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