Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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the trick for registering a class for shared object
registerClassAlias is a great way for SharedObject to recognise the class type that you’re storing rather than just a random object. However – something that seems to be undocumented – I’ve discovered…
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Publishing Android app in the Air Developer Tool
I’ve been working on an Android app lately, built in ActionScript. There’s a problem within the Flash IDE when publishing an Android app, that the icons available haven’t yet been updated to…
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binding functions
I’ve been working on a Space Invaders style game with the request from the client that it be “developed in HTML5 and works in IE8″.(!!) A bit of a contradiction in terms.…
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State Manager
I was working recently on a MovieClip which had several different states, where the elements were in different positions, or in some states certain elements didn’t exist. I guess there are two…
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Custom components – order of parameters
A pain with parameters in custom components is that the order is set to alphabetical, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s a pain, because you might want better consistency…
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Custom component for distribution – live preview detection
It’s been a while since I worked on a custom component for distribution, to auto-install in the Adobe Extension Manager. Many online tuts and official documentation assume that you want to extend…
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From audio streaming synching to timed MovieClips
I’ve been working recently on an iPad app with a lot of vector animation. Sometimes, due to transparency, effects, etc, playback of the animations were not quite up to the frame-rate we…
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Spanish Flash terms
When I began working in South America, I soon realized I needed to brush up on my Flash terms to be able to communicate… Here is a list of some. Error –…
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Strangeness in custom component parameters
I decided today to systematically analyse a problem that’s bothered me for several years: What determines whether a parameter setter for a custom component will be called? Today I’ve finally worked it…
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Captivate error loop on unload
Obviously I’m working a bit with captivate files lately, my last three posts have been about the joys of using them. My latest problem is that when I request a Loader object…