Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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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…
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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…