Author: admin
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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…
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Solved! The mystery of the captivate ghosts…
I was finding that all of my swfs exported from Captivate, contained slight blurriness, and left stray artifacts and ghosting on transitions. Why oh why… It was only occurring on PCs and…
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Captivate communicating with Flash
I think it’s a little strange that Captivate is owned by the same company as Flash and exports ‘swf’ format, yet there’s no option to simply dispatch a Flash event. Which makes…
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My Review of Introducing Starling
Originally submitted at O’Reilly Building GPU Accelerated Applications Introducing Starling Great intro to Starling, but not perfect By craiggrummitt from Melbourne, Australia on 1/22/2012 4out of 5 Pros: Easy to understand, Helpful…
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Two FLVPlayers battle eachother with full-screen
When an FLVPlayer component contains a fullscreen button, whenever the application goes to full-screen, the component automatically shows the FLVPlayer component, even if you have set up an alternative full-screen button elsewhere.…
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Warning: All instances will be automatically declared as…
Sometimes it’s useful to have two Flash symbols which use the same Base Class which references symbols within the clip, that could be differently symbols. For example, a symbol of base class…
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Facebook Flash app lessons…
Been building a few Facebook Flash apps lately, and learnt some lessons on the way, some that didn’t appear to be in manuals, or are easy to skip over and then find…
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SCORM with custom menu built in Flash
I’ve been researching into making a training course SCORM compliant. Been quite a learning curve, and to be honest the whole system seems quite outdated and excessively jargon rich. Reading the documentation…
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Video white
A recent task I had to achieve was to play a video for several seconds and extract a frame as a JPG several seconds in. I did not know the dimensions of…