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 the standard Flash UI Component framework. Building components…
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 were hoping for and for our purposes the…
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 – error (start with an easy one!)Warning – advertenciaLayer…
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 out, and discovered that my lack of clarity…
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 to unload a captivate generated swf, I immediately…
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 only when loaded into the main projector. And…
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 communication between a Flash holder and the Captivate…
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 examples Cons: Too many errors Best Uses: Expert…
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. The way to prevent the component from hijacking…
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 ‘Menu’ could contains symbols, of base class ‘menuItem’.…
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