkin

09/08/2008 11:13 am by Tink in ActionScript 3.0

Here’s a skin we built recently for a very popular AIR application. Like the gingerbread man example this skin has seamless transitions between its different states but instead of using Flash assets, everything is created programmatically. The skin supports the following styles: fillColors - an Array of 4 colors (the first 2 used for the background, the last [...]

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