Was making changes to an app built with Flash for iOS, when I discovered that incompatibilities between the new XCode and Flash means that no longer(at the time of writing) is it possible to test or debug on the iOS simulator nor on the…
In the subtitles project I’m working on, I had the need to display Hebrew and Arabic, both RTL (right to left) languages. Having not worked with RTL text before, I wasn’t aware of the headache they can be, especially when…
Methods in Objective C are actually called messages but they’re often referred to as methods, a more commonly used terminology. Optional parameters are treated in an interesting way in Objective C. Basically there are no optional parameters! In fact the…
In Actionscript, if you subclass Object, and you want a default string representation of your subclass, you just implement the method ‘toString’. For example the following: In Objective C, it’s very similar, however instead of ‘toString’ you use ‘description’.
Doing a lot of Objective C lately, thought it worthwhile to write a few key differences with Actionscript. To begin with today – getters and setters! Properties in Objective C are automatically given setters and getters eg: is automatically given:…
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 that the constructor of the class you’re registering…
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 include 96×96 and 144×144. There’s been talk of…
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. Google Chrome Frame seemed like a possible solution…
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 common solutions to dealing with this – 1:…
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 to your parameters in different components, or to…
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