Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category

“Content Assist” did not complete normally – bat file workaround

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Follow up to my last post. I am having to do this enough that I wrote a bat file for it. Here is what it looks like if anyone is interested. Just copy and paste the code below into a notepad and save as a .bat file. I put mine in [...]

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“Content Assist” did not complete normally. Please see log for more information.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Here is a work around for this annoying bug in Flash Builder 4 beta 2:
From: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-21566
Close Flash Builder 4 beta 2
Delete this folder in your workspace:
\.metadata\.plugins\com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel.
Relaunch Flash Builder 4 beta 2

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Flash Camp St Louis 2009 – Code Samples

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

I had a great time presenting at Flash Camp St Louis this last Friday. The City Museum was a great venue. All the other speakers did a great job. Thanks JP for putting together such a great event!
Here is the sample code I showed in the presentation. Rt-click and select View [...]

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Flash Camp St. Louis 2009 – This Friday

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Two TMG employees presenting at Flash Camp St. Louis this Friday at the City Museum, Ben Bishop and Jason Hanson.
Should be a good time. If you are in St. Louis and have any interest in Flash, Flex, or Catalyst think about coming.
Tickets still available.
www.flashcampstlouis.com

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How to Make a Flash Application into a Facebook Application and Page Tab

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

For the Morphic Group’s Facebook page we wanted to repurpose the featured projects part of our current website into a Facebook page tab. After looking at a series of tutorials and poking and prodding till it worked, here is how we did it.
What you will need:
- A webserver or hosting account that can run PHP
- [...]

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Flash ContextMenu

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Recently I attempted at add copy, paste, delete to a ContextMenu (rt-click menu) of a Flash movie. I quickly discovered that copy, paste, and delete are reserved words and cannot be used. I tried the trick of putting a space after the words, i.e. “copy “. That did not work.
I [...]

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Adobe Flash Builder and Catalyst Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Adobe Catalyst was released at the beginning of June with great fanfare, and with that positive buzz a lot of tutorials have been created that demonstrate how quickly a developer can go from a Catalyst project to a Flash Builder project to a working application. However, there aren’t many tutorials on how to go back [...]

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A Taste of “Flash on Tap” 2009

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

A week ago this night, the first “Flash on Tap” conference was winding down as the rocking reggae band (Toussaint and the China Band) finished their set. It was fitting end to an unconventional meeting of design and development professionals; a Flash conference/Micro-beer festival mash-up.
The main focus of this three day convention was the presentations [...]

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Web Ads with ClickTags

Friday, April 10th, 2009

When creating web ads for third party companies, you maybe asked to add a clickTag,
a reference to an external variable. The variable is passed from within the html Object/Embed tags via query string or FlashVar parameter. This allows an ad manager to track the click-through of the
Flash SWF. Usually, the ad manager would create an [...]

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Setting Parameters With The Same Name Using URLVariables

Friday, March 20th, 2009

The ability to set and send form parameters with the same name is available with URLVariables though it’s not quite documented very well (at all?).
Below are 4 examples of setting 2 values with same parameter name. The first example results in 1 parameter. The rest result in 2 parameters as expected.
 
// results in 1 parameter
var [...]

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