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’.…
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 yourself problem-solving… Your Flash object has to be…
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 Been quite a learning curve, and to be honest the whole system seems quite outdated and excessively jargon rich.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 is like trying to swim laps in a…
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 the video ahead of time, so hoped to…
Just created an app which required persistent data, so used a local SharedObject. However discovered that if one person had the app open in two different places(eg. 2 tabs) the persistent data in one tab wasn’t updating in the other…
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