Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
In the last couple of days, I decided to go through my notes, collect all the presentation files (powerpoints, pdfs and zips) and find blogs that reference the keynotes. Essentially I wanted to reflect and review "the Happening" that was Adobe Max 2008, my first Max.
For the most part I ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
I've been using both ServiceCapture and Fiddler for a while now to debug HTTP traffic from web applications (I've dabbled with TamperData but never got hooked). Using such software with FireFox was a bit cumbersome due to the network settings you have to turn on and off. That is until ...
Posted in Flash, Flex, Technology | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
It appears that SVN hidden files can affect Flash CS3 publishing. A couple other developers and I came across an issue when trying to publish an .fla. We're all on Window XP and the files are in SVN. One day Flash started showing errors when publishing such as:
1046: Type was ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Jumping off of Joey's post about anonymous functions from externalinterface, here's a quick and perhaps obvious method of dynamically getting JavaScript properties:
package examples {
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
public class JavaScript {
...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
This is probably not news. In fact, it's definitely not _new_ news on account of I learned about it from Theo Hultberg's blog from a post from last year (http://blog.iconara.net/2007/02/06/flexunit/). However, it was, rather embarassingly, news to me, and therefore I'll post it just in case someone else doesn't know ...
Posted in ActionScript, Flash, Flex, Technology | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Video is the word. It is now used every capacity on the net. The idea of using video with animation is not new. Some would swear by using After Effects solely and not consider building flash timeline animation with video. In some case, you use what you know. And at ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Occasionally I have the sense that I might be doing something as a workaround that is completely unnecessary, as though I'm jumping through hoops, listening for an exact sequence of one hundred events, and then squinting my eyes and tilting the monitor just right in order to assign text to ...
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, Technology | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
At The Morphic Group we build Flex and ActionScript applications. This keeps us from the terrors of browsers and the various ways they interpret standards or disregard standards entirely. However, we cannot (yet?) avoid having to interface with the browser and HTML and CSS in at least one important manner. ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I came upon a challenge creating a custom ToggleButtonBar component. The challenge was to display dynamic text on each button while displaying button states (up, over, down, selected). This is not a problem when you have simple formatted text. You can assign and style the text via the label ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
I only just recently started using Firebug (www.getfirebug.com.) It seems it's a popular way to debug JavaScript and HTML in Firefox. I use Firefox as my preferred browser, but working with Flex and Flash I rarely have to debug HTML or JavaScript. However, I was recently working on a project ...
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